Overview
 The Visual Web Ripper application (full size) Visual Web Ripper is a powerful visual tool used to easily extract content from web sites, such as product catalogues, classifieds, financial web sites or any other web site that contains information you may be interested in.
Visual Web Ripper harvests content from targeted web sites automatically and delivers the content as structured data in databases, spreadsheets, CSV files or as XML.
Visual Web Ripper can extract 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. Visual Web Ripper makes this process very easy and fully automated.
Visual Web Ripper runs as a Windows service that can collect content 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.
Visual Web Ripper's comprehensive feature set makes it easy to create advanced solutions. Let's say you already have a product catalogue in your database, but needs some extra information, such as product reviews or vendor description, then you can use Visual Web Ripper 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 collect content by simply clicking on the content elements they want to extract. The visual designer, data collector and scheduler combines 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 Visual Web Ripper 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.
Learn more
Select a topic below to learn more about Visual Web ripper.
|