ProfileSpider
Choose ProfileSpider if you want to extract leads, profiles, and companies from websites, save them into organized lists, add tags and notes, find emails where available, and export clean lead files.
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ProfileSpider vs Data Miner
Compare ProfileSpider and Data Miner for lead extraction, scraping workflows, exports, pricing, privacy, list management, and when each tool fits best.
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Quick verdict
In Two Sentences
Choose ProfileSpider if your goal is to turn websites into structured lead lists with profiles, companies, tags, notes, email finding, and CSV/Excel/JSON export. Choose Data Miner if you need a more traditional scraper with recipes, custom extraction rules, pagination, URL crawling, and spreadsheet export.
The split is simple: ProfileSpider is lead-list-first. Data Miner is scraper-recipe-first.
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Best For
Choose ProfileSpider
A browser-based AI lead extraction tool for turning public web pages into organized lead lists.
Best for
- Lead generation and prospecting
- Recruiting and profile sourcing
- Company team pages and directories
- Extracting people, companies, and profile data
- Saving leads to lists with tags and notes
- Email finding and enrichment workflows
- CSV, Excel, and JSON export
Choose Data Miner
A browser scraper for extracting web page data with recipes, custom rules, crawling, pagination, and spreadsheet export.
Best for
- Generic web scraping tasks
- Users who want pre-made scraping recipes
- Custom extraction rules
- Pagination and multi-page scraping
- Crawling a list of URLs
- Exporting tables and lists to spreadsheets
- Users comfortable tuning scraper rules
Features
Feature Comparison
At-a-glance differences between lead extraction and recipe-based web scraping.
| Feature | ProfileSpider | Data Miner |
|---|---|---|
| Primary form factor | Chrome extension for lead extraction | Chrome and Edge extension for web scraping |
| Main workflow | Extract leads from a page, save to list, enrich, export | Choose or create a scraping recipe, crawl pages, export |
| Works on public web pages | ||
| AI structured lead extraction | Rules and recipes | |
| Pre-made scraping recipes | ||
| Custom extraction rules | Minimal setup / AI-led | |
| Saved lead lists | ||
| Tags and notes | ||
| Email finding workflow | Regex email extraction from pages | |
| Pagination support | Page-by-page workflow | |
| Crawl list of URLs | ||
| Export to CSV | ||
| Export to Excel | ||
| Export to JSON | ||
| Upload to Google Sheets |
Pricing
Pricing & Credits
Directional comparison only. Check each vendor’s current pricing page before deciding.
| Feature | ProfileSpider | Data Miner |
|---|---|---|
| Entry plan | Free plan available, plus paid Starter / Pro / Power plans | Free starter subscription plan |
| How credits work | 1 page scrape = 1 credit | Page credits; free starter plan includes 500 free page credits per month |
| Best value model | Better when one page contains many profiles or companies | Better when you need scraper recipes, crawling, and spreadsheet output |
| Paid scale | Higher plans increase available credits and profile limits per page | Paid plans add more features and capacity |
| Top-up credits | Available | Check Data Miner pricing |
ProfileSpider charges by page scrape, not by extracted row. Data Miner also uses page credits, but its product model is centered on scraping recipes and crawling.
Data & privacy
Data Ownership & Privacy
Both tools are browser-based, but they organize data differently.
| Feature | ProfileSpider | Data Miner |
|---|---|---|
| Browser-based extraction | ||
| Saved extracted data | Stored locally in your browser lists | Exported to spreadsheet / uploaded to supported destinations |
| Built-in lead list organization | Lists, tags, notes | |
| Export and keep your data | ||
| Best suited for long-term lead list building |
Workflow
Workflow Comparison
What building the same list feels like in each tool.
ProfileSpider
- Open a directory, team page, profile list, or search result in Chrome
- Click the ProfileSpider extension
- Extract structured people, company, and profile fields
- Save rows to a list
- Add tags, notes, or run email finding where useful
- Export as CSV, Excel, or JSON
Best when the output should become a lead list you keep working with.
Data Miner
- Open the source page in Chrome or Edge
- Choose a pre-made recipe or create a custom extraction rule
- Tune the selected fields if needed
- Run the scrape on one page or multiple pages
- Use pagination, URL crawling, or form filling if needed
- Export to CSV, XLS, XLSX, TSV, Excel, or Google Sheets
Best when you need a configurable scraping workflow and spreadsheet output.
Decision
When to Choose Each
The clearest split: lead workflow vs configurable scraper workflow.
Data Miner
Choose Data Miner if you want a configurable browser scraper with recipes, CSS-style extraction rules, pagination, URL crawling, form filling, and spreadsheet-oriented exports.
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Questions About Choosing
Is Data Miner the same type of tool as ProfileSpider?
No. They overlap as browser-based scraping tools, but ProfileSpider is lead-list-focused while Data Miner is a broader web scraping tool based on recipes, rules, crawling, and spreadsheet exports.
Which one is better for lead generation?
ProfileSpider is usually the better fit when the goal is building lead lists with people, companies, profile links, tags, notes, email finding, and export. Data Miner can collect lead-related data too, but it is not primarily a lead list manager.
Which one is better for generic web scraping?
Data Miner is stronger for traditional scraping workflows where you want recipes, custom extraction rules, pagination, crawling, and spreadsheet output.
Can both export to Excel?
Yes. ProfileSpider exports to CSV, Excel, and JSON. Data Miner exports to spreadsheet formats including CSV, XLS, XLSX, and TSV.
Does ProfileSpider charge per extracted row?
No. ProfileSpider uses page-based credits: one page scrape uses one credit.
Can Data Miner find emails?
Data Miner can extract emails from pages using regex when the emails are present in the page data. ProfileSpider has a separate email-finding workflow for lead lists where available.