I can't say enough good things about WebHarvy Support. When I ran into an issue pertaining to the site I was scraping, one quick email to the customer rep, a WebHarvy Support Engineer, resulted in step-by-step instructions and a how-to video being posted on their youtube channel specifically catered to my work needs. I do not have a background in code-writing, nor have I used any other software that served a data-mining purpose but WebHarvy was very user-friendly (If you go through the tutorials). WebHarvy has been a fantastic utility for our projects that require compiling data via web-scraping. We were able to use this data for multiple analyses and plan to capture more periodically. We set out to mine specific data from a website and were able to extract all the crucial information and more using WebHarvy. Also, this can be taken care of at post-processing stage. The only cons I have faced at times is that the software enters the next cell value when a particular data field on the website is empty. Cheap, Cheap & Super Cheap: The biggest pros of webharvey is that comes with advanced web-scraping features and is one of the cheaptest software for scraping. Ample tutorials (both brief and advanced ones) on the website (and tutorial videos on YouTube makes usage hassle-free. The support team is responsive and knowledgeable, if one is not able to scrape a website, they immediately post a video. The software is cheap, comes with a lifetime validity (unlike others which charge monthly), and allows for unlimited data download. The new edition (Version 6), works very fast and is fast. Capturing fields from the website are relatively easy. WebHarvey is the best data scraping tool out there and has many pros: 1. Also, the team is super responsive and supportive, which ensures that one is not stuck. The software has improved significantly over the period and works almost flawlessly, for otherwise a relatively complicated task i.e. My overall experience of using web-Harvey has been great over the last three years.
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