Scrapers

A list of scrapers from around the web.

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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

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)

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)

Import.io

Description: Automated tool to extract structured information from websites.

Applicable Language(s)

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

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)

scrape-it

Description: A Node.js scraper for humans.

Applicable Language(s)

JavaScript (Node.js)

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)

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)