Sep 292019 0 Responses

Review: Web Content Extractor’s Online/Cloud based Scraping Platfrom

Scraping data, extracting data from website, can be a very daunting task if the website has a lot of data on it. If you are scraping data from a website without using an automation software for web scraping, like Web Content Extractor, then you are likely to spend a lot of time in order to extract the data. But if you use an automation software, you are likely to finish the work earlier and with very little effort.

Certainly this tool is useful and helps you do tedious and boring tasks easily but there is another plus point to this tool is Accuracy. If you are not using an automated tool to extract data from a HTML website, you are most likely to have errors in case of data extraction. It can be due to several reasons but the most prominent one would be Human Error. But with the use of this tool, this error is minimized. Once you specify the type of data and set its fields, you will get all the similar data scraped without going through the hassle of doing it manually and thus minimizing the error. Read More…

Apr 022018 Tagged with C# web scraping, custom script, database connection, web scraping — 0 Responses

Content Grabber – Useful Custom Scripts

Content Grabber has powerful custom scripting using which you can customize Content Grabber behavior and develop power full web scraping agent that can crawl and scrape data from simple to very complex websites.

Below are few example of custom script using C# which shows database connection and dynamically run time Xpath modification when scraper running. Read More…

Nov 272017 0 Responses

Data Scraping Studio Review

Data Scraping Studio is an integrated and scalable platform which has been built to power your data scraping project. Aim behind this software is to make an automatic and most advanced data extraction engine so the user can enjoy fast data collection experience.Data Scraping Studio is used to extract the data from web pages, ajax sheets, xml, json and many more. It provides many services to the users which has been described in below section. Key services provided by this are Expert setup, maintenance, better performance, unlimited users, priority execution and expert support. For the ease of understanding, Data Scraping Studio provides Help Center including Documentation, Forum, Video tutorials and API documentation. Read More…

Sep 212017 Tagged with web scraping tool, webharvy — 0 Responses

WebHarvy Review

WebHarvy is a intuitive easy-to-use visual web scraper using which you can automatically scrape text, images, URL’s and emails from websites and you can save the scraped data into various formats. WebHarvy works with all the websites. User can also use WebHarvy for extracting data from product listings, eCommerce websites, yellow pages, real estate listing, social networks, forums etc.

Content Grabber V2 – With New Features

Content Grabber – a web scraping software developed by Sequentum is the most advanced web scraping software in the market and it just keeps getting better.

I am excited to highlight several enhancements to Content Grabber features in the Version 2: Chrome based Web browser, Edge Selections, Data Retention options, Change Tracking, Export to single database table, Export script templates, Export settings, File downloads, Screenshots, Retry errors, Simplified Action Configurations, Multiple command selections, Group commands, Improved XPath editor, New self-contained agents. These features better enable web scrapers to extract data from websites efficiently and effectively. Read More…

Oct 172016 Tagged with Octoparse, octoparse review, web scraper, web scraping software — 0 Responses

Octoparse Review – An Automated Web Scraping Tool

Octoparse is a powerful automated web scraping software with an easy-to-use point-and-click user interface, which enables users to apply different patterns to extract data from different websites with ease.

It provides different advanced functions like Smart Mode, Cloud Extraction, API Access that helps users to capture data from any static or dynamic websites without any programming knowledge. Various export formats are available such as CSV, Excel, HTML, TXT. It also enables users to export extracted data into databases like MySQL, SQL Server, and Oracle. Read More…

Sep 192016 Tagged with Content Grabber, custom scripting, scraping script, web scraping — 1 Response

Custom Scripting in Content Grabber

While Content Grabber is very easy to use web scraping software, you shouldn’t make the mistake to think it is not also very flexible and powerful. Part of this flexibility comes from providing developers with a sophisticated scripting capability for controlling a user’s web scraping agent and managing the data being extracted.

Content Grabber provides scripting in different ways to customize Content Grabber behavior based on your specific needs or to extend and enhance standard functionality. Content Grabber scripts are .NET functions written in C# or VB.NET, or regular expressions. Read More…

Jul 082016 Tagged with xpath expression, xpath generator, xpath query, xpath tutorial — 4 Responses

Xpath Generator – Free tool for making Xpath Expression

XPath is a query language for selecting nodes from HTML or XML document. XPath is used to navigate through elements and attributes in an HTML or XML document. Xpath is inevitable part of web scraping. To extract web element, one must know what is its XPath. Most of the web scrpaing software comes with inbuilt functionality to generate xpath expression easily and some browsers also support facility to inspect XPath but it lacks some advanced functionality. Keeping in mind these limitations, we have made a special tool for XPath Selection named “Xpath Generator”.

Powerful Web Scraping Software – Content Grabber Review

There are many web scraping software and cloud based web scraping services available in the market for extracting data from the websites. They vary widely in cost and features. In this article, I am going to introduce one such advanced web scraping tool “Content Grabber”, which is widely used and the best web scraping software in the market.

Content Grabber is used for web extraction, web scraping and web automation. It can extract content from complex websites and export it as structured data in a variety of formats like Excel Spreadsheets, XML, CSV and databases. Content Grabber can also extract data from highly dynamic websites. It can extract from AJAX-enabled websites, submit forms repeatedly to cover all possible input values, and manage website logins. Read More…

Feb 232016 Tagged with Content Grabber, Self-Contained Agent, web scraping software — 0 Responses

Self-Contained Agent – Amazing feature of Content Grabber

Most organizations depend on the web to collect data that is important to their decision making process. Automating data collection from websites can significantly help businesses reduce time, costs and manual errors.

Content Grabber – an advanced web scraping software application can help businesses automatically harvest data from the web. Content Grabber requires no programming. Content Grabber has a very unique feature – “self-contained agent” that provides a way for web scraping via agent assisted automation.

The self-contained agent feature is only available in the Professional & Premium version of Content Grabber. Read More…