Web Scraper - Free Web Scraping

Web data extraction tool with an easy point-and-click interface for modern web

Total ratings for Web Scraper - Free Web Scraping

4.13 (Rating count: 793)

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Pros

Simple to use
Highly effective
Reliably scrapes thousands of pages
Only requires basic CSS knowledge
Allows for exporting sitemap configuration files
Excellent customer support
Visual element selector for CSS selectors
Can scrape data multiple pages deep
Free version provides sufficient functionality
Best and simplest tool available

Cons

Recent update caused issues with CSV downloads
Does not work on complex or protected websites
Some users find it difficult to learn
Scraper will not stop on infinite scroll pages

Most mentioned

Easy to use
Effective
Customer support
CSS selectors
CSV downloads
Updates
Scraping multiple pages deep
Limited functionality in free version
Issues with complex websites

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Recent 25 reviews for Web Scraper - Free Web Scraping

Recent rating average: 3.96

All time rating average: 4.13

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Timestamp	Author	Comment
2023-05-23	Hassan Zhang	Is anyone also meet this problem? why I get info like this <[email protected]> when I try to get email address from a web. Thanks
2023-05-17	Alexander Paluch	Once I went through the basic tutorials, the tool was simple to use and highly effective.The plugin is great. I was able to scrape thousands of pages reliably with it. You only need a minimum of CSS knowledge to get started, a lot of the scraper config works with no-code and clicking the elements you want from a website. What is very nice: once you don't want to scrape on your desktop anymore, you can switch to a SaaS version - and immediately get started by taking over your configuration files from the browser (the sitemaps). The support at webscraper.IO has been excellent and helped me solve several problems quite fast (response time with a fix sometimes within minutes). Highly recommeded!
2023-05-13	David Garry	Loved using this extension, after a recent update, it seems that clicking download as CSV has gone from being an instant process to an infinite loop of "generating" without ever downloading. :/ Will update review back to 5 stars when it is fixed.
2023-05-12	Nithin srinivas Singh	This extension was working fine till updated, but now its not working exactly like before, after visiting product page link, its not extracting the data and not moving into another product page link
2023-05-10	Edith Karuna	This was working great until the update a few days ago. I can no longer run multiple scrapes at one time. Please replace this functionality. & the "Scraping will start in a new tab. Once scraping is complete, this window will close." tab is completely unnecessary.
2023-05-08	Jay O	Its so helpful thank! I think its stopped working since you updated it today? Can this be looked into please?
2023-04-28	Jakub Novák	amazing!
2023-04-16	Alex Hutton	Very nice tool. I am scraping data multiple pages deep quite successfully (eg. I am selecting links on a "contents" page and the tool follows the links and records the specific data I want from deeper pages). It helps if you know how to use CSS Selectors. I am a programmer and I could write something in a couple of afternoons to do what I want at a basic level, but this tool allowed me to create the scraper very quickly and simply. In my usage pattern, I run the scraper weekly (to collect property sales data), export the data as a csv then import it into a google sheet (which allows appending). Works extremely well. The visual element selector allows you to quickly see what the CSS selectors are picking up. The website I'm scraping recently changed some of their HTML code, breaking one of the selectors, but in a few minutes I used this tool to identify what had changed and I could easily fix the problem. Thank you for your work guys! Also, the paid version lets you run the scraper in the cloud (like if you want to schedule it to run automatically). I haven't had a need to use this, I can do what I want quite well with the free version. People who are scraping for businesses purposes and who have multiple sites they need to regularly scrape would likely benefit from the paid version. One other thing, I had the sitemap (the definition of all the selectors for the scraper) on my work computer and I needed to transfer it to my personal computer. The tool's sitemap export allowed me to easily export and then re-import on the other computer! Great tool!
2023-04-09	Daniel Verdi do Amarante	Super simple and easy to use
2023-04-03	Júlio César Ködel	Pure trash, worthless
2023-03-29	EXTREME REPORTER - Andiamo al Sodo!	PER CIO CHE INTENDO FARE, NON E' SERVITO.
2023-03-20	Davis Legrand	A very professional team available to help because I am not a specialist. After testing several solutions, they are by far the best! Again a big thank you!
2023-03-16	Alper Sezer	I have tried plenty of different extensions and Web Scraper is by far the best and simplest tool I've ever used. Thank you to all.
2023-03-08	Rafsan Jani	This is really the best tool I have ever seen. Noob people can not use it, to utilize it properly you have to be skilled. Just a few problems I found are that some websites have high protection to stop scrapping, This tool sometimes does not run for those sites. But maximum site it works fine. Love it. Love this team Thanks a lot. (It took me a long time to understand how this tool really works. XPath, HTML + CSS, a Few days ago also notice jQuery knowledge also help me to use it advanced)
2023-03-07	Alamgir Hossain	just waste of time.
2023-03-06	Philipp Kowalski	Completely useless piece of sofware. Might work on easy example sites that the dev has built, definitely does not work on complex sites or web 2.0 pages or social media. What a waste of time.
2023-01-27	Kyle Chassie	do you have an updated tutorial on how to use it microsoft edge, i go to dev tools but am confronted with a completely different setup than what your tutorial shows.
2023-01-19	Tsai vivian	深度采集還是不如迷你派來的采集正確。軟件後面新加的feature修修補補的不成樣子了。不過畢竟是老牌
2023-01-18	Doug Wang	I tried out a few web scraper tools and found this one to be the easiest to use and have the best support. Shout out to Kaspars from their support team who went above and beyond to help me scrape some tricky javascript code on a website. He easily saved me several hours of work.
2022-12-05	Brenden O'Sullivan	Lets start with the team and the support which is 100% the BEST support team i have ever dealt with, then the product which is super easy to use, setup and execute.
2022-12-03	Вячеслав	те кто знает html, css, js, xml - может еще пару звездочек поставить, инструмент огонь!
2022-11-28	Jose	AMAZING! Hands down the best extension on google! The amount of value they give you is insane. I use it for my business daily! Pretty easy to learn and a ton of videos on youtube to help you. If you need more help their email support is amazing!
2022-11-05	VEPS	Суперский парсер, пользуюсь уже год, десятки выполненных проектов...
2022-10-14	Carlos Farto	My first experience with this kind of tool, really excellent feedback!!! especially for the support of Kaspars, not only the support and orientation, but also for the attitude, the time spent in teaching me, giving me tips and even creating configurations, without any doubt the best support i have ever received, and not only in IT company, thank you so much!
2022-10-14	Ринат Абдуллин	Удобное и очень практичное приложение. Пользуюсь на протяжении 2-х лет. Респект и уважение разработчикам. Использую для скрейпинга таблиц, тестов в excel. Экономит кучу времени.