If you have searched for something using Yahoo, Google or a business directory on the web, you probably noticed that the results of your search usually have the same logical structure. Happy Harvester can extract this structured data and store it in a delimited file format. Once your data has been saved, you can import the data in Microsoft Excel or any other database program.
Before you can extract the data, you have to analyse the HTML source you want to harvest. You can tell the Happy Harvester to extract data between two HTML strings. The (text) data in between will be stored. You can create multiple selection sets and extract for example titles, prices, stock info, etc. With this you could for example query a music CD store for artists, album titles and prices or obtain stock info on a regular basis.
For crawling multiple web addresses you can import a list of url's. Or you can use the url-generator to build a range. This last option can be useful if there is a logical structure in the url using numbers. Many business directories, web-forums and search engine results are using a structured url for querying their databases. Some example profiles are included with Happy Harvester for your inspiration.
Once you have successfully harvested your data, you can store your settings in a profile. The profile can be used to restore settings and harvest new data if you want to update your database.
Features:
- Harvest all sort of data from web sites
- Simple and intuitive user interface
- Automaticly browse pages with a "next page" definition
- Advanced URL generator
- Support for sites with basic WWW authentication
- Export data in Excel or CSV format
- Command-line options for automatic scheduling
- Delay option to prevent overload on web servers. Happy Harvester is licensed as shareware, the cost of the registered verison is $89.00 and full size of the download is 1.47 MB. You may download a free version of Happy Harvester by following download link at Free Download section of this page. Happy Harvester is developed or distributed by HappyHarvester and is listed under offline browsers internet utilities database.
