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Robot types: Custom vs prebuilt robots
Robot types: Custom vs prebuilt robots

Choose between creating your own robots tailored to your specific needs or using ready-made robots for popular websites.

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Written by Nick Simard
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Creating custom robots

Custom robots give you complete control over your data extraction process. Over 90% of Browse AI users create custom robots because they can extract exactly what they need from any website.

A custom robot is one you can fully customize where, what, and how your robot extracts and structures the data you 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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