Semalt: 10 Free Data Scraping Tools To Start Using Today

Scraping a website is the complicated technique employed by different brands and big companies that want to collect volumes of data about a specific topic or subject. Learning the mechanics of the web scraping programs is quite difficult as the data is harvested from different sites with browsing plugins, custom methods, HTTP and python scripts.

Here we have given the list of top 10 most famous web scraping tools online.

1. Scraper (Chrome extension):

Scraper is best known for its cutting-edge technology and is great for both programmers and non-programmers. This tool has its own dataset and makes it easy for you to access different web pages and export them to CSV. Hundreds to thousands of websites can be scraped in no time with this tool, and you don't need to write any code, build 1000 APIs and perform other complicated tasks as Import.io will do everything for you. This tool is great for Mac OS X, Linux, and Windows and helps download and extract data and sync files online.

2. Web-Harvest:

Web-Harvest provides us with lots of data scraping facilities. It helps scrape and download loads of data and is a browser-based editor. This will extract real-time data, and you can export it as JSON, CSV or save to Google Drive and Box.net.

3. Scrapy:

Scrapy is another browser-based application that provides easy access to structured and organized data and the real-time data with a data crawling technique. This program can crawl massive amounts of data from different sources in one APIL and saves it in formats like RSS, JSON, and XML.

4. FMiner:

FMiner is the cloud-based program that helps extract data without any issue. It will make use of the proxy rotator known as Crawler that bypasses the bot counter-measures to the crawler via bot protected websites. FMiner can easily convert the whole website into organized data, and its premium version will cost you around $25 per month with four different crawlers.

5. Outwit:

Outwit is a famous web data extraction tool that helps extract data from different sites, and the results are fetched in real time. This will export your data in different formats such as XML, JSON, CSV, and SQL.

6. Data Toolbar:

Data Toolbar is the Firefox add-on that simplifies our web search with its multiple data extraction properties. This tool will automatically browse the pages and extract them in varying formats for your use.

7. Irobotsoft:

Irobotsoft is known for its unlimited data extraction properties and makes your online research easier. This will export your extracted data to the Google spreadsheets. Irobotsoft is actually a freeware that can benefit both beginners and expert programmers. If you want to copy and paste the data to the clipboards, you should use this tool.

8. iMacros:

It is a strong and flexible web scraping tool. It can easily figure out which data is useful to you and your business and which is useless. It helps extract and download a large amount of data and is good for sites like PayPal.

9. Google Web Scraper:

With Google Web Scraper, it is possible to fetch the entire data from the social media websites, personal blogs, and news outlets. You can get them saved in JSON format. Besides the regular extraction, this tool offers powerful spam protection and removes all malware and spam from your machine on a regular basis.

10. Extracty:

Extracty can be integrated with cookies, AJAX, and JavaScript and can redirect your queries to crawlers instantly. It uses the latest machine learning technique for identifying your documents and extracting them in different formats. This is good for Linux, Windows and Mac OS X users.