A list of scrapers from around the web.
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- Apifier (link)
- Beautiful Soup (link)
- Browse AI (link)
- Cheerio (link)
- Clearbit (link)
- Common Crawl (link)
- Crawly (link)
- Dexi.io (link)
- Diffbot (link)
- Diggernaut (link)
- eLink (link)
- EliteProxySwitcher (link)
- Email Hunter (link)
- FiveFilters (link)
- FMiner (link)
- FullContact (link)
- Grabby (link)
- HrefScrap (link)
- Import.io (link)
- Kimonolabs (link)
- lxml (link)
- Mozenda (link)
- Morph.io (link)
- Node-crawler (link)
- Nutch (link)
- Outwit Hub (link)
- Octoparse (link)
- rvest (link)
- scrape-it (link)
- Scraper.AI (link)
- ScraperAPI (link)
- ScraperWiki (link)
- ScrapingAnt (link)
- Scrapinghub (link)
- Scrapper (link)
- Screen Scraper (link)
- Toofr (link)
- UBot Studio (link)
- UiPath (link)
- Venom (link)
- Web Robots (link)
- Web Scraper (link)
- WrapAPI (link)
- X-Ray (link)
- ZenRows (link)
Description: Cloud-based scraper for JavaScript.
Applicable Language(s)
- JavaScript
Description: A Python library for navigating and parsing results from the Web. It allow for searching the HTML tree to find various tags.
Applicable Language(s)
- Python
Description: Browse AI is a cloud-based SaaS that lets you extract and monitor structured data from any website with no code through a click and extract interface. It also comes with a REST API, webhooks, and native integrations with tools like Google Sheets.
Applicable Language(s)
- C
- Clojure
- C#
- Go
- Java
- Node
- Objective-C
- Ocaml
- PHP
- Python
- Ruby
- Shell
- Swift
Description:Fast, flexible & lean implementation of core jQuery designed
Applicable Language(s)
- JavaScript
Description: Service for looking up company and people information.
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Description: Open dataset of crawled websites.
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Description: Automatic service that turns a website into structured data in the form of JSON or CSV.
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Description: Website data extraction using a visual programming language.
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Description: Automated tool for extracting structured information from pages, crawling websites, and turning a website into an API.
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Description: Cloud based web scraping platform.
Applicable Language(s)
- SML
- Javascript
Pros
- Scraper can be build using visual tool and scraping meta language
- Can execute JS snippets inside scraper
- Supports Selenium (optionally) and OCR
- Automated data validation and export to any text based format
- Can run scrapers manually and scheduled in the cloud or compile and run locally
- Full automation using API and integrations with other APIs
Cons
- Currently in beta
- Doesn't support PDF parsing yet
Description: Tool to mine LinkedIn profiles based on keywords.
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Description: Local software that can download a proxy list and let users choose which one to use.
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Description: API to find e-mail addresses for a given domain name.
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Description: Provide various website extraction and transformation tools such as Full-Text RSS and Term Extraction as services.
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Description: Local software for web scraping using a recording and a visual programming language.
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Description: API to retrieve more information on a person.
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Description: Service that searches a website for e-mails.
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Description: A chrome extension which scrapes off all the href's from a web page.
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Description: Automated tool to extract structured information from websites.
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Description: Kimono was acquired by Palantir. This was a cloud-based service for turning websites into structured APIs. Now they offer a desktop-based alternative for continuing to use their tools.
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Description: lxml is the most feature-rich and easy-to-use library for processing XML and HTML in the Python language.
Pros
- Incredibly fast (see: Python HTML Parser Performance)
Applicable Language(s)
- Python
Description: Extract structured information from HTML, PDF, Excel, and Word by clicking on document elements.
Applicable Language(s)
Description: Based on ScraperWiki, run scrapers in Python, Ruby, R, Perl or Node.js.
Applicable Language(s)
- Node.js
- Perl
- Python
- R
- Ruby
Description: Web Crawler/Spider for NodeJS + server-side jQuery
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- Node.js
Description: Web crawler that can be combined with the Hadoop ecosystem to run in a cluster.
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Description: Application that can extract information from a website and turn it into structured data (CSV, Excel, etc.).
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Description: The free web scraping tool for extracting all the web page data into several structured file formats easily and effectively.
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Description: R package to scrape information from web pages. It is designed to work with magrittr to make it easy to express common web scraping tasks, inspired by libraries like beautiful soup.
Applicable Language(s)
- R
Description: A Node.js scraper for humans.
Applicable Language(s)
- JavaScript (Node.js)
Description: Scraper.AI is an automated scraping SaaS that makes extracting data from any webpage as simple as clicking and selecting what you want. With a few clicks you can gather thousands of records.
Best of all, changes to the selections are monitored as often as you want. Updates are pushed to a consumable API for you to build on top of it
Applicable Language(s)
- Any, through a JSON API and (optional) webhook
Description: ScraperAPI is a tool for developers building web scrapers, it handles proxies, browsers, and CAPTCHAs so developers can get the raw HTML from any website with a simple API call.
It’s the ultimate web scraping service for developers, with special pools of proxies for ecommerce price scraping, search engine scraping, social media scraping, sneaker scraping, ticket scraping and more.
Applicable Language(s)
- Python
- NodeJS
- PHP
- Ruby
- Java
Description: Write a scraper in the browser and run on their cloud-based service. This is used by many news organisations.
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Description: ScrapingAnt is a Headless Chrome scraping API and free checked proxies service. ScrapingAnt supports Javascript rendering, premium rotating proxies and CAPTCHAs avoiding tools. Free plans available.
Applicable Language(s)
- Any, through a JSON API
Description: Scraper cloud hosting as a service. Allows developers to deploy their own scrapers on their platform and benefit from their existing infrastructure.
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Description: Scrapper is a powerful web scraping tool with a built-in headless browser and Read mode for parsing. It has a simple and beautiful web interface, a REST API, and can search for news links on websites. Other features include stealth mode, caching results, page screenshots, proxy support, and full customization. Scrapper is delivered as a Docker image and is free to use.
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- Any, through a JSON API
Description: Local tool for scraping websites.
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Description: Service for looking up business e-mails.
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Description: Web automation software using a visual programming language and recorder.
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Description: Visual tool for GUI automation by recording.
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Description: Venom is an open source focused crawler for the Deep Web.
Features
- Multi-threaded
- Structured crawling
- Page Validation
- Automatic Retries
- Proxy support
Applicable Language(s)
- JAVA
Description: Data as a Service platform for web scraping.
Pros
- Scraping dynamic javascript heavy websites
- Login and form fill on websites
- Data normalization and validation
- Data uploads
Cons
- Currently in beta
- Possible payment model in the future
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Description: Extension that downloads websites and turns them into structured data. Data is selected by element or by specialised selectors (e.g., for tables).
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Description: Turn a website into an API. The structure of the data is defined by clicking elements or regular expressions.
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Description: NPM module for scraping structured data via jQuery-like selectors.
Applicable Language(s)
- JavaScript (Node.js)
Description: Web Scraping API & proxy server that bypasses any anti-bot solution while offering javascript rendering, rotating proxies, and geotargeting.
Applicable Language(s)
- Any, using an API or proxy
- JavaScript (Node.js SDK available)
React
Typescript
Django
Laravel
Facebook
Microsoft
Google
Alibaba
D3
Tencent