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Chrome Extension For Website Traffic
We’re expected to perform so many tasks daily, from organizing our content buckets to ensuring a website’s usability to link building to much, much more. It’s a lot — but there is good news. There are a variety of Google Chrome extensions that can make these tasks a lot easier.
Google Chrome has gobbled up a substantial market share. As per Stats Counter, Google Chrome has more than 66% of the total market share.
I assume many of you are also Google Chrome fans. But, have you explored the powerful extensions and Chrome shortcuts the browser has to offer?
At the click of a mouse button, you can install an SEO plugin and open doors to higher productivity levels. Some Chrome extensions are pure gold with value-adding functionality that can save you hours of tedious tasks every week. Ultimately, the goal is improving ranks, including Quantcast Rank, specializing in audience measurement.
In this post, I’ll share 15 best Chrome extensions that are useful for marketers. I’ve organized the post into three sections – content organizing, on-page SEO metadata, and usability analysis, and link building and outreach management.
Let’s dive into the first section and look at the first tool.
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Best Content Organizing Chrome Extensions
Information overload can be really stressful. Wading through truckloads of web pages to find relevant and high-quality pieces is daunting.
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But it need not be that way. These two Chrome extensions will help you organize your content and save it for reading later.
- Evernote Web Clipper
Evernote has powerful note-taking functionalities. Search Engine Land describes it as a “business-to-individual” media tool.
But if you are particularly interested in saving articles for reading later, the web clipper is a handy tool (located in the upper right side of Chrome).
evernote chrome extension
While surfing the internet, you can take specific search results and use the clipper to save articles in three ways – entirely, in a simplified version, or even specific parts of an article.
This is great because a site’s Quantcast rank may change, making the content more difficult to find later.
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The webpages are added to your Evernote account, so you don’t have to go back to the search engine.
You can further organize them into notebooks and also assign tags (or remarks so that searching later will be easier). You can even highlight particular information if you want to. Evernote is a very popular browser extension.
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You can also right-click on a page and use the clipper’s menu in the toolbar.
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By using the options menu, you can also customize the keyboard shortcuts for its prominent functionalities.
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The tool has a specialized saving feature for clipping from Gmail, LinkedIn, Amazon, and YouTube. You can selectively clip the portions you want.
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Here is a video walkthrough of saving Gmail messages using the web clipper. The tool even includes the attachments while clipping.
All of your saved articles will be synced across all your devices and can be accessed through your Evernote account.
The most useful feature I find in the clipper is its powerful image editing and annotating software Skitch.
It’s handy for creating images for your blog posts. You can use it to take screenshots, pixelate a certain area in them, and add custom text.
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You can also mark up using different colors and visual callouts to draw attention to specific elements on a page.
chrome extension evernote skitch highlight text
- Pocket
This is another useful tool for saving articles and videos to read later.
Once installed, you’ll see the pocket icon in the Chrome toolbar located at top-right.
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Like web clipper, Pocket also has the functionality to add tags to make it easy to explore and retrieve stories once pulled out of search engine land.
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The best part is that your articles and videos will be available on all devices for reading later. So you can read articles in your leisure time, even on its mobile app.
When you open a story for reading, you’ll see a stripped-down basic version (distraction-free) of articles. This reformation makes the reading experience clutter-free and pleasant compared to the ad-bogged search engine view.
The service recently launched a recommended feature (refreshed throughout the day) that shows articles based on your saved article sources and reading habits.
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You can save the recommended articles you like to your reading list by clicking on the save button.
chrome extension pocket example
On Pocket’s iOS and Android mobile apps, you can even listen to your saved articles using Text-To-Speech (TTS).
You can start reading anywhere, skip paragraphs, and even change the reading speed.
You can also add stories from RSS feeds directly into your pocket account by integrating it with Feedhuddler.
And if you’re a fan of marketing automation, then you’ll also like Pocket’s integration with tools like IFTTT, Twitter, Feedly, and Buffer.
Your productivity levels will shoot through the roof. With just five minutes of casual browsing, you can use an IFTTT recipe to schedule articles on your social media accounts for a week.
Here is the IFTTT recipe for integrating Buffer with Pocket.
And if you’re the super-organized geek type, you may like combining pocket with Evernote to create an organized system.
You can save any interesting article you find around on the web (from feeds and social media) to pocket.
Once you scan these articles, only store the most valuable ones permanently in an Evernote. This way, your Evernote account will remain a long-term clutter-free place to hang out.
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For sending articles from Pocket to Evernote, you can either use the “Send To” button or this IFTTT recipe.
On-page SEO and Usability Analysis Chrome Extensions
Sometimes you need to perform a quick analysis of your (or a competitor’s) website pages without logging into a tool’s website. This provides useful metrics in how you compare in search engine land.
A Chrome browser extension can help you achieve this goal without any hassles.
Let’s look at a few useful ones.
- Google’s PageSpeed Insights Chrome Extension
A one-second delay in your website loading time decreases your conversions by 7%, page views by 16%, and customer satisfaction by 23%.
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Google included site speed as one of the 200 signals in its search ranking algorithm back in 2010.
Monitoring your server’s response time is important for your business.
It’s even more critical if you get a major chunk of mobile traffic. Being a more distracted medium, 40% of mobile users will abandon a page that takes longer than three seconds to load.
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Google PageSpeed Insights is a great tool to explore your website’s usability. It identifies elements that are leading to slow loading time and a poor mobile user experience.
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To get started, you need to install the plugin.
After your website’s analysis, you are presented with recommendations to fix issues and lower your website’s loading time on desktops and mobiles.
Brenda Barron, a WordPress enthusiast, rigorously tested her website with different WordPress plugins and manual optimizations to boost her PageSpeed Insights score. Her goal was to get a 100/100 score (or the highest possible) using Divi.
Look at her initial score on her new WordPress installation (Twenty Fifteen theme) on a shared server. It also shows recommendations to fix the slowing issues. The loading speed will also help redirect duplicate content to a canonical URL of preference.
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After numerous plugin changes, including installation of a speed booster pack, WP Performance Score Booster, WP Super Minify, and others:
She managed to boost her score to 93.
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Here is the combination that worked for her.
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If you don’t want to go on a manual plugin installation and fixing issues spree, you can automatically use PageSpeed modules to optimize your website.
Let me show you how with a live case study.
Matthew was initially using a non-responsive WordPress theme that led to poor mobile search results performance.
Google PageSpeed Insights showed a score of only 56, along with elements that needed fixing.
So he switched to the native twenty fourteen WordPress theme. It is responsive and performs well on most platforms.
Look at his score post-changes.
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As you would expect, even Matthew’s page speed score was just 64.
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But instead of fixing issues individually, he used the PageSpeed Module for nginx.
He shares the technical details of how he re-compiled nginx with the PageSpeed module in this article.
After this installation, he achieved a PageSpeed score of 100 (on both mobile and desktop).
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- Redirect Path
I know that many of you might be afraid of technical terms.
But even if you’re not a coding geek, you need to understand the basics of website redirecting. It will help in the overall Quantcast rank of your web pages.
Redirecting is important because web pages keep moving to new locations and deleted during website migrations, redesigning, etc.
And a simple redirect determines if link juice is passed from a removed URL to a new page.
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Redirect Path is a redirect checker that flags URLs with their HTTP status codes – 301, 302, 304, 404, and 500. You don’t need to check them manually.
The tool shows you all the redirects from the URL you entered to the final URL.
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Once you install the extension from the Chrome store, it’ll start appearing next to the address bar at the top.
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And if the extension finds any redirect errors, the icon will change (as visible below).
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On clicking the icon, you can get full details about the redirect chain.
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Want more details about a particular item in the path?
Then click on it to see additional HTTP headers sent (like server types, cookies, caching, etc.) and the server’s IP address.
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A great way to discover backlink opportunities using the tool is to follow the redirect chain and find the backlinks to individual pages.
You can also use the tool for auditing your redirects after a site migration to review how you fare in search engine land.
- Mozbar Chrome Extension
It is one of the oldest and most popular marketing software programs on the internet.
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It instantly hit chords with marketers because it streamlines your SEO efforts while surfing web pages.
At the click of a button, you can access important metrics about a webpage like its Page Authority, Domain Authority, Link Profile, Keyword Highlights, etc.
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The tool works in two environments – in SERP as an overlay and as a toolbar when visiting a website. There are different features in both modes. Let’s explore them both.
When you’re in a search mode and Google a keyword, the bar will give detailed statistics for all the SERP ranking websites.
Here are the results for the keyword “content marketing tips.”
Look at the metrics like domain authority and page authority (metrics below each result). They help you determine the difficulty in ranking for the particular keyword often used in SEO meta tags.
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You can also export the SERP results in a CSV file.
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If you visit a website, you can use Mozbar to do a deeper analysis of the webpage, including its page speed, alt text, SEO meta tags, headings, markup, etc.
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If you buy a premium subscription, you’ll also be able to see a keyword difficulty score in SERP at the click of a button.
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- Page Analytics by Google
Would you care to understand the user behavior on your website?
Then page analytics is a great tool to delve into how your customers are interacting with your website.
chrome extensions google insights
The tool gives you useful data like where your users click and the number of active visitors in real-time.
chrome extensions page insights
For the clickable areas on your page (like links and buttons), you can even see bubbles showing the percentage of visitors who clicked in that particular place.
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The bubbles are of different colors (red, green, blue, or orange) based on their relative percentage of clicks.
And you can filter the page to show only bubbles above your set click threshold.
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The tool also shows your usual Google Analytics metrics like Pageviews, Unique Pageviews, Average time on page, and Bounce Rate (you need to login to your analytics account before accessing information).
You can also analyze up to four segments with different scorecards for each and compare time ranges.
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By analyzing the places where your users are clicking and engaging the most, you can optimize your design accordingly.
- SEO Quake
Touted as a Mozbar competitor, this is another popular SEO browser extension tool that shows important SERPs metrics.
Instead of launching and using its own metrics, the bar shows the standard Alexa Rank, Page Rank (PR), and some other important SEO parameters.
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Here is a look at the SEO Quake bar in search mode.
The results show varied info about SERPs, including info on backlinks, whois info, PR, traffic info, number of pages indexed, domain age, and Alexa rank.
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You can export the SERP data from SEO Quake in a CSV file too.
You can also use the extension to perform a deeper analysis of the webpage you visit. You’ll get information on the keyword density, links, social shares, and SEO meta info.
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A word of warning:
Google hasn’t updated page Rank since December 2013, and as per John Mueller, Google probably won’t update Toolbar PageRank in the future.
Even the tool’s backlinks data is from publicly reported Google and Bing/Yahoo links (which aren’t updated frequently either).
So you shouldn’t rely exclusively on SEO Quake data for devising your SEO strategy.
- SEOInfo Chrome Extension
This is an all-inclusive SEO powerhouse with a wealth of data.
It’s invaluable to understand performance data, AMP status, errors for HTML pages, invalid canonical, hreflang, AMP version, and structured data.
After installing the extension, you’ll start seeing a camera icon like this:
chrome exetensions SEOinfo
If you want to perform a deeper analysis of a website, you need to click on this icon. You’ll see the main dashboard:
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It will show you important website vitals, such as speed, whether your page is indexable, mobile compatibility, AMP status, language, and more.
Four other pages dig into structured data, links (internal and external), resources, and an overall audit.
This provides a wealth of information about the overall health of your website. You will need to connect to PageSpeed Insights to run the audit.
- Majestic Backlink Analyzer
This is another popular and powerful link intelligence tool.
The tool creates a quick way to see important backlinks info about your webpage (or a competitor’s webpage).
It does not rely on third parties for data. It uses Majestic’s very own trust metrics: trust flow and citation flow.
Haven’t heard of Majestic’s trust metrics?
Here is an explanation of the trust ratio (= Trust Flow / Citation Flow) by Majestic.
The tool has three important metrics tabs – Summary, Backlinks, and Anchor text. But a free account will only allow you to use the summary tab.
The summary tab gives an overall strength picture of the webpage.
It shows the following metrics: citation flow, trust flow, external backlinks, referring domains, backlink history chart, referring domains chart, and link profile.
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The backlinks tab shows citation flow, trust flow, anchor text, and source URL of the 10 strongest backlinks to the page.
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And the anchor text tab shows detailed information on the number of referring domains and other parameters for the 10 strongest anchor texts.
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The tools tab is for switching to other Majestic SEO tools like the site explorer, backlinks history, and more.
The last is the options tab. You can go there to connect your Majestic account to the browser extension.
You’ll also see a battery near the options tab. This shows the resources depleted from your main Majestic account.
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- Ubersuggest Chrome Extension
Ubersuggest is our keyword research tool that provides a wealth of information about keywords, including new keyword ideas, content suggestions, and other insights to help you gain a competitive edge.
And, now there’s a Chrome extension that makes this tool even easier to use.
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Simple download the extensions, and you’ll see an orange “U” in your Chrome bar. Perform a search in Google, and Ubersuggest will provide a ton of information, including organic monthly traffic, backlinks, related questions, and more.
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It also provides the average CPC and total monthly searches for that key term. This information can generate content ideas, plan PPC campaigns, and guide your SEO strategy.
If the sidebar doesn’t provide enough info, click “Get more insights” to be taken to the main tool website.
You can also use the plugin to check on your competition. Go to your competitor’s website, then click on the Chrome shortcut for information about that site’s traffic, top keywords, backlinks, and SEO ranking.
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Link Building and Outreach Management Chrome Extensions
One essential, non-scalable, and probably the most value-adding task of a professional SEO is performing outreach and building relationships.
And it’s a vital part of building editorial backlinks that matter in today’s SEO landscape.
But sending 100 emails does not sound fun. So outreach is generally viewed in a tedious, boring, and uncreative light.
Here are five Chrome extensions to streamline your outreach, save you time, and make your outreach more convenient.
- Ninja Outreach Lite
Ninja Outreach is in itself a powerful prospecting and outreach CRM with a database of over 4 million influencers.
The extension is like a freemium version of the tool to mine tremendous data. Once you install the extension, you can use the ninja icon Chrome shortcut to start finding influencers.
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The information available through the tool includes full name, location, social media follower counts, email address, Alexa rank, backlinks, page authority, domain authority, and more.
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It even includes links to key pages – contact, about, resources, guest post pages. As well as the monetization method of websites.
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The RSS Feed tab shows the latest posts from the blog’s feed with the author’s name, date of publishing, and the number of comments on the post.
google chrome extensions ninja outreach lite
The demographic tab will show you key information on website visitors, like their locations, daily pageviews per visitor, bounce rate, and much more.
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The tool’s pro version also allows you to autofill contact forms and leave notes for each website (that will be cached later).
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If you’re planning to launch a guest blogging campaign or build relationships with influencers soon, then the extension can be convenient.
- Scraper
This is an effective data mining tool that can streamline your online research efforts. It copies links or similarly structured content from a webpage that you can later export to a Google document.
Here are the three steps to scrape data using the tool.
Step 1. Select some content from the table/chart you want to scrape.
Step 2. Right-click your selection and choose “scrape similar” from the drop-down menu.
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Step 3. You’ll get a list of similarly structured data in a new window (the scraper console). From the window, you can either copy the content to your clipboard, or you can export the data to a Google document.
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You can use the tool to quicken your link prospecting efforts. Let me show you how.
Suppose you want to get a list of potential link opportunities in your niche. So you curate blogs from Alltop.com. Or, you perform a Google search “list of [your niche keyword] blog” (set Google search to return 100 results).
You can copy right-click on just one URL and scrape the whole list. Then you can export them to Google docs and remove duplicates. Remember that duplicate content can be used but should be redirected to a canonical URL not to anger the spiders.
Here is a breakdown of the technique by Matt Gratt.
- Link Miner
No SEO should doubt that Broken Link Building (BLB) is an extremely effective technique to up your website’s authority.
But it’s a lot of hard work. You first need to find broken web links on a website in your niche and then send 100s of emails to website owners.
Link miner is a simple yet handy tool to conduct page analysis while executing BLB.
At the click of a button, it’ll crawl a webpage and find (mark) broken links on it.
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It also pulls additional statistics about the broken link. You get details like the number of referring domains, total links, social media shares, and even the top five links.
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You can also get the link data right next to the status code of the link.
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Want to record this data?
Then the tool can also export the information about the links in a CSV file.
google chrome extensions link miner download data
While doing a Google search, the tool can also determine the number of inbound and outbound links for each result.
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You can customize the way you want it to work under settings by clicking on the gear icon.
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You can choose the metrics you want the tool to show: status code of working links, Ahrefs metrics like backlinks and referring domains, and more.
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The link data in the tool is pulled from Ahrefs. So you’ll need to authenticate the extension to access Ahrefs API data.
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This SEO plugin is useful not just for discovering link building opportunities. It’s also useful to check broken links on your website to improve user experience.
- Linkclump
This is another useful tool to play with links.
You can use it to open multiple links in new tabs (or a new window), copy them to your clipboard or bookmark them.
So how do you get started?
Just by choosing a particular portion of the screen.
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You can even customize how you want to activate the tool.
There are various possible mouse (right-click and left-click) and key combinations (alt/ctrl/shift). If you like, you can even change the selection box color.
You’ll need to head over to Chrome’s extension page at chrome://extensions. And choose “options” below Linkclump to find these customization options.
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You can also filter the links that contain certain keywords, block repeated links in your selection, and open links in reverse order. There is also a smart select option to open only those links from a page that the tool deems as important.
Overall the tool is glitch-free and can save you a lot of time while performing link-related tasks.
- Google Analytics URL Builder
Google Analytics (GA) is an extremely powerful tool to track your website traffic.
The URL Builder extension is a useful add-on to quickly tag the URLs you want to track in your GA campaigns.
Let me show you how to use the tool.
Once you’re on a page, click on the shopping cart icon.
The tool will automatically capture the current URL of the page. You will then need to complete a form, including fields like the source, medium, campaign, etc.
google chrome extensions GA URL builder
Once you’ve filled the form, it’ll auto-generate the final URL and offer an option to generate the shortened bit.ly link.
You can then share this new tagged link through your social media accounts and track them independently using GA.
The extension also allows you to add custom form fields (quick sets) by clicking on the “edit list” link.
google chrome extensions GA URL builder
Here is a step-by-step video tutorial of the URL builder to walk you through the process of tagging your links.
best chrome extension for web scraping
Web scraping is the process of automating data extraction from websites on a large scale. With every field of work in the world becoming dependent on data, web scraping or web crawling methods are being increasingly used to gather data from the internet and gain insights for personal or business use. Web scraping tools and software allow you to download data in a structured CSV, Excel, or XML format and save time spent in manually copy-pasting this data. In this post, we take a look at some of the best free and paid web scraping tools and software.
Best Web Scraping Tools
Scrapy
ScrapeHero Cloud
Data Scraper (Chrome Extension)
Scraper (Chrome Extension)
ParseHub
OutWitHub
Visual Web Ripper
Import.io
Diffbot
Octoparse
Web Scraper (Chrome Extension)
FMiner
Dexi.io
Web Harvey
PySpider
Apify SDK
Content Grabber
Mozenda
Kimura
Cheerio
NodeCrawler
Puppeteer
Playwright
PJscrape
Related: Top Web Scraping Cloud Services and Providers
Additionally, Custom data scraping providers can be used in situations where data scraping tools and software are unable to meet the specific requirements or volume. These are easy to customize based on your scraping requirements and can be scaled up easily depending on your demand. Custom scraping can help tackle complex scraping use cases such as – Price Monitoring, Data Scraping API and more.
How to use Web Scraper Tool?
Below, we have given a brief description of the tools listed earlier and then a quick walk through about how to use these web scraping tools so that you can quickly evaluate which data scraping tool meets your requirement.
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Scrapy
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Scrapy is an open source web scraping framework in Python used to build web scrapers. It gives you all the tools you need to efficiently extract data from websites, process them, and store them in your preferred structure and format. One of its main advantages is that it’s built on top of a Twisted asynchronous networking framework. If you have a large data scraping project and want to make it as efficient as possible with a lot of flexibility then you should definitely use this data scraping tool. You can export data into JSON, CSV and XML formats. What stands out about Scrapy is its ease of use, detailed documentation, and active community. It runs on Linux, Mac OS, and Windows systems.
Related: How to Scrape Alibaba product data using Scrapy
ScrapeHero Cloud
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ScrapeHero Cloud is a browser based web scraping platform. ScrapeHero has used its years of experience in web crawling to create affordable and easy to use pre-built crawlers and APIs to scrape data from websites such as Amazon, Google, Walmart, and more. The free trial version allows you to try out the scraper for its speed and reliability before signing up for a plan.
ScrapeHero Cloud DOES NOT require you to download any data scraping tools or software and spend time learning to use them. It is a browser based web scraper which can be used from any browser. You don’t need to know any programming skills or need to build a scraper, it is as simple as click, copy, paste and go !
In three steps you can set up a crawler – Open your browser, Create an account in ScrapeHero Cloud and select the crawler that you wish to run. Running a crawler in ScrapeHero Cloud is simple and requires you to provide the inputs and click “Gather Data” to run the crawler.
ScrapeHero Cloud crawlers allow you to to scrape data at high speeds and supports data export in JSON, CSV and Excel formats. To receive updated data, there is the option to schedule crawlers and deliver data directly to your Dropbox.
All ScrapeHero Cloud crawlers come with auto rotate proxies and the ability to run multiple crawlers in parallel. This allows you to scrape data from websites without worrying about getting blocked in a cost effective manner.
ScrapeHero Cloud provides Email support to it’s Free and Lite plan customers and Priority support to all other plans.
ScrapeHero Cloud crawlers can be customized based on customer needs as well. If you find a crawler not scraping a particular field you need, drop in an email and ScrapeHero Cloud team will get back to you with a custom plan.
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Scrape data using ScrapeHero Cloud:
Scrape Amazon Reviews
Scrape Amazon BestSeller Listings
Scrape Historical Twitter Data
Scrape product data and prices from Walmart
Data Scraper
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Data Scraper is a simple and free web scraping tool for extracting data from a single page into CSV and XSL data files. It is a personal browser extension that helps you transform data into a clean table format. You will need to install the plugin in a Google Chrome browser. The free version lets you scrape 500 pages per month, if you want to scrape more pages you have to upgrade to the paid plans.
Overview of Data Scraper
Scraper
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Scraper is a chrome extension for scraping simple web pages. It is a free web scraping tool which is easy to use and allows you to scrape a website’s content and upload the results to Google Docs or Excel spreadsheets. It can extract data from tables and convert it into a structured format.
Overview of Scraper
Parsehub
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ParseHub is a web based data scraping tool which is built to crawl single and multiple websites with the support for JavaScript, AJAX, cookies, sessions, and redirects. The application can analyze and grab data from websites and transform it into meaningful data. It uses machine learning technology to recognize the most complicated documents and generates the output file in JSON, CSV , Google Sheets or through API.
Parsehub is a desktop app available for Windows, Mac, and Linux users and works as a Firefox extension. The easy user-friendly web app can be built into the browser and has a well written documentation. It has all the advanced features like pagination, infinite scrolling pages, pop-ups, and navigation. You can even visualize the data from ParseHub into Tableau.
The free version has a limit of 5 projects with 200 pages per run. If you buy Parsehub paid subscription you can get 20 private projects with 10,000 pages per crawl and IP rotation.
Overview of ParseHub
OutWitHub
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OutwitHub is a data extractor built in a web browser. If you wish to use the software as an extension you have to download it from Firefox add-ons store. If you want to use the data scraping tool you just need to follow the instructions and run the application. OutwitHub can help you extract data from the web with no programming skills at all. It’s great for harvesting data that might not be accessible.
OutwitHub is a free web scraping tool which is a great option if you need to scrape some data from the web quickly. With its automation features, it browses automatically through a series of web pages and performs extraction tasks. The data scraping tool can export the data into numerous formats (JSON, XLSX, SQL, HTML, CSV, etc.).
Visual Web Ripper
Visual Web Ripper is a website scraping tool for automated data scraping. The tool collects data structures from pages or search results. Its has a user friendly interface and you can export data to CSV, XML, and Excel files. It can also extract data from dynamic websites including AJAX websites. You only have to configure a few templates and web scraper will figure out the rest. Visual Web Ripper provides scheduling options and you even get an email notification when a project fails.
Import.io
With Import.io you can clean, transform and visualize the data from the web. Import.io has a point to click interface to help you build a scraper. It can handle most of the data extraction automatically. You can export data into CSV, JSON and Excel formats.
Import.io provides detailed tutorials on their website so you can easily get started with your data scraping projects. If you want a deeper analysis of the data extracted you can get Import.insights which will visualize the data in charts and graphs.
Diffbot
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The Diffbot application lets you configure crawlers that can go in and index websites and then process them using its automatic APIs for automatic data extraction from various web content. You can also write a custom extractor if automatic data extraction API doesn’t work for the websites you need. You can export data into CSV, JSON and Excel formats.
Octoparse
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Octoparse is a visual website scraping tool that is easy to understand. Its point and click interface allows you to easily choose the fields you need to scrape from a website. Octoparse can handle both static and dynamic websites with AJAX, JavaScript, cookies and etc. The application also offers advanced cloud services which allows you to extract large amounts of data. You can export the scraped data in TXT, CSV, HTML or XLSX formats.
Octoparse’s free version allows you to build up to 10 crawlers, but with the paid subscription plans you will get more features such as API and many anonymous IP proxies that will faster your extraction and fetch large volume of data in real time.
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Web Scraper
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Web scraper, a standalone chrome extension, is a free and easy tool for extracting data from web pages. Using the extension you can create and test a sitemap to see how the website should be traversed and what data should be extracted. With the sitemaps, you can easily navigate the site the way you want and the data can be later exported as a CSV.
Overview of Web Scraper
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FMiner
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FMiner is a visual web data extraction tool for web scraping and web screen scraping. Its intuitive user interface permits you to quickly harness the software’s powerful data mining engine to extract data from websites. In addition to the basic web scraping features it also has AJAX/Javascript processing and CAPTCHA solving. It can be run both on Windows and Mac OS and it does scraping using the internal browser. It has a 15-day freemium model till you can decide on using the paid subscription.
Overview of FMiner
Dexi.io
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Dexi (formerly known as CloudScrape) supports data extraction from any website and requires no download. The software application provides different types of robots in order to scrape data – Crawlers, Extractors, Autobots, and Pipes. Extractor robots are the most advanced as it allows you to choose every action the robot needs to perform like clicking buttons and extracting screenshots.
This data scraping tool offers anonymous proxies to hide your identity. Dexi.io also offers a number of integrations with third-party services. You can download the data directly to Box.net and Google Drive or export it as JSON or CSV formats. Dexi.io stores your data on its servers for 2 weeks before archiving it. If you need to scrape on a larger scale you can always get the paid version
Overview of Dexi.io
Web Harvey
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WebHarvey’s visual web scraper has an inbuilt browser that allows you to scrape data such as from web pages. It has a point to click interface which makes selecting elements easy. The advantage of this scraper is that you do not have to create any code. The data can be saved into CSV, JSON, XML files. It can also be stored in a SQL database. WebHarvey has a multi-level category scraping feature that can follow each level of category links and scrape data from listing pages.
The website scraping tool allows you to use regular expressions, offering more flexibility. You can set up proxy servers that will allow you to maintain a level of anonymity, by hiding your IP, while extracting data from websites.
PySpider
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PySpider is a web crawler written in Python. It supports Javascript pages and has a distributed architecture. This way you can have multiple crawlers. PySpider can store the data on a backend of your choosing such as MongoDB, MySQL, Redis, etc. You can use RabbitMQ, Beanstalk, and Redis as message queues.
One of the advantages of PySpider is the easy to use UI where you can edit scripts, monitor ongoing tasks and view results. The data can be saved into JSON and CSV formats. If you are working with a website-based user interface, PySpider is the Internet scrape to consider. It also supports AJAX heavy websites.
Apify
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Apify is a Node.js library which is a lot like Scrapy positioning itself as a universal web scraping library in JavaScript, with support for Puppeteer, Cheerio and more.
With its unique features like RequestQueue and AutoscaledPool, you can start with several URLs and then recursively follow links to other pages and can run the scraping tasks at the maximum capacity of the system respectively. Its available data formats are JSON, JSONL, CSV, XML, XLSX or HTML and available selector CSS. It supports any type of website and has built-in support of Puppeteer.
The Apify SDK requires Node.js 8 or later.
Content Grabber
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Content Grabber is a visual web scraping tool that has a point-to-click interface to choose elements easily. Its interface allows pagination, infinite scrolling pages, and pop-ups. In addition, it has AJAX/Javascript processing, captcha solution, allows the use of regular expressions, and IP rotation (using Nohodo). You can export data in CSV, XLSX, JSON, and PDF formats. Intermediate programming skills are needed to use this tool.
Mozenda
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Mozenda is an enterprise cloud-based web-scraping platform. It has a point-to-click interface and a user-friendly UI. It has two parts – an application to build the data extraction project and a Web Console to run agents, organize results and export data. They also provide API access to fetch data and have inbuilt storage integrations like FTP, Amazon S3, Dropbox and more.
You can export data into CSV, XML, JSON or XLSX formats. Mozenda is good for handling large volumes of data. You will require more than basic coding skills to use this tool as it has a high learning curve.
Kimurai
Kimurai is a web scraping framework in Ruby used to build scraper and extract data. It works out of the box with Headless Chromium/Firefox, PhantomJS, or simple HTTP requests and allows us to scrape and interact with JavaScript rendered websites. Its syntax is similar to Scrapy and it has configuration options such as setting a delay, rotating user agents, and setting default headers. It also uses the testing framework Capybara to interact with web pages.
Cheerio
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Cheerio is a library that parses HTML and XML documents and allows you to use the syntax of jQuery while working with the downloaded data. If you are writing a web scraper in JavaScript, Cheerio API is a fast option which makes parsing, manipulating, and rendering efficient. It does not – interpret the result as a web browser, produce a visual rendering, apply CSS, load external resources, or execute JavaScript. If you require any of these features, you should consider projects like PhantomJS or JSDom.
NodeCrawler
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Nodecrawler is a popular web crawler for NodeJS, making it a very fast crawling solution. If you prefer coding in JavaScript, or you are dealing with mostly a Javascript project, Nodecrawler will be the most suitable web crawler to use. Its installation is pretty simple too.
Puppeteer
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Puppeteer is a Node library which provides a powerful but simple API that allows you to control Google’s headless Chrome browser. A headless browser means you have a browser that can send and receive requests but has no GUI. It works in the background, performing actions as instructed by an API. You can simulate the user experience, typing where they type and clicking where they click.
The best case to use Puppeteer for web scraping is if the information you want is generated using a combination of API data and Javascript code. Puppeteer can also be used to take screenshots of web pages visible by default when you open a web browser.
Playwright
Playwright is a Node library by Microsoft that was created for browser automation. It enables cross-browser web automation that is capable, reliable, and fast. Playwright was created to improve automated UI testing by eliminating flakiness, improving the speed of execution, and offers insights into the browser operation. It is a newer tool for browser automation and very similar to Puppeteer in many aspects and bundles compatible browsers by default. Its biggest plus point is cross-browser support – it can drive Chromium, WebKit and Firefox. Playwright has continuous integrations with Docker, Azure, Travis CI, and AppVeyor.
PJScrape
PJscrape is a web scraping framework written in Python using Javascript and JQuery. It is built to run with PhantomJS, so it allows you to scrape pages in a fully rendered, Javascript-enabled context from the command line, with no browser required. The scraper functions are evaluated in a full browser context. This means you not only have access to the DOM, but you also have access to Javascript variables and functions, AJAX-loaded content, etc.
How to Select a Web Scraping Tool?
Web scraping tools (free or paid) and self-service software/applications can be a good choice if the data requirement is small, and the source websites aren’t complicated. Web scraping tools and software cannot handle large scale web scraping, complex logic, bypassing captcha and do not scale well when the volume of websites is high. For such cases, a full-service provider is a better and economical option.
Even though these web scraping tools extract data from web pages with ease, they come with their limits. In the long run, programming is the best way to scrape data from the web as it provides more flexibility and attains better results.
If you aren’t proficient with programming or your needs are complex, or you require large volumes of data to be scraped, there are great web scraping services that will suit your requirements to make the job easier for you.
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