Webhose.io

excellent service

What do you like best? The immediate response, the feeling that the representatives are really trying to help. What do you dislike? For academic uses, it is more complicated to pay (the credit card option is less relevant) What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? We are examining political representation in Israel, that is, how citizens are being represented among media outlets and politicians. Therefore, we use Webhose in order to cover ...

Saved us thousands over building a custom crawler

What do you like best? The ability to select a website and view the available data for that particular site over time. It was great to just enter a URL and download the data for an entire year! What do you dislike? Took some getting used to previewing the data to ensure it was right before checkout. Recommendations to others considering the product: If you need data in a hurry you can't beat the coverage of this product. What problems are you solving with the product? What ...

Great source of scraped web data, with a really nice API

What do you like best? Terrific source of web data, particularly for early stage product development. We started with Webhose during our MVP, and it's scaled with us. What do you dislike? Lack of social data, occasional duplicate data. Recommendations to others considering the product: Very quick to implement, and a great source of data during development — whether you ultimately replace to add to it, WH is a valuable addition for the cost What problems are you solving with the ...

Data provided by Webhose.io is useful for cyber-security

What do you like best? I did like the fact that it was so easy to integrate our solution, Listening 247, with Webhose.io' provided data. Consultants Yuval and Amir were very prompt to address any issue within a very short time frame. What do you dislike? Our interaction with Webhose.io was smooth and there's nothing I dislike. What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? I have used Webhose.io as a data source for a cyber-security R&D project. ...

Excellent Service

What do you like best? The interface, reliability and ease of use of the APIs and the services What do you dislike? Lack of detailed consumption reports, clack of multiple keys or access token to support tracking of multiple streams or queries Recommendations to others considering the product: Improved consumption reports What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? We are capturing brand image for our clients and webhose has helped us ...

Clean data scraping of web forum and blogs

What do you like best? The api are easy to use and provide full control for language and source selection. It is possible to specify individual domains, though not new ones to my knowledge. The preview feature is fantastic for real time feedback to our clients. Overall, the web interface and the api have been very useful to us in assisting our own clients. So far, Webhose is the cheapest solution for getting this data. What do you dislike? Not possible to add particular domains to be ...

An affordable Meltwater

What do you like best? It's a cheap (at the basic level, free) coverage tool that lets me track most coverage. What do you dislike? Short URLs are a pain if on free version. There are several publications that it doesn't pick up, but it does at least get the majority. Recommendations to others considering the product: You'll need to understand basics of JSON, We find it easier to import directly to the workbook Is also good to have an RSS feed extension so you can be ...

Great customer service

What do you like best? Webhose services help our clients to know if news portals are talking about their businesses or relevant issues. What I like best about Webhose is that the customer service is excelent, if I have a problem they will help me ASAP to resolve it or explain why it is happening and what I can do about it. What do you dislike? When we first start using the service our queries where pretty big, we have a lot of keywords to search and exclude. Then we had to reduce the ...

Great affordable coverage monitoring platform

What do you like best? Webhose is almost unique in that it offers an affordable way of monitoring breaking news stories about my clients. The specific site search / other boolean terms also help make it easier. Yes it's a bit fiddly to use and import the data easily into a Google Sheet / Excel, but overall it's the best value service out there. What do you dislike? Not all publications are covered, but the same is true for all platforms like this, be it Webhose or Meltwater. ...

Variety of Data Available

What do you like best? I was really impressed by the variety of unstructured data available on webhose and the number of legit sources the data was extracted from What do you dislike? The issue of filtering data that you need What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Trying to extract relevant news article for a company to perform sentiment analysis on the company