Content Grabber

What do you like best?

The point and click interface of Content Grabber is great. Its native browser allows the user to browse websites as they would in any other browser, and set up commands and record clicks, captures, and downloads as you go. There are multiple export options including hard copy files such as CSV, or you can write results directly to a database via a SQL connection.

What do you dislike?

If you want to be able to run more advances processes for data collection, you really need to know a bit of code. There are transform options that can be done in REGEX or C#. This is really when the capabilities of this product start to come to light but can be very daunting to a user with little to no coding experience.

Recommendations to others considering the product:

Be sure that you have members on your team that are fluent in database languages as well as C# and/or Regex. Having these skillsets coupled with Content Grabber will really open up the possibilities that this software can provide for you.

What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?

The marketing company for which I used Content Grabber processes utilizes this software to automated daily or weekly CRM datasets that would otherwise have to be pulled manually. This greatly offset payroll costs, sped up the processes, and ultimately allowed the company to retain a larger client base.