Web Content Extractor is a Windows program designed to simplify the process of gathering data from websites.
Purpose
Oriented primarily towards marketers and researchers, this simple tool allows users to extract information from online platforms with various architecture and builds. It is possible to set automatic crawling and gathering of content including texts, images, links and other components from web pages. Such a method excludes the necessity of manual collection of data from multiple sources.
There are customizable extraction templates that help you simplify your routine scraping tasks. You can repeatedly copy similar types of data keeping out unnecessary files from your storage. On top of that, the program provides several export options. To be exact, you are able to save the gathered information as XLS, CSV, HTML, XML and SQL documents.
Suitability
Not only the software works with sites built with WordPress but other platforms as well. It is possible to handle complex website structures like the ones with pages that contain multiple levels of links, dynamic content and paginated data. In other words, you can easily copy data from modern sources.
Features
- includes a proxy support to avoid IP blocking;
- allows to schedule extraction sessions;
- users can export gained info into popular text-based formats;
- possible to apply ready-made templates to collect a certain type of data;
- free to download and use;
- compatible with modern Windows versions.
