Web scraping tools

It is possible to customize web scraping solutions. There are many software tools that can be used for this. These software tools provide a record interface that automatically recognizes the data structure of a page and removes the need to manually write web scraping code, or provides some script functions and database interfaces that can be used to extract and convert the content. Some of those tools are listed below;

  • Diffbot: This is a tool that uses computational vision and machine learning algorithms that have been developed for collecting data from web pages automatically, in a behavior like a human being would perform.
  • Heritrix: This is a web crawler that was designed for web archiving.
  • HTTrack: This is a web browser ...

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