We discuss various applications of web crawling and alternate data to fuel 10 potential mobile apps. The ideas range from reverse image search engine powered AI to voice of customer in ecommerce domain.

1. 10 Mobile App
Ideas that can
be Fueled by
Web Scraping

2. Mobile Applications are flooding the app-stores and new
apps with simplistic designs and innovative ideas are
taking over the top positions almost every week.

3. At the same time, web scraping is being used far and
wide, to obtain data, to boost businesses and make
critical decisions on the basis of something more than
just a hunch.

4. So, let’s explore some mobile app ideas that use web
scraping as their fuel, i.e., they are driven by web
scraping.

5. Brand Value Analysis App

6. Data extracted from social media pages and public review sites can
be used to find which companies fare better in the public eye. The
score the can be used as a metric to help consumers track how big
companies are performing.

7. Customer Reviews App for
electronics

8. An app that has electronic goods arranged like in e-
commerce sites, but on clicking on a product, user will
actually be able to see the product reviews on various web
pages. This can help buyers make an informed decision.

9. Movie Recommendation and
link provider app

10. An application that can actually tell you which streaming company
of the many available has the movie that you are searching for,
would be great.

11. News aggregator and linked
article map engine

12. Would it not be amazing if you could discover articles from several
news portals and links to related articles.

13. Book recommendation engine

14. A book recommendation engine may ask you different things and
based on the parameters, can recommend you a book for the day.
It can even ask you about your mood, check the weather, the time
of the day, and accordingly suggest you a book.

15. Reverse Image Search Engine

16. A reverse image search engine that will take the input image from
the app and show similar image.
Pro tip: Explore Amazon’s Rekognition API to identify the objects,
people, text, scenes, and activities, as well as detect any
inappropriate content.

17. Price List Downloader

18. A web scraping application, that can use the brand name provided
by user to find publicly available price lists by not just scraping the
web but also pdf pages linked to websites, might become
absolutely unique.

19. Research data finder

20. Although research papers may not always be public data, often
parts of research, and databases might be available publicly for
people to reuse. Putting it all together in the form of a single
application, where researchers can fill in certain fields and get the
best possible results might prove to be a boon!

21. News story background finder

22. Users can input a new article link and app would get the article
topic and showcase the additional news links which can provide
potential background information on that particular news.

23. Movie quotes finder

24. Be it a blog post or a speech, a quote from a popular character is
bound be a home run.
An application that can find the perfect quote for you once you
provide the type of movies you are looking for, the heading of the
article/speech you need it for, and the median audience age, can
actually be used by writers around the world to boost their
articles.

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