Software Advice

⭐ Do you need high-volume scraping or bulk mode for reviews? Please try canadesk/capterra-software-advice instead! ## Features - Get Categories Returns Software Advice's categories hierarchy. Useful to identify which Category keyword to use. - Get Products Returns all products for all categories up to the Maximum Input. Setting high maximum values for the number of results and categories will trigger a very long job, likely to be blocked at some point. In case that happens, use the From [i] Input to continue the process from where it stops (indicated in the logs as "[i] is.."). - Get Products by Category You must set a Category keyword. All products belonging to a Category with that keyword will be returned. For example, if you set "accounting", the process will return products from Accounting Practice Management, Call Accounting, Nonprofit Accounting Software, etc. - Get Reviews First, the process "Get Search Results" runs and takes the first result as input. Returns customers' reviews for the given software. 🛑 It is highly recommended to use your own cookies. Install any Cookie manager, then navigate to SoftwareAdvice and set the Input "Cookie" to the exported value. The LD_UserID cookie may also be enough: "LD_UserID={your_value}". 🔎 This actor is limited to 500 reviews per ruin. Use canadesk/capterra-software-advice for more. 💡 "Legacy" relies on the older SoftwareAdvice engine. You can still use it for data up to September 2024. - Get Statistics First, the process "Get Search Results" runs and takes the first result as input. Returns statistics about the software customers (industry/rating distribution). - Get Search Results Returns search results from Software Advice database. This is useful to know which term comes first. ## About Duplicates One product can be linked to multiple categories, leading to duplicates. You can clean up the data with a simple filter() in your code (e.g., JS): result = result.filter((arr, index, self) => index === self.findIndex((t) => (t.productUri === arr.productUri))); ## How it works. 1. Enter the Software name (Get Reviews, Get Statistics). 2. Select a process to run (e.g., Get Reviews). 3. Set optional Input values and crawler settings. 4. Run it! 🎉 Note: All processes return raw data. ## Support Always use a proxy, and wait between requests! Open a new issue or contact support. Cheers!