Optimus Desktop (Legacy)

The legacy version of Optimus Desktop has been deprecated and removed. We will be releasing a new and updated Optimus Desktop version in Q3 2023.

Optimus Mine is a data pipeline & web-scraping application. It can extract structured data from a multitude of different sources such as websites, APIs or databases and store it in either a local file, a cloud storage provider such as Amazon S3 or Google Cloud Storage or a database.

It can be used for a wide array of applications such as scraping websites or simply transforming & warehousing data from multiple sources.

Getting Started

Parsing Data

Learn how to configure Optimus Mine to parse & transform data into a structured format using a schema.

Topic Description
Parsing Basics Start here to learn about Optimus Mine’s schema format.
CSV Parse CSV data.
JavaScript Create your own custom parsers using JavaScript.
JSON Parse JSON data.
RegEx Parse data using regular expressions.
XPath Parse HTML & XML documents using XPath.

Manipulating Data

Learn how to configure Optimus Mine to manipulate, format & sanitise data using filters.

Topic Description
Filters Basics Start here to learn about Optimus Mine’s filters.
Arrays Manipulate arrays.
Strings Manipulate & format strings of data.
URLs Manipulate URLs.

Full configuration syntax reference guide

Read the configuration reference