{"id":6382,"date":"2023-10-18T14:47:43","date_gmt":"2023-10-18T14:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/royadata.io\/blog\/?p=6382"},"modified":"2023-10-18T14:47:43","modified_gmt":"2023-10-18T14:47:43","slug":"smart-scraper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/royadata.io\/blog\/smart-scraper\/","title":{"rendered":"Smart Scraper 101: How to Use Smart Scraper (Step by Step)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Smartproxy, a premium proxy provider, has just released a new product into the market known as the Smart Scraper.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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The Smart Scraper product<\/a> is a web scraper that has been developed to make web scraping easy. Unlike other web scrapers that are specifically developed for specific sites, the Smart Scraper is a general web scraper that you can use for scraping any website you can think of.<\/p>\n

The web scraper is free to use and comes as a Chrome browser extension<\/a>. With the Smart Scraper added to the list of products owned by Smartproxy, the company gradually dipping its hands into the world of web scraping and not just the provision of proxies as they are known for.<\/p>\n

<\/i> Download Smart Scraper <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n

<\/span>How Does Smart Scraper Work?<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

The Smart Scraper is a web scraper<\/a> and, as such, does not have much difference when compared to other web scrapers available. However, being a browser extension, the heavy-lifting is done by the browser. Unlike other web scrapers that send web requests and also take care of parsing<\/a> out the required data, Smart Scraper is not like that.<\/p>\n

Instead, all it does is parse out required data from a page. How it does this is simple. You will need to use the Chrome browser to access the page that has the data you are interested in and then use it to parse out the data.<\/p>\n

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For parsing out data, it provides you a no-code tool that has smart selectors that will let you identify and choose multiple fields of the same value with a single click. So technically, all it does is parsing while the browser takes care of sending web requests. With the model, you won\u2019t even hit the speed that you would be seen as a bot.<\/p>\n

While the model is quite simple, it has proven to be effective provided you do not have thousands of pages you want to scrape from, as Smart Scraper isn\u2019t for such. It is for scraping on a per-page basis. Because it works in a browser environment, it does have support for scraping even JavaScript-heavy pages.<\/p>\n