[] IMPORT.IO ALTERNATIVE?

i just found out about import.io
it lets you scrape data from websites
specific areas of a website that you cant do with scrapebox
then export and create excel /google sheets
choose exactly/specifically what you want


is there a cheaper alternative to this?
$299 monthly cmon!! i dont have the monies right now

syrk said:

i just found out about import.io
it lets you scrape data from websites
specific areas of a website that you cant do with scrapebox
then export and create excel /google sheets
choose exactly/specifically what you want


is there a cheaper alternative to this?
$299 monthly cmon!! i dont have the monies right now

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Are you talking about areas that require logins and javascirpt?

mmmmm for example
scraping a specific area of a website i.e. home page URL
lets say in every page of the search result the URL was underneath the video or profile picture
i saw this video

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They know they have a great product and since the free competition is out (kimono labs), they kind of have the market cornered. Worth it if you can make more than what they charge (imo).

Have you tried this? https://github.com/scrapinghub/portia

Requires some programming knowledge though.

no idea what github is X_X nor any programming stuff
kimono labs is gone!

RIP KIMONO

Kimono labs still has a desktop version if you have a Mac. I haven't used but but apparently still works (limited) if you have an old API key.

Not 100% but you might want to check it out:
http://www.kimonolabs.com/desktop.html

syrk said:

mmmmm for example
scraping a specific area of a website i.e. home page URL
lets say in every page of the search result the URL was underneath the video or profile picture
i saw this video

a

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I don't clearly understand what your trying to scrape, so Ill just say it this way in regards to your question about scrapebox.

The regular custom data grabber in scrapebox is meant for grabbing only 1 piece of data.

If you want to scrape more or many different pieces of data from a website, you can use the more robust custom data scraper that is part of the paid premium plugin called email scraper plugin.

The limitations of this tool are that the content must be publicly visible with javascript turned off.

Meaning if the content is rendered by javascript scrapebox can't see it

AND

If you must be logged in to see the content scrapebox can't see it because it doesn't support authentication. Else it can probably scrape it in the text content category. If you want images and other files there is a module in scrapebox for that, but its not tied together with the robust custom data scraper.

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Not really sure if that answers your question or not. But if not maybe you can give me a link to a specific url and specific example on that url of what you want to scrape.

syrk said:

i just found out about import.io
it lets you scrape data from websites
specific areas of a website that you cant do with scrapebox
then export and create excel /google sheets
choose exactly/specifically what you want


is there a cheaper alternative to this?
$299 monthly cmon!! i dont have the monies right now

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Managementware tools are best for yellowpage scraping.

I've used them before: https://localscraper.com/ - works just fine to get email, address etc.

Depends on what you need though.