Do you want to get data from a web page or website to CSV or Excel Spreadsheet? The answer is web scraping. There are number of web scraping software and services available in the market like Visual Web Ripper, Mozenda, Kimono Labs, Outwit Hub, ScraperWiki and Automation Anywhere etc. for web data extraction. These all tools and services are paid and not easy to use for non-technical persons. Now I am going to discuss another method of doing web scraping that is easy to use and free. There are various Google Chrome browser extensions available at Google Web Store (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/category/apps) using that we can do screen scraping/web scraping.
1. Web scraper
Official Website: http://www.webscraper.io
Web Scraper is integrated into browser Developer tools. Figure 1 shows how you can open it on Chrome. You can also use keyboard shortcuts to open Developer tools. After opening Developer tools open Web. 20) Web Scraper Chrome Extension. Web scraper is a chrome extension which helps you for the web scraping and data acquisition. It allows you to scape multiple pages and offers dynamic data extraction capabilities. Features: Scraped data is stored in local storage; Multiple data selection types; Web Scraper chrome extention extracts data from. I am trying to scrape tables of a website using the google chrome extension webscraper.io.In the tutorial of the extension, it is documented how to scrape a website with different pages, say, 'page 1', 'page 2' and 'page 3' where each of the pages is directly linked on the main page. I'm using the chrome extension 'webscraper.io' to scrape some information using regex I used 0-9+ to extract numbers from line The problem is that the code return the whole line not the matching only the code: cityId&0-9+ the result: cityId&31 I need only the matching 31.
Install it by visiting following link:
Web Scraper is a chrome extension for scraping data out of web pages to Excel Spreadsheet or database. It allows you to create a plan/sitemap. According to that plan/sitemap a website is traversed and the data is extracted. The extracted data can be exported to CSV or stored in CouchDB. It also supports scraping from multiple pages with pagination. You can use Web Scraper for scraping multiple types of data like text, tables, images, links and more. It also supports web data extraction from dynamic web pages built up with modern web technologies like JavaScript and AJAX.
2. Data Miner
Install DataMiner by visiting following link:
DataMiner is a standalone chrome browser plugin for extracting data from the websites. Later on extracted data can be exported to Microsoft Excel spreadsheets or Google Sheets.
Using DataMiner extension, you can scrape data from tables and lists on the websites and easily export them into CSV file or Microsoft Excel. It also supports XPath selectors. You can use it for scraping emails, Google search results, HTML tables etc.
3. Screen Scraper:
Install it by visiting following link:
Screen Scraper is another chrome scraper as it name suggest is a Chrome browser extension/plugin for screen scraping. Screen scraping is the process of automatically scraping/extracting information from websites. Later on, Scraped information can be downloaded as a CSV file or JSON file. It supports Element Selectors and Xpath Selectors method.
4. iMacro
Official Website of iMacro: http://imacros.net/
Install iMacro it by visiting following link:
iMacro is a macro recorder for your Google Chrome browser. Macro recorder is a piece of tool that records user actions. It allows users to record repetitious tasks on the web and replay it at later time. It is useful tool for web automation, data extraction and web testing. Using iMacros you can remember passwords, fill out web forms, download files and possibilities are endless. iMacros is useful to Web developers for web regression testing, performance testing and web transaction monitoring. To use iMacros you just need to record the task once and save it in your machine next time when you need to perform the same task you need not repeat the same task again and again. iMacro plugin comes for Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer too.
Web scraping is the best method to gather data from websites. Scraping tools such as Scraper can be used for scraping simple web pages. It is a chrome extension, easy to use and allows you to scrape a website’s content and upload the results to Google Docs or Excel spreadsheets. It can extract data from tables and convert it into a structured format. In this web scraper tutorial, we will show you how to extract data using this tool.
Chrome Web Scraper
Selecting the Data Fields
After downloading the extension open the website you need to highlight a part of the page that is similar to what to want to scrape. Right-click, and you’ll see an option called ‘Scrape similar’. The scraper console will open as a new window showing you the initial results, where you will see the scraped content in a table format.
The “Selector” section lets you change which page elements are scraped. You can specify the query as either a jQuery selector or in XPath.
Exporting the Data
You can export the table by clicking on ‘Export to Google Docs” to download and save the content as a Google Spreadsheet or Excel. You may also customize the columns of the table and specify names for them if you would like. After making customizations, you must press on the “Scrape” button to update the results of the table.
If the websites to scrape are complex or you need a lot of data from one or more sites, this tool may not scale well. You can consider using open source web scraping tools to build your own scraper, to crawl the web and extract data. To create a custom web scraper for a particular website you can check out our tutorial section: Web Scraping Tutorials
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