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The next stage in the Scraper Test Drive is to test the scrapers on their ability to parse Block layout. This test evaluates the ability of different scrapers to cope with difficult blocks layouts, especially those in which there is no direct HTML association among the data presented on a screen.
In this video i share how you might automate data extraction using the iMacros plugin for IE browser.
The iMacros plugin for IE has the most visual interface compare to equal iMacros plugins for FF or Chrome browsers. Yet, the same macro might be run at the iMacros plugins at any of the browsers. A data extraction is only one of the niches the plugin is of use, see the short description of all its usage here. The code of the macro from the video above you might see down here:
VERSION BUILD=8021970
TAB T=1
TAB CLOSEALLOTHERS
SET !EXTRACT_TEST_POPUP NO
URL GOTO=http://www.londonstockexchange.com/exchange
/prices-and-markets/stocks/indices/summary
/summary-indices-constituents.html?index=AIM1
TAG POS=1 TYPE=TABLE ATTR=CLASS:table_dati EXTRACT=TXT
SAVEAS TYPE=EXTRACT FOLDER=c:\iMacros FILE=table.csv
TAG POS=1 TYPE=A ATTR=TXT:Next
WAIT SECONDS=2
TAG POS=1 TYPE=TABLE ATTR=CLASS:table_dati EXTRACT=TXT
SAVEAS TYPE=EXTRACT FOLDER=c:\iMacros FILE=table.csv
TAG POS=1 TYPE=A ATTR=TXT:Next
WAIT SECONDS=2
TAG POS=1 TYPE=TABLE ATTR=CLASS:table_dati EXTRACT=TXT
SAVEAS TYPE=EXTRACT FOLDER=c:\iMacros FILE=table.csv
TAG POS=1 TYPE=A ATTR=TXT:Next
WAIT SECONDS=2
TAG POS=1 TYPE=TABLE ATTR=CLASS:table_dati EXTRACT=TXT
SAVEAS TYPE=EXTRACT FOLDER=c:\iMacros FILE=table.csv
TAG POS=1 TYPE=A ATTR=TXT:Next
WAIT SECONDS=2
TAG POS=1 TYPE=TABLE ATTR=CLASS:table_dati EXTRACT=TXT
SAVEAS TYPE=EXTRACT FOLDER=c:\iMacros FILE=table.csv
TAG POS=1 TYPE=A ATTR=TXT:1Recently, a friend of my asked me for a simple free tool to detect new releases of the phpMyAdmin software. Since I recently did some research on website change tracking, I immediately recommended ChangeDetection.com.
In this post, I’ll start to share our experiences with different web scrapers on the Testing Ground project. The first test, which I thought would be the simplest one, proved to be irksome and discouraging. With a struggle, I completed the test drive on Table Report. This test evaluates the ability of different scrapers to cope with difficult tables, like merged tables, missing values and so on.
When I needed to extract dictionary words’ definitions I chose Python and lxml library. In this tutorial, I’ll review the steps of scraping Webster online dictionary using lxml in Python.
When I needed to extract dictionary words’ definitions I chose Python and lxml library. In this tutorial, I’ll review the steps of scraping Webster online dictionary using lxml in Python.
OutWit Hub is a software providing simple data extraction without requiring any programming skills or advanced technical knowledge. What impressed me about Outwit Hub is its general approach to data gathering: harvest everything (links, text, images, etc.) and, then, let the user choose what is needed (sift by scrapers). The program is apt to browse over links on pages, so this feature works well if multiple chains web scraping is required.
After completing reviews for both Mozenda and Visual Web Ripper, it was time to compare the advantages of each. This short post gives a quick look into these scraping tools, both of which are powerful and popular.
Scraper is a Google Chrome extension. Scraper is a handy scraping tool, perfect for capturing data from web pages and putting it into Google spreadsheets. This tool stands in line with the other scraping software, services and plugins.
