The Visual Web Ripper application (full size)
Visual Web Ripper Overview
Visual Web Ripper is a powerful web page scraper used to easily extract website data, such as product catalogues, classifieds, financial web sites or any other web site that contains information you may be interested in.
Our web page scraper harvests content from targeted web sites automatically and delivers the content as structured data in databases, spreadsheets, CSV files or as XML.
Our web page scraper can extract website data from highly dynamic websites where most other extraction tools would fail. It can process AJAX enabled websites, repeatedly submit forms for all possible input values, and much much more. See the full feature list here:
Why use Visual Web Ripper
Manual content extraction from web sites can be very time consuming and is often not feasible at all if you want to extract complete content structures such as product catalogues. Our web content grabber makes this process very easy and fully automated.
Visual Web Ripper runs as a Windows service that can extract website data on a scheduled basis, so your collected content will always be up-to-date. For example, you could extract currency rates from a website on a daily basis and always have up-to-date currency rates in your database.
The comprehensive feature set of our web content grabber makes it easy to create advanced solutions. Let's say you already have a product catalogue in your database, but need some extra information, such as product reviews or vendor descriptions, then you can use our web content grabber to extract information for each product you have in your database.
Flexibillity
Visual Web Ripper is very easy to use because of the visual designer that allows users to extract website data by simply clicking on the content elements they want to extract. The visual designer, data collector and scheduler combine into a very powerful ready-to-use application, but you can take things a step further and obtain complete control of the application by using the programming API.
If you have .NET programming skills you can bring the full power of our web page scraper straight into your own applications. The Visual Web Ripper programming interface provides full access to every single feature in Visual Web Ripper, so you can create and modify projects, or run a project and access collected data directly before it is even saved to an external data source.
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