Custom web scraping software Vs DIY Scraping tools

If you want to scrape data from web, there are two options that you can consider.

Let compare pros and cons of both options.

 

DIY Platforms

Platforms like extract.io, Mozenda etc are very popular, these are big companies and spent a lot of money on marketing etc. , that is why they are popular.

They provide a software platform that you can use to create crawlers/scraper and run them on cloud.

You can consider using these platforms if

You should not use them if

Custom web crawlers

Custom web crawlers can do anything you need, all you need to do is to find a reliable developer who can create web crawlers and prepare a requirements document that will help the developer understand your requirements.

There is a long list of things that can do with the custom built scraper and can’t do with the DIY platforms, and its not possible to write everything here. With custom scraper you can achieve anything, scrape any data and automate any process on websites.

 

Conclusion

DIY platforms work ok for simple data scraping, but they have very limited functionality and requires you to spend time on learning these softwares.

Custom built scraper can do anything, there is no limitation, no need to learn any software, Just find a good professional/company to create scraper for you can, provide all the requirements and get the data needed software or data.

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