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Ask HN: Recommendations for point and click web scraper
My brother wants to do some web scraping and wants a non programming interface (he has a betting system he wants to automate :-) ), I was thinking a point and click interface. The ideal solution would extract to a spreadsheet on a schedule and added bonus run from a command line. He's not a programmer but does excel and some SQL, I recommended using Python but he's not keen on that - are there any web scrapers that you can just click and set up automatic schedules that people would recommend?
A google turned up these two which seem reasonable but a recommendation would be nice
https://www.grepsr.com
https://www.webscraper.io
Thanks
- mswen 8y agoI have used a service from Octoparse for one of my clients. it costs them a little under $100 a month. Pretty easy to set up. Runs in the cloud and then downloads to client database 2 or 3 times a day. After a couple of problems early on it has been pretty reliable. I know they have a trial or freemium version that might be sufficient for your brother. It won't run in the cloud but rather from your brother's local machine.
- chadcmulligan 8y agoThanks I'll mention it to him, the free one might do the job - I think $100 a month might give him pause.