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Inspyder Power Search Review

Inspyder Power Search is a crawling and scraping application which is more for straightforward scraping, using both XPath and Regex. The program has a simple, nice interface making it easy to learn and employ it.

Inspyder is designed for multiple purposes:

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Distil Review: Anti-Scrape-Bot Service

Are you thinking of protecting your website content from theft and nonlegal scraping? Are you suspecting that some ‘innocent bots’ are continually visiting your web pages for data retrieval? Now we come to the anti scraping bot software and services. In this post we want to briefly review the new anti scrape bot service called Distil

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Scraping for Journalists book Review

Scraping for Journalists by Paul Bradshaw is a handy book for non-programmers to master some basic scraping techniques with online scraping tools. For sure, this book does not and cannot embrace all the techniques and problems that arise with the practical scheduled business web extraction; instead, it guides common people through how to get and refine some open data.

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Mozenda Review

The main difference of the screen scraper software by Mozenda from other scrapers is that it runs your scraping projects (Agents) in clouds. Firstly, you build a project locally using a Windows application and then you execute it on the server.

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Screen Scraper Review

Screen Scraper

Screen Scraper is a classical scraping tool for all kinds of data scraping, extracting and packing. However, it takes time to properly master it.

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Web Content Extractor Review

Web Content Extractor is a visual user-oriented tool that scrapes typical pages. Its simplicity makes for a quick start up in data ripping.