Spider Free - The simplest web scraper
Spider let's you turn websites into organized data, download them as JSON/CSV. No coding or configuration required.
- Users:
- 8,000+
- Rating:
- 3.89 (27)
- Version:
- 2.0 (Last updated: 2022-07-26)
- Creation date:
- 2019-04-26
- Permissions:
- storage
- downloads
- activeTab
- scripting
- Host permissions:
- http://fonts.googleapis.com/
- https://fonts.googleapis.com/
- Size:
- 17.82K
- Email:
- ch*****@gmail.com
- URLs:
- Website
- Full description:
- See detailed description
- Source:
- Chrome Web Store
- Updated:
- 16 hours ago
User reviews
Spider Free is praised for its simplicity, effectiveness, and being free, making it valuable for single-page data scraping, especially when other tools fail. Users highlight its time-saving benefits and ease of extracting lists or text from pages requiring login. However, common issues include no support for pagination or multi-page scraping, lack of intuitive UI and instructions, problems detecting table structures accurately, and missing convenience features. Users also mention broken support links and occasional functional bugs.
Pros
- Simple and easy to use for scraping single pages.
- Free to use and effective compared to other similar extensions.
- Saves significant time compared to manual data extraction.
- Useful for collecting data from pages with login or registration.
- Good for extracting lists or table-like data on a single page.
Cons
- Does not support pagination or scraping multiple pages.
- Interface is not intuitive; lacks clear user instructions and working support links.
- Issues detecting tables, columns, and rows accurately.
- Missing useful UI features like copy buttons, keyboard shortcuts, and improved UI feedback.
- Occasional bugs such as non-functional buttons or features.
Recent reviews
Doesn't detect tables/columns/rows correctly, doesn't support pagination.
by 
Chris C, 2024-08-07
Chris C, 2024-08-07I was trying to save a page from cloudfront. All was happened that this extension downloaded a 20B long json with a URL to cloudfront. I was playing around with it for 10 minutes, now I'm giving up.
by 
György Raffay, 2024-02-07
György Raffay, 2024-02-07tried many, this was the only one that i could use to get almost what I needed, with a bit of excel work after, still, saved me at least an hour!
by 
codrin antonovici, 2023-08-27
codrin antonovici, 2023-08-27Extension safety
Risk impact
Spider Free - The simplest web scraper requires a few sensitive permissions. Exercise caution before installing.
Risk impact analysis details
- Critical Request access to the following domains: googleapis.com
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Risk likelihood
Spider Free - The simplest web scraper has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.
Risk likelihood analysis details
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