UiPath is an Enterprise Robotic Process Automation (RPA) Software designed to empower companies to automate repetitive, manual, rules-based business processes. Any repetitive task a user performs on his computer, including data entry, legacy application integration, data or content migration, screen scraping and testing can be automated with UiPath.
Category: Web Scraping Software
After almost 3 years in running this scraping blog and reviewing dozens of products; in this small post I’d like to categorise the tools/means used for web scraping available to end user. Here are the typical examples of scrapers in those categories.
ProxyMesh is another rotating anonymous proxy server service that lets users stay anonymous with the help of a network of continuously rotated IP proxy servers. This service requires no software to be downloaded but it can be easily used in conjunction with Visual Web Ripper software.
Recently, import.io (a free scraping online tool) announced that they are adding another way to get data from the web: they’ll build it for you. This new “Data as a Service” program is targeted at businesses and organizations who need data, but don’t have the time or resources to devote to using the import.io tool to build it themselves. For these clients, import will curate custom datasets based on their specific requirements as well as develop custom data implementation solutions based on the organization’s in-house software.
In this article I’d love to revise few well-known methods of protecting website content from automatic scraping. Each one has its advantages and disadvantages, so you need to make your choice basing on the particular situation. None of these methods is ultimate and each one has its own ways around I will mention further.
It’s very common to use proxy servers for web data extraction. If you want to stay undetected when you scrape a website, you have to change your IP address periodically. Otherwise it is very easy to detect unusual activity by observing a large number of requests from a single IP address. Visual Web Ripper has a built-in support of proxy servers called Private Proxy Switch.
This post is outdated. The silk.co service is no more awailable.
This is a guest post by Daniel Cave.
With the rise of social media sharing, collaboration and a increasingly interested market for data, there are more and more people wanting to ‘play with data’ and learn using some basics free tools. So recently I’ve been trying to find a technically advanced and interesting combination of free tools to collect and visualise web data that will allow enthusiasts and students to get those all important initial quick and easy wins.
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Captcha Breaker Review
GSA Captcha Breaker is a CAPTCHA solving software. It uses Optical Character Recognition algorithms for CAPTCHA decoding. Being a standalone program it works independently of any online captcha recognition services (like DeathByCaptcha, BypassCaptcha and etc). This means that once you have paid for the program you don’t need to pay for each recognition anymore, and this allows you to save money when you need to recognize a huge amount of CAPTCHAs.
The task of email extraction is quite popular in the sphere of web scraping. Here I want to present you with a review of the GSA Email Spider, a useful program designed for collecting emails, phones and fax numbers from the web.
In this post I want to offer you a brief review of GSA Auto Website Submitter. This application is designed to submit information about a web page (that includes backlinks, categories, description, etc.) to thousands of directories and dozens of search engines.