Data Miner Review

Data Miner is a browser extension for Chrome and Edge that converts web pages into spreadsheets. Point it at a page, run a recipe — pre-made or your own — and it exports the data as CSV or Excel, with no scraping code to write. It's the same product whether you find it at dataminer.io or by its Chrome Web Store listing name, "Data Scraper - Easy Web Scraping." This review covers what's actually included at each price tier, a real-cost quirk in the plan structure worth knowing before you pay, and what we could and couldn't verify about how it performs.

Verdict at a glance

What kind of tool is Data Miner?

It's a browser-based scraper, not a hosted crawling service. Everything runs inside your own Chrome or Edge session using recipes: saved instructions that tell the extension which elements on a page to pull into a spreadsheet row. Recipes can be pre-made (there's a large public library covering popular sites) or built from scratch with the Easy Finder tool, which lets you click the fields you want rather than write selectors by hand. For cold-outreach and list-building workflows specifically, that means scraping a niche directory or listing site into rows you can clean and feed into an enrichment or sequencing tool downstream.

How it works

Because Data Miner scrapes from inside your live browser tab, it behaves like a person clicking through the page rather than a bot hitting an API — useful on sites that are awkward to scrape headlessly. Auto pagination walks through result pages automatically instead of requiring a click per page, and form filling can populate a search box from a CSV of inputs and capture whatever comes back, which suits repeated lookups (checking a list of company names against a directory, for example). Custom JavaScript recipes and image/snapshot downloads extend it further, though JavaScript recipes and a couple of other features are gated to paid plans.

Data Miner pricing (2026)

The detail worth flagging: the Free and Solo plans share the identical 500-page monthly cap. Upgrading to Solo doesn't buy more scraping volume — it buys access to every domain, custom JavaScript recipes, and the Google Sheets connector. You only get more pages once you move to Small Business at $49/month, which is a real jump for anyone who assumed the $19.99 tier scaled volume. Limits also reset each billing period with no rollover, so unused page allowance doesn't carry forward.

What we could and couldn't verify

Data Miner's Chrome Web Store listing shows 3.9 out of 5 stars from 704 ratings and roughly 300,000 users, which is a meaningful sample size for a browser extension. That's the only independent, quantified signal we could find: we did not locate an active G2 or Trustpilot profile for the product, and no Reddit threads with substantive discussion of the tool surfaced in what's accessible. That means we can report the Chrome Web Store aggregate honestly, but we cannot responsibly attribute specific praise or complaint themes to reviewers — there isn't a public breakdown of what's driving the score up or down. Treat the 3.9/5 as a rough, mixed-to-positive signal rather than a verdict.

Pros and cons

Pros

• No code required for most extraction, thanks to the point-and-click Easy Finder
• Large pre-made recipe library covers many popular sites out of the box
• Runs in your own browser session, so data doesn't pass through a third-party cloud pipeline
• Auto pagination and form filling cover the two most tedious manual scraping tasks
• Free tier is usable enough to test the tool before paying

Cons

• Solo plan's price jump over Free buys features, not volume — easy to misread the pricing page
• Monthly page caps reset with no rollover, which penalizes uneven usage months
• Meaningful volume (4,000–9,000 pages) requires the $99–$200 tiers
• Browser-tab-based scraping is inherently slower and less parallel than a hosted crawler
• No G2 or Trustpilot review base to cross-check the Chrome Web Store rating against

Data Miner alternatives

• Web Scraper — another point-and-click browser extension with a comparable free tier and recipe-sharing community.
• Instant Data Scraper — a simpler, free browser extension aimed at quick single-page and list scraping without an account.
• Octoparse — a hosted, cloud-based scraper with scheduling and IP rotation, suited to higher-volume or unattended jobs Data Miner's browser model doesn't cover.
• Browserflow — browser automation with a similar no-code recipe approach, plus broader workflow automation beyond pure scraping.
• Apify — a developer-oriented, cloud-run scraping platform for teams that outgrow browser-extension limits and want scheduled, API-driven jobs.

Who should use Data Miner — and who shouldn't

Good fit: marketers and list builders scraping directories or listing sites a few hundred to a few thousand pages a month; researchers doing periodic, one-off data pulls; anyone who wants to test scraping a specific site for free before committing to a paid plan.

Poor fit: teams needing continuous, scheduled, or high-volume scraping (thousands of pages daily) — the browser-session model and per-plan page caps make that expensive and slow compared with a hosted crawler; anyone who wants guaranteed uptime or SLA-backed support without negotiating an Enterprise contract.