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Web Scraping Developer @ Preludesys

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 Web Scraping Developer

Job Description

Position: Web Scraping Developer

Location: Chennai

Experience: 2 to 3 years

Vacancies: 3

Employment Type: Full Time

Job Summary:

We are seeking a detail-oriented and experienced Web Scraping Developer with strong expertise in Python, Selenium, and Perl. The ideal candidate will be responsible for developing, maintaining, and optimizing automated data extraction tools to gather structured and unstructured data from various web sources reliably and efficiently.

Key Responsibilities:

Design and implement robust and scalable web scraping solutions using Python, Selenium, and Perl.

Automate data extraction from dynamic and static websites, including those using JavaScript and AJAX.

Clean, parse, and store scraped data in structured formats (e.g., CSV, JSON, SQL, NoSQL).

Build reusable scraping scripts with error handling, logging, and scheduling.

Maintain and update scraping pipelines to adapt to website structure changes.

Monitor scraping jobs for performance, data quality, and compliance with legal/data usage policies.

Integrate scraping tools with APIs, databases, or Google Sheets as needed.

Document all code, processes, and workflows clearly and effectively.

Required Skills:

Programming Languages: Strong proficiency in Python and Perl.

Frameworks/Tools: Selenium WebDriver, Beautiful Soup, Requests, Scrapy (optional), Mechanize (for Perl).

Data Handling: Experience with JSON, XML, CSV, and database interaction (MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB).

Other Skills: Regex, Xpath, multithreading/asynchronous scraping.

Familiarity with browser dev tools, network sniffing, and anti-bot evasion techniques (headers, proxies, captchas).

Experience working with task schedulers (e.g., cron, Celery) and log management.

Preferred Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.

Experience working with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP) for deploying scraping jobs.

Knowledge of version control systems like Git.

Job Classification

Industry: IT Services & Consulting
Functional Area / Department: Data Science & Analytics
Role Category: Data Science & Analytics - Other
Role: Data Science & Analytics - Other
Employement Type: Full time

Contact Details:

Company: Preludesys
Location(s): Chennai

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Keyskills:   Perl Selenium Web Scarping Python

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PreludeSys is a growing company and is driven by values of ¢Leadership, Passion, Accountability, Collaboration, Quality¢¢ and our culture is reflected by these values.Incorporated in year 1998, is a leading technology services provider delivering IT & IT-enabled business solutions to co...