Portia AlternativesWeb Scraping Tools and other similar apps like Portia

Portia is described as 'Open source visual scraping tool, allows you to scrape websites without any programming knowledge required! Simply annotate pages you're interested in, and Portia will create a spider to extract data from similar pages' and is a popular Web Scraping tool in the development category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Portia for a variety of platforms, including Web-based, Windows, SaaS, Mac and Linux apps. The best Portia alternative is Scrapy, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Portia are UI.Vision RPA, Import.io, Apify and ParseHub.

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  1. Scrapy icon
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    Scrapy is a free and open-source web-crawling framework written in Python. Originally designed for web scraping, it can also be used to extract data using APIs or as a general-purpose web crawler. It was developed and is maintained by Zyte formerly Scrapinghub, a web-scraping...

    126 Scrapy alternatives

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  2. UI.Vision RPA icon
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    Open-source task and test automation tool and Selenium IDE. The UI.Vision RPA software is a browser extension that can do desktop automation as well! Use it for web automation, form filling, screen scraping and Robotic Process Automation (RPA).

    152 UI.Vision RPA alternatives

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  3. Import.io icon
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    AI-powered web data extraction platform for turning websites into structured, reliable data with no-code tools, monitoring, and APIs.

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  4. Apify icon
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    Cloud platform enabling automated data extraction, web crawling, and browser workflow automation using reusable acts, headless browser support, advanced scheduling, persistent storage, API integrations, modular design and scalable resource management.

    133 Apify alternatives

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  5. ParseHub icon
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    ParseHub is a web scraping tool built to handle the modern web.

    You can extract data from anywhere. ParseHub works with single-page apps, multi-page apps and just about any other modern web technology.

    ParseHub can handle Javascript, AJAX, cookies, sessions and redirects. You c.

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  6. Content Grabber is used for web scraping and web automation. It can extract content from almost any website and save it as structured data in a format of your choice, including Excel reports, XML, CSV and most databases.

    61 Content Grabber alternatives

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  7. UiPath icon
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    A free, fully-featured, and extensible tool for automating any web or desktop application. UiPath Studio Community is free for individual developers, small professional teams, education and training purposes.

    125 UiPath alternatives

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    • Free Personal
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    • Windows
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  8. PhantomBuster icon
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    PhantomBuster offers no-code, multi-platform bots compatible with major sites like LinkedIn and Twitter for web scraping and lead generation. Cloud APIs ensure seamless integration, boosting productivity and supporting custom API creation for bespoke automation solutions.

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    • Mozilla Firefox
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  9. Scraperr icon
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    Scraperr is a self-hosted web application that allows users to scrape data from web pages by specifying elements via XPath. Users can submit URLs and the corresponding elements to be scraped, and the results will be displayed in a table.

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    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Self-Hosted
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  10. Diggernaut icon
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    Diggernaut is a cloud-based service for web scraping, data extraction, and other ETL tasks. Schedule and run your scrapers in the cloud or compile and run on your PC.

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  11. ZenRows icon
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    ZenRows is specialized in handling rotating proxies, headless browsers, and CAPTCHAs. It ensures smooth data extraction with a single API call, enabling collection from any website without blocks. ZenRows employs advanced features to transform raw web content into structured data.

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    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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  12. ScrapeHero icon
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    A web scraping service to collect data from websites, without any programming or DIY tools.

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