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David
Verified reviewer
Used daily for less than 6 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed July 2018
Great Tool & Responsive Customer Support
Configuration is done by a GUI which makes it easy to setup initially but options make the tool even more powerful. I'm learning every day about alternative ways to return even richer data for example using regular expressions or scraping data from popups.
CONSWith such an advanced feature set, it is often not obvious how a feature works. The documentation is okay and there is a healthy community of active users willing to help (and even some YouTube How-To videos) but I've had to invest a lot of effort into learning to use the product properly. Suggest a guided tutorial from start-to-finish highlighting the features. Individual FAQs are documented, but the entire workflow would be helpful.
Cesar
Education Management, 1,001-5,000 employees
Used weekly for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed September 2020
The best value solution for scraping Web data
I've used and taught with WebHarvy for about 3-4 years. I use it for research and industry projects. My experience has always been positive. The software is easy to use and pulls data as needed. It is also fast and further updates from its inception have made it only faster. Any question is responded quickly and professionally from the tech support staff, including customized code one might need to scrape difficult websites. Overall WebHarvy is truly a "hidden gem" in the arena of web scraping.
PROSWebHarvy is easy to use, is able to pull the data I need from most websites, and is priced at an affordable level for any type of organization including even entrepreneurs and small startups.
CONSI would like to see a Mac version of WebHarvy.
Reason for choosing WebHarvy
Extremely more affordable and suits my needs given the size of my projects. As long as one has a fast enough computer to be able to gather data off the Web efficiently, WebHarvy is a real contender.
Reasons for switching to WebHarvy
Server-side options like import.io and Mozenda are great but they are very expensive.
Feng
Market Research, 1,001-5,000 employees
Used daily for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
3
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed November 2019
A Good Tool for Non Programmers
This is great for non programmers and easy to use. I LOVE the customer service team. They reply my answers promptly in the email. I think the tech support team is the most valuable customer experience part for this product.
PROSIt is relatively easy to use. Customer Support team has been a great help.
CONSUnstable. For example, I use the same .xml file in scheduled scrapping, it gives me different output, e.g., omitting some pages.
robert
Government Relations, 2-10 employees
Used daily for less than 6 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed April 2021
Wonderful Desktop Scraping Product
Fantastic. They actually gave me videos showing me how to implement a couple of scrapers we were working on.
PROSI'm very pleased with the quality and support of this product. It has a bit of a learning curve in performing certain functions.
CONSIt's a bit too developer centric in some of its functionality. A developer will have to support certain functions that require RegExs in order to work.
Reason for choosing WebHarvy
Fminer has no support. Content Grabber is ridiculously expensive. We disregarded all the Cloud Products because if those companies go out of business or their cloud goes down we're stuck with no scrapes.
Reasons for switching to WebHarvy
Visual Web Ripper is no longer going to function after the end of the year. They are holding their Web Ripper Customers hostage by telling them they have to spend 5000 a year on the Enterprise Desktop Software to replace the Visual Web Ripper product which is only a few hundred dollars.
Egle
Aviation & Aerospace, 501-1,000 employees
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed April 2020
It helped me doing my master thesis
Great experience
PROSI have downloaded few web scraping programmes and I spent days trying to figure out how to use them. In the end I tried Webharvey and I was using it within minutes . Also, it took time figuring out how to do the pagination of booking comments, and I wrote an email to the support and got the answer within an hour. To sum up its a great tool to scrap comments for those who dont programm.
CONSIt takes around 4 hours to scrape thousands of comments but I understand that the programm has to open every page individually and the speed depends more of the page that you scrape the comments from
Reasons for switching to WebHarvy
its very complicted. and the browser cant open the booking comment page
Renata
Research, 1,001-5,000 employees
Used monthly for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed June 2020
User friendly and new update increase the speed of scraping
I wrote a previous review saying how user friendly this software is and that for me the down side was that it was slow to scrape when compared to other softwares that do the same thing. This new update (6.0.1.173) increased the speed to scrape. So, this software is my choice for this task. The support team always give you fast and helpful support, sometimes providing you even pieces of code to help you use it.
CONSYou can always increase the speed of scraping.
Reasons for switching to WebHarvy
Octoparse couldn't change the pages on TripAdvisor because of a bug (the reason was given to me by their support team)
Edward
Retail, 2-10 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
3
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed April 2021
WebHarveys Engineers Clearly Are The Reason For The Success Of WebHarvey
Fantastic For Mining public Real-estate Data Estate Properties New Listings Ect...
PROSThe Simplicity Of Not Needing To Know Or Understand Coding & Such Complicated Applications such as Python.. Plus Mathew & Virat are Always To My Rescue With Professionalism That Is Beyond Words That Can Describe, When Ever I Am In A technical Jam They Have Not Been Unable To Find Me A Solution To My Problem - They Are Both Worth there Weight In Gold ! Thank You For Providing Both There Service ! Other Wise I Would Not Have Been Successful With This Product At All ! Sincerely Edward L Skoch Raymond A. Cooper
CONSNot Happy With Some Of the auto save Features, Apparently the Mining Console Window Disappears after auto save..
Ankur
Research, 51-200 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed August 2018
One of the best scrapper with ease to use
The best part is crawling front page details from platforms within minimum time. Saves time by running as back end
CONSFor few platforms it takes over night to give result which I can get within an hour from other software
Kirk
Real Estate, 2-10 employees
Used weekly for less than 6 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed August 2023
Accurate, Efficient And Designed Well
The software is intuitive however, some extractions are just difficult to know every step. The customer support has been TOP-SHELF! Even the interface design of how you request support is perfect.
PROSSometimes sites are purposely designed to preclude you from extracting large amounts of data efficiently. WebHarvy gets around that and makes it easy.
CONSSome larger extractions take a long time to accomplish. This has much to do with how the data is stored and the speed of your internet connection I'm sure. But, it's an automated process so you can set it and forget it.
Reason for choosing WebHarvy
Standalone desktop executable, no monthly fees, good documentation
nick
Sports, 2-10 employees
Used daily for less than 6 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed June 2023
supersports
work that would have taken months can now be done in hours
PROStheir support is very good.They responded and solved my problem immediately
CONSwould like more videos to be made explaining the work I would like someone to do
purushotham
Information Technology and Services, 2-10 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed October 2020
The Best and simple tool to scrape any website
Simply the best ever Web scraping tool, I used in my company and as wells as a freelancer also to webscraping , mining and exporting the data into either excel spreedseet or SQl data bases.
PROS1) Best price in the market compared to any other products 2)Ease of usage 3)Support team is very responsive and explain clearly everything about the tools to use 4) the best thing is the Support team will provide Regex for certain texts or contents to scrape. 5)Anyone can use this tool easily. 6) Importantly, you can schedule them on a daily, weekly basis without manually opening and running files.
CONS1) I never faced any issue with webharvy. I used webharvy to mine nearly 1000's of websites to scrape their job listings and scheduled them daily basis.
Rishi
Education Management, 501-1,000 employees
Used monthly for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed November 2020
Works like a charm, delivers what is promises.
My overall experience of using web-Harvey has been great over the last three years. The software has improved significantly over the period and works almost flawlessly, for otherwise a relatively complicated task i.e. web-scrapping. Also, the team is super responsive and supportive, which ensures that one is not stuck.
PROSWebHarvey is the best data scraping tool out there and has many pros: 1. Capturing fields from the website are relatively easy. 2. The new edition (Version 6), works very fast and is fast. 3. The software is cheap, comes with a lifetime validity (unlike others which charge monthly), and allows for unlimited data download. 4. The support team is responsive and knowledgeable, if one is not able to scrape a website, they immediately post a video. 5. Ample tutorials (both brief and advanced ones) on the website (www.webharvey.com) and tutorial videos on YouTube makes usage hassle-free. 6. Cheap, Cheap & Super Cheap: The biggest pros of webharvey is that comes with advanced web-scraping features and is one of the cheaptest software for scraping.
CONSThe only cons I have faced at times is that the software enters the next cell value when a particular data field on the website is empty. However, this happens rearelly. Also, this can be taken care of at post-processing stage.
Randy
Retail, 11-50 employees
Used daily for less than 6 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed May 2020
Fantastic data scraping
Fantastic experience. The staff is extremely knowledgeable, responsive and friendly.
PROSThe interface is very user friendly and has all the features we need. We had been using a different scraping platform and ran into limitations that WebHarvy had no problems with. The tech support team helped us with some complex scrape jobs and made the transition very easy.
CONSI'm not an expert with javascript. If I was, it would be much easier to format my data the way I need it, but WebHarvy is certainly capable of what I need. I'm sure I'll be able to do whatever I need through the large selection of trianing videos and the support department.
Ankur
Law Enforcement, 51-200 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed August 2019
Best Scrapper Explored till now
Day by day webharvy is improving a lot and becoming smarter day by day. So I would rate 4.8 of 5.
PROSI can scrape any website till now either this way or that way.
CONSFew websites like eBay, I have other good option in terms of speed.
Reason for choosing WebHarvy
it's not dependent on the language of the website in which it is coded, but few others in my knowledge are dependent on the coding of the website.
Alvin
Information Services, 2-10 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed November 2020
Great tool with lots of feature and active customer support!
The software has all of the features you would expect and it is easy to work with. The customer support is excellent and they have an active YouTube channel with many how-to videos.
CONSI can't think of any "Cons". Like every software, you have to learn how to use it.
Willem
Hospitality, 2-10 employees
Used daily for less than 6 months
OVERALL RATING:
3
EASE OF USE
1
VALUE FOR MONEY
2
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
2
FUNCTIONALITY
1
Reviewed August 2019
A light in the tunnel
I want to gather accommodation data for a web site
PROSIt seems potent. Hopefully it can do what I need. I can get my money back within 15 days if not satisfied.
CONSAfter functioning for one day it ceased to work. It simply won't open. The customer support is slow or non-existent over weekends. I don't know how to get it started again.
Reason for choosing WebHarvy
It seemed user friendly. Being able to do exactly what I need.
Anonymous
201-500 employees
Used daily for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed September 2021
WebHarvy
I have earn thought of dollars by using WebHarvy. I like it but mining speed very slow.
PROSWebHarvy is easy to use. Very user friendly. It can handle more data capture easily other than software or coding.
CONSEverything is good but mining speed very slow than Octoparse. So, I decided to use Octoparse.
Reasons for switching to WebHarvy
Mining speed very slow
Anonymous
2-10 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed September 2018
Awesome software
the benefits i have using webharvy it puts food on the table!
PROSwhat i like about webharvy its easy to use and extremely excellent service
CONSi have no negative review for this software
Nhan
Architecture & Planning, 51-200 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed February 2019
Zoominfo
Zoominfo. And the others app
PROSComfortable. Quickly. I think this app can be better than
CONSI wish webharvy can be share more tips. And special is xml files
Terrie
Consumer Goods, 1 employee
Used weekly for less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed August 2019
WebHervey software - 10/10 ease of use and great customer support, which I use alot!
I am able to copy large amounts of data from suppliers that would generally be very time consuming without this product.
PROSI tried a couple of other similar software, WebHarvey is a great product, I ask for help on a regular basis, they always have answers to my problems, I try to get help for other software that I use but no where near as good as the help WebHarvy provide. I love the way they make a short video on the steps/process, It makes it very easy to use. they help with which Regex code to use to extract certain text.
CONSI can't think of anything really off the top of my head, If I could It would only be a minor issue.
Reason for choosing WebHarvy
Price and Support, Get answers pretty quick. love this product and the people behind it. wish other software had the same support
Graeme
Information Technology and Services, 2-10 employees
Used weekly for less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed October 2018
Great Product & Outstanding Support
We have used WebHarvy for over 9 months to data mine weekly specials from Australia's 2 major supermarket chains covering 20 different regional areas and approx 5,000 products every week. We have to congratulate WebHarv Support for their extremely fast response to issues we have encountered which is easily the best service we've ever had from any software supplier.
PROSVery easy to use and provides great capabilities that more than met our needs.
CONSWe were able to set up reasonably complex data mining but some areas seem to be quite complex - this is not a negative comment about WebHarvy but lack of expertise on our part. We would be highly supportive should WebHarvy provide an online Consultancy service (possibly first 15 minutes free upon purchase and then charged in say 15 minute periods) to ensure we utilise the full capabilities of WebHarvy.
Joshua
Government Administration, 51-200 employees
Used less than 6 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed June 2017
Fantastic product with top of the line Customer Support
We set out to mine specific data from a website and were able to extract all the crucial information and more using WebHarvy. We were able to use this data for multiple analyses and plan to capture more periodically.
PROSWebHarvy has been a fantastic utility for our projects that require compiling data via web-scraping. I do not have a background in code-writing, nor have I used any other software that served a data-mining purpose but WebHarvy was very user-friendly (If you go through the tutorials). When I ran into an issue pertaining to the site I was scraping, one quick email to the customer rep, a WebHarvy Support Engineer, resulted in step-by-step instructions and a how-to video being posted on their youtube channel specifically catered to my work needs. I can't say enough good things about WebHarvy Support. My direct supervisor recently attended a conference and recommended WebHarvy to four other jurisdictions to assist them with their regulatory needs.
CONSMy only suggestion would be to possibly include a "Text to Columns" conversion tool for post-.csv extraction. Time spent on this project definitely bottle-necked around when cleaning up the .csv document.
Connor
Used daily for less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed July 2018
Great software and value, fantastic support. Would highly recommend
The ease of use. I've only had brief experience working with scrapers, but the training/demonstration videos really made this software pleasant to work with. Support is great and can help you on specific tasks and projects.
CONSNone really. It would be great if there was an automatic email grabber feature that could be used on different website formatting.
Zack
Professional Training & Coaching, 2-10 employees
Used monthly for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed March 2021
My Secret Weapon
I've used this tool for several projects related to data mining, lead generation, etc. I've probably used it 30+ times in the last 2 years. I've always been more than satisfied with the results. It's also very flexible in terms of how it can be applied to different data scenarios.
PROSThe best part of being a WebHarvy user is the consistent level of detailed and relevant support I receive about using the product. The technical aspects of the tool can be challenging if you aren't well versed in tech language, but the support is timely, clear, straightforward and really makes all the difference in the world.
CONSI have no complaints. I've used it for various projects, and never had an issue.
Reason for choosing WebHarvy
Depth of ability, versatility and price.
Henry
Verified reviewer
Real Estate, 1 employee
Used daily for less than 6 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed December 2019
WebHarvy-Easy To Use, Incredible Fast Response Support With Very Detail Video Guide
I am trying to find an efficient and accurate way of capture web data and transfer the data into excel format for further analysis. WebHarvy has met my objectives and I will have the flexibility of saving a configuration, edit and deploy again and again, saving much valuable time and money.
PROSTo me, the support given by the WebHarvy Support Engineer, is of upmost importance. As a new user, whenever I am not sure of any step in "How To do this or that", I am able to rely on their 5 Stars quality responses. It is easy to apply the software's algorithm to configure my specific requirement for web data.
CONSI would like to learn more about the use of Regular Expression.