Every statement about another product restates what that product publishes about itself, links to the source and shows the date we checked it. We do not call other tools bad, and every comparison says when to choose the other tool. Pulse facts describe the current Chrome Web Store release, 0.5.8; anything newer is labelled.
Which tool for which job
| Your job | A good fit |
|---|---|
| A quick picture of a whole page | A dedicated capture extension (GoFullPage, FireShot, FullPage Screenshot), or Pulse Capture Full Page |
| Screenshots of every page of a site, or of a list of URLs | FullPage Screenshot (whole site from a sitemap) or FireShot (URL lists, all tabs) |
| A screen recording as well as screenshots | Awesome Screenshot |
| A clean HTML table into Google Sheets or the clipboard | Table Capture |
| A free list scrape that follows next-page buttons | Instant Data Scraper |
| A reusable scraper across many pages of a site | Web Scraper, or Data Miner where a recipe exists |
| The same data collected on a schedule | Browse AI or Octoparse, or the site's own export or API |
| The page you are viewing, now, as an Excel workbook | Pulse Extract Page |
| Text or a table inside an image, as editable text or Excel | Pulse Smart Snip |
| An editable Word or PowerPoint version of a page or region | Pulse |
| A sourced profile of the company behind a page | Pulse Research |
Buyer's guides
Chrome extensions that copy website tables to Excel, compared
Table Capture, Instant Data Scraper, Web Scraper, Data Miner and Pulse Extractor compared for getting website tables into Excel, with sources and dates.
Full-page screenshot extensions for Chrome, compared
GoFullPage, FireShot, Awesome Screenshot, FullPage Screenshot and Pulse Extractor compared for capturing whole webpages, with sources and check dates.
The comparisons
Screenshot and capture tools
GoFullPage vs Pulse Extractor
People who want a fast, reliable full-page screenshot of the page in front of them, with light editing.
FireShot vs Pulse Extractor
People who capture pages often and want many destinations (PDF with links, images, email, print, OneNote) and batch capture.
FullPage Screenshot (fullpagescreenshot.eu) vs Pulse Extractor
QA, design, marketing and compliance teams who capture and mark up many pages and want whole-site screenshot exports.
Awesome Screenshot vs Pulse Extractor
People who capture and record their screen to explain something: bug reports, demos, tutorials and quick shared links.
Web data, table and scraping tools
Browse AI vs Pulse Extractor
Teams that need the same data collected from websites repeatedly, on a schedule, kept current and sent to other tools.
Table Capture vs Pulse Extractor
People who regularly copy HTML tables from websites into Excel, Google Sheets or Office 365.
Instant Data Scraper vs Pulse Extractor
People who want a free, one-click way to pull list-like data from a page, including through pagination and infinite scroll.
Web Scraper (webscraper.io) vs Pulse Extractor
People who will set up a reusable scraper once and run it across many pages of a site, locally or in the cloud.
Data Miner (dataminer.io) vs Pulse Extractor
People who extract tables and lists from popular websites using ready-made, community-shared recipes.
Octoparse vs Pulse Extractor
Teams that build no-code scrapers for recurring, larger jobs and want them to run in the cloud on a schedule.
Want to see what Pulse actually produces before you compare? The Proof Lab publishes real runs on public pages, with the original files. For Pulse's capabilities and limits in one place, see the product facts.