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AlternativeTo Scraper 🚀🌿📊

The AlternativeTo Scraper is a fast, reliable, and scalable automation tool designed to extract structured software data directly from AlternativeTo listings.

It transforms raw software listings into clean, structured datasets ready for SaaS research, competitor analysis, trend discovery, and data-driven applications.

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AlternativeTo Scraper 🧠📊💻

This scraper automatically extracts structured software listings from AlternativeTo based on search, browse, or category URLs.

Ideal for SaaS founders, analysts, developers, and market researchers.

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🎯 What This Scraper Does

Simply provide one or multiple AlternativeTo URLs and the number of items to extract, and the scraper will automatically collect structured software data.

✅ Extracts software listings from AlternativeTo

✅ Supports search and category/tag pages

✅ Handles pagination automatically

✅ Respects maxitems per URL limits

✅ Cleans and structures software data

✅ Captures license, platforms, and metadata

✅ Collects popularity metrics (likes)

✅ Ready for analytics and integrations

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📊 Data Extracted

💻 Software Fields

Field	Description
🏷 name	Software / tool name
📝 description	Short description
⚖️ license	License type (Free, Open Source, Commercial, etc.)
💻 platforms	Supported platforms (Windows, Mac, Linux, Web, etc.)
🧩 appTypes	Application type (Web App, SaaS, Desktop, etc.)
🌍 origin	Country or origin (if available)
👍 likes	Popularity metric on AlternativeTo
🔄 alternativesCount	Number of listed alternatives
🖼 iconUrl	Software icon URL
🔗 itemUrl	Direct AlternativeTo page URL

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🛠 How to Use

1️⃣ Configure Input

Provide one or multiple AlternativeTo URLs:

{
  "keyword": ["pizza"],
  "maxitems": 100
}

2️⃣ Run the Actor

The scraper will:

• Open search or category pages

• Automatically paginate results

• Extract software listings

• Collect metadata (license, platforms, likes)

• Structure and clean the dataset

• Stop when maxitems limit is reached

3️⃣ Export the Dataset

Download your results in multiple formats:

✅ JSON

✅ CSV

✅ Excel

✅ XML

✅ HTML

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⚙️ Input Configuration

📥 Input Example

{
  "urls": [
    "https://alternativeto.net/browse/all/?tag=ai-image-generator"
  ],
  "maxitems_per_url": 50
}

Input Fields

Field	Type	Description
urls	array	List of AlternativeTo search or browse URLs
maxitems_per_url	integer	Maximum number of items per URL

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📤 Output Example

{
  "name": "Image To Video",
  "description": "AI-powered tool that converts images into dynamic videos.",
  "itemUrl": "https://alternativeto.net/software/free-image-to-video-ai/about/",
  "iconUrl": "https://img.alternativeto.net/icons/example.png",
  "likes": 0,
  "license": "Free",
  "platforms": ["Online"],
  "appTypes": [],
  "origin": "N/A",
  "alternativesCount": 1
}

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📊 Output explanation

Field	Description
id	Recipe ID
title	Recipe title
url	Recipe link
image_url	Recipe image
rating	Rating score
rating_count	Number of reviews
category	Recipe category

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🌍 Why Use This Scraper?

📊 SaaS Market Intelligence — Map software ecosystems

🏆 Competitor Discovery — Identify competing tools

⭐ Popularity Insights — Analyze trending software

🆓 Open Source Research — Filter free & OSS tools

🔄 Automation — Schedule recurring extractions

🤖 AI & Data — Build structured datasets

⚡ Scalable — Designed for high-volume scraping

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⚠️ Disclaimer

This tool is an independent solution and is not affiliated with or endorsed by AlternativeTo.

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💸 Pricing

This scraper runs on a pay per events subscription model.

You only pay for successful runs.

💳 Price: $3.49 / 1000 results

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