Review
Rating: 8 out of 10
IncentivizedUse Cases and Deployment Scope
I mainly used import.io to refresh feeds used for digital marketing through Google Adwords and other similar digital strategies. It's basically a scraper that you can set up in minutes without having to learn or maintain any code. With a desktop application, it was initially free. Before translating, we used the Import.io service to crawl a website for meta tags.
Pros
- When it comes to scraping data from large URL lists, it's very effective and precise.
- It promised to be extremely simple to use, with no coding required.
- Crawls and scrapes pages based on patterns you specify through examples.
- Scrapes a specific section of a website.
Cons
- It necessitates coding for the specific task at hand. It stated that this would not be the case.
- Since it recently went cloud-only, a desktop application needs to be reintroduced.
- When compared to other open source competitors, additional scraping features would be nice to see.
- This used to be free and very useful, so pricing needs to be addressed right away.
Likelihood to Recommend
We used Connotate as a data mining tool for web research as a teaching assistant for the College of Information Sciences and Technology. You could train agents to automatically gather data in a variety of ways, which I used in my own research. Connotate's analysis was not as useful to me as the data itself, because we were using it to inform us of trends rather than make decisions.
Vetted Review
1 year of experience