Best tool for scraping?

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I'm looking for a tool that spiders through a domain and exports lots of data that I can catch through regex and xpath selectors.

Can anyone suggest something that will work?

Thanks
 
I have heard webharvy does that, no idea though. There must be a lot of those tools, you need search on Google.
 
If you are looking to scrape through xpath, i recommend you to try python selenium. It supports xpath and it has threading capability. It requires very low memory footprint so it is good for VPSs too. Let me know if you need a starting template. I have shared some in BHW (but single threaded ones.. Haven't shared any multi threaded python bot in bhw yet). I can link the thread if you need.

Scrapebox isn't that good when it comes to custom scraping according to what I have seen (I have scrapebox by the way.. if anybody has a tutorial for scrapebox using xpath, please point me to that. I would appreciate your help!!)
 
Have you tried Scrapebox already?

Yeah, it's not good for what I want to do.

Webharvy can help you with that.

I'll try that, thanks!

If you are looking to scrape through xpath, i recommend you to try python selenium. It supports xpath and it has threading capability. It requires very low memory footprint so it is good for VPSs too. Let me know if you need a starting template. I have shared some in BHW (but single threaded ones.. Haven't shared any multi threaded python bot in bhw yet). I can link the thread if you need.

Scrapebox isn't that good when it comes to custom scraping according to what I have seen (I have scrapebox by the way.. if anybody has a tutorial for scrapebox using xpath, please point me to that. I would appreciate your help!!)

Thanks for the recomendation. If webharvy doesn't work I'll try that!
 
So, you need to scrape the web – you're eyeing up that piece of data you'd like to extract and ... Netpeak Spider — scraping by Contains, RegExp, CSS Selector, and XPath
 
GSA email spider can do this job, but unfortunately this software is not being sold anymore.
 
Please try webharvy, I hope that will help you. Thanks
 
For curiosity: how many URLs to you intend to scrape? How many xpath-expressions aka fields to resolve?
 
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