Portia: The Open-Source Visual Web Scraper
As you can see, Portia allows you to visually configure what’s crawled and extracted in a very natural way. It provides immediate feedback, making the process
Shane Evans · Founder, CEO at Zyte
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Shane's articles trace Zyte's history and open-source projects, including the Scrapinghub-to-Zyte rebrand, Portia's visual scraping tool, and Dash. He also wrote on data-storage architecture decisions (why MongoDB was a poor fit for scraped data), remote-work transition lessons f…
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