Building your first robot is easy - in this guide you'll go from webpage to structured data in just a few steps.
In under 10 minutes, you'll train a robot to automatically extract data from any webpage and structure it exactly how you need it. No coding, downloads, or browser extensions required.
All you need to get started is:
A Browse AI account (you can get started for free)
A URL that you want to scrape data from
1. Choose your starting point
Enter the webpage URL where you want to extract data. Robot Studio loads the live page so you can see exactly what you're working with.
Depending on the data you want to scrape, you might need to train the robot to navigate, point, click or search. You can do this by clicking, scrolling, or adding inputs directly in Robot Studio.
Tip: it's always best to point the robot as close to the end data you want to scrape as possible. For example if you want to scrape a competitor's pricing page, it's better to point the robot to that page directly vs. training it to navigate.
2. Select and structure the data
Once you've navigated to the data, you'll need to train the robot to extract and structure what you want.
To do this you'll train the robot by pointing and clicking to capture what you need, this includes:
Lists of items (products, search results, directory listings)
Specific text elements (prices, descriptions, contact info)
Screenshots (entire pages or selected sections)
Note that you can train one robot to capture multiple sets of data - this means you can train a single robot to take a screenshot, scrape text content, as well as extract a list all on one webpage.
Your robots can handle sophisticated scenarios right out of the box:
3. Finalize your output
Robot Studio automatically organizes your data into clean, structured formats. You can customize labels, remove unwanted columns, and arrange data exactly how you need it.
If you're extracting a list of data you'll also need to set up pagination, and scrolling if needed.
Review the preview of the data, make any adjustments (if needed), and when you're done, select Finish. This will run the robot.
4. Approve your robot
After your robot runs it will extract a sample for you to review. Preview your extracted data, and then approve your robot. If the robot hasn't extracted the data correctly (or if you want to edit the robot), you can retrain the robot at this stage to restart the process.
I've approved my first robot! What's next?
Set up a monitor to keep the data up to date (and alert you when it changes)
You can enable monitoring to keep your data up to date in just a few clicks. This will train your robot to check for specific content changes on a custom schedule.
Integrate or export the data
You can export the data you've scraped, turn it into an API, or create custom automations through our integrations.
Scale this robot to scrape thousands of pages
You can upload a list of URLs to get this robot to automatically extract (and monitor) data. You can also connect multiple robots together using workflows to scrape entire websites.