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Grepsr Browser Extensions
A do-it-yourself free web scraping tool for your
on-the-go data extraction needs
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Data ingestion process
Pull live website’s data in seconds
Streamline extractions to match your timelines
Delivery integrations to automate your workflows
Extract data from simple, well-structured websites with our browser extension’s unique point-and-click functionality.
Works seamlessly on Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge and Safari browsers currently.
Scrape any simple website on-the-go
Browser Extension
1, 000 records per month
500 records per run
5 on-demand run per month
3 reports per month
Monthly scheduling
Data delivery & alerts
API access
30 days data retention
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Basic Plan
$50 /moBilled monthly
150, 000 records per month
Unlimited records per run
30 on-demand run per month
60 reports per month
Daily scheduling
60 days data retention
Advanced Plan
1, 000, 000 records per month
100 on-demand run per month
200 reports per month
90 days data retention
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Free
$0
Forever
$50/mo
Billed quaterly
$250/mo
Billed monthly
Records per month
1000
150, 000
1, 000, 000
Records per run
500
Unlimited
On-demand runs per month
5
30
100
Number of reports per month
3
60
200
Report scheduling
Daily
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Yes
Data retention
30 days
60 days
90 days
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Professionally Managed Service
Not all websites are well-structured, and therefore easy to scrape. If our browser extension doesn’t quite cut it for you, our Concierge service has you covered!
Contact us with your use-case, and we’ll take over the data acquisition so you can focus on other important aspects of your business.
Just share your project specifications with us, and our expert team will get to work. We’ll also deliver and integrate your data to any location or filesystem that is most convenient to you.
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Speed up your access to more, and better, web data. Plus, enjoy a wide range of features to make your life easier!
Charles Hamilton
Director of Intl. Client Relations, PearsonVue
Grepsr allows us to efficiently find and assess the level of our program penetration (which are recognized and which are not) and how they’re listed in over 5000 test centres websites. As a result of that, we’ve turned a loosely based business process into a sustainable one and reduced the overall turnaround time by 5X
John C.
VP Data Operations, Real Estate
Grepsr is extremely flexible and ensures that we are able to get the data we want, when we want it — no matter how difficult it might be to obtain it. Their speed and the quality of their work has always been top notch. If we ever have a problem, or would like a new feature, Grepsr responds within a day and makes the extra effort to meet our needs. Grepsr is a great partner.
Gayatri K.
Data Analyst, Computer Software
Super useful tool! Always delivers with great results. The efficiency is unparalleled. Grepsr gets me the data I need in record time. The support staff at Grepsr is always SO quick to respond that any issue I have (which isn’t often) gets resolved in no time!
Peter M.
Director, Sports
My small business entails the collecting of data on a daily basis. Before coming across Grepsr this was a time consuming onerous task. Now I need do no more than simply open the file to access all my data requirements. It is a very cost effective means of obtaining data and the service provided is without doubt the best of any software company I have dealt with in my 25-years of experience.
Kyrylo K.
Global Sourcing Specialist
I struggled a lot with DataMiner and still can’t manage using it. Grepsr literally saved me. It’s simply intuitive and easy to use. I had one page where data was taken not properly. After submitting information on to support they fixed that in one day. Such an amazing result even keeping in mind that I am not a paid customer. Thanks a lot!
Charlotte L.
Marketing, Media & Communication
The team at Grepsr were extremely accommodating to our needs and developed a bespoke report based on data that was relevant to our business. They were quick to respond, communicated throughout the process and delivered our purchase quickly. We are very happy with the service and would recommend.
Genevieve L.
Associate, Management Consulting
Prompt support delivered with incredible customer service. They were always responsive and addressed all questions. The customer representative also went the extra mile in helping us scope the relevant websites in order to have the most well organized output.
Bergur E.
Business Owner, Furniture
Great customer support when it’s needed. They are fast to reply, and fast to fix any problem we have had with design changes on a website we are scraping from. Their personal approach is what made me choose their service.
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Web Scraping Tutorial | Grepsr Browser Extension

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on June 13, 2018
We designed Grepsr Browser Extensions to make data extraction simple for all of our customers  —  whether they’re technically in tune or not so much.
Here we give you a simple web scraping tutorial about how to use our browser extension to easily extract data from an online shopping platform (we’ve selected Best Buy).
Data to make or break your business
Get high-priority web data for your business, when you want it.
Web Scraping Tutorial for Grepsr’s Browser Extension
On your web browser (Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge supported for now), go to the web page from where you want to extract the the Grepsr icon next to the address bar (the blue ‘g’) to activate the the extension has loaded, navigate to the data field you want to extract and click it. If you’d like to extract similar fields from the same page, click one of the those items and the rest should also be tagged note that sometimes other unrelated fields also get tagged, which you can easily remove by simply untagging one of those fields. The rest of the unwanted tags should also be removed now, and you should be left with only those you you’re certain that you’ve got the desired field (also take note of the count that’s shown), click Save the field name, and click Save or press Enter. Repeat steps 3 to 7 for other fields on the you’re done, click Next to move on to the next the pagination prompt, select the type of pagination on the there’s a “Next” or a “Load More” button, select the option and navigate to where the button is and click to tag your fields on the next screen, edit field names, drag and drop items on the list to re-order, or click the trash icon to delete. you want to tag items and extract more fields from each item’s details page, select the first option and details page will now load with the browser plugin automatically, name and save the fields on the you’re done, click your tagged fields on both the main and detail pages once again., specify whether you need to be logged in to access the data on the website. If yes, the login credentials should come from the user. For this, enter the username, password and the login URL. To get the URL easily, click the icon to open the website on incognito/private mode, then copy and paste the login page URL from next screen will show you the sample data as CSV and ’ll then be prompted to sign up or log in, in case you haven’t sign up, either fill up the form, or simply use the Google Single Sign On you’re logged in, create a new project or choose an existing the same with the report. The report is where your current dataset will nally, start crawling! You’ll be redirected to the Grepsr app platform where you can view the data start to populate the table. When the extraction is complete, you’ll receive an email with a download link to your data as the most of our app’s handy features as well, such as Schedules to automate extraction, and Data Delivery to seamlessly integrate your exports with popular filesystems you’re already using, like Dropbox, Google Drive, Amazon S3, FTP and more.
We hope this web scraping tutorial proves to be a useful guide so that your Grepsr experience is fun, intuitive, and at the same time productive for your personal and business needs.
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Scraping websites using the Scraper extension for Chrome – School of Data

If you are using Google Chrome there is a browser extension for scraping web pages. It’s called “Scraper” and it is easy to use. It will help you scrape a website’s content and upload the results to google docs.
Walkthrough: Scraping a website with the Scraper extension
Open Google Chrome and click on Chrome Web Store
Search for “Scraper” in extensions
The first search result is the “Scraper” extension
Click the add to chrome button.
Now let’s go back to the listing of UK MPs
Open
Now mark the entry for one MP
Right click and select “scrape similar…”
A new window will appear – the scraper console
In the scraper console you will see the scraped content
Click on “Save to Google Docs…” to save the scraped content as a Google Spreadsheet.
Walkthrough: extended scraping with the Scraper extension
Note: Before beginning this recipe – you may find it useful to understand a bit about HTML. Read our HTML primer.
Easy wasn’t it? Now let’s do something a little more complicated. Let’s say we’re interested in the roles a specific actress played. The source for all kinds of data on this is the IMDB (You can also search on sites like DBpedia or Freebase for this kinds of information; however, we’ll stick to IMDB to show the principle)
Let’s say we’re interested in creating a timeline with all the movies the Italian actress Asia Argento ever starred; where do we start?
The IMDB has a quite comprehensive archive of actors. Asia Argento’s site is:
If you open the page you’ll see all the roles she ever played, together with a title and the year – let’s scrape this information
Try to scrape it like we did above
You’ll see the list comes out garbled – this is because the list here is structured quite differently.
Go to the scraper console. Notice the small box on the upper left, saying XPath?
XPath is a query language for HTML and XML.
XPath can help you find the elements in the page you’re interested in – all you need to do is find the right element and then write the xpath for it.
Now let’s assemble our table.
You’ll see that our current Xpath – the one including the whole information is “//div[3]/div[3]/div[2]/div”
Xpath is very simple it tells the computer to look at the HTML document and select