Happy Harvester

Happy Harvester is a powerful software that allows you to extract structured data from various web sources such as Yahoo, Google, and business directories. The software saves the retrieved data in a delimited file format which can be imported into Microsoft Excel or any other database program.

To extract data using Happy Harvester, you need to first analyze the HTML source you want to retrieve. You can instruct the software to extract data between two HTML strings, and the data will be stored. Multiple selection sets can be created, and you can retrieve titles, prices, stock info, and more.

The software supports crawling multiple web addresses by importing a list of URLs or using an advanced URL generator to build a range. This option is useful when there is a logical structure in the URL using numbers. Happy Harvester includes some example profiles to get you started.

The software has several features, such as harvesting all sorts of data from web pages, a simple and intuitive user interface, automatic browsing of pages with a next page definition, local HTML and text file harvesting, support for sites with basic authentication, HTTP Post and cookie management support, and data export in Excel or CSV format.

It also has capabilities for harvesting master and detail pages, an advanced mode with script rules for complex site structures, and command-line options for automatic scheduling. Happy Harvester is a great software for screen scraping, web crawling, web scraping, data extraction, web content monitoring, and data integration. Overall, this software is a great asset for anyone who needs to extract structured data from various web sources.