How to Scrape Chrome Web Store?

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Data of thousands of extensions listed in the Chrome Web Store can be extracted using WebHarvy. The point-and-click visual interface of WebHarvy allows you to select the data which you need via simple mouse clicks. There is no complicated setup to follow. The data scraped from Chrome web store can be used for competitive intelligence, market research, keyword research, trend analysis and competitor monitoring.

Video Demonstration

The following video shows how WebHarvy can be configured to scrape data from Chrome Web Store. The following data of extensions listed in the Chrome web store are extracted.

  1. Extension name
  2. Rating and Reviews
  3. About
  4. Developer Email
  5. etc.


Steps to follow

The following are the steps which you need to follow to scrape data from Chrome web store. This is exactly as shown in the above video.

  1. Download and install WebHarvy – https://www.webharvy.com/download.html
  2. Load the Chrome web store page in WebHarvy’s browser and navigate to the page displaying the data. In the above example, we search using a keyword to list the extensions.
  3. Start Configuation to start selecting data – https://www.webharvy.com/docs/starting-configuration.html
  4. Click and select the title of the first listing. Use the Capture Text option in the Capture window.
  5. Click on the ‘Load more’ button at the bottom of the page and set it as the next page link – https://www.webharvy.com/docs/handling-pagination.html
  6. Follow the link of the first listing – https://www.webharvy.com/docs/following-links.html
  7. Wait for the details page to load.
  8. Once loaded, click and select details like rating, reviews, tags etc.
  9. Use the Capture Following Text method to select text which appears after a heading text – https://www.webharvy.com/docs/selecting-data.html#ScrapeFollowingText
  10. Use the Click option to reveal the developer email – https://www.webharvy.com/docs/following-links.html#Click
  11. Stop Configuration
  12. Start Mine
  13. The mined data can be saved to a file or database – https://www.webharvy.com/docs/saving-data.html

Download and Try

Download and try using the 15 days free evaluation version of WebHarvy. To get started, please follow this link – https://www.webharvy.com/articles/getting-started.html.