Newspaper AlternativesWeb Scraping Tools and other similar apps like Newspaper

Newspaper is described as 'News, full-text, and article metadata extraction built with Python 3' and is a Web Scraping tool in the development category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Newspaper for a variety of platforms, including Web-based, SaaS, Windows, Linux and Mac apps. The best Newspaper alternative is Scrapy, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Newspaper are Portia, Lookyloo, Minexa.ai and artoo.js.

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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...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

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

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

    • Scrapy is Free and Open SourceNewspaper is also Free and Open Source
  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

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    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.

    60 Lookyloo alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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

    • Lookyloo is Free and Open SourceNewspaper is also Free and Open Source
  4. Minexa.ai icon
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    Minexa.ai is a next-generation tool that makes web scraping faster and more affordable with an AI-powered solution no other alternative has. Unlike others that require constant tweaking, struggle under heavy loads, or charge extra for natural language processing, Minexa adapts...

    Cost / License

    • Subscription
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
     
    • Minexa.ai is the most popular commercial alternative to Newspaper.

    • Minexa.ai is Paid and ProprietaryNewspaper is Free and Open Source
  5. artoo.js icon
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    artoo.js is a piece of JavaScript code meant to be run in your browser's console to provide you with some scraping utilities.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Google Chrome
    • JavaScript
    • Node.JS
     
    • artoo.js is the most popular Self-Hosted alternative to Newspaper.

    • artoo.js is Free and Open SourceNewspaper is also Free and Open Source
  6. 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
     
  7. ScrapingBee icon
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    ScrapingBee is an API that handles web scraping challenges such as JavaScript rendering, operating Chrome headless, bypassing Captcha, and using proxies. It was formerly known as ScrapingNinja. The API manages numerous headless instances using the latest Chrome version, allowing...

    Cost / License

    • Subscription
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
    • ScrapingBee is the most popular SaaS alternative to Newspaper.

    • ScrapingBee is Paid and ProprietaryNewspaper is Free and Open Source
  8. ScraperAPI icon
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    ScraperAPI enables easy scalable web scraping by managing IP rotation, headless browsers, and CAPTCHAs, simplifying data extraction from eCommerce, SERP, social media, real estate, travel sites, and reviews. Developers enjoy a streamlined experience by providing just a URL to receive HTML pages.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  9. 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

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    Platforms

    • Online
     
  10. Scraperr icon
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    Scraperr is a self-hosted web application that allows users to scrape data from web pages by specifying elements via XPath. Users can submit URLs and the corresponding elements to be scraped, and the results will be displayed in a table.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
  11. Octoparse icon
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    Octoparse is a no-code web scraping tool. It provides both free pre-made scraper templates and custom scraping features with which people without coding knowledge can extract various web data with simple point-and-click.

    118 Octoparse alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
     
  12. ScrapeHunt icon
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    Want to build a SaaS? Or find new customers? Or supercharge your marketing? ScrapeHunt gives you the benefits of scraping without the headache of scraping.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once or Subscription
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
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