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RowsX — Scrape tables from thousands of websites instantly
Import tables and lists from thousands of websites to Rows in one-click with RowsX. Go to a website, click the extension and RowsX will automatically detect the table. Then, Open it in Rows in one-click.
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@henrique_cruz1 Congratulations Henrique! That is a great idea and will help skip the boring and manual task of extracting and loading tables to Rows. Amazing product you and the team are building!
I can't imagine how useful this will be for thousands of professionals, including me. Great job!
As somebody who's been building web crawlers for a lifetime, I knew this was a different product the first time I saw it! What makes web scraping difficult is 2 things: 1) getting the data and 2) parsing the data. RowsX solves both problems 1) it's an extension running in the browser so you won't get blocked, and 2) It automagically parses the page for you so you won't have to write custom code for each page or website.
It also sends everything into my favorite spreadsheet software, Rows!
thank you @simolemhandez 🙏
this was very inspired by the work you guys did with folkX
@henrique_cruz1
Hey Henrique and the Rows team! 🚀 RowsX seems like a game-changer for simplifying data extraction from websites into spreadsheets. 📊 Can you share a bit more about the technical wizardry behind the extension? How does RowsX seamlessly detect and preview tables/lists across such a wide range of websites without requiring user logins or complex configurations?
Very interesting, @henrique_cruz1
I just had a conversation with someone recently about how Linkedin Posts information can't be accessed via their API. So that might be something to consider adding if not already included.
Tools like Shield use an extension to scrape that data anyway - so it might be worth looking at.
All the best!
@ranjit_bhinge this would be to scrape a list of posts from the Linkedin feed? We haven't built that, but we can add it
@simon_s_j in some (yelp, g2) it already works. what websited would you like to add it to?
thanks @rick_fan !
after it detects the table you can open it in a spreadsheet (in the yellow "Open in Rows" button) and then use the data as you wish
@digital_surya thanks for the comment! you can also copy the contents of the table to a clipboard and paste it in other tools
@henrique_cruz1 I mean what if the website using google sheets to display data, in that case rowsx cannot pull data right.
Congratulations on the launch. Listen, it's really cool. I've had some struggles with parsing certain not-so-friendly to Beautiful Soup. I hope now this pain will be resolved. Thank you!
@kostyadoronin thanks! it should be a good Beautiful Soup alternative to html tables
Scraping data is hard but tools like RowsX makes it easy for everyone. Kudos to you and your team!!
I've been looking for a solution like this one for months. Tried many non-usable scraping tools and none of them really worked without too many friction. Congrats for the launch and keep it up!
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