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Asked: December 13, 20192019-12-13T00:37:03+00:00 2019-12-13T00:37:03+00:00In: Business & Finance

What are the tools and software available for scraping alternative data?

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What are the tools and software available for scraping alternative data?

I am looking for some alternative data as there is very little information available around my topic.

Wikipedia, Amazon and Twitter are kinds of sources I am interested in. When it comes to Wikipedia, the data are available in tables and spreads over 100s of linked pages. Amazon product categories and reviews are also a complicated network of pages.

It is quite a humongous job to extract the data by just copying and pasting. Is there any way I can extract the data in Excel in a neat and clean form?

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    1. Alvaro Level 1
      2019-12-13T00:38:39+00:00Added an answer on December 13, 2019 at

      I think you need to parse/scrape it through python or some other programme language.

      If it is a one-off job, you can pay a few bucks to someone to do the job. You can easily find on Fiver or Fivesquid. PPH is rubbish and expensive.

      If you are going to do the task on a frequent basis, then you should buy the software. I would recommend WebHarvy. It has a simple and easy interface and can do most scraping jobs.

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    2. Mukti Sridhar Level 1
      2019-12-13T00:40:24+00:00Added an answer on December 13, 2019 at

      Well, it depends on what type of data is there and in which format. If the data is in the form for tables on Wikipedia, you can download the tables through this online tool. https://wikitable2csv.ggor.de/

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    3. AlternativeData Level 1
      2019-12-13T00:45:06+00:00Added an answer on December 13, 2019 at
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      Below is the top 40 tools and software for web scraping, crawling and parsing.
      There are both paid and free tools available.
      Make sure that you take care of copyrights.

      1. Apify SDK
      2. Beautiful Soup
      3. Cheerio
      4. Common Crawl
      5. Connotate
      6. Content Grabber
      7. Crawlmonster
      8. Crawly
      9. Data streamer
      10. DataScraping.co
      11. Dexi.io
      12. Diffbot
      13. Easy Web Extract
      14. FMiner
      15. Grepsr
      16. Helium Scraper
      17. Import.io
      18. Mozenda
      19. Octoparse
      20. Outwit
      21. Parsehub
      22. Salestools.io
      23. Scrape.it
      24. ScrapeHero
      25. ScraperWiki
      26. Scrapinghub
      27. Scrapy
      28. Screen-Scraper
      29. Spinn3r
      30. UniPath
      31. VisualScraper
      32. Web Content Extractor
      33. Web Robots
      34. Web Scraper Chrome Extension
      35. Web Scraper.io
      36. Web Sundew
      37. Webharvy
      38. Webhose.io
      39. Winautomation
      40. 80legs
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    4. Raj Level 1
      2020-02-07T10:09:59+00:00Added an answer on February 7, 2020 at

      Hello,

      We are in the scraping business and can fulfil your custom requirements in the alternative data space. To know more about us visit http://www.krawlnet.com or write to us at info [at] Krawlnet [dot] com

      Thanks,

      Raj

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