Editor: Web Content Extractor is the most powerful and easy-to-use data extraction software for web scraping, web harvesting and data extraction from the internet. Web Content Extractor offers you a friendly, wizard-driven interface that will walk you through the process of building a data extraction pattern and creating crawling rules in a simple point-and-click manner. Not a single string of code is required! Web data extraction is completely automatic.
Web Content Extractor will benefit a wide range of computer users. Let’s say, for example, you need to gather the information about all products (names, descriptions, prices, images, and etc.) from a product Catalog located on a certain site. Instead of adding extra ballast to your working day, you can create a project in Web Content Extractor and the required information will be extracted from the site automatically without any Interference from your side. This may save you plenty of efforts and an endless string of browsing hours!
Web Content Extractor allows users to extract data from a particular web site with pages having a similar structure (such as online stores, shopping sites, e-commerce sites, financial sites, business directories, product catalogs, search engine results, and etc.). The extracted data can be exported to a variety of formats, including Microsoft Excel (CSV), Access, TXT, HTML, XML, SQL script or MySQL script. This variety of export formats allows you to process and analyze data in your customary format.
Configuring a data extraction task is a breeze because you simply follow the steps offered by the configuration wizard. First you should specify an extraction pattern, enter the starting URL from which Web Content Extractor will start crawling, specify the crawling rules and depth and type in a project name. The crawling depth is configurable and offers much flexibility. For example, the crawler can be configured to follow links if linked text contains the value that has been specified by you.