Introduction
Learn about web scraping and web automation with ScrapeAutomate
What is web scraping & web automation?
Web scraping is getting structured data from websites. For example, if you want to gather all your favorite blogs from a site that doesn’t offer an API, web scraping becomes useful. It enables you to collect data directly from online sources.
And web automation is performing different web actions automatically. It could be filling out a form, searching for something on the internet, or maybe you want to compare prices across different e-commerce websites.
What is ScrapeAutomate?
ScrapeAutomate is a powerful tool that allows you to easily do web scraping and web automation using our API. We provide a headful browser as a service, which you can utilize using the API that we provide.
Using our API, you can perform a ton of actions like searching, form filling, data extraction, taking screenshots, and much more! It’s a super powerful tool that allows you to autonomously perform web automationand web scraping
ScrapeAutomate allows you to save time by automating different tasks. Using it, you can easily monitor stocks, monitorprices for products, use it for SEO keyword research, and much more!
Using ScrapeAutomate, you can automate repetitive tasks, save time, and collect data efficiently without worrying about website restrictions!
Key Features
- Screenshots: Take a screenshot of a website whenever you need.
- Resource Blocking: Block specific types of resources from loading, such as images, videos, stylesheets, etc.
- Advertisement Blocking: Stop ads from showing up in your screenshots or interrupting you when scraping.
- Chat Widgets Blocking: Block annoying support chat widgets from rendering in the UI.
- Cookie Banners Blocking: Avoid cookie banners from preventing you from scraping or automating websites.
- Webhooks: Send results wherever you need using webhooks.
- Premium Proxies: Use premium proxies to avoid getting blocked and scrape without restrictions.
- Geo Location: Use our premium proxies to easily access content that is only available in specific regions.
- Markdown: Get easy-to-use LLM-ready markdown for training and fine-tuning LLM model.
- JavaScript Rendering: Render JavaScript from a website to load dynamic data that normally doesn’t load with traditionally.
With ScrapeAutomate, you get all the tools you need in one place for smooth, uninterrupted scraping. Block ads, cookie banners, and unnecessary resources using premium proxies to ensure high-speed and reliable scraping.
Upcoming Features
- Task Scheduling: Schedule data scraping jobs to run at a specified time.
- Crawling: Use crawlers to extract data from an entire website rather than a single URL at a time.
- If Statements: Use conditional logic to determine whether or not to perform certain actions.