Web Scraping Made Easy
‘How to increase mining speed ?‘ was one of the most commonly asked questions by our users. With previous versions, the main limitation was that when links had to be followed from the starting page to get each listing details, the miner took more time to scrape a page full of listings. This is because … Read more
If you have a data extraction requirement you can either outsource it to a freelancer/consulting company or try to do it yourselves. The advantages while using a tool to perform the extraction yourself is mainly cost. Plus, with the knowledge gained while creating your first extraction project, you can capture data from a variety of … Read more
We have significantly updated the user interface of WebHarvy in the latest version available in our website and the following video explains how the features and options are laid out in the new UI. Existing users of older versions will find this video useful so that they know where to look for specific features and … Read more
Changes in 5.2 are mainly related to user interface and experience. The most visible change is the introduction of the ribbon menu system for providing easy access to most software features. In addition to the main interface, other windows like Scheduler / Export etc. have also been updated. The export functionality (to file or database) has … Read more
Changes in 5.2 are mainly related to user interface and experience. The most visible change is the introduction of the ribbon menu system for providing easy access to most software features. In addition to the main interface, other windows like Scheduler / Export etc. have also been updated. The export functionality (to file or database) has … Read more
This release comes with least bells and whistles since we have not added features or changed cosmetics of the software. But still, this is a major upgrade. The change is all internal. WebHarvy has been using Microsoft’s Internet Explorer (IE) as its internal browser since inception. Microsoft stopped supporting IE a few years back when … Read more
The main changes in this release are :- Pagination via JavaScript – see https://www.webharvy.com/tour3.html#JS This powerful feature is the main highlight of this release. When all other methods of pagination fails, this method, where you can directly provide a JavaScript code which when run would load the next page, can be used. Increased size of … Read more
All WebHarvy application files and installation package are digitally signed (Comodo RSA Code Signing CA) and secured. However in case you get the following Smartscreen warning while trying to install the latest version of WebHarvy, please click the ‘More info‘ link and then click the ‘Run anyway‘ button to proceed with the installation. The above … Read more
From this release on wards WebHarvy targets (depends on) .NET 4.5 which comes pre-installed on latest Windows editions. This results in smoother installation process, doing away with .NET 3.5 download and install which was previously required. Targeting .NET 4.5 also helps WebHarvy improve performance and resource usage, and to solve issues related to crashes while … Read more
In the latest update of WebHarvy, the Visual Web Scraping Software, the newly introduced ‘capture following text’ option allows you to capture text/block/paragraph following a heading within a webpage. Often with many websites the data to be scraped may not be located at the same position within all pages, but is guaranteed to be found … Read more