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This is lacking clarity in the payment schedule... Is it One-time? Monthly? Yearly?

ithkuil 7y ago
EDIT: snippet from the website to help answer this question without requiring you to click. I didn't intend this to be a rude answer, I don't think it deserves downvotes. " + No server involved (zero subscription fee for you!) ... Unlike other web scraping softwares, it requires only one time payment to scrape for unlimited time and data. No more subscriptions or huge fee for your small data analysis projects! "
- gravypod 7y ago
  How is this at all sustainable as a business model? My company is in charge of scraping a few TB/week. Would we be allowed to use your service?
  - ithkuil 7y ago
    from a cursory look it seems that this software runs on your client, i.e. it's not a service. Scrolling down: " Can I scrape password protected stuff with Spider? Yes! It’s a browser extension, so as long as you log in first, you can scrape whatever you like. "
  - chrismarlow9 7y ago
    Go watch the demo video. From what I can see it's not automated enough to do tb/week. That said I bet you could hook it into scrapy and automate it. Probably will be slow though
  - evandena 7y ago
    It's just a browser extension
  - thinkloop 7y ago
    It's all client-side, it's not what you think, it's more a light scraping-on-the-go type product than a permanent enterprise solution. Good for what it does tho.
  - elldoubleyew 7y ago
    I think this is all done client side, manually, through a browser extension. They aren't providing you with an API to retrieve this data live afterwards. Still a cool project but I think this limits a lot of its utility. Providing an API to access the data as a service would be a lot more profitable.
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  - primitivesuave 7y ago
    This is a browser extension that takes the place of copy/pasting from web sites (ie manual scraping), what you’re looking for is probably more automated.
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NoNotTheDuo 7y ago
On the homepage, right above the Purchase and Trial buttons is "Pay Once and Use It Forever"

EDIT: snippet from the website to help answer this question without requiring you to click. I didn't intend this to be a rude answer, I don't think it deserves downvotes. " + No server involved (zero subscription fee for you!) ... Unlike other web scraping softwares, it requires only one time payment to scrape for unlimited time and data. No more subscriptions or huge fee for your small data analysis projects! "

gravypod 7y ago
How is this at all sustainable as a business model? My company is in charge of scraping a few TB/week. Would we be allowed to use your service?
- ithkuil 7y ago
  from a cursory look it seems that this software runs on your client, i.e. it's not a service. Scrolling down: " Can I scrape password protected stuff with Spider? Yes! It’s a browser extension, so as long as you log in first, you can scrape whatever you like. "
- chrismarlow9 7y ago
  Go watch the demo video. From what I can see it's not automated enough to do tb/week. That said I bet you could hook it into scrapy and automate it. Probably will be slow though
- evandena 7y ago
  It's just a browser extension
- thinkloop 7y ago
  It's all client-side, it's not what you think, it's more a light scraping-on-the-go type product than a permanent enterprise solution. Good for what it does tho.
- elldoubleyew 7y ago
  I think this is all done client side, manually, through a browser extension. They aren't providing you with an API to retrieve this data live afterwards. Still a cool project but I think this limits a lot of its utility. Providing an API to access the data as a service would be a lot more profitable.
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- primitivesuave 7y ago
  This is a browser extension that takes the place of copy/pasting from web sites (ie manual scraping), what you’re looking for is probably more automated.

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NoNotTheDuo 7y ago

On the homepage, right above the Purchase and Trial buttons is "Pay Once and Use It Forever"