ScrapeMate

Researching on the Internet for particular information or merely wanting to keep track of specific data can sometimes bring up the necessity to monitor web pages to determine the changes. This can be a quite tedious process and there are multiple software alternatives for such tasks. However, ScrapeMate aims at breaking down the steps imposed when scraping web pages for data and offer an accessible monitoring setup.

The main browser interface allows one to navigate to the required website and preview the areas or data that needs to be monitored. Once a selection has been made, one can then proceed and create a scrap map or task, which can be customized in terms of scheduling and other details.

The items of data that are the subject of tracking can be directly exported to disk, into various formats, such as XLS, CSV or directly to an SQL server. If selecting Excel as the exporting option, people have the chance to choose to create new tables or update existing ones.

Whenever certain areas of the websites that need monitoring are selected, a useful wizard will pop-off, providing users with a range of functions, which are meant at making the whole process more efficient. Data can be captured or labeled, triggers can be set and the next sections selected.

The app’s interface is constructed in a rather vague fashion, and often the provided features might be displayed intermittently or as faintly blurred. Nevertheless, these minor issues do not affect its functionality and overall handling.

This is a minimalist website scraper app that will provide enough functionality to set-up consistent monitoring tasks, but without dwelling into more complex features, which might put-off novice users.