Import.io is an online platform that you can use to get data from web pages (data scraping) without having to know how to program or write code. The tool allows you to create your own API to import the data.

To retrieve data from a desired page on a website, the user enters a direct link to that page and shows import.io what kind of data is needed. The system has learning algorithms, where import.io gathers all the information from a few examples of user-defined data on its own.

The data collected by the user from the website pages is stored on the import.io server and can be uploaded as CSV, Excel, Google Sheets or JSON files.

An advanced user can generate an API that allows you to integrate third-party data into your project and have changes made automatically in real time.

The import.io service has a simplified version, magic.import.io, where you only need to enter a link. You can see the functionality of the data collection implementation in one of the examples.

Import.io has more options for importing data and is a kind of browser.

Import.io has an extensive help section with tutorial videos and documents, as well as a forum where you can ask your question to the community.

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ParseHub is a software tool with an uncomplicated graphical interface that allows you to capture and extract data from Internet sites.

Features of ParseHub

• The application can analyze and retrieve data from websites and convert it into structured information.
• The software product allows you to capture the necessary data on web forms without using programming skills.
• It uses machine learning technology to recognize the most complex documents and creates an output file in JSON, CSV or Google Sheets format.
• Parsehub is a personal computer application available for Windows, Mac and Linux users and runs as a Firefox extension.
• The handy web application can be embedded in a browser and has well-written documentation. It has all the advanced features such as page numbering, infinite page scrolling, pop-ups and navigation.
• You can visualize data from ParseHub in Tableau.
• ParseHub software can handle interactive maps, calendars, search, forums, nested comments, infinite scrolling, authentication, drop-down lists, forms, Javascript, Ajax and more.
• The free version has a limit of 5 projects with 200 pages per run. If you buy a paid subscription, you can get 20 personal projects with 10,000 pages to scan and rotate IP.

Great service, you can do very complex segmentation and parsing snippets of information for each page. With Parsehub you can collect information, comments, with infinite scrolling, infinite page numbers, drop down lists, forms, javascript and text.

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Octoparse is an advanced web data extraction service. Both advanced and inexperienced users can easily use Octoparse to extract information from web sites in bulk, no coding is required for most tasks. It makes data retrieval easier and faster. It knows how to automatically extract content from almost any website and allows you to save it as structured files in the format of your choice.

At one time, so-called offline browsers – programs that allow you to download entire websites or pages linked by links of a certain nesting level to your local computer – were very popular. The capabilities of offline browsers also included the extraction of specific types of content from web pages – images, multimedia files, archives and so on, i.e. in this case the program was used as a parser.

Special software designed for the automated collection of public data on the Internet according to specified conditions.

There are many different parsers, implemented as web services – SPparser and Q-Parser, desktop applications and even browser extensions, such as Parsers, Scraper and Data Scraper for Chrome. But most parsers are usually customized for specific tasks, they are not universal and in fact you have to use different parsers for different tasks. Not all parsers are like that though. Octoparse program differs from other parsers by its multitasking capability, but its even greater advantage is flexibility and relative simplicity, which makes the application attractive for average users.

To work with the program, you will have to go through the registration procedure with a confirmation email. After confirmation, you will be redirected to the plan selection page. You can choose between the “Free” and “Premium” plans. The first plan assumes functional limitations, not too significant, the premium plans are available on a commercial basis with a trial period of 14 days. But let’s move on to Octoparse. What exactly can this program do? Extract data of a certain type from sites according to the specified conditions.

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Web scraping is the process of extracting data from web sites and storing that data in a structured, easy-to-use format. The value of a web scraping tool such as Content Grabber is that you can easily specify and collect large amounts of raw data that can be very dynamic (data that changes very frequently). Usually, the data available on the Internet has little or no structure and can only be viewed with a web browser. Elements such as text, images, video, and sound are built into a web page so that they are presented in a web browser. It can be very tedious to manually capture and separate this data and can take many hours of effort to complete. With Content Grabber, you can automate this process and capture website data in a small fraction of the time using other methods. Web scraping software interacts with Web sites in the same way that you would with a Web browser. However, in addition to displaying browser data on your screen, web scraping software saves data from a web page in a local file or database.

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