6 Best Web Scraping Tools for Developers

In the era of booming technology , Internet is getting overloaded with information and data. With the growth of data on the web, web scraping is also likely to become more and more important for businesses for mining the Internet for actionable insights.While there are various tools available for web scraping, a growing number of people spend their valuable time exploring web scraping libraries and tools.

Web scraping tools are specially developed software for extracting useful information from the websites. These tools are helpful for anyone who is looking to collect some form of data from the Internet.

Here is a list of the top 6 web scanning tools available today, I want to introduce to you in this article.

1 : Scraper API

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Scraper API tool helps you to manage proxies, browsers, and CAPTCHAs. This allows you to get the HTML from any web page with a simple API call. It is easy to integrate as you just need to send a GET request to API endpoint with your API key and URL.

Advantages:

Helps you to render JavaScript
It allows you to customize the headers of each request as well as the request type
The tool offers unparalleled speed and reliability which allows building scalable web scrapers
Geolocated Rotating Proxies

2 : Scraping-Bot

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Scraping-Bot.io is an efficient tool to scrape data from a URL. It works particularly well on product pages where it collects all you need to know: image, product title, product price, product description, stock, delivery costs, EAN, product category etc. You can also use it to check your ranking on google and improve your SEO. Use the Live test on the Dashboard to test without coding.

Advantages:

JS rendering (Headless Chrome)
High quality proxies
Full Page HTML
Up to 20 concurrent requests
Geotargeting
Allows for large bulk scraping needs
Free basic usage monthly plan.

3 : Apify SDK

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Apify SDK is one of the best web scrapers built in JavaScript. The scalable scraping library enables the development of data extraction and web automation jobs with headless Chrome and Puppeteer. With its unique powerful tools like RequestQueue and AutoscaledPool, you can start with several URLs and recursively follow links to other pages and can run the scraping tasks at the maximum capacity of the system respectively.

Advantages:

Scrape with largescale and high performance
Apify Cloud with a pool of proxies to avoid detection
Built-in support of Node.jsplugins like Cheerio and Puppeteer

4 : Scrapinghub

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Scrapinghub is a hassle-free cloud base data extraction tool which helps companies to fetch valuable data. The tool allows you to store data in the high-ability database.

Advantages:

Allows you to converts the entire web page into organized content
Helps you to deploy crawlers and scale them on demand without the need to care about servers, monitoring or backups
Supports bypassing bot counter-measures to crawl large or bot-protected sites

5 : Octoparse

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Octoparse is another useful web scraping tool that is easy to configure. The point and click user interface allow you to teach the scraper how to navigate and extract fields from a website.

Advantages:

Ad Blocking technique feature helps you to extract data from Ad-heavy pages
The tool provides support to mimics a human user while visiting and scraping data from the specific websites
Octoparse allows you to run your extraction on the cloud and your local machine
Allows you to export all types of scraped data in TXT, HTML CSV, or Excel formats

6 : Node-crawler

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Node-crawler is a powerful, popular and production web crawler based on Node.js. It is completely written in Node.js and natively supports non-blocking asynchronous I/O, which provides a great convenience for the crawler’s pipeline operation mechanism. At the same time, it supports the rapid selection of DOM, (no need to write regular expressions), and improves the efficiency of crawler development.

Advantages:

Rate control
Different priorities for URL requests
Configurable pool size and retries
Server-side DOM & automatic jQuery insertion with Cheerio (default) or JSDOM

Conclusion

Open source web scrapers are quite powerful and extensible but are limited to developers. There are lots of non-coding tools like Octoparse making scraping no more a privilege for developers. If you are not proficient with programming, these tools will be more suitable and make scraping easy for you.

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