Introduction > Web Scraping with Content Grabber

With Content Grabber, you can automatically harvest data from a website and deliver the content as structured data in multiple database formats (Oracle, SQLServer, My SQL, OLE DBE), or in other formats such as Excel spreadsheets, CSV or XML files.

Content Grabber can also extract data from highly dynamic websites where most other extraction tools are incapable. It can process AJAX-enabled websites, submit forms repeatedly to cover all possible input values, and manage website logins.

Web-scraping technology is transforming the Internet into a structured data source, and Content Grabber is opening up numerous business opportunities for both corporations and individuals. The following is just a small sample of how web-scraping technology is optimizing and enabling new businesses:

•Price Comparison Portals / Mobile Apps

•Collaborative lists (home foreclosures, job boards, & tourist attractions)

•News & Content Aggregation

•Competitive price monitoring

•Monitor dealers for price compliance

•Track inventory on retailer websites

•Social media and brand monitoring

•Locate the highest-ranking keywords of your competitors on all major search engines

•Background Checking

•Confirm the integrity of business partners

•Monitor online sources for copyright infringement

•Sales Lead Generation

•Content migration (CMS & CRM).

Content Grabber is a powerful, visual web-scraping tool that can do all of this and much more. We provide a comprehensive user guide to help you get up and running quickly. After Installing Content Grabber, we recommend that you look at Content Grabber Basics, and then get familiar with Exploring the Main Window and then Building Your First Agent.