Choose Data Miner when a ready-made recipe exists for the site you work on, or you want results straight in Google Sheets or TSV. Choose Pulse Extractor when there is no recipe, when you need a full-page capture, text from images, or an editable Word or PowerPoint file, and for occasional work you would rather not meter in page credits.
Side by side
The Data Miner column restates what Data Miner publishes about itself; each statement links to its source. The Pulse column describes Pulse Extractor 0.5.8, the current Chrome Web Store release.
| Data Miner | Pulse Extractor | |
|---|---|---|
| How extraction works | One-click extraction with user-generated recipes for popular sites[1] | Open the page and click Extract Page. No selectors, recipes or robots to build; repeated items are detected whether or not they are a table |
| Output | XLS, CSV, XLSX or TSV, or upload to Google Sheets[2] | A genuine .xlsx workbook with typed cells (several worksheets where the page has several tables), plus CSV and JSON from the same result |
| Free use | 500 page credits a month on the free plan[3] | 20 Page Extractions and 10 Professional Exports a month on the Free plan |
| Scope | Recipes target specific popular websites[1] | One page at a time, when you click. Pulse does not follow next-page buttons, crawl a site or run on a schedule |
| Images, capture, documents | Not described in its listing[4] | Smart Snip reads text and tables inside images, on your own computer, in English, Chinese, Japanese, Russian, German, Spanish, French, Portuguese and Italian, with Arabic and Traditional Chinese in Beta; it also opens PNG, JPEG, WebP and PDF files from your computer. Capture Full Page saves the whole page as one high-resolution PNG or a multi-page PDF (Live in 0.5.8). Editable Word and PowerPoint replicas with real tables, from a snip or a whole result |
What Data Miner says it does
People who extract tables and lists from popular websites using ready-made, community-shared recipes.
- Extracts tables and lists from HTML pages and exports XLS, CSV, XLSX or TSV, or uploads to Google Sheets.[2]
- Offers one-click extraction with user-generated recipes for popular websites.[1]
- Has a free plan with 500 page credits a month; paid plans add more.[3]
- Listed on the Chrome Web Store as "Data Scraper - Easy Web Scraping", version 5.8.103, updated 17 September 2026, with about 300,000 users.[5]
- Does not describe text recognition from images, screenshots, or Word and PowerPoint export.[4]
Choose Data Miner when
- A ready-made recipe already exists for the site you work on
- You want to upload results straight to Google Sheets or Excel formats including TSV
- You value live human support and office hours
Choose Pulse Extractor when
- No recipe exists and you want the page structured without building one
- You need text recognition from images, a full-page capture or editable Word and PowerPoint
- You would rather not count page credits for occasional work
See what Pulse produced on real public pages, with the original files, in the Proof Lab.
Using both
If a recipe already does exactly what you need, use it. Pulse is for the long tail of pages nobody has written a recipe for, and for results that need to leave as a document.
How this comparison was made
We read Data Miner's own public pages and store listing on and restated only what they say, in our own words, with a link to each source. We did not test Data Miner, so its column reports its claims, not our measurements. Products change: check the sources before you decide, and tell us if something here is out of date.
Data Miner (dataminer.io) is a trademark of its owner. Pulse Extractor is a separate product and is not affiliated with, endorsed by or connected to Data Miner.
Questions
Does Pulse use recipes?
No. Pulse detects repeated, comparable items on any page by itself, so there is nothing to find, write or maintain.
How is free use counted?
Data Miner lists 500 page credits a month on its free plan. Pulse Free counts 20 Page Extractions and 10 Professional Exports a month; copying a result never counts.
Is Data Miner the same as "Data Scraper - Easy Web Scraping"?
Yes. That is the name of the Data Miner extension on the Chrome Web Store, published by dataminer.io.
Sources
- Data Miner: Chrome Web Store listing, checked
- Data Miner: Chrome Web Store listing, checked
- Data Miner: dataminer.io/pricing, checked
- Data Miner: Chrome Web Store listing, checked
- Data Miner: Chrome Web Store listing, checked