After almost 3 years in running this scraping blog and reviewing dozens of products; in this small post I’d like to categorise the tools/means used for web scraping available to end user. Here are the typical examples of scrapers in those categories.
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Web Scraping with Python + Scrapy (blog series)
This is part 1 of a series dedicated to getting novices started using a simple web scraping framework using python.
Introduction
In this post we will get up and running with simple web scraping using Python, specifically the Scrapy Framework. more…
Review: import.io’s New Scraping Process and Features
Web scraping Data platform import.io, announced last week that they have secured $3M in funding from investors that include the founders of Yahoo! and MySQL.
They also released a new beta version of the tool that is essentially a better version of their extraction tool, with some new features and a much cleaner and faster user experience. more…
TheWebMiner, a cloud scraping tool
If you need to quick extract some data from an website and you lack of tech skills of the TheWebMiner’s Get By Sample web tool is a solution for you. Get By Sample works as a cloud web scraper and therefore it may work everywhere, on many devices even tablets and smartphones. more…
