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Development

Dexi.io addon functionality (images & geocoding)

dexi-io-geo-maps-logoThe Dexi.io web scraping service has remade its functionality by adding [paid plan] addons. Through addons, more features are made available to customers, e.g. more step types/pipe actions. Those features also allow the integration of scrape results to data stores and endpoints like PostgreSQL, MySQL, Amazon S3 and other. 

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Web Scraping Software

Octoparse 7.0 – a free web scraping tool for non-developers

octoparse has recently launched a brand new version 7.0, which has turned out to be the most revolutionary upgrade in the past two years, with not only a more user-friendly UI, but also some of the advanced features make web scraping even easier. In this post, I will walk through some of the new features/changes made available in this new version, with respect to how a beginner, even one without any coding background, can approach this web scraping tool.