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Comparison of Extracting Data Using End-user Visual Tools and Traditional Methods


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1 Department of Management information systems, Higher Institute of Advanced Studies, Egypt
2 Department of Software Engineering, Faculty of Statistical Studies and Research, Cairo University,, Egypt
     

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End users including technical and non-technical are facing many problems regarding extracting big amount of data through public websites. Our aim here is that we try to provide a way or solution to extract needed data faster, more accurate, with no code and easy to be used for technical users and nun-technical users as well.

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Visual Web Scraping Tool, RPA, UiPath, data extraction, Web crawling, Dynamic Websites, Robots
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Authors

Atef Raslan
Department of Management information systems, Higher Institute of Advanced Studies, Egypt
Ahmed N.Abdelbaset
Department of Software Engineering, Faculty of Statistical Studies and Research, Cairo University,, Egypt
Al- Hussein A. Galal
Department of Software Engineering, Faculty of Statistical Studies and Research, Cairo University,, Egypt
Mohamed A. Abdelaziz
Department of Software Engineering, Faculty of Statistical Studies and Research, Cairo University,, Egypt

Abstract


End users including technical and non-technical are facing many problems regarding extracting big amount of data through public websites. Our aim here is that we try to provide a way or solution to extract needed data faster, more accurate, with no code and easy to be used for technical users and nun-technical users as well.

Keywords


Visual Web Scraping Tool, RPA, UiPath, data extraction, Web crawling, Dynamic Websites, Robots

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