Mercury Webparser AlternativesWeb Scraping Tools and other similar apps like Mercury Webparser

Mercury Webparser is described as 'With just one API request, Mercury takes any web article and returns only the relevant content — headline, author, body text, relevant images and more — free from any clutter. It’s reliable, easy-to-use and free' and is a Web Scraping tool in the development category. There are eight alternatives to Mercury Webparser, not only websites but also apps for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Windows, Mac and BSD apps. The best Mercury Webparser alternative is Scrapy, which is both free and Open Source. Other great sites and apps similar to Mercury Webparser are Portia, Lookyloo, Flyscrape and Crawlbase.

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  1. Scrapy icon
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    Scrapy is a free and open-source web-crawling framework written in Python. Originally designed for web scraping, it can also be used to extract data using APIs or as a general-purpose web crawler. It was developed and is maintained by Zyte formerly Scrapinghub, a web-scraping...

    104 Scrapy alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
    • Scrapy is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to Mercury Webparser.

    • Scrapy is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Mercury Webparser.

    • Scrapy is Free and Open SourceMercury Webparser is Free and Proprietary
  2. Portia icon
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    Portia is an open source visual scraping tool, allows you to scrape websites without any programming knowledge required! Simply annotate pages you're interested in, and Portia will create a spider to extract data from similar pages.

    85 Portia alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Vagrant
    • Docker
     
  3. Lookyloo icon
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    Lookyloo is a web interface that allows users to capture a website page and then display a tree of domains that call each other.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
     
    • Lookyloo is the most popular Web-based alternative to Mercury Webparser.

    • Lookyloo is Free and Open SourceMercury Webparser is Free and Proprietary
  4. Flyscrape icon
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    Flyscrape is a standalone and scriptable web scraper, combining the speed of Go with the flexibility of JavaScript. — Focus on data extraction rather than request juggling.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  5. Crawlbase icon
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    Crawlbase, formerly ProxyCrawl, helps you stay anonymous while crawling the web, web crawling protection the way it should be.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
     
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    Newspaper is a news, full-text, and article metadata extraction built with Python 3.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Python
     
    • Newspaper is the most popular Self-Hosted alternative to Mercury Webparser.

    • Newspaper is Free and Open SourceMercury Webparser is Free and Proprietary
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    This is a REST API which provides the full text of an article based on a web url. Note: Uses 'Newspaper' under the hood. https://lateral.io/docs/article-extractor

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
    • Lateral.io Article Extractor API is the most popular commercial alternative to Mercury Webparser.

    • Lateral.io Article Extractor API is Paid and ProprietaryMercury Webparser is Free and Proprietary
  8. Kaddara icon
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    Kaddara is a platform designed for professionals who need fresh leads to run their business and whose business is affected by how competitors operate.

    Cost / License

    • Subscription
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
    • Kaddara is the most popular SaaS alternative to Mercury Webparser.

    • Kaddara is Paid and ProprietaryMercury Webparser is Free and Proprietary
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