Data Scraper Chrome Extension Analysis
Web Scraping & Data ExtractionStore listing title: Data Scraper - Easy Web Scraping
Chrome extension ID: nndknepjnldbdbepjfgmncbggmopgden
A browser extension that allows users to scrape tables and lists from web pages into CSV, XLS, XLSX, or TSV formats. It supports automated paginated crawling, regex-based email extraction, and international language support.
Overview
Installs
300K+
Rating
★ 3.9
704 reviews
Languages
1 locales
Includes English (United States)
Market analysis
Review-backed positioning, friction, and market signals for this Chrome extension.
Macro category
Web Scraping & Data Extraction
Pricing friction
Moderate review signal
Complaint intensity
Moderate review signal
Listing positioning
The product positions itself as an easy-to-use tool for extracting HTML data into Microsoft Excel or Google Sheets. It emphasizes a massive library of over 1 million user-generated 'recipes' and a free starter plan to lower the barrier to entry.
Inferred product pattern
A recipe-driven scraper that uses a low-friction free tier to attract users but gates high-value targets and advanced crawling features behind expensive subscriptions.
Review-backed pain points
Users report that the free plan is misleading as it does not work on popular websites or for detail page crawls. There is significant frustration regarding the requirement for JQuery knowledge and a lack of comprehensive documentation.
Observed feature gaps
Lack of XPath support (uses JQuery), insufficient documentation for beginners, and difficulty handling pages with inconsistent HTML structures.
- Sales professionals
- Lead generation companies
- E-commerce distributors
- Recruiters
- Data scientists
- Marketing professionals
- Growth hackers
- Lead contact information collection
- E-commerce price and review analysis
- Job database scraping
- Academic data mining
- Social media sentiment analysis
- Clean user interface
- Historically useful for academic research
- Restrictive free tier limitations
- Steep learning curve for non-technical users
- Poor customer support responsiveness
- Mandatory account authorization
- Free-tier complaints detected
- Performance complaints detected
- Privacy complaints detected
- Users describe a 'bait and switch' experience where popular sites (e.g., Zillow, Yelp, LinkedIn) are gated behind paid plans despite claims of a free starter tier.
Support
Reports of poor customer service, including unanswered phone calls and auto-responder emails that do not address specific questions.
Reliability
Complaints regarding the tool's inability to handle websites with slight code variations between pages, leading to inconsistent data extraction.
Privacy
Users expressed concern and 'red flags' regarding the requirement to provide Google account information upon installation.
- Free entry with paid features
- Account required for core usage
- Limited free usage observed
Store listing facts
- Screenshots: 4
- Videos: 1
- Languages: 1
- Privacy policy
- Developer contact
- Official website
- Version: 5.8.102
- Size: 6.73MiB
- Last updated:
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