Wuispa

Wuispa is a GUI based web scraper that allows anyone to gather data from any website without any coding(programming) knowledge.

It works by allowing the user to select pages and the specific content blocks required from the page. The scraper then loops through each of the items and makes a list of each. The items are retrieved into a list that can be exported as csv, json or consumed by the REST API.

This extension only serves to aide in selection of required items from the content blocks that the user desires to extract data from. It enables reading the element paths so that the scraper can do the same and extract all similar items. The actual processing/scraping is done by a python program that matches the selected elements by launching a headless chrome browser. It currently runs on heroku platform.

Wuispa is cloud based and runs as a SaaS, i.e the user pays for the data extracted at the dashboard which can be accessed via the url: https://wuispa.com/dashboard. The extension itself does not need any billing from the user to operate. And it also does not need any configuration. It simply runs the jQuery code that is used to pick required items from the DOM.

Why we built another GUI scraper?

Not all the existing scrapers are easy to use. Some even require waiting periods to try them out while some require credit card information but wuispa only requires user's email address for authentication after which they can try it right away.