Posted by EvanDonovan on February 18, 2009 at 6:42pm
We at UrbanMinistry.org would like to create a directory of church mailing addresses, with Google Maps/Earth capability. To facilitate this, we're looking for a Web scraping program that would extract mailing address data from Web sites. Does anyone have any suggestions?
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Try Mozenda to scrape the web
I used mozenda to create the chocolate.org directory. The program was super simple. I harvested data from the yellow pages. but you could use it to harvest data from any site.
I spent a ton of time researching other programs and Mozenda is by far the easiest.
www.mozenda.com
Extract Mailing Address Data
You can try ListGrabber software it helps you to extract mailing addresses from Online Directories like yellow pages directories, white pages directories and enter them into an Excel spreadsheet or any database in a click. Download free trial version from:http://www.egrabber.com/TU4237h97
Octoparse would be a good choice.
I used to scrape the email addresses by following the steps of the tutorial (Check out here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYvvXJ9VO6s). It worked and I got the list of email addresses. You can try their free edition to extract data from websites with simple web struture. It's good for non-programmers and you don't need to write code in most cases.