Scrapers

A list of scrapers from around the web.

Find your way through with the Table of Contents. It will showcase the entire list with easy navigate to their pros and cons while also providing links to their respective websites.

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Table Of Contents

• Apifier (link)
• Beautiful Soup (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)
• ScraperWiki (link)
• ScrapingAnt (link)
• Scrapinghub (link)
• Screen Scraper (link)
• Toofr (link)
• UBot Studio (link)
• UiPath (link)
• Venom (link)
• Web Robots (link)
• Web Scraper (link)
• WrapAPI (link)
• X-Ray (link)

Apifier

Description: Cloud-based scraper for JavaScript.

Applicable Language(s)

• JavaScript

Beautiful Soup

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

Cheerio

Description:Fast, flexible & lean implementation of core jQuery designed

Applicable Language(s)

• JavaScript

Clearbit

Description: Service for looking up company and people information.

Applicable Language(s)

Common Crawl

Description: Open dataset of crawled websites.

Applicable Language(s)

Crawly

Description: Automatic service that turns a website into structured data in the form of JSON or CSV.

Applicable Language(s)

Dexi.io

Description: Website data extraction using a visual programming language.

Applicable Language(s)

Diffbot

Description: Automated tool for extracting structured information from pages, crawling websites, and turning a website into an API.

Applicable Language(s)

Diggernaut

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

eLink

Description: Tool to mine LinkedIn profiles based on keywords.

Applicable Language(s)

EliteProxySwitcher

Description: Local software that can download a proxy list and let users choose which one to use.

Applicable Language(s)

Email Hunter

Description: API to find e-mail addresses for a given domain name.

Applicable Language(s)

FiveFilters

Description: Provide various website extraction and transformation tools such as Full-Text RSS and Term Extraction as services.

Applicable Language(s)

FMiner

Description: Local software for web scraping using a recording and a visual programming language.

Applicable Language(s)

FullContact

Description: API to retrieve more information on a person.

Applicable Language(s)

Grabby

Description: Service that searches a website for e-mails.

Applicable Language(s)

HrefScrap

Description: A chrome extension which scrapes off all the href's from a web page.

Applicable Language(s)

Import.io

Description: Automated tool to extract structured information from websites.

Applicable Language(s)

Kimonolabs

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.

Applicable Language(s)

lxml

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

Mozenda

Description: Extract structured information from HTML, PDF, Excel, and Word by clicking on document elements.

Applicable Language(s)

Morph.io

Description: Based on ScraperWiki, run scrapers in Python, Ruby, R, Perl or Node.js.

Applicable Language(s)

• Node.js
• Perl
• Python
• R
• Ruby

Node-Crawler

Description: Web Crawler/Spider for NodeJS + server-side jQuery

Applicable Language(s)

• Node.js

Nutch

Description: Web crawler that can be combined with the Hadoop ecosystem to run in a cluster.

Applicable Language(s)

Outwit Hub

Description: Application that can extract information from a website and turn it into structured data (CSV, Excel, etc.).

Applicable Language(s)

Octoparse

Description: The free web scraping tool for extracting all the web page data into several structured file formats easily and effectively.

Applicable Language(s)

rvest

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

scrape-it

Description: A Node.js scraper for humans.

Applicable Language(s)

• JavaScript (Node.js)

Scraper.AI

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

ScraperWiki

Description: Write a scraper in the browser and run on their cloud-based service. This is used by many news organisations.

Applicable Language(s)

ScrapingAnt

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

Scrapinghub

Description: Scraper cloud hosting as a service. Allows developers to deploy their own scrapers on their platform and benefit from their existing infrastructure.

Applicable Language(s)

Screen Scraper

Description: Local tool for scraping websites.

Applicable Language(s)

Toofr

Description: Service for looking up business e-mails.

Applicable Language(s)

UBot Studio

Description: Web automation software using a visual programming language and recorder.

Applicable Language(s)

UiPath

Description: Visual tool for GUI automation by recording.

Applicable Language(s)

Venom

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

Web Robots

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

Applicable Language(s)

Web Scraper

Description: Extension that downloads websites and turns them into structured data. Data is selected by element or by specialised selectors (e.g., for tables).

Applicable Language(s)

WrapAPI

Description: Turn a website into an API. The structure of the data is defined by clicking elements or regular expressions.

Applicable Language(s)

X-Ray

Description: NPM module for scraping structured data via jQuery-like selectors.

Applicable Language(s)

• JavaScript (Node.js)