Data Scraping Studio - Point and click screen scraping tool using CSS selectors

datascraping.co

4 points·vrathee··3 comments

An easy and powerful suite of website scraping. Just point and click element selectors Chrome app to create web scraping agent with instant extracted data preview. And then use the desktop app for advance features like batch crawling, scheduling, multiple website scraping simultaneously and more for FREE

I started reading the site trying to learn more, but then an uninteresting popup blocked the its content. As soon as a went to move it out of the way, another popup blocked even more of the content.

In my opinion, these site behaviors lower the tool's value proposition because signing up for emails about the product doesn't meet the acute need - scraping - that drove a visitor to the site. It might be better to offer site visitors hospitality.

It sounds interesting, but I never got to the point where I could learn that it was a Chrome app or how it worked.

Anyway, this might make a good "Show HN" if you are looking for additional feedback. https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

Good luck.

Agreed with the site hospitality, those popup was added yesterday on demand by users form https://www.producthunt.com/tech/data-scraping-studio to collect the leads for OS X and API interested users and prioritize accordingly. Will remove after 2-3 days.

Chrome app documentation is available here : http://www.datascraping.co/doc/39/chrome-extension It was just in Help center > Documentation

If you've installed the Chrome app, it will automatically take you to the tutorial.

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