Import.io vs. IPWAY

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.

Incentivized

My team and I love how easy it is to use and choose from IPWAY’s dedicated proxies for our data scraping projects. We rely on their solutions frequently, and it’s great to have a range of extra features available when needed. The platform is user-friendly, which makes managing our tasks efficient and hassle-free.

• Scrapes specific parts of webpages
• Crawls pages and scrapes based on patterns you specify via examples
• Very effective and accurate when it comes to scraping data of large URL lists

Incentivized

• Resources diversity
• Customer support
• Friendly Dashboard
• Uptime

• Stability. software frequently crashed previously.
• Training. Students had a had time understanding how to use the tool, and then where to use it.

Incentivized

• Stock button - Anytime a certain allocation is available, you should receive a notification

I do not think I would have the budget to use it currently. When using it previously, was working with the developers to improve the product and was given accounts at no cost

Incentivized

[We selected Import.io because] They were top ranking in SEO. I will never work with them again though.

• It really helped to collect large chunks of data from the web.
• When compared to writing a script from scratch, it is very simple to use for creating a web agent.

Incentivized

• Time management
• Resources management
• Statistics