Hexomatic

Pros

It is very affordable and extremely versatile.Huge number of specific and general uses for a business. Any one of them would make this product worth buying.

Cons

I'm an early user and some things are still a little glitchy. They could relabel a couple of workflows. Warning and problems are not always identified properly with pop-ups, emails, etc. but their support is willing to acknowledge it's not perfect, and within the few weeks I've used it I have seen them implement fixes and updates.

Alternatives Considered

Reasons for Switching to Hexomatic

Pros

Hexomatic is a fantastic tool for those looking for quality, precision, and reliable results. I've been using them for a few years now and I've never had an issue with any of the tools. They work great, last a long time, and are easy to use. Highly recommended!

Cons

The only downside I've experienced with Hexomatic tools is that they're quite expensive compared to other brands. If you're on a tight budget, you may want to look for a different tool brand.

Pros

I thought the product includes all in one features and perfect for me. However, I could not find results as expected in website scraping and automations.

Cons

Scraping data from website cannot do in protected sites. It can only scrape the data in the view.
The tutorials are not helpful for beginner. I regret that I purchased annual subscription without testing well. Now, I need to find another alternative to use.
If there is no data or result in scraping, credits are still cut for no reason. It is not worth to pay at all.

Pros

I love the email address validation and data scraping. This saves me a ton of time and money verifying email addresses through other paid monthly services. The remove duplicates from spreadsheets is nice as well as it saves me the trouble of having to research and figure out those dumb excel spreadsheet formulas lol

Cons

It did have trouble mining an important url I needed scraped. However, where there is a will there's a way, and I found an alternative method to get the data I needed. But they work on almost everything.

Pros

I really like the WYSIWYG approach to scraping.
Credit use is inexpensive compared to the same ops in Zapier or Integromat/Make for instance.

Cons

There is very little documentation and tutorials.
Thankfully, support is hyper responsive.
I don't like that you can't have more than one action of the same type and that you can't transform more than one "source" of data.
It only makes quite "static" workflows for now where each subsequent action only applies to one previous field.
It makes sense for a tabular export but no so much when you plan to consume the data through a webhook/api combo to automate further.

Pros

It a good tool with lots of advantages. You have a tool for almost all the utilities a business needs.

Cons

All related to pricings are tricky.
There's allways an upsale on your way to the app.
There's always lifetime deals available.
Always it's just 3 days until the deal is done.
Always need to pay more.

There's not prepaid options for premium credit usage. You can only pay monthly suscription and if your credits ends, you can't pay for more, you need to upscale your plan to a expensier one.
You can not even use your own OpenAI API, you need to use premium credits for this.

I've a lifetime deal on this tool and on Hexospark and '´ve never will use hexospark cause the limitations and the crazy pricings there.
And the tool is not even close to what instantly.io or other tools can do.

I've bought it because FOMO but I feel I wasted my money just for not knowing there's a lot of better and cheaper options.

Pros

In analogy, is like being a mechanic and fix a car just with 1 tool with +40 functions. Great product for Marketers, Market researchers, SEO experts, etc.

Cons

It is confusing how much credits you'll spend on each task

Pros

There is one thing to have a great product, another thing to have over-the-top customer support. Support is part of the product we buy, so I got to mention it. Their support gets back to you with proper information, and if you report a bug, they work on it to solve and get back to you. They like never close the ticket until it is properly solved and beyond. Quick turn around as well. (Not immediate, but it is fast like solving a bug in 1 day in reporting.)

Product itself is fairly easy to use, as no-code checks out. I took Java 101 twice in University and can't code for the life of me.

Cons

The User interface is OKAY. It's not exciting, but it doesn't suck either. Some buttons I wish were bigger and easier to find (like copy a workflow.)
Sometimes the workflow gets stuck at a step for days, may have to manually pause and resume to get it working. Hope this improves though. I'm an early adopter so I am expecting some imperfections.

Pros

Love the Ui, love the automations, long, complex workflows can be created easily and the data they output is almost always perfect. I just set the scrape up, and come back later to find everything done.

Cons

Sometimes workflows don't work. Usually, this is because of CAPTCHA. Hexomatic provide their own, premium (paid) proxies, to combat this, but they don't allow you the option to use your own. Feels like a bit of a money grab.

Pros

I'm using Hexomatic since several months and I'm discovering every days some futures. I use for the image, for scraping email and many other thing, I think it's a great project.

Cons

Yes, I think that the plans are too complex, if you want to scrape more it's a little bit expensive

Pros

Hexomatic has set out to become a fairly unique tool combining an ever-growing number of integrations with other tools with workflow creation and management in order to automate your common business processes. It's easy to use and just as easy to monitor your usage in near real-time which is also a big boon.

Cons

The only thing missing for me, at the moment, is a more advanced API so that data can flow in and out of the workflows more easily. There is a data import and a Google Sheets import feature plus Webhooks for the data output and so workarounds do exist to help for now.

Pros

I wish I could have more time to explore all the features they offer, actually when I asked for more time they gently gave me more 5 days of the SIlver plan as a trial. The customer service is awesome and helped quickly. You have guides and tutorials for almost everything, in a few you'll get used to the tool. Give a try and see if feet your needs!

Cons

Even though the tool is very intuitive and also offers a lot of guides and tutorials, you need some time to get used to it.

Alternatives Considered

Pros

Hexomatic is fast and easy to use. Scraping data has probably never been so easy - especially without any coding knowledge. In addition, the tool offers a lot of possibilities beyond scraping, not least thanks to the integrated automations.
The development of Hexomatic is progressing very fast. You can literally watch the tool grow. In short time intervals new really great automations are added, existing functions are constantly improved and also the scraping engine performs more and more.
Also worth mentioning is the product support - fast, reliable and persistent. Every problem and every question is solved within the shortest time in a friendly and competent way.
The whole team communicates very openly with the users. Feature requests and suggestions for improvement are very well received and usually find their way into the tool shortly thereafter.

All in all, a short summary:
Great tool with a great team behind it!
Absolutely recommendable.

Cons

Unfortunately, very extensive scraping jobs occasionally stop in the middle of the run and also get stuck at the corresponding point when restarted. In this case, the job has to be broken down into several smaller tasks.
The scraping engine still can't handle all the websites I would like to scrap (depending on the technology behind it and the respective structure), but there are more and more.
With both criticisms, one must not forget that the tool is still a very young product in the beta phase that is developing and improving very quickly.
Even at this point, Hexomatic has really already become my most important tool in data scraping.

Pros

I am using Hexomatic for my company needs and, as we need to reach various pages behind different technologies, we use automations and a super proxy that can handle all the requests without hustle. We have already tested similar solutions but Hexomatic offers the best one. With one workflow I managed to get Google search results, scrape the email addresses of these URLs, get SEO meta tags and even Tech Stack. Satisfied with the results.

Cons

At first there were not so many tutorials about how to use automations or create recipes, but now there are even video tutorials. So it leaves no room for complaint.

Pros

Hexomatic provides an easy to implement web site data retrieval mechanism (site scraper) which is backed up by an outstanding customer service team. Scraping web data is infinitely variable and historically tedious to to make robust and reliable enough to leverage within any critical business processes; Hexomatic resolves those issues. The video guides are exceptionally helpful in seeing how Hexomatic can solve real-world problems - and they're just the right length and level of detail!

Cons

As fairly new software there are some features which are evolving into maturity, and some which are difficult to see / understand at first click of the mouse. All of these have been overcome by the excellent customer service team.

Pros

I liked its visual scraping browser allowing me to visually select elements I want to scrape instead of using code. I also liked that it's in the cloud so it's not dependent on my machine or IP address. What I liked most about it is that it's multi use, if there's a type of data you could collect by scraping chances are you can do it with Hexomatic, negating the need for multiple tools.

Cons

Every time i wanted to scrape a new search URL from the same site I had to go through the creation process over and over even though the elements I wanted to scrape were exactly the same. It would save time if this software was a little bit smarter in order to create the optimal no code workflow. In workflow creation you have the option to duplicate workflows instead of creating new workflows from scratch but it's buggy enough that i find it unusable for my intended purpose of replicating workflows and changing the starting points.

Pros

I love great UI and support. They are superb!

Cons

Not enough built-in automations, many good services cost premium credits. It is not bad, would love to buy one time premium codes in bulk discounts too.

Pros

The point and click nature of Hexomatic makes it very easy to use compared to some other automation tools which require coding skills. The ability create your own scraping recipes and then string them together in automated workflows makes this a really powerful and flexible toolset. When I first started using Hexomatic I got stuck a few times and reached out to their online support team who responded quickly and were very helpful.

Cons

Not many that I've found at this point. One improvement I'd like to see is the ability to clone existing recipes. Hexomatic is currently still in Beta and the public roadmap outlining impending enhancements looks really promising.

Pros

What I liked the most is that it comes with pre built recipes for the most common needs, such as Google Map scraping.

Cons

I didn't like that several recipes require premium credits, not included in the plan. What is worse is that a simple Google search uses premium credits. I understand having to pay premium credits for third party enrichers (like email finding).

Pros

Top down leadership shows in this company.
The CO is very engaged in customer service on Facebook and helps customers if needed and this style shows why the company is great and its valued. He just engages the community alot.
Go to their support if you need product help. ;)

The software is great because it works with their other offerings as well. Easy to use. Fast support.

Cons

No cons yet. Newer user. Impressed so far.

Pros

All he workflows mostly " Competitor research from a list of domains"

Cons

About the credit system and the result value limitation which is only 700

Pros

Web Scraping tool for non-code people. I used to hire people to do the job for me. But now I can do it myself plus it is all in my control. I can test and try don't bothering people/

Cons

Many minor issue should be addressed. Hope they can give user a feature request board to make suggestions and make the app better.

Pros

Data Extraction features - though could be more efficient.

Cons

Whenever there is a 'wall', the only option is to.... give up (or try something else!)

Pros

Ongoing development and excellent client support

Cons

Not all functionalities are self explaining

Pros

The data scraping feature is by far my most favorite part of this tool. I used it to scrape data from 16 pages that would have taken me at least 4 hours. It did it in less than 5 minutes.

Cons

It took some time to understand how to do the advanced scraping with pagination but support quickly gave me the answers. But once you figure things out it's smooth sailing from there.