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Capture text: How to extract and structure specific data from a page using 'Just text'

Capture 'Just text' to scrape, extract or monitor specific text or elements from a page.

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Written by Melissa Shires

💡 Use these steps only if the site needs a password login, or an input you change on every run, like a search term. For everything else, start in Table Studio: the agent clicks, types, picks options and moves between pages for you.

If you want to scrape, extract or monitor specific text or elements from a page, you'll want to capture 'Just text'.

This feature lets you not only extract specific elements, but also allows you to structure the data you're scraping. Common examples include:

  • Individual product pages

  • Company "About" pages

  • Detailed specification pages

💡 When training a robot to extract data from a web page you can train a single robot to extract data "From a list", "Just text", as well as take a screenshot.

Capture Text is great for extracting and structuring data from:

  • Full product descriptions

  • Technical specifications

  • Shipping information

  • Company information

  • Detailed product features

Capture Text lets you extract and structure specific text elements within a page. This data can then be structured, and can be kept up to date with monitoring.

Step 1: Start training your robot

To start training your robot, all you'll need is the URL you'd like to scrape or monitor.

  1. From your Browse AI dashboard, click "Build New Robot".

  2. Select either:

    1. Extract structured data - if you'd like to scrape data from a web page

    2. Monitor for changes - if you want to create a web monitor.

  3. Enter the Origin URL you would like to scrape or monitor.

  4. Click Start Training Robot.

  5. Under Visual Training, pick Robot Studio and wait for your web page to load.

Step 2: How to scrape 'Just text' to capture and structure text

  1. Start training your robot.

  2. Click 'Capture Text' and select 'Just text'.

  3. Hover and click to select what you want to capture.

  4. Select all text on the page you want to scrape or monitor by clicking on it.

  5. Click confirm when you're done.

  6. Label your captured text. Each label will be a column of data.

  7. Save the captured text.

  8. Click 'Finish' to finish recording your robot if you've captured all of the data you need, or keep capturing text or screenshots.

Note that when capturing, you can often choose between scraping the visible text, HTML, or link depending on what you've selected.

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