Reviews & Comments of Simplescraper — a fast and free web scraper chrome extension

I was pleasantly surprised to go through the process of selecting a l*nked*n job search results scraper recipe from the 'recipe' store in the extensions dashboard, copy and paste my personally tailored and filtered l*nked*n job search results page url into the recipe provided, select the number of pages to scrape and the columns of data properties to capture, and even install another 3rd party extension that was required to obtain the l*nked*n cookies array necessary to scrape behind the login (which most tools require a premium subscriber license in order to scrape behind login webpages), and actually be able to download the scraped results into a .csv file without the annoying 'want to see the results? Just pay us money to see your file!' It was truly free from start to finish, a very difficult thing to achieve these days when dealing with capturing data from l*nked*n...any recruiter and / or sales development or market research, b2b lead gen, marketing, digital, social, or any other role / title is well aware of by this point. We'll see how long it lasts, but so far, i absolutely give credit where credit is due. Thanks SimpleScraper. You've blown me away.

Very fast and intuitive scraper. Saves a lot of time and effort!!

Simple Intuitive and Fast

This scraper is advertised as free, but certain features, which are NOT clearly identified upfront, require a paid subscription to use on an ongoing basis. For me, that became clear only after I spent a ton of time figuring out how to use it, which was hard and frustrating. I find this highly misleading and would not recommend this scraper.

Good

Once I had the list of URL's it was seamless.

thank you! very useful.

Awesome Starting to test for my TV Program Guide Which include 200 channels to get my favorite program. Will Share receipe soon !

They really helped me out actually. Contacted support with a question and they replied fast. Great extension.

Fantastic!

save time scraping websites. recommended for marketers, analysts, and knowledge workers

Exactly the tool I wanted!

Easiest UI I had to work with. I used this extension to scrape the notes out of a popular online course provider, and I now have the notes ready to be imported to Anki.

Amazing product, got exactly what I wanted with ease

Excellent product

not Working !!

Your extension has a bug bru . tryng to scrape on the myaccounts google page This document requires 'TrustedHTML' assignment. on dev console. Tried looking for a fix can;t find one

Super easy to use!

I can not thank you enough for this wonderful scrap extension. Very helpful for my business. !!!

this tool does exactly what you want a scraper to do, with ease. no programming or code knowledge available, with great support! cannot recommend highly enough. if i had one suggestion, make error logs downloadable as csv as well jsut like the results, that way errors can be sorted more easily by type and then re-run or removed from scraping list depending on error type.

Intuitive, fast, easy to use and it delivers results. 10/10

best scraper for simple and fast scrapes

It really works, it really free and it is really easy to use it! Thank you!

nice

This is probably one of the most useful Google Chrome Extension I've ever come across. The user experience of something so complex has been converted to something which is so easy to use even for non developers like me.

I would like recommend Agenty. The tool is not good at deep scraping.

GOOD

Great app

Best Scrapper extension I have found ever. There are some improvements needed.

Great

Fast but does not work for dynamic content scraping and pagination with fixed numbers... better to tell it on the description. Asked to pay but few features to try out.

Most intuitive and easy to use scraper that I have come across. No instructions or instructional videos necessary to watch because it's that easy. I had a problem with one of my scrapers and I emailed Mike and he made a custom video to show me how to fix it, amazing!

This is better than crack

I can't believe I used to live life without this beauty.

amazing app . simple and easy

Need more time to align data after scraping. Also, calling it free in the title is misleading!

Thu thập dữ liệu biểu mẫu không chính xác

Please put RECIPE in Title

Don't work on deep scraping. Cells are not well aligned when some values are missing. Do come back to revise the review when such features are enhanced.

Excellent product and excellent support.

Awesome way to quickly grab bulk information from any website. Works like it should almost every time!

It does good. I'm not sure about the saving, but I dont' need it. So it's not a worry.

ok

This thing has saved me so much time and effort and I have not run into any issues after a month of usage. +1

Looking very easy to use and hopefully will work as per my requirements

Great Extension. WORK ON ALL WEBSITES. Thank you so much.

Amazing extension very useful for daily work. Is there a I can scrape the HTML markup of the given css selector? Example to scrape srcset which has multiple image urls I have to scrape the html.

This is really amazing. I've had to have python scripts written in the past before finding this. Now, I can create recipes on my own. Wow, really well done.

Wow, I heard great things about Simplescraper's tool, but I did not hear about how incredibly responsive the Simplescraper team is, too! Have had a fantastic experience with the extension - have dove into deep scraping & multi-page scraping with little issues - and I'm suuuper new to scraping. So thanks a lot for developing this!!

Don't expect much - it's very good for what it is.

This is excellent. However a better explanation of how much of the functionality comes once you do this on the could, would be great. For no reason, I spent hours messing around it, and then realized all of the info I need comes through when the recipe is run on the CLOUD.

Does nothing. installed click scrape page and nothing happens.

best scraper available out there.

Very handy

Simply the best!

Just spent a ton of time trying to figure out how to write a scraping function for a complicated website in a java program, thought I'd check if maybe there was something I could use to just get this part out of the way in a .CSV and I am so happy this exists instead so I don't have to reinvent the wheel!

First it was difficult to find the right extension, but this one was the only one who asked us if it worked out. Super helpful customer service afterwards. Therefor 5 stars.

good for simple structured list scraping, not working for deep scraping, or scraping fields with content after clicking

you are good too! will you add recipe workflow automation as that of NoCoding Scraper ?

Perfect for website scraping!

So far so good! Quite easy to scrape : _)

Wonderful web scraper! Highly recommended!

Fantastic Scraping. Not even a single data was missed!

Simply the best/easiest Scraper I've found for Chromium-based browsers. I was right not to follow those other inspector and tag based methods which didn't even work for me, thanks for this brilliant extension :)

I do really like it. But calling it free in the title is misleading.

Amazingly simple and intuitive!!! Thanks a lot

LOVE LOVE Love it! 10 out of 5 stars. Thankyou! I tried 10 others and was getting more overwhelmed each day. This is the simplest and got it working within 15min. (I am not technical). It has scraper + crawler (I did not even know the difference but the user guide, very simple to follow, videos to show you how. Everything simple and intuitive). LOVE LOVE it.

This is one of the best scrapers I've ever used. It's really simple and flexible as well. The support is awesome! Mike is always very helpful with the technicalities.

This is a great scraper. It's better than all the other scrapers I tried on the Google web store. It works nice and simple like they say it does. The support is great also. I had a problem with my output on a page and the owner Mike answered fast and went above and beyond to help me get going with the software. Its one of the best kept secrets that you can add to Chrome.

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great! only workin scraper around. thanks guys!

Using an extension like this brings back faith in humanity. It just works. It's simple, quick, and effective. It allowed me to scrape data from my own Amazon content list in under 2 minutes. A huge thanks to the makers of this extension, you're awesome.

This did exactly what I was wanting to do. I did have one problem that I had to work around. The keep it, remove it toggle button did not come to front on a table header field, which I did not want. So I had to go ahead and export, then remove that cell and shift the cells up. If I were using this daily, this would be a big inconvenience. Other than that so far, the devs did very good. Very intuitive!

amazing extension saved me a ton of time

Great application, super-easy to use.

The tool is offered "Free". Then you spend time in learning how to set it up only afterwards to learn that- hey it's actually not free at all. Yeah, the tool is free, however actually using the tool isn't at all. That's just such a lousy, scammy practice. Avoid.

I tried probably 20 different scraper extensions, api, web apps etc... This is the one that worked. And it did so instantly without fuss or muss. Great work.

Worked Flawlessly

It's so easy I'm like wutttt My life is better with this extension.

Does what is says on the box. Super simple, web based. Didn't even need to follow the tutorial to get it going, it's that amazing!

quite good

Intelligently designed app with intuitive and clean interface that was easy to understand and to use, backed up by genuinely excellent support. On the latter, I had a page with a lazy load designed that stymied half a dozen other extensions but SimpleScraper got it after Mike had a look and tweaked the url. In it's early days of evolution so currently focussed on a more select set of capabilities but I think this app is one to try and also to watch. As it gains more of the features and capabilities of some of the more mature platforms it will be a serious threat in this space due to the efficient intelligent design combined with the great support.

Very easy to use. I was scraping sites in seconds once it was installed. This is a slick app.

nice app !@!

Brilliant tool! Helped me a ton in scraping StackExchange search results pages. The support on livechat responded right away and they even made a small custom tweak in the product pretty much asap on my request :)

Sometimes clicking view results will open 14 tabs for the same results page! Does not work for dynamic tables generated in React - only for static html. I cannot scrape titles AND links from some sites like the Hacker News tutorial portrays as automatic.

I wanted to grab 13 pages of data and I was able to do it in under 5 minutes with this thing. It's super fast and easy to use. Thanks for making this!

Really awesome. How can I scrape images urls, I didn't found nothing related in the docs.

It's free and has the potential to become a really useful tool for me. I like that it works on the edge, as well.

I cannot live without it

They gave us some help quickly via Email. So we could make our program without any stress. Awesome!

really good extension. the best of all that I tried

Many other tools to scrape data have felt a bit beyond my understanding. While I'm still figuring out all I can do with this, it's easy to see how powerful and simple it is to gather the data you need!

excellent, but makes you rate for credits

One of the best chrome extension I have ever used. That is game changer!

Love this app! Hoping I can figure out why I am still having troubles with multiple page scrapes but otherwise, it's great and has wonderful guides/youtube tutorials as well!

It's crazy how easy it is to get some info. Some websites worked amazing while some others just refuse to work. One of them is http://www.folhademaputo.co.mz/pt/noticias/desporto/ when trying to select the thumbnails. But overall, amazing extension.

Great Extension. Simple easy to use.

Super intuitive to use

Great!

So helpful!

Great tool for scraping!

Finally the scraper works.

Didn't work for the data I was trying to scrape but I don't doubt it could be useful for other pages

Made my life much easier when creating a little scoring app. Means I can change my data source without having to rewrite giant swathes of my codebase

Scraping made simple. Love this extension!

Excellent - fast, simple to understand, great user interface. It has saved me a lot of time.