Spider Pro - Easiest Web Scraping Tool

Kinda worked before, but now doesn't even function. A lot of bugs and no maintenance.

Very good and easy-to-use now that 1.0 has been released. It's missing two crucial features for me to rate it 5 stars. The ability to save and load scraping configurations (ideally being able to import/export recipes as json so they can be safely stored and persisted in case of failure). And the ability to automate scraping paginated results, so that at a click of a button it would begin to visit further pages and scrape those results too. I'll happily edit this review once those two features... Show more

I've just bought this, and it's ultra basic, and highly manual. It's okay for gathering data from a small number of pages because, for example, in paginated situations you need to manually click "next" to forward to each new page. It's not even smart enough to move through a series of pages automatically. Also, the resulting export files are a mess because they include not only the content displayed in the browser, which is what I think most of us want, but also includes the code around it. T... Show more