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Import.io Reviews and Ratings

Rating: 9 out of 10
Score
9 out of 10

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Pros

Easy to Use: Users have found the tool to be very user-friendly, even for those without programming experience. They appreciate the intuitive interface and the fact that coding is not required, making it accessible for users with varying technical skills.

Powerful Data Manipulation: The reporting tool and dashboard provided by the software offer a comprehensive overview, enabling powerful data manipulation and reporting capabilities. Users can easily generate custom data through web scraping with just a few clicks, streamlining their workflow.

Scalability: Users have praised the scalability of the tool, noting its ability to handle large amounts of data effectively. It excels in scraping data from extensive URL lists, ensuring seamless data collection and collaboration with teams.

Reviews

4 Reviews

Review

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized

Use 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.

VU
Verified User
Engineer in Customer Service (201-500 employees)
Vetted Review
Import.io
1 year of experience

The essential scraper for dummies

Rating: 3 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I primarily used import.io as a means to refresh feeds used for digital marketing within Google adwords in addition to similar digital strategy. It is essentially a scraper that can be set up within minutes without the need to learn or maintain code of any kind. It was initially free with a desktop application.

Pros

  • 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

Cons

  • Pricing needs to be addressed immediately , this use to be free and so helpful
  • A desktop application needs to be reintroduced since it recently went all cloud based
  • Additional scraping features would be nice to see when compared to other open source competitors

Likelihood to Recommend

Import.io excels greatly at being able to execute a scraping campaign for your needs within only a few minutes. It is appropriate if you need to be able to scrape data of a large or small scale on a daily basis. Once you've created a scraping crawler you can just execute it and come back after lunch to enjoy your data without second guessing the accuracy of it.

VU
Verified User
Employee in Marketing (201-500 employees)
Vetted Review
Import.io
4 years of experience

Overselling leads to underperformance and way too expensive

Rating: 1 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We used the Import.io service to crawl a website for meta tags before translations.

Pros

  • It promised to be super easy to use - no coding needed at all.

Cons

  • It requires coding for the exact thing we needed it to do. It promised this was not the case.

Likelihood to Recommend

We needed it to do one thing - get metadata from a website. It was able to do this, but only with the help of their support who had to write code for us. The pricing was way off and the sales way too aggressive, which resulted in the product under performing.

VU
Verified User
Director in Customer Service (1-10 employees)
Vetted Review

Use of Connotate for research

Rating: 7 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

As a teaching assistant for the College of Information sciences and Technology, we used Connotate as a data mining tool for web research. I used it in my own research as well as you could train agents to automatically gather data in a variety of ways. The analysis Connotate did was not as useful to me as the data itself, as we were not using it for decision making, but for informing us of trends.

Pros

  • Data collection.
  • Collaboration with a team.

Cons

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

Likelihood to Recommend

It is very easy to use for building a web agent, compared to writing a script oneself. If you need a massive amount of web data collected, I would suggest this tool. I did not find it useful for alerts to particular news events, but I was not using it in that way. I would definitely recommend to students.

VU
Verified User
Contributor in Research & Development (1001-5000 employees)
Vetted Review
Import.io
2 years of experience