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Web Scraper

Web Scraper is a chrome browser extension built for data extraction from web pages. Using this extension you can create a plan (sitemap) how a web site should be traversed and what should be extracted. Using these sitemaps the Web Scraper will navigate the site accordingly and extract all data. Scraped data later can be exported as CSV.

Latest Version

To run the latest version you need to download the project to your system and follow the description on Google) (select the extension folder).

Changelog

v0.3

  • Enabled pasting of multible start URLs (by @jwillmer)
  • Added scraping of dynamic table columns (by @jwillmer)
  • Added style extraction type (by @jwillmer)
  • Added text manipulation (trim, replace, prefix, suffix, remove HTML) (by @jwillmer)
  • Added image improvements to find images in div background (by @jwillmer)
  • Added support for vertical tables (by @jwillmer)
  • Added random delay function between requests (by @Euphorbium)
  • Start URL can now also be a local URL (by @3flex)
  • Added CSV export options (by @mohamnag)
  • Added Regex group for select (by @RuneHL)
  • JSON export/import of settings (by @haisi)
  • Added date and number pattern in URL (by @codoff)
  • Added pagination selector limit (by @codoff)
  • Improved CSV export (by @haisi)
  • Added click limit option (by @panna-ahmed)

v0.2

  • Added Element click selector
  • Added Element scroll down selector
  • Added Link popup selector
  • Improved table selector to work with any html markup
  • Added Image download
  • Added keyboard shortcuts when selecting elements
  • Added configurable delay before using selector
  • Added configurable delay between page visiting
  • Added multiple start url configuration
  • Added form field validation
  • Fixed a lot of bugs

v0.1.3

  • Added Table selector
  • Added HTML selector
  • Added HTML attribute selector
  • Added data preview
  • Added ranged start urls
  • Fixed bug which made selector tree not to show on some operating systems

Bugs

When submitting a bug please attach an exported sitemap if possible.

Development

Read the Development Instructions before you start.

License

LGPLv3

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