Visual Web Ripper is the most powerful and easy-to-use data extraction software for web scraping, web harvesting and data extraction from the internet.
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 a database or as XML.
This application was designed to allow users to collect content from the Internet and save it as structured data. 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.
Here are some key features of "Visual Web Ripper":
· Full Visual Editor. Use a mouse to click on the content you want to collect.
· 15 different content types (text, link, image, file, meta tag, tag attribute and many more).
· 4 different template types (URL, link area, form and sub section).
· Repeat the same content template for similar content elements on a web page (for example: all images in a table).
· Automatically process multiple pages in a search result.
· Automatically submit forms and follow all links in a link areas.
· Automatically populate form fields with ranges of input values and/or with all values in combo boxes.
· Custom control of all repeated content templates, including link areas and forms (for example: specify the first link and how many links to follow in a link area).
· Some AJAX support.
· Tag explorer to fine-tune selected content elements on a web page.
Requirements:
· .NET Framework 2 or higher
· Internet Explorer 6 or higher
Limitations:
· 14 days trial
· Can extract a maximum of 100 web elements
· nag screen