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A Simple Email Crawler in Python

I often receive requests asking about email crawling. It is evident that this topic is quite interesting for those who want to scrape contact information from the web (like direct marketers), and previously we have already mentioned GSA Email Spider as an off-the-shelf solution for email crawling. In this article I want to demonstrate how […]

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Web Scraping Software

Scraping software and services landscape

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.

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Miscellaneous Web Scraping Software

7 Ways to Protect Website from Scraping and How to Bypass this Protection

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.

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7 Ways to Protect Website from Scraping and How to Bypass this Protection (2)

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. If you […]

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Scraping software, services and plugins sum up

Since we have already reviewed classic web harvesting software, we want to sum up some other scraping services and crawlers, scrape plugins and other scrape related tools. Web scraping is a sphere that can be applied to a vast variety of fields, and in turn it can require other technologies to be involved. SEO needs scrape. […]

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Web Scraping Software

WebSundew Data Extractor Review

WebSundew is a visual scraping tool that works for structured data extraction. This screen scraper is designed for high productivity and speed data ripping. The Enterprise edition allows the scrape to run at a remote Server and publish extracted data through FTP.