Data Toolbar
Data Toolbar, available as a browser extension or a standalone program, offers users a point-and-click solution for scraping data from single or multiple Web pages and saving the results as a spreadsheet.
From the website:
Data Tool is designed for everyday business users and requires no technical skill. Within minutes you will be extracting thousands of data records from your favourite free or subscription web sites.
The program allows users to select only the fields they want to mine and gives them options to rename the fields before pulling them into a comma-separated value file.
A free version is available, but results are limited to 100 rows of data.
Product:
//Company:
//Version Tested:
//Release Date:
May 5, 2012
//Cost:
$24
//Open Sourced:
No
//Demo Available:
Yes
//Obsolete:
No
Our Reviews
Verdict:
Can grab data from multiple pages; search form-based data causes problems
Data Toolbar handles multiple pages; needs help on harder tasks
What Data Toolbar does, it does well. Give it multiple pages of consistent data and it will draw the records in cleanly and quickly and deliver easily imported, delimited files. It had no problem going through multiple pages of results and did not skip records. But it can't automate input of search terms, and it fumbles when record fields are inconsistent.
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Verdict:
Captures Web tables flawlessly, even across multiple pages
Data Toolbar grabs table-formatted Web data perfectly
Data Toolbar was a quick and almost idiot-proof solution for this test, scraping the names and addresses of 8,117 South Dakota lobbyists from the state's website.
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Needs major user assistance for form-based searches, limited record returns; failed to grab detail data
Website with limited search returns stymies Data Toolbar
Data Toolbar could not get past the search limitations of this database, a listing of physicans and surgeons in British Columbia that restricts results to 200 records at a time. It also failed to grab information from detail pages.
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Inability to automate search terms makes scraping clunky and slow, but serviceable; data capture incomplete
Data Toolbar hindered by form-based search, errors
Data Toolbar can't automate the entering of search terms, so it's a poor choice for scraping pages with form-based searches. But in some cases it could produce results, with some help from the user.
READ OUR FULL TEST RESULT »Verdict:
Even major interaction by user yields incomplete, uncertain results
Irregular data throw off Data Toolbar
The variable number of data blocks in this text-styled page threw off Data Toolbar, causing it to skip parts of some records. With some guidance, it can get most, but still not all, of the records.
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