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freelancer.com 🟢 2026-05-07

🔹 Scrape Australian IT Company Data
👤 Client: 🇦🇺 Australia Member since 2011-10-19
💰 Price: $284 Average bid
🚩 Problem: Gather accurate contact details and service summaries for Australian IT companies from publicly available sources.
📦 Existing: Not specified

Specifications:

[Target] - Australian-based IT companies and service providers
[Method] - Web scraping using Python with BeautifulSoup or Scrapy, manual validation of duplicates and errors
[UI/UX] - N/A (Data collection focused)
[Stack] - Python, BeautifulSoup, Pandas for data cleaning, CSV export
[Security] - Ensure compliance with legal and ethical web scraping practices; avoid scraping too frequently to prevent server overload
[Format] - CSV file with headers: Company Name, Website, Email, Phone, Physical Address, Services Offered

Workflow:

Identify reliable sources for Australian IT companies (e.g., industry directories, government registries)
Develop a scraping script using Python and BeautifulSoup or Scrapy to extract required data
Clean the scraped data using Pandas for consistency and accuracy
Validate duplicates and manually check for obvious errors in a sample of records
Export cleaned data into a structured CSV file