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A guide to web data extractor

  • 13/02/2020

What is a web data extractor?

A web data extractor is a software application which can crawl through websites for extracting unstructured data from web pages and converting them to normal format. The web data extractor can be used for any purpose such as duplicating online database, transferring contents from one website to another, downloading pictures and description of products, market research and customer surveys from online forums, to get real estate data and other financial data. There are separate web extractors such as contacts grabber which can extract updated contact information from web for developing membership sites or for sales promotions and marketing campaigns. Such web site extractors are powerful and intuitive tools which enables clients to gather results from member listing, job portals and online business directories.

It takes a lot of efforts and time to manually copy and paste data from web pages. Web extractors use automated scripts and crawling algorithms for finding content from web pages and storing them in database or as spread sheet. In this present world of online trade and e-commerce such a website extractor plays a significant role in online comparison of real estate data, price lists, job posting and for extracting email address and contact information from websites. The web extractors developed by Bot Scraper provide 100 percent accuracy of data and they are very efficient. With manual work, it could take 25 human days for completing a job which can be done in 2 to 3 hours using these automatic web page extractors.

 

Custom web extractors

Apart from being reliable and efficient when compared to manual web data extraction, the programs are affordable and they save thousands of man hours, time and resources which can be used for other useful business process. These custom web data extractors are designed based on individual business requirements and pricing will differ based on complexity of algorithms and the targeted websites as well as the flexibility of the software in controlling extraction patterns.

 

You can discuss with the team of experts at Bot Scraper about your requirements and get a free quote about web data extractor before signing a contract with them.


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