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Robot types: Custom vs prebuilt robots

Choose between creating your own robot or using prebuilt robots from our library based on your needs.

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Written by Melissa Shires
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Custom robots

90%+ of all robots on our platform are custom. With a custom robot you can scrape, extract, and monitor exactly what you need from any website giving you complete control.

With a custom robot is one you can fully customize the structure, location, specifics of the data you want to scrape, monitor, capture, or extract.

This includes:

  • The website URL you want to extract data from

  • Which data elements you want to capture

  • How you want the data structured and organized

  • When and how often to collect the data

Using prebuilt robots

Prebuilt robots come from our library of over 200 pre-configured data gives you the ability to extract data from some of the most popular websites in a few clicks including TikTok, LinkedIn, YouTube, Medium, Amazon, and more.

See: our list of Prebuilt Robots.

Prebuilt robots are designed to be ready to extract data in a few clicks. You just need to:

  1. Select the robot from our library

  2. Enter the webpage URL you want to extract from

  3. Configure settings (this varies based on the robot)

  4. Start collecting data

Setup for the Monitor Company Info on LinkedIn prebuilt robot.

All of our prebuilt robots are:

  • Production-ready with proven reliability

  • Deployable in minutes

  • Built to handle complex data structures

  • No coding required (but fully customizable)

  • Can quickly be extrapolated into multi-site data extraction automations

  • Are built to monitor and extract data in just a few clicks

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