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Visual Web Ripper is a powerful visual tool used for automated web scraping, web harvesting and content extraction from the web. Our data extraction software can automatically walk through whole web sites and collect complete content structures such as product catalogues or search results, and save the content in many different formats, including XML, spreadsheets and databases. The visual point-and-click approach of our data extraction software makes web scraping easy for everyone. We believe our web grabber is the best value for money of all web grabber tools we have seen, and this is a view shared by many of our existing customers.

Web grabbing can be a very difficult task, and unless you are an expert in scripting languages such as Python or Perl, you'll need to use a dedicated web grabber tool to be successful.

There are hundreds of web grabber tools available and it may be hard to decide which tool is best for you. The top-end web grabber tools may cost as much as one hundred thousand dollars while the low-end tools may cost as little as one hundred dollars, so what's the difference between expensive and cheap web grabber tools?

Expensive web grabber tools are often focused on scalability and performance, which are important features if you are extracting huge amount of time critical data. Expensive web grabber tools will often be able to extract data from complex web sites where cheap and primitive web grabber tools fail.

So where does Visual Web Ripper fit into all this. The price is certainly low, but we believe our software is comparable with the most expensive web grabber tools available. We believe Visual Web Ripper presents the best value for money of all web grabber tools we have seen, and this is a view that is shared with many of our existing customers, many of whom are businesses providing professional web scraping services.

The visual and ease-of-use approach in Visual Web Ripper makes it easy to extract data from most web sites, but at the same time Visual Web Ripper contains a lot of very advanced features which make it possible for advanced users to extract data from the most complex web sites. Visual Web Ripper provides high performance with it's multi-threaded web crawler collector, but web grabbers at the very top-end may outperform Visual Web Ripper slightly in web browser mode.

FEATURES:

*Visual Web Ripper has a visual editor to define projects and templates. You use a mouse to click on the content you want to collect, so no coding is required.
*Visual Web Ripper can automatically walk through whole web sites and collect complete content structures such as product catalogues or search results
*Visual Web Ripper can walk through a website just as you would when using a normal Internet browser, so AJAX and other javascripts are fully supported.
*Visual Web Ripper has a fast multi-threaded data collector for web sites where AJAX is not required for data extraction.
*Visual Web Ripper can repeatedly submit forms for all possible combinations of input values in dropdown boxes, or you can supply a list of input values by yourself.
*You can supply parameter data from a database, such as form input values or URLs that should be visited.
*Visual Web Ripper can extract data from most framesets and iframes.
*A list of anonymous proxy servers can be setup to hide your IP-address and facillitate anonymous web scrapping.
*You can schedule content extraction to keep data up-to-date. The scheduler includes email notification, logging and status screens.
*Advanced selection techniques make project templates more resistant to structural changes on web pages, so a scheduled project can keep collecting data even if the structure of a webpage changes slightly.
*Email notifications can be sent out if the structure of a webpage changes so much that you must modify the scheduled project to continue extracting content from the