Web Scraping With AI

Let’s start with the easy button for web scraping. To do so, let’s install the Chrome extension for Instant Data Scraper, which is good for tabular data on websites: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/instant-data-scraper/ofaokhiedipichpaobibbnahnkdoiiah

Screen shot of Instant Data Scraper Extension on the Chrome Web Store page.

With Instant Data Scraper, just go to the web page you want to scrape. For this exercise, as a business development rep, account executive, or as a job-seeker, let’s say you’re targeting the Inc. 5000 fastest growing companies.

Go to https://www.inc.com/inc5000/2023

You can filter by state or by industry first if you like:

Screen shot of the Inc 5000 web page showing choices to pick which states you want to filter by.

Click the puzzle piece in the upper right of your browser to see your extensions, and click Instant Data Scraper.

If you’re looking to scrape multiple websites with hundreds of prebuilt robots, check out our article on Browse.AI here.

I chose California, then clicked on the Instant Data Scraper extension. Instant Data Scraper asks you how you’d like to download the file: as a .csv, .xlsx, or copy all.

You can now import these accounts in Apollo.IO to start building campaigns. To learn more about Apollo, click this link. Full disclosure – I am a referral partner for Apollo. https://apollo.partnerlinks.io/07p6rzekn1t4