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Portia

Visual web scraping tool that lets you extract data without writing a single line of code
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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 9.1K GitHub stars and 1.4K GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Portia's open source repository on GitHub

Who uses Portia?

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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

Portia Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to Portia?
Scrapy
It is the most popular web scraping framework in Python. An open source and collaborative framework for extracting the data you need from websites. In a fast, simple, yet extensible way.
BeautifulSoup
It works with your favorite parser to provide idiomatic ways of navigating, searching, and modifying the parse tree. It commonly saves programmers hours or days of work.
import.io
import.io is a free web-based platform that puts the power of the machine readable web in your hands. Using our tools you can create an API or crawl an entire website in a fraction of the time of traditional methods, no coding required.
Apify
Apify is a platform that enables developers to create, customize and run cloud-based programs called actors that can, among other things, be used to extract data from any website using a few lines of JavaScript.
ParseHub
Web Scraping and Data Extraction ParseHub is a free and powerful web scraping tool. With our advanced web scraper, extracting data is as easy as clicking on the data you need. ParseHub lets you turn any website into a spreadsheet or API w
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