Google Chrome web browser allows users to download and install a plug in that allows scraping of web pages.
Here is how to use web scraper in Chrome:
Once Chrome is launched user navigates to the Chrome Web Store, downloads Scraper extension and adds it to Chrome. After that the user navigates to a specific URL and marks an entry and then, by right clicking with mouse, selects the option to scrape similar text entries in the URL. The plug in does the work and shows gathered data in a small window in the browser. This data can be saved to Google Docs. Using the XPath option of the scraper plug in allows users to access and download only specific data.
The drawback of Chrome and scraper plug in is that it exports data only to Google Docs account.
This is one method. A better method is to not use Chrome or any web browser or plug ins but to use only web content extractor. This is a stand alone application that gets a variety of data effortlessly and outputs it to a desired format on the user’s hard drive. It is fast, accurate, simple and easy to operate. It will access and get data through multi-threaded operations in the background with least user intervention. The software can be scheduled to start at specified times. It will access password protected sites and do it through proxy servers. On a scale of one to ten, it is about 10 times better than any plugin for web browsers when it comes to web data extraction.
Here is how to use web scraper in Chrome:
Once Chrome is launched user navigates to the Chrome Web Store, downloads Scraper extension and adds it to Chrome. After that the user navigates to a specific URL and marks an entry and then, by right clicking with mouse, selects the option to scrape similar text entries in the URL. The plug in does the work and shows gathered data in a small window in the browser. This data can be saved to Google Docs. Using the XPath option of the scraper plug in allows users to access and download only specific data.
The drawback of Chrome and scraper plug in is that it exports data only to Google Docs account.
This is one method. A better method is to not use Chrome or any web browser or plug ins but to use only web content extractor. This is a stand alone application that gets a variety of data effortlessly and outputs it to a desired format on the user’s hard drive. It is fast, accurate, simple and easy to operate. It will access and get data through multi-threaded operations in the background with least user intervention. The software can be scheduled to start at specified times. It will access password protected sites and do it through proxy servers. On a scale of one to ten, it is about 10 times better than any plugin for web browsers when it comes to web data extraction.