Web Scraper - Free Web Scraping

Once I went through the basic tutorials, the tool was simple to use and highly effective.The plugin is great. I was able to scrape thousands of pages reliably with it. You only need a minimum of CSS knowledge to get started, a lot of the scraper config works with no-code and clicking the elements you want from a website. What is very nice: once you don't want to scrape on your desktop anymore, you can switch to a SaaS version - and immediately get started by taking over your configuration ... Show more

Very nice tool. I am scraping data multiple pages deep quite successfully (eg. I am selecting links on a "contents" page and the tool follows the links and records the specific data I want from deeper pages). It helps if you know how to use CSS Selectors. I am a programmer and I could write something in a couple of afternoons to do what I want at a basic level, but this tool allowed me to create the scraper very quickly and simply. In my usage pattern, I run the scraper weekly (to collect pr... Show more

A bit of a learning curve there. A great tool while it works. But it didn't. I watched all the tutorials and learnt how to use it. But it didn't work well. Here're two main issues. #1, It doesn't support different branches when you design a scrap route even though it looks fine in the graph. The path has to be all the way down, page to page, otherwise it will only finish with one of the branches and discard the others. Which didn't mentioned in the tutorial so I had to find it out the hard w... Show more