Compare Octoparse vs Neap vs Castor EDC

Software Description:

Octoparse is a free client-side Windows web scraping software that turns unstructured or semi-structured data from websites into structured data sets without coding. It's an easy-to-use web scraping tool that collects data from the web. Crawlers run in Octoparse are determined by the extraction rules configured. The extraction rule would tell Octoparse: which website is to be open; where the data is you plan to crawl, etc. provides high speed data collection, performing up to 10 concurrent threads.

Being a Windows application, Octoparse works well for static and dynamic websites, including those whose web pages are using Ajax. There are various export formats of your choice like CSV, EXCEL, HTML, TXT, and databases (MySQL, SQL Server, and Oracle).

Octoparse simulates human operations to interact with web pages. Its remarkable features such as filling out forms, entering a search term into the textbox, etc., would make it much easier to extract web data. You can run your extraction project either on your own machines (Local Extraction) or in the cloud (Cloud Extraction).

Octoparse provides a visual operation pane, which is very user friendly and straightforward. Octoparse simulates human web browsing behavior like opening a web page, logging into an account, entering text, pointing-and-clicking web elements, etc. Just click the information on the website in the built-in browser and perform the extraction, you will get the structured data you need. Scraping the web on a large scale simultaneously, based on distributed computing, is the most powerful feature of Octoparse. After you upload your configuration project to the cloud, you can choose to perform the extraction concurrently by using many cloud servers.

If you need to scrape 10,000 web pages within a short time, then Octoparse cloud service fits best.

Software Description:

Neap provides an easy-to-use and efficient service to help people build awesome websites. Our team is specialized in UI design and UX analysis.

Get complete feedback and advice for you website. Improve it easily and attract new users.

Software Description:

Castor EDC is a mobile-friendly, affordable electronic data capture system for clinical trials, built by researchers, for researchers. Some of the features include:

• audit trails
• user management
• form-building
• randomisation
• remote capture (patient surveys)

The company was started in 2011 to make sure every medical researcher worldwide has access to an easy to use and affordable data capture system. Castor believes that the only way medical research can be accelerated is if all relevant medical data can be captured worldwide and make it reusable, not just the data within high profile trials or collected on big budgets. That is why this platform has been created so that researchers regardless of their budget or programming experience can use and afford a high-quality data management system for their research. Small studies are free!

Features:

• Data Mining
• External Integrations
• Analytics
• SEO
• Data Visualization
• Data Export
• Big Data

Features:

Features:

Summary:

• Point and click Interface

• Deal with 98% of websites

• No need to code

• Supports proxy and API

• Automatic IP rotation -- avoiding your IP being blacklisted

• Scheduled extraction tasks

• Built-in XPath tool and RegEx tool

Summary:

• UI Design

• UX analysis

• Feedback

• Advice

Summary:

No key features associated with this application.

Pricing:

• Starting from: $9.99/month
• Credit card required: No

• Basic $9.99
  Pro $29.99

FAQs:

Does this service offer guides, tutorials and or customer support?

• Yes - on the website.

Who are the main user groups of this service?

• Those people who are in need of data. The service has been successfully used in the areas of artificial intelligence, e-commerce, foreign trade, Internet finance, real estate, automobile, e-government, recruitment, social networking, etc.

What is this service generally used for?

• The most obvious use case of this service is product price comparison. Since price is the most important factor that influences consumer behavior, it’s crucial that companies make data comparisons - compare almost all the influential factors, to react promptly and maximize profit. For example: An e-commerce seller in Japan uses Octoparse to extract Amazon Mexico and eBay US market data in order to sell his Japanese product oversea by comparing the data from these two countries and determining product price differences. Or a user uses Octoparse to extract discounts and promotion information from competitors’ websites at 9:00am every day for competitive marketing analysis.

Does this service integrate with any other apps?

• No.

Does this service offer multi-user capability (e.g. teams)?

• Not yet.

Does this service offer an API?

• Yes, the premium versions offer API access.

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