DEiXTo

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DEiXTo
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DEiXTo

• Powerful web data extraction tool
• Freeware GUI tool (built with Turbo Delphi,
  Windows-only)
• Free, cross-platform Command Line Executor (in
  Perl)
• DEiXToBot agent (implemented in Perl)
• W3C Document Object Model (DOM)
• DOM-based extraction rules (wrappers).
• Extracted data can be exported to a wide variety
  of formats (tab delimited, XML, RSS, etc).
• Command Line Executor
• has database support via the Database independent
  interface for Perl
• supports additional formats Excel, CSV,
  OpenDocument Spreadsheet (.ods), HTML

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GUI DEiXTo

• user friendly graphical interface
• enhanced, tree based, extraction rules
• HTML tag filtering
• fast, flexible and high performance tree pattern
  matching algorithm
• regular expression support
• can follow "Next Page" links and submit simple
  forms
• can export results to XML and tab delimited
  formats and create RSS feeds
• XML encoded wrapper project files (.wpf) that can
  be executed at will
• last but not least, it's freeware!

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DEiXTo Command Line Executor (CLE)

• portable, efficient and fast command line
  executor of GUI DEiXTo generated wrappers
• provides options and flexibility that you cannot
  get with GUI DEiXTo
• supports additional output formats such as CSV,
  Excel and OpenDocument Spreadsheet
• provides database support via DBI (the Database
  independent interface for Perl)
• supports HTML output using an HTML template
  processor and an editable template file
• overwrite, append and prepend output modes for
  all supported formats
• can be scheduled to execute wrappers
  automatically (e.g. using cron in GNU/Linux)
• it is free and open source, distributed under the
  GNU General Public License (GPL) Version 3!

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DEiXToBot

• A Mechanize agent (essentially a browser
  emulator) capable of extracting data of interest.
• Flexible and efficient.
• Allows extensive customization.
• Supports multiple patterns on a single page and
  combination of their results.
• Allows post-processing of the extracted data and
  enables you to transform it to any format you
  wish.
• Programming skills required though to utilize it.

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Corgialenios Library use case

• From HTML unstructured data

• To ESE format!

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DEiXTo Services

• We can definitely help you to
• transform the contents of your digital library
  into OAI-PMH or another suitable format
• quickly populate product catalogues with full
  specifications
• search various web resources in real time and
  extract the results returned
• prepare large, focused datasets for scientific
  tasks (i.e. data mining)
• monitor prices of the competition
• ltyour extraction task goes here!gt

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Happy DEiXTo users!

• For further information, please visit
  http//deixto.com