Posts Tagged ‘grab data’

Grab Documents With OutWit Hub

Thursday, September 17th, 2009

In this tutorial we are going to learn how to download all the documents (.pdf, .doc, .xls,…) from a webpage with OutWit Hub.

Important Note: The tutorials you will find on this blog may become outdated with new versions of the program. We have now added a series of built-in tutorials in the application which are accessible from the Help menu.
You should run these to discover the Hub.

On some webpages, you can find links to different kinds of documents. Looking for each link would be really tiring: with OutWit Hub, you can automatically see all the links to documents, the name and extension of those, and download them to your hard-disk (also see OutWit Docs).

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Grab HTML Tables to Excel Spreadsheets

Saturday, July 19th, 2008

Important Note: The tutorials you will find on this blog may become outdated with new versions of the program. We have now added a series of built-in tutorials in the application which are accessible from the Help menu.
You should run these to discover the Hub.

While surfing the Web, you may have come across interesting data that you want to use offline. You then faced the tiresome task of copying and pasting all the information row by row, column by column. OutWit Hub‘s “Data” views can automatically do this for you.

In this tutorial, we are going to learn how to grab structured data from a Web page with the “Table” view and export it to an Excel spreadsheet.

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