Webhose.io is described as 'We crawl the web so you don't have to. Our crawlers download and structure millions of posts a day, we store and index the data so all you have to do is to define what part of the data you need' and is a Data Mining software in the news & books category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Webhose.io, not only websites but also apps for a variety of platforms, including Windows, SaaS, Linux and Mac apps. The best Webhose.io alternative is Scrapy, which is both free and Open Source. Other great sites and apps similar to Webhose.io are Portia, import.io, Lookyloo and Apify.