Site Scraper

addbravo

Newbie
Joined
Jun 20, 2010
Messages
11
Reaction score
0
Hello peeps,

What's the best site scraper out there? Looking for programs that can scrape any site; not just article directories. Thanks for the help :D
 
Do you want a software than can scrap a complete website?
Or do you want a software that can scrap the text of a website?
 
i am looking for a software that can scrap the text of a website .... any ideas?
 
You need a custom bot if you want to just scrap certain text or info from a site send me a pm i can help
 
Yea you need something built for that-- need some curl and regex:)
 
there is no tool out there to scrape any site :)... you need a custom bot ... you may find (or make) a bot that will scrape all text from a site but there is no tool that will scrape onlt the content of an article or a description from any site out there... Sites are different and you need to instruct your bot where to find (and how to find) the text in a page
 
Like others have said, there is no tool that can scrape any site from out of the box. But there are tool you can use to scrape practically any site you just have to configure the software to do it.

One of the easiest ones I have used (and the cheapest for what it can do) is web content extractor.
http://www.newprosoft.com/web-content-extractor.htm

They have a version that rotates proxies you just have to ask them for it and their support is awesome. There have been a few sites I've had trouble scraping and after contacting support with the details they have set up the scraper for me and even customized the software itself to accommodate the site I was trying to scrape.
 
just use some php and write a scraper, i build a few before not to hard .
 
Any site??
I'm using Octoparse | Web Scraping Software.
But I don't think it will work for any sites.
Writing a scraper is kinda hard for me.
 
for what purpose you need to scrape. How you need the scraper to work. You need to scrape for keyword or full site content scraping
 
That's the beauty of scraping you mostly need different scripting for each sites which are big sites like fb,G,Yt etc due to their different structures,securities etc.

And for small sites using Wp,Joomla,etc mostly can be scrapped with once code and scrapping method normally.
 
Back
Top