Regular expressions provide a concise and flexible means to “match” (specify and capture) strings of text, such as particular characters, words, or patterns of characters. Here we tried our best to present to you the most used Regexes with examples for your handy referencing.
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.
Easy Web Extract is visual screen scraper for extracting data for business purposes. This data extractor rips desired web content (text, url, image, html) from webpages with minimum effort. Customize data export formats with its HTTP submit form, a unique feature of this screen scraper.
WebHarvy Data Extractor is a lightweight, visual, point-to-click web scrape tool. It won’t be long before you become masterful at the generally tedious task of data extraction.
Web Data Extractor is a web scraping tool specifically designed for mass-gathering of various data types. The software can harvest URLs, phone and fax numbers, email addresses, as well as meta tag information and body text.
Screen Scraper is a classical scraping tool for all kinds of data scraping, extracting and packing. However, it takes time to properly master it.
Web Content Extractor is a visual user-oriented tool that scrapes typical pages. Its simplicity makes for a quick start up in data ripping.
Recently, 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. This service is free with basic logging in and primitive interface. The drawback of this service is that its pages load with 20th century delays, but for one-time page adding it’s okay.
