How to Make Money From Web Scraping Without Selling Data
You just need some lines of code to make extra money
So you want to make money with the knowledge of web scraping you have, you create a bot that successfully gets the valuable data you wished for, but you can’t find anyone to sell either the data you obtained or the bot you created. I’ve been there before and it feels like precious time wasted. Fortunately, there are some ways to make money using web scraping without selling data and in this article, I’ll show one in detail.
Sports Arbitrage
It doesn’t matter what sports you like; chances are you or someone you know at least once earned some money betting on their favorite team. You might’ve won because of good luck or knowledge of the sport, but probably you’ve also lost because you can’t always guess what’s going to happen in the future. But what if you could make a profit regardless of the match outcome? This is called ‘surebet’ and isn’t new in the gambling world.
Surebet is a situation when a bettor can make a profit regardless of the outcome by placing one bet per each outcome with different bookmakers. This happens when different bookmakers have different odds for the same game due to either bookmakers’ differing opinions (statistics) on event outcomes or errors. We can…
