Portia AlternativesWeb Scraping Tools and other similar apps like Portia

Portia is described as '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' and is a popular Web Scraping tool in the development category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Portia for a variety of platforms, including Web-based, Windows, SaaS, Mac and Linux apps. The best Portia alternative is UI.Vision RPA, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Portia are Scrapy, import.io, Apify and ParseHub.

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  1. UI.Vision RPA icon
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    Open-source task and test automation tool and Selenium IDE. The UI.Vision RPA software is a browser extension that can do desktop automation as well! Use it for web automation, form filling, screen scraping and Robotic Process Automation (RPA).

    142 UI.Vision RPA alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Google Chrome
    • Mozilla Firefox
     
    • UI.Vision RPA is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to Portia.

    • UI.Vision RPA is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Portia.

    • UI.Vision RPA is Freemium and Open SourcePortia is Free and Open Source
  2. 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

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  3. import.io icon
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    import.io is a web-based platform that puts the power of the machine readable web in your hands. Using our tools you can create an API or crawl an entire website in a fraction of the time of traditional methods, no coding required.

    109 import.io alternatives

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    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
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    Import.io is easier to use than Portia, but is now fully commercial (for the good stuff)

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    • import.io is the most popular commercial alternative to Portia.

    • import.io is Paid and ProprietaryPortia is Free and Open Source
  4. Apify icon
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    Cloud platform enabling automated data extraction, web crawling, and browser workflow automation using reusable acts, headless browser support, advanced scheduling, persistent storage, API integrations, modular design and scalable resource management.

    107 Apify alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
     
    • Apify is the most popular Web-based alternative to Portia.

    • Apify is Freemium and Open SourcePortia is Free and Open Source
  5. ParseHub icon
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    ParseHub is a web scraping tool built to handle the modern web.

    You can extract data from anywhere. ParseHub works with single-page apps, multi-page apps and just about any other modern web technology.

    ParseHub can handle Javascript, AJAX, cookies, sessions and redirects. You c.

    96 ParseHub alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
     
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  6. UiPath icon
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    A free, fully-featured, and extensible tool for automating any web or desktop application. UiPath Studio Community is free for individual developers, small professional teams, education and training purposes.

    120 UiPath alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    Content Grabber is used for web scraping and web automation. It can extract content from almost any website and save it as structured data in a format of your choice, including Excel reports, XML, CSV and most databases.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  8. PhantomBuster icon
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    PhantomBuster offers no-code, multi-platform bots compatible with major sites like LinkedIn and Twitter for web scraping and lead generation. Cloud APIs ensure seamless integration, boosting productivity and supporting custom API creation for bespoke automation solutions.

    101 PhantomBuster alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Subscription
    • Open Source

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    • Online
    • Mozilla Firefox
     
  9. 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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    • Self-Hosted
     
    • Scraperr is the most popular Self-Hosted alternative to Portia.

    • Scraperr is Free and Open SourcePortia is also Free and Open Source
  10. 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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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  11. Diggernaut icon
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    Diggernaut is a cloud-based service for web scraping, data extraction, and other ETL tasks. Schedule and run your scrapers in the cloud or compile and run on your PC.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  12. 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
     
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