Textricator AlternativesWeb Scraping Tools and other similar apps like Textricator

Textricator is described as 'Tool for extracting text from computer-generated PDFs and generating structured data . If you have a bunch of PDFs with the same format (or one big, consistently formatted PDF) and you want to extract the data to CSV or JSON' and is a Web Scraping tool in the development category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Textricator for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Windows, Mac, SaaS and Web-based apps. The best Textricator alternative is Scrapy, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Textricator are Portia, Lookyloo, Flyscrape and ParseHub.

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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

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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

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

    • Scrapy is Free and Open SourceTextricator 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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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

    • Lookyloo is Free and Open SourceTextricator is also Free and Open Source
  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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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  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

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
     
  6. 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 Textricator.

    • Scraperr is Free and Open SourceTextricator is also Free and Open Source
  7. FetchFox icon
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    FetchFox is an AI powered web scraper. It takes the raw text of a website, and uses AI to extract data the user is looking for. It runs as a Chrome Extension, and the user describes the desired data in plain English.

    58 FetchFox alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Google Chrome
     
  8. 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)
     
    • ScrapeHunt is the most popular SaaS alternative to Textricator.

    • ScrapeHunt is the most popular commercial alternative to Textricator.

    • ScrapeHunt is Paid and ProprietaryTextricator is Free and Open Source
  9. Piloterr icon
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    Piloterr is the #1 platform enabling forward-thinking companies to leverage the full potential of web data through +50 ready-to-use APIs.

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    • Subscription
    • Proprietary

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    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  10. Zyte icon
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    Zyte is a leader in web data extraction technology and services. The worldwide distributed team of more than 180 developers and extraction experts help millions of developers and thousands of organizations get their hands on clean, accurate data from the web to fuel their own...

    97 Zyte alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Subscription
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
     
  11. ScrapeStorm icon
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    ScrapeStorm is a AI-Powered visual web scraping tool,which can be used to extract data from almost any websites without writing any code. It is powerful and very easy to use. It supports Windows, Mac OS and Linux operating systems.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  12. 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

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    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
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