What is Portia?
Portia is an open source tool that lets you get data from websites. It facilitates and automates the process of data extraction. This visual web scraper works straight from your browser, so you don't need to download or install anything.
Portia is a tool in the Web Scraping API category of a tech stack.
Portia is an open source tool with 9.3K GitHub stars and 1.4K GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Portia's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses Portia?
Companies
Developers
24 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Portia.
Portia's Features
- Extracts data from websites based on visual selections by the user
- Creates generic web scrapers which are capable of extracting data from any web page with a similar structure
- Exports scraped data in CSV, JSON, JSON-lines and XML
- There is a hosted version available as a free service on Scrapy Cloud which lets Portia leverage from all the features of a cloud-based production platform including scaling and scheduling jobs, data storage, QA features, and add ons
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