darkleech

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5 stars
5 stars
Aug 1, 2022

Quality

One of the few scrapers which has been able to handle every site I have thrown at it.

Pros
- The element selector allows you to select data that other tools seem to struggle with selecting (by first allowing you to select the listing and then zoning in on the sub element). This makes sites that I have never been able to scrap with other tools scrapeable.
- No need to buy additional premium credits.
- Extremely easy to use.
- Respects your permissions (only requests access to the google drive files it creates, and the chrome extension guides you through what it needs, why and does not request access to anything outside its scope).
- Is both a scraper and a monitor (I.e. can check and notify if legislation has changed etc.).

For the roadmap
- Optimizations to increase the amount of data able to be scraped with each credit as the current credits are a significant limitation for larger workloads.
- If I have a list of items in date order have the scraper automatically stop scraping if I have already scraped that entry previously (prevents unnecessary credit usage).
- Consider allowing the extension to scrape locally but with the same selector smarts (and auto adjustments) which are able to select what some other scrappers cannot).
- Need to be able to scrap subpages (e.g., right click on a list of links and then open each page in that list and scrape the user defined content from each page).

Founder Team
Ardy_BrowseAI

Ardy_BrowseAI

May 9, 2024

Thank you for sharing your feedback ❤️

All your suggestions make a lot of sense and are being considered or worked on.
Some specific comments:

- We are working on optimizations to be able to add to users' credits. It might take 3-4 months to get there.

- We are working on reducing credit usage when monitoring lists:
https://www.notion.so/browseai/Reduce-credit-usage-when-monitoring-for-new-items-added-to-a-list-sorted-by-Most-Recent-bdc159494f8f4c1ba6c7701da4dd9f87

- The option to run robots locally is something we will be exploring after we release the next version of the task recorder in ~3 months.

- Scraping subpages is currently possible using a secondary robot and the bulk run feature or the Google Sheets addon. See the guide here:
https://help.browse.ai/when-i-capture-lists-how-can-i-capture-information-on-their-detail-pages-that-appear-on-click-as-well

If you have any other feature requests, we'd love to hear them!
https://www.browse.ai/product-roadmap

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