Double-click on the link for Toyota and you will be redirected to the Toyota article in the Page view. Select a random company to get started, say Toyota. If you click on the List view you can see all the URLs and their related companies: Choose the information you want to extract and create your scraper: Traditionally, you’d have to click on each link, then copy and paste the information into an excel spreadsheet, but with the scraper function we’re going to save a lot of time and energy.ģ. Today we will make a report detailing the company information for each of these firms. In the Page view, you will see a list of leading firms by activity. Make sure this address is displayed in the address bar. Scrapers will be saved on your computer then can be reapplied or shared with other users, as desired. Recap: For complex web pages or specific needs, when the automatic data extraction functions (table, list, guess) don’t provide you with exactly what you are looking for, you can extract data manually by creating your own scraper. Geeks, feel free to skip to: Creating a Scraper for Multiple URLs using Regular Expressions.
In the next lesson a more complex scraper utilizing regular expressions will be demonstrated for our tech savvy users.
#MULTIPLE URL EXTRACTOR HOW TO#
In this lesson we’ll learn how to create a scraper which can be applied to a whole list of URLs using a simple method suited for beginners. Now that we’ve learned how to create a scraper for a single URL, let’s try something a little more advanced. The Sraper Editor can now be found in the ‘Scrapers’ view instead of ‘Source’ but the principle remains funamentally the same.
The following can still be a good complement to get acquainted with scrapers. Many more features were included and some controls now have a new name. The Scraper Editor interface has changed a long time ago. This tutorial was created using version 0.8.2. You should run these to discover the Hub.
#MULTIPLE URL EXTRACTOR SERIES#
We have now added a series of built-in tutorials in the application which are accessible from the Help menu. Important Note: The tutorials you will find on this blog may become outdated with new versions of the program.
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