@fabrizio_spanu Would love an explanation too, instead of vanishing completely
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@fabrizio_spanu It's working again for me after 4/5days. maybe try login again now. Hope we get warning in future for maintenance etc. i lost almost a full week productivity!
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@oisin_linnane thanks, honestly i am quite disappointed, this could have been better handled. Site down, nothing works. Also i would appreciate a sort of development, it's like dead. A simple export to Gsheets would make it more and more actionable. If i knew this would have turned like this i would have seriously refunded.
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Just what I was looking for, thank you!
Plans to have an export to JSON capability? and/or export to database (MySQL, MongoDB. PgSQL) ??
@nickpse The scraping result could be downloaded as a CSV file. Maybe some DB manage tools with UI could import CSV file, those tools like Positico. Maybe we could provide a feature to download the result as an SQL file.
As export to JSON capability, we could provide a feature to generate a JSON file, but the JSON schema maybe is not flexible for everyone to use, have any ideas about the JSON schema?
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@nickpse@ryang Help! Anypicker login is broken!!! Says URL phishing. Your personal sites are down. Twitter taken down. What's going on?
"Why we build a visual web scraper?" the whole story is published on Medium at https://medium.com/@roy.zq.yang/...
In brief, we focus on the fields below.
Setting Extraction Rules Visualized.
Creating and editing xpaths in web crawler is a really boring job. We want to make it more easier by just clicking what you see on the target website.
Preview Scrapping Result In Realtime.
The xpaths, also as extraction rules, has defined is hard to be tested, it always has to wait until the data scraping job is finished. Maybe it wastes several hours if the rules defined was incorrect. We provide a realtime result monitor to check the result as the task begin to run.
Reduce the Costs.
We run the scraping task in your local web browser, it is no need to simulate as a real user, it is a real user. It passes through the anti-web-crawler strategy easily, and no need to build an IPs pool. That means it significantly reduce the costs!
Protect Your Website Account.
As running in your local web browser, there is no need to worry about exploring the website username and password. It protects your privacy.
Scrapping Multi Pages At the Same Time.
Even if it is running on your local browser, AnyPicker still runs the scraping task super fast! Because AnyPicker could scrape several pages at the same time, it is also called proxies in some other server based crawler services. And we reduce the costs significantly.
Hi @ryang,
The product looks really good.
How does it compare to Webscraper (https://www.webscraper.io) for example? The use case/implementation seems similar
Thanks
@alessandrotenconi Compare to those similar products, be honest, the first thing we want to do is to reduce the costs. In our experience, scraping a website is not a frequent use case, but it always needs to spend a lot either money or time.
Actually, we hope AnyPicker should be a web scraping automation tool, not a real "web crawler". We aim on the users that use it to replace the copy and paste job with the automation task provided by AnyPicker, does not aim the users that want to crawl a hundred million rows of data. So we think this is the main difference.
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The UI is rather difficult for non-techy users. Is there any plan on doing an intuitive upgrade? I like everything else but the UI is better on tryspider[.]com. I only wish the best for AnyPicker and wanted a better product for everyone.
Hi @alston_antony , sorry for the late reply, it is still supported. If you have any issues, you could send email to support[AT]ryang-studio.com to get a more fast response.
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