# Sphider Reviews
**Vendor:** Sphider  
**Category:** [Data Extraction Tools](https://www.g2.com/categories/data-extraction-tools)
## About Sphider
Sphider is a popular open-source web spider and search engine. It includes an automated crawler, which can follow links found on a site, and an indexer which builds an index of all the search terms found in the pages. It is written in PHP and uses MySQL as its back end database (requires version 4 or above for both).






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## Sphider Features
**Functionality**
- Diverse Extraction Points
- Data Structuring
- Consolidation
- Data Cleaning
- Cloud Extraction
- Visualization

**Diverse Extraction Points**
- Diverse Extraction Points

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