Scrapinghub’s Portia is an open source scraping tool that allows to extract data from a website with no coding required. Portia’s user friendly interface runs inside a web browser, where you can visually select any element of data you wish to extract. Once you make a selection, Portia will automatically recognize and extract all of the relevant elements on a website.

Use cases:

• Keep track of your competition
• Build charts based on extracted info
• Generate leads scraping relevant people’s contacts
• Scrape eCommerce sites that sell your product for prices and reviews
• Build a broad crawler to get contact/profile info across many industry sites
• Parse all shop locations to provide a locator for users looking for a specific type of shop
• Build a database of candidates to hire, matching sources of internet profiles with your criterias
• Mine data to perform Data Journalism