Portia - Scrape websites visually

I just tried signing up for Portia. They had a very cool introduction called Ben that wanted me to invite my team members. Funny because I don't think of scrapping as a team sport. Next I tried creating a spider, but there were no help here at all. I had to go to the docs and I still did not understand what I was doing. I clicked some elements on a page that I wanted scraped, but first afterwards discovered that I had to define the fields I wanted scraped and then annotate the page. On top of that it seems like they are out of capacity because I suddenly got a fatal mistake from the crawler when pressing "Test". Looks good, but still a long way! 👍

This is a huge improvement on some of those other wysiwyg macro scrapers out there that just don't work.

Nice product. How do you guys compare to https://www.producthunt.com/tech... , that is my go to scraper these days

Really useful--web data for everyone on an on-demand accessible basis. Would be interested in whether Portia also provides data structuring?

@pablohoffman @gpuliatti doesn't look like Portia can currently handle scraping Twitter. Linkedin is even more secure than Twitter...Am I doing something wrong or is this how it is? Any suggestions for another scraper? Looking for something web based / usable on Mac. Data-miner.io is good, but a bit complex for us non-technicals.

What do you think about tools to monitor updates social medias on twitter, facebook, youtube and instagram and also extract data from them?