WebRobot

WebHarvy Alternative in the Cloud for Mac, Teams and Daily Scraping

WebHarvy is a good point-and-click scraper for one person on one Windows PC, sold once from $99. If your scraping has to run every day without a computer left on, works on Macs, or feeds a team's Google Sheet, WebRobot is the better buy: describe the data in a sentence and the robot runs in the cloud and delivers 10,000 records a month for $79.

Run the robot

WebHarvy figures taken from its purchase, download and scheduler pages, USD before tax

Robot console

No account needed Running · s Complete · rows

Or try:

Reads one page, up to 25 rows, usually in under a minute.

Agent log

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Extracted data ·

The page was read, but none of the data you described is on it. Try describing it the way it reads on the page, or another page.

more rows found on this page. Confirm your email to see every row and download the CSV.

Want this data fresh every morning? A plan runs this robot on a schedule, follows Next pages and feeds Sheets and the API.

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Where it runs

The same daily price check on a desktop scraper and a cloud scraper

A job set to run at 6:00 every morning. On a desktop tool the schedule is only as reliable as the PC it lives on. In the cloud nobody has to leave anything switched on.

Illustration with sample numbers. It shows how each tool behaves, not a measured result.

Comparison

WebHarvy vs WebRobot for recurring business scraping

WebHarvy facts come from webharvy.com/buy.html and its user guide. Every license, the upgrade rules and what a year really costs are in our WebHarvy pricing breakdown; our plans are on the WebRobot pricing page.
Dimension WebHarvy WebRobot
What it is Visual point-and-click scraper you install on Windows Hosted robot: paste a URL, describe the data in plain English, it runs on our servers
Where it runs Your Windows PC, or a Windows server you rent on AWS or Azure; Mac only through Boot Camp or Parallels In the cloud; you use it from any browser on Mac, Windows or Chromebook
How you pay Once: $99 single user, $169 to $269 for 2 to 4 users, $699 site license Monthly or yearly: Launch $79 ($39 billed yearly), Scale $249 ($124), Autopilot $699 ($349)
Updates and support 1 year included; after that a paid license upgrade, which must be bought within a year of expiry Included while the plan is active
Scheduling Built-in scheduler on Windows Task Scheduler, from every 5 minutes to monthly; the PC must be on Daily on Launch, hourly with change alerts on Scale, real-time monitors on Autopilot
How you set up a scrape Click the fields on the page; optional LLM step for summaries or hard-to-select data One sentence describing the columns; the robot works out pages, pagination and detail links
When the site changes Configuration may stop matching and needs editing on that PC The robot stores what each field is, not where it sat, and re-locates the fields after a redesign
Logins and forms Yes, plus keyword lists into search forms Yes on Scale and Autopilot (agent actions)
Delivery CSV, JSON, XML, TSV files; direct export to MySQL, SQL Server, PostgreSQL and Oracle Live Google Sheets feed, Excel, CSV, JSON REST API; Slack, Zapier and webhooks on Scale
Where the data lives On your machine only In your workspace on our servers, exported wherever you point it
Done-for-you help No scraping service; detailed setup help for more than 4 websites is paid Self-serve; describe the job and the robot builds it

Fair play

When you should keep WebHarvy

If one of these describes you, a one-time desktop license is the cheaper and simpler choice.

Stay if 01

Occasional one-person jobs

You pull a directory or a product list a few times a year on your own Windows PC. $99 once beats any subscription over two or three years.

Stay if 02

Data must stay on your machine

Compliance or client contracts say the scraped data never leaves your network. WebHarvy keeps everything local; a hosted tool cannot promise that.

Stay if 03

Straight into your SQL database

You want rows written directly into SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL or Oracle with no middle step. WebHarvy exports there natively; we deliver through files, Sheets and the API.

Analyst at a desk reviewing a spreadsheet of scraped rows

Switching triggers

Why teams search for a WebHarvy alternative

  1. 1

    The office moved to Macs. WebHarvy needs Windows, so the scraper ends up on one leftover PC or inside Parallels on one person's laptop.

  2. 2

    The daily run keeps missing. Sleep, restarts for updates and holidays all stop a desktop schedule. The report that should land at 7:00 is still yesterday's.

  3. 3

    The data has to be shared. A CSV on one desktop does not reach the pricing manager or the client. Someone copies it into a sheet by hand every morning.

  4. 4

    Nobody owns the configs. The person who clicked the fields together left. When a site changes its layout, the saved configuration is a file nobody wants to open.

Worked jobs

What three scraping jobs cost on each tool in the first year

WebHarvy math uses the license that covers the people involved. WebRobot math uses the plan whose record allowance covers the job, billed yearly.
Job WebHarvy WebRobot Better buy
A consultant pulls an association member directory four times a year on a Windows laptop Single User $99 once Launch at $468 a year WebHarvy
A pricing team of three on Macs checks 3,000 competitor products every morning into one Google Sheet 3 User $219, plus a Windows PC left on all year or a rented Windows server, plus Parallels for anyone who edits configs on a Mac About 90,000 records a month: Scale at $124 a month billed yearly, with change alerts to Slack WebRobot
An agency refreshes 12 client sites weekly, about 1,500 rows each, delivered to each client Site License $699 if several staff run it, plus the always-on machine and someone to send the files 12 robots, about 78,000 records a month: Scale, each robot delivering to its client's sheet WebHarvy if files on a shared drive are enough; WebRobot if clients expect a live sheet

The honest split is about who depends on the data. A license you pay once is cheapest when you are the only reader and you run it when you remember. Once a team or a client expects fresh rows on a fixed schedule, the hidden cost is the always-on Windows machine and the person who babysits it. That is what a cloud web scraper replaces, and why competitor price monitoring and scraping straight into Google Sheets are the jobs that move first.

Licenses

WebHarvy licenses at a glance

All licenses unlock every feature. The only difference is how many people or computers can run it.

Updates and email support last one year. After that WebHarvy keeps working on the versions you already have, and newer versions need a license upgrade. WebHarvy does not list the upgrade price on its purchase page; it says the upgrade costs a fraction of the original license and must be bought within a year of expiry, or you buy a new license. Paid licenses carry a 15-day money-back guarantee.

Single User

1 user, up to 3 personal PCs, not at the same time

$99

2 User

2 users or computers

$169

3 User

3 users or computers

$219

4 User

4 users or computers

$269

Site License

Unlimited users on company computers

$699

One-time prices, USD, from webharvy.com/buy.html

Shortlist

WebHarvy alternatives and who each one fits

Pick by where the scraper runs and who maintains it. Rows with a write-up link to our verified pricing.

Octoparse

Visual desktop builder with optional cloud runs and templates, closest in feel to WebHarvy.

Subscription, Standard from $69 a month yearly

Octoparse alternative

ParseHub

Free-to-start desktop app with cloud runs on paid plans.

Subscription from $189 a month

ParseHub alternative

Browse AI

Point-and-click monitors on a handful of pages, run in the cloud.

Credits per row

Browse AI pricing

Web Scraper (webscraper.io)

Chrome extension for sitemaps you build yourself, with a paid cloud.

Cloud plans by URL credits

Web Scraper pricing

Apify

Developers who script scrapers and chain actors.

Platform plan plus usage

Apify pricing

WebRobot

Teams that need scheduled, shared data from any site, on any computer, without building configs.

Flat plan from $79 a month, $39 billed yearly

WebRobot pricing

08 · Switching

How to move a WebHarvy job to the cloud in an afternoon

Start with the one scheduled task that misses most often. Keep WebHarvy for anything that has to stay on your machine.

1

Open the old export

Your last CSV is the spec. Its column headers are the fields the robot has to deliver.

2

Describe it in a sentence

"Every product in the Outdoor category with name, price, sale price, stock status and product URL, following all pages."

3

Compare twenty rows

Run it once and check the rows against the WebHarvy export before you switch anything off.

4

Schedule and share

Daily on Launch or hourly with alerts on Scale, delivered to the sheet everyone already reads.

Jobs that used WebHarvy's login and form features move to the web screen scraping tool, and anyone who just wants a list in a spreadsheet can start with the no code web scraper.

FAQ

WebHarvy alternative questions buyers ask

It depends on where the scraper has to run. If you want a visual point-and-click tool on your own Windows PC, Octoparse and ParseHub are the closest desktop matches. If the job has to run every day without a computer left on, on a Mac, or for a team that shares one sheet, a hosted scraper like WebRobot fits better: you describe the data in a sentence and get 10,000 scheduled records a month for $79.

No. WebHarvy is Windows software. Its download page says Mac users need Windows through Boot Camp on Intel Macs or Parallels on Apple silicon. A cloud scraper runs in a browser tab on any Mac, Chromebook or Windows laptop, and the robot itself runs on our servers, so nothing has to be installed or left switched on.

Yes. A single user license is $99 paid once, and multi-user licenses run from $169 for 2 users to $699 for an unlimited site license. Each license includes one year of updates and email support. After that the software keeps working, but newer versions and support need a paid license upgrade bought within a year of expiry.

Only if you rent a Windows server for it. WebHarvy says it can run on an Amazon EC2 Windows instance or on Microsoft Azure, which means you install, license, patch and pay for that server by the hour yourself. A hosted scraper skips that step: the schedule, the browser and the delivery all run on the vendor side.

Yes, through its built-in scheduler, which uses Windows Task Scheduler. Tasks can run hourly, daily, weekly, monthly or every 5 to 30 minutes and export to a file or a database when they finish. The catch is that the Windows machine must be on, awake and logged in at the scheduled time, or the run does not happen.

No. There is a free trial version for evaluation and a 15-day money-back guarantee on paid licenses, but no free plan for ongoing work. WebRobot has no free plan either; the interactive demo shows a robot reading a real page before you pay, and Launch starts at $79 a month or $39 a month billed yearly.

The usual reasons are a team moving to Macs, a daily job that fails whenever the PC sleeps or restarts for updates, a manager who wants the results in a shared Google Sheet instead of a CSV on one desktop, and configurations that break when a site changes its layout and nobody is around to fix them.

Your scraper, without the PC that has to stay on

Describe the data once. The robot runs in the cloud on schedule and delivers 10,000 records a month to your Google Sheet, Excel or API for $79.