ParseHub features Electron powered desktop app (see video). It also allows to run the built scrapers in cloud.
Once you're familiar with basic web scraping tools like Scrapy, and you've scraped your first 1-2 websites, you'll probably get your first ban because your IP address has made too many requests
I know how this desire to try out a new flashy npm package in a quick project can easily paralyze my will and the whole project's progress over exploring new docs and code. So in this writeup I would like to give appreciation to all the tools and techniques that have proven to be effective for me.