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...

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  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.

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    • Discontinued

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    • Linux
    • Vagrant
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  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.

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Windows
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    • Online
     
  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.

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  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.

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    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Python
     
  7. 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.

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
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