The web is a vast resource for businesses. The information and data available is vital for business insights and intelligence. But, for many companies, aggregating content from the web to use for reporting, analytics, planning, and growth is time-consuming and expensive. Often, it simply isn’t cost-effective to acquire the information, due to the expensive programming resources needed to write scripts or the time it takes to obtain it manually.
This is unfortunate, because the data is invaluable for businesses to improve their margins, create new products to stay competitive, streamline workflows, and experience the organic growth of their businesses. Thankfully, there is a solution: Import.io’s content aggregator tools allow users to automate the content aggregation and monitoring process, saving time and resources, making it cost-effective and invaluable for business growth.
Content Aggregator Tools: Used by Countless Businesses
Import.io’s content aggregator tools are used by countless companies to gather data that is essential for the growth of their business. The web contains a wide variety of information, which means that countless industries are able to leverage the information obtained by using content aggregators to provide insight. Here are a few real-world examples of how Import.io’s platform is used:
Drive Revenue at Less Cost by Creating Innovative News and Information Products:
• Aggregate financial news from disparate sources to create targeted analysis
• Automate sales intelligence gathering
• Create a database of lawyer profiles
• Build directories of educators
• Monitor news for market-moving events
• Extract and aggregate local news content
• Create high-tech B2B lead lists
• Aggregate physician affiliation data
• Create directories of political influencers
• Monitor and aggregate construction bids
• Aggregate event postings from localities nationwide
Streamline Processes and Recognize Revenue Faster by Automating Reporting in Interactive Advertising:
• Improve accuracy and timelines of ad usage statistics collection
• Obtain reliable, consistent access across diverse ad networks
• Automatically match network data to publisher-level tags and line items
• Aggregate usage daily/hourly to optimize ad spend
• Automate data collection from Flash sites
As you can see, there are many ways to use Import.io’s platform for aggregating content to use for your business. And, our software has many features that streamline your workflow, automate processes, and improve the quality of the extracted information.
Import.io’s Content Aggregators and Extraction Software: Scalable and Easy to Use
Our patented technology is both easier to use, and more precise than manual approaches or scripts. This saves you time, money, and resources. With a built-in management layer, our platform boosts productivity and streamlines workflow. Here are 50 product features that make Import.io the best web data monitoring, extracting, and aggregating solution on the market today:
Precision:
• Patented machine learning algorithms detect and analyze visual clues to precisely extract desired data
• The change detection with highlighting feature sends alerts when website content has changed – and also uses color to highlight the change to let you quickly pinpoint the modification
• Allows viewing and inspection of data during execution to ensure accuracy
Resiliency:
• Machine learning enables “understanding” of the page even when the page changes – just as a human being can still understand the page
• Import.io is highly resilient to changes in web page formats (doesn’t break), greatly reducing the maintenance burden
Efficiency/Light Footprint:
• During Agent training, highly-efficient code is generated automatically
• Final destinations are bookmarked by Agents, bypassing links that are useless, identify unnecessary links, and arriving much faster at desired data
• Navigation is optimized to generate less traffic on target websites
• Supports load balancing
• Our multi-threaded system supports the simultaneous execution of multiple Agents on a single system
• Resource usage is optimized by analyzing runtime clues regarding various intended uses of the data that is extracted
Rapid Deployment/Ease of Use:
• Non-technical staff can train Agents quickly using a simple point-and-click UI that is natural for the user, for ease of use and rapid deployment
• Checkbox interface for selecting precise content to be delivered (only when headline changes, entire story, etc.)
• Supports automatic Agent deployment and load management
Flexible Deployment Options:
• Available on premise or hosted
• On-premise solutions support point-and-click configuration of Agents
• Hosted solutions support transactional deployments using HTTP calls to initiate Agent extraction; extracted data is published to the provider FTP location
• Hosted solutions also support schedule-driven deployment; once extraction is complete, the target data is published to the provider FTP location
• Hosted solutions provide follow-the-sun support
Scalability:
• Proven ability to monitor hundreds of thousands of websites at high frequencies
• Accelerated Agent creation (Smart Agents) for handling certain kinds of data including news
• Supports shared schemes and request lists to support the management of large ongoing projects
• Supports bulk actions and templates for making adjustments in large groups to support thousands of subscriptions
Breadth of Coverage:
• Extracts data from a variety of Web sources/ formats including HTML, les, images, text, PDF, Java and AJAX; solutions for extracting data from Flash are also available
• Form submissions automated generating dynamic content
• Automates log on to password-protected sites (including multiple user names and passwords)
• Automates fee-per-name searches
• Enhanced delivery and monitoring of images
• Follows detail links and “Next” pages to extract additional content
• Supports data extraction from RSS feeds including automatic detail content extraction from hyperlinks
• Language agnostic – Import.io customers are extracting data in scores of different languages today from websites around
the world
Data Input, Transformation and Delivery:
• Provides templates for creating regular expressions to cleanse and transform data into the desired format
• Drop-down menus for parameter passing
• Data transformation to structured format
XML, Excel, CSV, HTML
• Multiple delivery methods (email, le, database)
• Easily delivers same extracted data to multiple database tables
• Comprehensive capabilities to transform data
Management Layer / Workflow Support:
• Built-in options for flexible tracking and collection of historical data
• Web services APIs support smooth integration with applications and the ability to have software programs configure Agents
• Job scheduling capabilities make it easier to manage the execution of hundreds of thousands of Agents
• Generates alerts when target websites do not deliver data
• Generates alerts when delivered data is out of bounds of predefined profiles
• Supports the ability for many people to use the same Agent (or program) for vastly different purposes
• Allows individual data users (subscribers) to customize the use of an Agent for their specific purposes
• Facilitates coordination between teams to streamline workflows
• Provides advanced, automated job scheduling
• Supports migration of Agents and subscriptions among systems
Additional Capabilities:
• Supports text analysis via third-party
products
• Supports “voice of the customer” for market research via third-party products
• Monitors and extracts from infinite scroll data sources
Import.io: The Best Content Aggregator Platform Across Industries
Import.io is the best content aggregator and content extractor platform available. Our unique, machine-learning software will provide you with the much-needed resources you need to bring your business to the next level. The information obtained using our content aggregators will allow you to stay ahead of the competition, track pricing, gather intelligence, and expand your business.
