Diggernaut – Turn website content into data sets
Web scraping is just became easy. Extract any website content and turn it into datasets. No programming skills required.
Diggernaut – Turn website content into data sets launched on October 15, 2016 with 49 votes, #1,521 of 3,690 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 10 years on.
In plain words
Diggernaut is a cloud-based web scraping service that extracts content from websites and converts it into structured datasets without requiring programming skills. Users create automated "diggers" to pull data from websites, normalize it, and download results in CSV, XLS, or JSON formats, or access it via REST API. The service is designed for resellers and businesses that need to retrieve supplier data from websites in a usable format.
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From the sources
Diggernaut is a cloud-based service for web scraping, data extraction, and other ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) tasks. If you are a reseller of goods and your supplier does not let you have their data in a suitable format, such as Excel or CSV, you are forced to retrieve data from their website manually. All you need to do is to create a digger, a tiny robot that can do web scraping on your behalf and extract data from websites for you, normalize it and save data to the cloud. Once it’s done, you can download it in CSV, XLS, JSON format or even retrieve it using our Rest API. If you don’t have any programming skills, you can use our Visual Extractor tool to build configuration for your…from diggernaut.com
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