An ongoing problem for my web scraping work is how much to quote for a job. I prefer fixed fee to hourly rates so I need to consider the complexity upfront. My initial strategy was simply to quote low to ensure I got business and hopefully build up some regular clients.
Through experience I found the following factors most effected the time required for a job:
Through experience I found the following factors most effected the time required for a job:
- Website size
- Login protected
- IP restrictions
- HTML quality
- JavaScript/AJAX
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