Content Grabber

Dec 242018 Tagged with , , , — 0 Responses

Web Scraping using Content Grabber API

API stands for Application Programming Interface, which is a software intermediary that allows two applications to communicate with each other. The API defines the correct way for a web developer to manage content grabber agent via programming. It is like Program API which uses Remote Procedure Call(RPC) to access the component.

The Content Grabber programming interface (API) provides access to the Content Grabber run-time from your own web/desktop applications For example, If you want to access the result of the Content Grabber Agent in your web application and display it on the dashboard, you can do it easily using the Content Grabber API . The Content Grabber run-time can be distributed with your applications royalty free and does not require the Content Grabber application to be installed on the target computer. The Content Grabber run-time requires .NET version 4.5 or higher.

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Feb 272017 Tagged with , , — 0 Responses

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…

Sep 192016 Tagged with , , , — 1 Response

Custom Scripting in Content Grabber

Custom Scraping ScriptWhile 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…

Apr 292016 Tagged with , — 2 Responses

Powerful Web Scraping Software – Content Grabber Review

web scraperThere 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 , , — 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 logo and spiderContent 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…