Are there any alternatives to Mozenda available for free?
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closed as not constructive by Barry♦ Jun 27 '12 at 6:00
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You can also use Selenium to extract content from a site (although @el chief's use of Google Spreadsheets is quite clever too) Alternatively if you just want to download a site, there are tools for that too.. e.g. HTTrack |
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30 Digits' Web Extractor does a great job for sites that are more complicated and where you need to go in detail or be very comprehensive. BTW, they are also listed on the easy bee with some convincing recommendations. |
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My advice, never use Mozenda. It is cheap yes but system is not reliable. Data not captured as expected or showing up late (if showing up at all). If the main argument was the price, then it is not worth it anymore since there is no quality either. |
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Content extraction and data scraping is not an exact science. If accuracy is not of concern and you have basic technical knowledge (simple html/css knowledge) extraction tools like Mozenda and Needlebase, which Google recently acquired, are good. They work really well if you need quick content extraction from a small number of pages. However, if accuracy and depth are of primary concern then probably you need lots of manual tweaking and regular expressions. Writing your scraping program would be best or you could check scraping services like Spider90 or Connotate |
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Lets not forget curl and wget, both of which can traverse a site and store it to disk. These are unix command line utilities and are available on most unix systems. |
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I have been playing with this kind of thing for a long time. Writing perl back in the day. If I had to roll my own for this I would probably use grep, but honestly now that I have found Mozenda I have found that for the time invested Mozenda ends up being less expensive. I can now structure a site's data in 10 minutes. I suggest using Mozenda as a proof of concept and when you have exactly what you want then code it out, but Mozenda is so fast that when the site changes its layout it again saves time to simply open up the Mozenda agent and visually make the edit rather then having to recode your project. I don't know I am hook line and sinker into Mozenda. -- Jon -- The largest directory of cloud based software http://www.theeasybee.com |
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Try Automation Anywhere. Especially if you are looking for web data extraction or screen scraping data off webpages, you can have a look at it's web data extractionpage |
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Scrape.it offers a free version and also a full version trial. You can upgrade anytime you want and select features you only need. So if you only need to do image scraping, you can just buy that option. Unlike Mozenda, which charges you per data extracted on a monthly basis, Scrape.it runs on any operating system as it is cross platform. You can run it on your desktop or server, and there's no ongoing cost. You can extract as much data as you need by using the proxy option. |
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