What are the Web scraping tools?

At present, there are a lot of Web crawl tools, there are free open source also paid, general personal websites or enterprises in order to enrich the content of the site will crawl in line with their own site content, and then inserted into their own site, of course, crawl content data may also be used for analysis.

Let’s take a look at some common and useful Web scraping tools.

ScrapeBox

ScrapeBox is a desktop application that performs multiple Web scraping events.

Advantages:

Can run perfectly on the local computer, low cost (mainly low payment price), rich and diverse functions, meet normal needs disadvantages:

When we do large scale crawls, the speed is very slow, very slow, suitable for center scale. ScrapingBee

ScrapingBee is a developer’s Web scraping API that is notable for its low probability of being blocked. The main reason is that the API interface provides advanced proxies that block possibilities by changing IP addresses.

Advantages:

Easy to integrate data complete and quality development documentation has excellent javascript rendering disadvantages:

You can’t use Scrapy without a professional developer

Scrapy is itself a free open source Web scraping framework written by the Python programming language. At the beginning of the design is mainly used for Web fetching, of course, it can also use API to extract data fetching network data.

Developers with Python knowledge or specialized technology companies are generally required to use the framework.

And Scrapy is perfect for large-scale Web scraping that performs repetitive tasks: e-commerce product data, news site article content, querying every URL link across an entire Web site.

Advantages:

Has many common web crawling framework has a dedicated person to actively maintain the development of documents updated in time shortcomings:

No disadvantages have been found compared to other frameworks or software. The above are a few more excellent Web scraping tools, we look at the needs of individuals or companies can be completed according to the skills of Web scraping.