Python vs. Ruby vs. SQL vs. WebScraper.io Comparison Chart

Wondering why Ruby is so popular? Its fans call it a beautiful, artful language. And yet, they say it’s handy and practical. Since its public release in 1995, Ruby has drawn devoted coders worldwide. In 2006, Ruby achieved mass acceptance. With active user groups formed in the world’s major cities and Ruby-related conferences filled to capacity. Ruby-Talk, the primary mailing list for discussion of the Ruby language, climbed to an average of 200 messages per day in 2006. It has dropped in recent years as the size of the community pushed discussion from one central list into many smaller groups. Ruby is ranked among the top 10 on most of the indices that measure the growth and popularity of programming languages worldwide (such as the TIOBE index). Much of the growth is attributed to the popularity of software written in Ruby, particularly the Ruby on Rails web framework.

Making web data extraction easy and accessible for everyone. Our goal is to make web data extraction as simple as possible. Configure scraper by simply pointing and clicking on elements. No coding required. Web Scraper can extract data from sites with multiple levels of navigation. It can navigate a website on all levels. Websites today are built on top of JavaScript frameworks that make user interface easier to use but are less accessible to scrapers. WebScraper.io allows you to build Site Maps from different types of selectors. This system makes it possible to tailor data extraction to different site structures. Build scrapers, scrape sites and export data in CSV format directly from your browser. Use Web Scraper Cloud to export data in CSV, XLSX and JSON formats, access it via API, webhooks or get it exported via Dropbox, Google Sheets or Amazon S3.