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How to scrape business contact details from Google Maps ?

WebHarvy is a visual web scraper which can be easily configured to scrape data from any website. In this article we will see how WebHarvy can easily extract business contact details from Google Maps. WebHarvy can scrape contact details (name, address, website, phone etc.) as well as reviews of businesses displayed on Google Maps. The […]

How to build a simple web scraper using Puppeteer?

Table of Contents What is Puppeteer? Uses of Puppeteer How to install? How to start a browser instance? How to load a URL? How to navigate/interact with the page? How to take screenshots, save page as PDF? How to select data from page? Headless browser as a service What is Puppeteer? Puppeteer (https://developers.google.com/web/tools/puppeteer) is a […]

AliExpress Scraper – Scraping product data including images from AliExpress

WebHarvy is a visual web scraper which can be easily used to scrape data from any website including eCommerce websites like Amazon, eBay, AliExpress etc. Scraping AliExpress The following video shows how WebHarvy can be configured to scrape data from AliExpress product listings. Details of the products like product name, price, minimum orders, shipping details, seller […]

How to use User Agent strings to prevent blocking while web scraping ?

What is a user agent string ? The User-Agent string of a web browser helps servers (websites) to identify the browser (Chrome, Edge, FireFox, IE etc.), its version and also the operating system (Windows, Mac, Android, iOS etc.) on which it is running. This mainly helps the websites to serve different pages for various platforms […]

Scraping images from Instagram using WebHarvy

WebHarvy can be used to scrape text as well as images from websites. In this article we will see how WebHarvy can be used to scrape data from Instagram. How to automatically download images from Instagram searches ? The following video shows how WebHarvy can be configured to scrape images (download images) by searching Instagram […]

Scraping Twitter using WebHarvy

WebHarvy can be used to scrape data from social media websites like Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook etc. In the following video you can see how easy it is to scrape tweets from Twitter searches using WebHarvy. Similar technique can be used to scrape tweets from a Twitter profile page. In this video, pagination via JavaScript code […]

Scraping Owner Phone Numbers from Zillow FSBO listings

This post explains how WebHarvy can be easily configured to scrape owner phone numbers from Zillow’s FSBO (For Sale By Owner) listings. WebHarvy is a generic visual web scraper which can be used to scrape data from any website. Scraping owner phone numbers Property listings in Zillow display owner phone numbers at various locations within […]

Generate Real Estate Leads using Web Scraping

Web Scraping is the automated process of extracting data from websites using software or an online service. This technique can be used to easily extract property owner or real estate agent contact details from websites like Zillow, Trulia, Realtor etc. WebHarvy is a point and click, visual web scraper which can be used to extract […]