Mozenda aids companies in collecting and organising web data most cost-effectively and efficiently possible. It has a cloud-based architecture that enables scalability, ease of use, and rapid deployment. Not only is it quick to implement, but it can also be deployed in minutes at the business unit level without any IT involvement. Its simple point-and-click interface helps users build projects and export the results quickly, be it on-demand or on a schedule. Being easy to integrate, the users can publish the results they receive in a CSV, TSV, XML, or JSON format.

Best feature: Secure cloud environment

Link to the Website: https://www.mozenda.com/

Cons of the Tool: A steep learning curve

Ratings from Capterra: 4.5/5

Ratings from G2 Crowd: 4/5

Ratings from TrustRadius: 9.5/10

Awards Achieved: One of the “top 200 Business Intelligence Software products” by FinancesOnline

User Satisfaction (social mentions): “I liked how fast it was to get setup and scraping data from sites. I could begin a new project, set the parameters, and it would be done collecting data within a few hours. The data was almost always scraped in the proper format without anything missing. It is easy to use and is only limited to what account plan you are on.”

The enterprise of Automation Anywhere is comprised of a group of experts who are focused on providing a complete cognitive and flexible process of assigning robotic automation tools that can help you build design bots. These bots are not only easy to use but are also powerful enough to automate tasks of any level of complexity. It is the only RPA platform designed for modern enterprise that can create software robots to automate any process end-to-end.  

Best feature: Flexible Robotic Process Automation tools

Link to the Website: https://www.automationanywhere.com/in/

Cons of the Tool: Complicated process design flow

Ratings from Capterra: 4.5/5

Ratings from G2 Crowd: 4.5/5

Ratings from TrustRadius: 8.3/10

Awards Achieved: Frost and Sullivan Award

User Satisfaction (social mentions): “Automation Anywhere is an excellent platform which creates Bots that performs all types of tasks that reduces manual efforts. It provides many inbuilt features to us. The best thing I like the most is it validates all the PDF documents with high accuracy and less time. It helps to increase the productivity.”

Providing you with simple steps and Pythonic idioms for navigating, Beautiful Soup gives you access to a toolkit for extracting whatever information you require. The web scraping software automatically converts incoming documents to Unicode and outgoing documents to UTF-8. It allows you to try out different parsing strategies or trade speed for flexibility.

Best feature: Pythonic idioms for navigating and extracting information

Link to the Website : https://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/

Ratings from G2 Crowd: 4.5/5

Ratings from Capterra: No ratings provided

Ratings from TrustRadius: No ratings provided

Web Harvey’s point-to-click interface makes selecting elements easier for companies. The extracted data can be saved into CSV, JSON, XML files, and stored in a SQL database. The software has a multi-level category scraping feature that can follow every single level of category links and scrape data from listing pages. It offers you more flexibility by allowing you to use regular expressions.

Best feature: Very easy-to-use point and click interface

Link to the Website: https://www.webharvy.com

Cons of the Tool: Slightly slower speed

Ratings from Capterra: 4.5/5

Ratings from G2 Crowd: 4.6/5

Ratings from Predictive Analysis Today : 8.1/10

Ratings from TrustRadius: No ratings provided

User Satisfaction (social mentions): “I love the way they make a short video on the steps/process. It makes it very easy to use. They help with Regex code to use to extract certain text.”

The Content Grabber software’s point-and-click user interface has an added capability of automatically detecting and configuring commands. It instantly creates content lists, handles pagination and web forms, and downloads or uploads files. Content Grabber can extract content from any website and then save it as structured data in a format of your choice, be it Excel reports, XML, CSV, and most databases. Its advanced performance and stability include optimised web browsers as well as a fine-tuned scraping process.

NOTE : They also develop and sell Content Grabber Enterprise (CG Enterprise) which is our premium web data extraction offering and we believe the most sophisticated software on the market today.

Best feature: Customisable user interface

Link to the website : https://contentgrabber.com/

Cons of the Tool: A little lack of support

Ratings from Predictive Analysis Today : 9.5/10

Ratings from Software Advice : 5/5

Ratings from G2 Crowd: 4/5

Ratings from Capterra: No ratings provided

Ratings from TrustRadius: No ratings provided

User Satisfaction (social mentions): “So easy to use, requires no special programming skills like other services. Able to scrap websites of targeted data within minutes. Great for prospect list building.”

A powerful software, FMiner supports both Windows as well as Mac. FMiner can drive your company to instant success since it features an intuitive design tool that is extremely easy to use. It has a powerful visual design tool that captures every step and models a process map that captures the information you have identified by interacting with the target site pages. FMiner lets you harvest data from a variety of websites, including online product catalogues, real-estate classifieds, and yellow page directories.

Best feature: Multiple crawl path navigation options

Link to the Website: http://www.fminer.com

Ratings from Capterra: No ratings provided

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An acclaimed web scraping tool, Import.io lets you have the most hassle-free data extraction process. All you have to do is type in the URL, and the system will immediately turn the pages into data. This software is the perfect solution when it comes to extracting web data for price monitoring to determine the market’s expectations and to come up with the most plausible solution. It helps you generate quality leads, and provides daily or monthly updates to help you track the activities of your competitors.

Best feature: Flexible scheduling

Link to the Website: https://www.import.io/

Cons of the Tool: Not a great UI

Ratings from Capterra: 4/5

Ratings from G2 Crowd: 4/5

Ratings from TrustRadius: 2.9/10

Ratings from Predictive Analysis Today : 7.3/10

Awards Achieved: Best Data Newcomer at the Londata Awards 2012

User Satisfaction (social mentions): “So easy to get started with, with smart data extraction, there's a lot that can be done without REGEX or XPath - Scalable - Great support.”

An advanced web page scraper, Visual Web Ripper lets you extract data from highly dynamic websites, from product catalogues and classifieds to financial websites. After extracting the data from the desired website, it then places it in a user-friendly and structured database, spreadsheet, CSV file, or XML. As it can process AJAX-enabled websites and repeatedly submit forms of all possible input values, it triumphs over several other webpage scrapers.

Best feature: Command-line processing

Link to the Website: http://visualwebripper.com/

Cons of the Tool: High price if you do not use the tool often

Ratings from Capterra: 4/5

Ratings from G2 Crowd: 5/5

Ratings from Predictive Analysis Today : 7.1/10

Ratings from Scraping Pro : 4.7/5

Ratings from TrustRadius: No ratings provided

User Satisfaction (social mentions): “Visual Web Ripper saved my time by helping in gathering the right information from many websites. If you are willing to scrape information, Visual Web ripper won't fail you.”

Webhose.io provides you with on-demand access to structured web data. It empowers you to build, launch, and scale big data operations, regardless of whether you’re a researcher, an entrepreneur, or an executive of a reputed company. The software structures, stores, and indexes millions of webpages per day in vertical data pools, such as news, blogs, and online discussions.

Best features: Available in 80 languages

Link to the Website: https://webhose.io/

Ratings from Capterra: 5/5

Ratings from G2 Crowd: 4/5

Ratings from Predictive Analysis Today : 4.3/10

Ratings from TrustRadius: No ratings provided

Awards Achieved: The Hackathon Award for Best API Mashup

User Satisfaction (social mentions): “The service allows you to query tons of public data that you can use to build up tools for your business, thanks to the structured orientation of the results.”

Scrapinghub Platform is known for building, deploying, and running web crawlers, all while providing up-to-date data. The data can be reviewed easily on the stylised interface where it’s displayed. The software also provides you with an open-source platform called Portia, which is a program designed for scraping websites. You can create templates by clicking on elements on the page, and Portia handles the rest. It creates an automated spider that scrapes similar pages from the website.

Best feature: Ban detection database

Link to the Website: https://scrapinghub.com/platform

Cons of the Tool: Not enough advanced documentation

Ratings from Capterra: 4.5/5

Ratings from G2 Crowd: 4/5

Ratings from Predictive Analysis Today : 8.1/10

Ratings from TrustRadius: No ratings provided

User Satisfaction (social mentions): “Clear, detailed, and transparent process. Remote and flexible work environment. Extremely convivial environment to work in and wonderful management.”

Helium Scraper comes equipped with a flexible, intuitive interface that is extremely simple to navigate. Since it provides the users with a wide variety of options, you can choose the scale with which you wish to conduct the scraping. Users are at liberty to view, extract, and tabularise the results. Its USP is the point-and-click feature that allows data scraping to be conducted quickly and with minimal stress. Helium Scraper allows its users to choose what to and what not to extract with a few simple clicks. The tool has the ability to add custom extensions written in .NET." List of features @HeliumScraper

Best feature: Supports multiple export formats

Link to the Website: https://www.heliumscraper.com/eng/

Ratings from Capterra: No ratings provided

Ratings from SoftPedia : 4.6/5

Ratings from CrowdReviews : 4/5

Ratings from Scraping Pro : 4.5/5

GNU Wget helps you scrape data using HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP, which are the most widely used internet protocols. It can retrieve large files along with mirroring entire websites or FTP sites with ease. The software works well even if the connection is slow or unstable.

Best feature: Supports HTTP cookies

Link to the Website: https://www.gnu.org

Ratings from Capterra: No ratings provided

Ratings from G2 Crowd: No ratings provided

Ratings from TrustRadius: No ratings provided

Ratings from Predictive analysis Today: 8.4/10

Ratings from SoftPedia : 3.1/5

Web Scraper offers two options on extension: the Google Chrome extension and the cloud-based extension. The software builds sitemaps and navigates a website to extract whatever files, images, texts, tablets, and links are required. It can  run multiple scrapings and extract large amounts of data at the same time and allows you to export scraped data such as CSV.

Best feature: Extracting data from modern web formats

Link to the Website: https://webscraper.io/

Ratings from Capterra: No ratings provided

Ratings from G2 Crowd: No ratings provided

Ratings from TrustRadius: No ratings provided

Ratings from Predictive Analytics Today: 8.2/10

IEPY comes with a corpus annotation tool and a web-based UI. It also has an active learning relation extraction tool that is pre-configured with convenient defaults. In case the data is semi-structured or of high precision, IEPY also has a rule-based relation extraction tool to deal with such cases.

Best feature: Corpus annotation tool

Link to the website : https://buildmedia.readthedocs.org/media/pdf/iepy/latest/iepy.pdf

Ratings from Capterra: No ratings provided

Ratings from G2 Crowd: No ratings provided

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As far as extracting information regarding prospects, pricing, competition, and vendors are concerned, ScrapingExpert is your go-to option. It aids in increasing your knowledge regarding your target audience, market share, pricing policy, and raw material supply, by providing you information associated with your competitors and their products, and the available dealers. Its unique features include website support, one-screen dashboard, proxy management, and configuration of credentials on specific websites.

Best feature: Options of ‘start’, ‘stop’, ‘pause’, and ‘reset’

Link to the Website: https://scrapingexpert.com/

Ratings from Capterra: No ratings provided

Ratings from G2 Crowd: No ratings provided

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With its powerful web scraping technology, Ficstar enables you to take wiser steps towards building and implementing competent business strategies. It helps with large scale data collection by digging deeper into the farthest corners of the internet. In addition to being safe and reliable, Ficstar integrates into any database perfectly, and the collected data can be saved in any format.

Best feature: Social media monitoring

Link to the Website: https://ficstar.com/

Cons of the Tool: Due to the nature of the business, external factors that are out of your control can create stress when trying to deliver client results on time.

Ratings from Capterra: No ratings provided

Ratings from G2 Crowd: No ratings provided

Ratings from TrustRadius: No ratings provided

Ratings from Predictive Analytics Today: 8.3/10

QL2 helps its users manage the complexity of optimisation along with that of daily pricing and revenue. Using its real-time search technology, the software helps companies in deciphering the numerous queries that occur daily. It delivers to its users a comprehensive and up-to-date view of the current market and target audience. QL2 fetches your information from multiple platforms and aids you in deeper and intense research.

Best feature: Delivers market intelligence

Link to the Website: https://www.ql2.com/

Ratings from Capterra: No ratings provided

Ratings from G2 Crowd: No ratings provided

Ratings from TrustRadius: No ratings provided

Ratings from Predictive Analytics Today: 8.4/10

Frontera’s web scraping framework consists of a crawl frontier and distribution/scaling primitives. The platform takes care of all the logic and policies required to be following during the web scraping process. It stores and prioritises the extracted data to decide which page to visit next, and does it all in an organised manner.

Best feature: Python 3 support 

Link to the website : https://github.com/scrapinghub/frontera

Ratings from Capterra: No ratings provided

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Ratings from TrustRadius: No ratings provided

Apify has special features, namely RequestQueue and AutoscaledPool. It lets you start with several URLs, and then follow the links to other pages, and run the scraping tasks at the maximum capacity. The available data formats include JSON, JSONL, CSV, XML, XLSX, or HTML, and the available selector in CSS. It supports any type of website and has built-in support of Puppeteer.

Best feature: RequestQueue and AutoscaledPool

Link to the Website: https://apify.com/

Ratings from Capterra: 5/5

Ratings from G2 Crowd: 4/5

Ratings from TrustRadius: No ratings provided

User Satisfaction (social mentions): “I was literally up and running within a few minutes. No need to learn new coding languages or skills.”

WebSundew, with its web scraping and data extraction tools, enables users to extract information from websites faster and also at a higher profit rate. The web scraping software captures data from websites with extremely high accuracy, speed, and productivity. The staff of this software’s extraction services helps you by setting up a data extraction agent that can assist you with the web scraping process.

Best feature: Customer-oriented professional support

Link to the Website: http://www.websundew.com/

Ratings from Scraping Pro : 4/5

Ratings from Capterra: No ratings provided

Ratings from G2 Crowd: No ratings provided

Ratings from TrustRadius: No ratings provided

Grepsr aids business owners by helping them easily navigate the web scraping process. Companies can use this information for lead generation, price monitoring, market research, and content aggregation. This user-friendly web scraping software has features such as unlimited bandwidth, one-time extraction, deep and incremental crawl, API, and custom integration. Grepsr provides companies with easy-to-fill online forms to help them elaborate about their data requirements, while also allowing them to schedule crawls on a calendar.

Best feature: Unlimited bandwidth

Link to the Website: https://www.grepsr.com

Ratings from Capterra: 4.5/5

Ratings from GetApp : 4.66/5

Ratings from G2 Crowd: No ratings provided

Ratings from TrustRadius: No ratings provided

User Satisfaction (social mentions): “It’s like flipping on a light switch or answering the telephone; it just works and is reliable and accurate.”

BCL is a special web scraping software that not only reduces the time it takes to collect data but also enhances the overall time required for time-sensitive workflow. It helps you get positively revamped earning per share (EPS) or net income. BCL’s data extraction and information workflow solutions help make the scraping process easy for every organisation that decides to use it.

Best feature: PDF conversion

Link to the website : http://www.bcltechnologies.com

Ratings from Capterra: No ratings provided

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Connotate Cloud is efficient enough to extract data from websites that use JavaScript and Ajax. The web scraping software is easy to implement and used advanced machine-learning algorithms. It’s also language-agnostic, which means that it can extract data from the websites of any language. Connotate Cloud analyses the content and gives you alerts in case any changes are required. Its point-and-click interface has powerful data manipulation abilities that normalise content across multiple websites. Additionally, it helps you automatically link content to its associated metadata.

Best feature: Language-agnostic

Link to the Website: https://www.connotate.com/

Cons  of the Tool: Identifying gaps and resolving them can take long

Ratings from Capterra: 4/5

Ratings from Predictive Analytics Today: 8.7/10

Ratings from TrustRadius : No ratings provided

Ratings from G2 Crowd: No ratings provided

User Satisfaction (social mentions): “Connotate is flexible and intelligent and allows my team to monitor tens of thousands of websites on a weekly basis.”

A visual scraping tool, Octoparse’s point-and-click interface allows you to easily choose the fields you need to scrape from a website. The software can manage both static as well as dynamic websites with AJAX, JavaScript, cookies, etc. It also offers advanced cloud services allowing you to extract large amounts of data. The scraped data can be exported in TXT, CSV, HTML, or XLSX formats.

Best feature: Extracting data in any format

Link to the Website: https://www.octoparse.com

Cons of the Tool: Slightly complicated features

Ratings from Capterra: 4.5/5

Ratings from TrustRadius: 9.4/10

Ratings from g2: 3.5/5

Ratings from Software Advice : 4.63 / 5

Ratings from Predictive Analytics Today: 9.6/10

User Satisfaction (social mentions): “It is simple, friendly, intuitive, and features a linear/convergent process of interaction.”

Scrapy allows users to efficiently extract data from websites, process them, and store them in whichever format or structure they prefer. One of its unique features is the fact that it’s built on top of a Twisted asynchronous networking framework. The other elements of Scrapy that stand out include its ease of use, detailed documentation, and active community.

Best feature: Built-in extensions and middlewares

Link to the Website: https://scrapy.org/

Ratings from Predictive Analysis Today : 8.4/10

Ratings from Capterra: No ratings provided

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Ratings from TrustRadius: No ratings provided

Parsehub’s web scraping abilities let you crawl single and multiple websites with the support for JavaScript, AJAX, cookies, sessions, and redirects. It can analyse and grab data from different websites and transform it into meaningful information. The software uses machine-learning technology to recognise the most complicated documents and generates the output file in JSON, CSV, Google Sheets, or through API.

Best feature: Machine-learning technology

Link to the Website: https://www.parsehub.com

Cons of the Tool: Not too user-friendly

Ratings from Capterra: 4.5/5

Ratings from TrustRadius: No ratings provided

Ratings from G2 Crowd: 3.5/5

User Satisfaction (social mentions): “Pulls info from most webpages without needing to have deep knowledge. Basic functionality is easy to use and advanced is learnable and extra powerful.”

OutwitHub is the best if you wish to harvest data that isn’t easily accessible. It uses its automation features to browse automatically through a series of web pages and then performs the extraction tasks. The data can be exported into numerous formats, including JSON, XLSX, SQL, HTML, and CSV. OutWitHub can be used both as an extension and a standalone application.

Best feature: Can export data into numerous formats

Link to the Website: http://www.outwit.com/

Ratings from Capterra: No ratings provided

Ratings from G2 Crowd: No ratings provided

Ratings from TrustRadius: No ratings provided

Ratings from Scrapingpro: 4.5/5

Ratings from Softpedia : 4.9/5

Previously known as CloudScrape, Dexi.io provides different types of robots for you to perform web scrapings such as Crawlers, Extractors, Autobots, and Pipes. The Extractor robots are the most advanced as it allows you to choose every action you want the robot to perform, such as clicking buttons and extracting screenshots. The web scraping software also offers several  integrations with third-party services.

Best feature: Extractor robots

Link to the Website: https://dexi.io

Cons of the Tool: Doesn’t have a very smooth user experience

Ratings from Capterra: 4.5/5

Ratings from Get app : 4.6/5

Ratings from G2 Crowd: No ratings provided

Ratings from TrustRadius: No ratings provided

User Satisfaction (social mentions): “I was excited about a solution that was going to be easy to learn, and grateful to get some help setting up the first couple of scrapes from the Dexi team.”

PySpider comes with a distributed architecture that supports Javascript pages and allows you to have multiple crawlers. It can store the data on a backend of your choosing such as MongoDB, MySQL, Redis, etc. RabbitMQ, Beanstalk, and Redis can be used as message queues. PySpider’s UI is easy to use and lets you edit scripts, monitor ongoing tasks, and view the results.

Best feature: Easy-to-use UI

Link to the website : http://docs.pyspider.org/en/latest/

Ratings from Capterra: No ratings provided

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If you want to scrape an entire bunch of data from blogs, news sites, social media platforms, and RSS feeds, Spinn3r serves as a great option. The software makes use of firehose API that manages 95% of the crawling and indexing work. You are given the option to filter the data that it scrapes using keywords, which helps in weeding out irrelevant content.

Best feature: Firehose API

Link to the website : http://docs.spinn3r.com

Ratings from Capterra: 5/5

Ratings from G2 Crowd: No ratings provided

Ratings from TrustRadius: No ratings provided