ScrapinghubWhat 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 API Tools category of a tech stack.
Key Features
Extracts data from websites based on visual selections by the userCreates generic web scrapers which are capable of extracting data from any web page with a similar structureExports scraped data in CSV, JSON, JSON-lines and XMLThere 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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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.
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.
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.
