Visual tool for extracting data from the web and save to database, XML, CSV or XLS.
Visual Web Ripper is a powerful visual tool used for automated web scraping, web harvesting and content extraction from the web.
Visual Web Ripper can automatically walk through whole web sites and collect complete content structures such as product catalogues or search results, and save the content in many different formats, including XML, spreadsheets and databases.
Major features
*Visual Web Ripper has a visual editor to define projects and templates. You use a mouse to click on the content you want to collect, so no coding is required. *Visual Web Ripper can automatically walk through whole web sites and collect complete content structures such as product catalogues or search results *Visual Web Ripper can walk through a website just as you would when using a normal Internet browser, so AJAX and other javascripts are fully supported. *Visual Web Ripper has a fast multi-threaded data collector for web sites where AJAX is not required for data extraction. *Visual Web Ripper can repeatedly submit forms for all possible combinations of input values in dropdown boxes, or you can supply a list of input values by yourself. *You can supply parameter data from a database, such as form input values or URLs that should be visited. *Visual Web
Changes:
- The link template option "Extract text" will now extract the alt text of an image if the link contains an image instead of text.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.61.12 - Content names starting with the character # causes an error when saving extracted data. The character # is now no longer allowed in names.
- The AJAX option "No wait in design mode" has been removed, since AJAX actions can now be cancelled by clicking the browser stop button.
Requirements:
.NET v2
Restriction :
15 days trial ; extracts only the first 100 web elements on a website