[unsettledtck]

Full disclosure, I work for Scrapinghub and the web UI you speak of is Portia - our open source visual web scraper. It's for those who range from non-technical to technical but want a quick way to scrape data. I think it's extremely important to develop tools to democratize the acquisition of data regardless of technical background and skill. Glad you find the article and tool interesting!

[ecthiender]

Yes, totally agree with you on the great potential of tools for easy data acquisition.

I have personally used Scrapy in the past, I find it to be a great tool.

Congratulations on your work!

[unsettledtck]

Thank you. Glad you enjoy Scrapy, we're pretty fond of it ourselves!