Web scraping easy!

“I have no expertise in programming, but I would like to collect some data from the Web regularly. Can I use IRobotSoft web scraping software?” This is a typical question from our users.

Of cause, the answer is yes. IRobotSoft Visual Web Scraper is created for every Web users who want to automate their Web explorations and want to free their hands. It decomposes the complexity of Web scraping into some simple, compact Web actions that can be easily handled by almost everyone.

Let’s say you have a couple of real estate listing Web sites, and you want to collect the listing information into a personal database, or a spreadsheet, so that you can search, analyze, and compare prices more easily. No, you don’t want to spend days clicking through all the search entries returned by the real estate website—they are usually packed with heavy ads, and sometimes it takes you ten minutes to just open one page. You are used to using spreadsheet where you can scan through thousands of entries in minutes and make up your decision based on it. But this is not possible with the Web interfaces provided by the real estate website. That is why you decided to use automated method to collect all the real estate information into a database first. Yes, use a Web robot to do it.

You are not alone. You are amongst the hundreds of millions of people who want a better way to deal with the Web. Forget about the Web hypes for the AJAX craps. They just want to hijack you to crawl through their pages and let their money-crunching ads run. But they force you to abandon your merit of statistics and data analysis because it is not possible for you to analyze data without a solid database. You desperately need a tool that can emancipate you from these time-wasting crawling jobs that has tightened up both your hands and feet.

So what can you expect from IRobotSoft Visual Web Scraper? Simply speaking, IRobotSoft allows you to put up a Web robot and collect your data with just a few clicks. The robot then is able to do the form submission, link following and data collection actions automatically. IRobotSoft has a built-in scheduler so that you can tell the robot when to start collecting your data each day.

We are proud of our IRobotSoft tool because it makes you who don’t know much about programming to build a sophisticated robot that works perfectly for you. It has a very simple recording interface where you can just navigate through websites and the robot will play back your explorations. You just need a little customization to pull data directly from Web pages to your databases.

Many of our users posted they positive feedbacks at the IRobotSoft forum and we hope you will find the IRobotSoft Visual Web Scraper useful as well. Finally, don’t hesitate to try this amazing software out because it is absolutely free