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Portia vs ProxyCrawl: What are the differences?

Developers describe Portia as "Visual web scraping tool that lets you extract data without writing a single line of code". Portia is an open source tool that lets you get data from websites. It facilitates and automates the process of data extraction. This visual web scraper works straight from your browser, so you don't need to download or install anything. On the other hand, ProxyCrawl is detailed as "It reduces time spent developing scrapers and crawlers". It is a top web scraping tool for developers. Get data for SEO or data mining projects without worrying about worldwide proxies. Scrape Amazon, FB, Yahoo, and thousands of websites. Stay anonymous and save time when crawling the web by bypassing any restrictions, blocks, or captchas.

Portia and ProxyCrawl belong to "Web Scraping API" category of the tech stack.

Some of the features offered by Portia are:

  • Extracts data from websites based on visual selections by the user
  • Creates generic web scrapers which are capable of extracting data from any web page with a similar structure
  • Exports scraped data in CSV, JSON, JSON-lines and XML

On the other hand, ProxyCrawl provides the following key features:

  • Disparate Data Collection
  • Email Address Extraction
  • Pricing Extraction

Portia is an open source tool with 7.76K GitHub stars and 1.26K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Portia's open source repository on GitHub.

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What is Portia?

Portia is an open source tool that lets you get data from websites. It facilitates and automates the process of data extraction. This visual web scraper works straight from your browser, so you don't need to download or install anything.

What is ProxyCrawl?

It is a top web scraping tool for developers. Get data for SEO or data mining projects without worrying about worldwide proxies. Scrape Amazon, FB, Yahoo, and thousands of websites. Stay anonymous and save time when crawling the web by bypassing any restrictions, blocks, or captchas.

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