Web Miner is a innovative visual web data extractor for iOS that allow you to scraping data from the web only with simple touches and without programming knowledge. Through its friendly interface you can use in-built browser to navigate in web pages, then you select the data to be scraped with simple touches, and this its all!
A program in this category of software has to be careful because it must allows the extraction of the desired data, robust as it should not stop for any problems such as the missing link, server not responding etc., Generalizable because it must be able to work on similar pages but not perfectly identical in structure. In practice, the tool has to reach a balance between automation and flexibility. These are the guidelines followed for the Web Miner development.
Web Miner allows, through the use of projects, simultaneous extraction from different sites of a limited or unlimited number of information. For example, you can get the latest news of your favorite sites without RSS feeds. Extract data from different sites, such as contacts, email, phone numbers, items, prices, etc. The collected data is displayed in a simple table, sorted by date of collection or by project name; these also can be exported in various formats such as XML or CSV.
For each web page you can capture a main item and possibly several secondary items associated with it; such as by an ecommerce site you can capture the name of the products as the main item and description and price as secondary items.
Web Miner is universal app, this means that its interface is optimized for both the iPhone and the iPad and can be installed on both devices.