Developers often find the need to scrape data from Websites, especially if an application they’re working on requires 3rd party information. Although thousands of libraries & scripts exist for developers to do this, & despite the fact that new data scraping tools are born almost every month, not all scraping software is created equal.
Agenty, a data scraping tool aimed at developers, promises to eliminate the pain points experienced by developers who need to scrape data from Websites.
Agenty, founded by Vikash Rathee, is a datascraping SaaS platform from Gurugram in India which purports to convert unstructured data into structured spreadsheets & machine-readable information. All of it is done without any knowledge of coding required. Industries such as healthcare, dating apps, & many others all require data from 3rd party servers, which is often located behind a login system, Agenty offers facilities to extract data, despite these barriers.
Setting up a scraping system using Agenty has been made as simple as possible. Full documentation is available on their Website to assist with any areas of difficulty. For users wanting to try out Agenty’s system before buying, a free 100 page scrape, or 100 lines of data in CSV form is on offer. There are paid services available, depending on the number of pages or amount of data users need to scrape.
Tools are available in various categories, namely:
1. Scraping Agent – scrape public & password protected Websites, XML, JSON APIs & many more sources on Web
2. OCR Agent – Optical Recognition Agent that detects & extracts text within an image & pdfs.
3. Textract Agent – extract text & metadata from any type of document( word, pdf, pptx, html, eml, msg etc)
4. Sentiment Analysis Agent – extract the positive, negative or neutral sentiment with confidence score from excel file or source agent
5. Machine Translation Agent – translate the input text in selected target language using machine based translation API
6. Change Detection Agent – monitor the change on Sites & send alerts when a change has been detected
A new agent can be started in minutes, with only a few clicks of the mouse, & the system integrates with major 3rd party protocols such as email, Zapier, Shopify, Aloglia, Dropbox, Amazon S3, & many others, so users can employ their usual tools whilst working with Agenty.
The entire ecosystem is Cloud based & offers continuous support & updating notifications via email. So for any scraping that needs to be done.
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