I have this idea to grab data from websites using automation tools. I don't know if there is a real demand for such services and how do I get to the right community. Business details(sample): CASE Study: Client: I want to build an e-commerce website and I need the list all products/prices that my competition is selling for the last 4 weeks. I also need the list of registered users/emails from their support forum. My business: is getting for this client all the data for a price of $XX in one week. Is this business model viable? Does people pay for such data? What do you think the price should be?
I work in this theme more then 7 years. It's very good and useful business. Details you can see on my topic
It's a good business if you have the in-house skills to develop the PHP scripts to scape the websites. Normally you don't charge much, however, if you can code it in an hour you can make profit.