Browse AI

Melissa Shires

How to scrape, extract, structure, and monitor data from any website.

Building robots

Robots scrape, extract, and monitor website data with no coding required.

What are robots and what can they do?

Choose between creating your own robot, using prebuilt robots, or using our managed services.

Type of robots: custom, prebuilt and managed

Get started with scraping data in minutes using Robot Studio's no code AI web scraping platform.

Building your first robot

Everything you need to start scraping and monitoring websites.

Getting started

Train a robot to scrape or monitor web data from any website.

How to train a robot to scrape or monitor data

Learn when to use "From a list" for repeating data on pages versus "Just text" to extract and structure specific datapoints.

Capture text: 'From a list' vs. 'Just text'

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

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

Learn how to extract data 'From a list'. This is typically used to scrape data that repeats on a page in a pattern, ex: a list of search results.

Capture text: How to extract data 'From a list'

Automatically navigate through multiple pages to capture complete datasets when using "From a list" extraction.

Capture text: How to set up pagination when extracting data 'From a list'

You can train a robot to scrape or monitor screenshots (full or partial) on any web page.

Capture screenshots: How to train your robot to capture screenshots

After approving your robot, you can set up monitoring, use it in workflows for deep scraping, or run it on up to 500,000 pages

How to approve a robot

The starting URL for robot training and a parameter for scaling robots across multiple similar pages after they're created.

What is the 'Origin URL'?

No – one robot can extract data from unlimited pages with the same structure.

Do I need to train a robot for each web page?

Learn about how to train a robot to extract, scrape, and monitor data.

Basic building and configuration

Train your robot to scroll to capture a list or specific text.

How to handle infinite scroll and lazy loading

Browse AI can extract data from interactive elements like dropdowns, toggles, tabs, and accordions by recording your interactions with these elements during robot training.

Extracting data from dropdowns and interactive elements

Browse AI can interact with popups and modals elements including dismissing them or extracting data from within them.

Handling popups and modal windows

How to extract dynamic data from a web page that appears after a 'click' interaction.

Extracting data that appears on click

Browse AI's Robot Studio executes JavaScript during both training and extraction, allowing you to capture data from dynamic websites just like a regular browser would.

Working with JavaScript-rendered content

Browse AI can handle these complex pagination patterns by recording your complete interaction sequence.

How to handle pagination that has multiple clicks to load more items

How to extract data with infinite scroll, drop downs, and interactive elements.

Dynamic content & interactions

Input parameters let you adjust your robot's behavior without creating new robots. You can modify URLs, search terms, and form fields to make your robots more versatile.

How to set up and use input parameters

Yes, robots can fill forms and perform actions like clicking buttons, entering text, and navigating pages before extracting any data. This allows you to access filtered results, search-specific data, and…

Can my robot fill out a form or perform an action before extracting data?

Search-based extraction lets you find and extract specific data by using a website's search functionality.

How to extract data based on a search query

You can extract data from up to 50,000 input parameters automatically using Bulk Run.

How to automate data extraction from multiple search queries

How to configure a robot to fill out forms, search, and set up input parameters

Forms, search, and input parameters

Your robot can log into websites to extract data using either session cookies or credentials for direct login.

How to scrape and monitor data behind a login

When your robots encounter CAPTCHAs during extraction, Browse AI can solve supported verification types automatically.

How to extract data on a page that has CAPTCHAs

Cookie notices can disrupt your robots - learn to work around them without complex setup.

How to fix robot failures caused by cookie pop-ups

Browse AI automatically manages bot detection and rate limiting, allowing you to extract data at scale without technical configuration.

How Browse AI handles bot detection and rate limiting

Extract data from sites that require login, manage different authentication methods, and handle common security challenges like CAPTCHAs and cookie consent.

Authentication & access

While Browse AI doesn't directly support iFrame interactions, you can usually extract the data by accessing the iFrame's source URL directly.

How to extract data from iFrames

Yes, set your robot's data limit higher than expected to capture all items, and Browse AI will return unused credits after completion.

Can I extract all items from a list without knowing the count?

Learn how to handle pages with mixed content types - text, numbers, dates, links, and currencies - all in one extraction.

Extracting data with different formats on the same page

Tables are one of the most common data structures on the web. Browse AI can automatically detect and extract data from most table formats with a single click.

How to extract data from tables on a web page

Browse AI can capture images through screenshots or extract image URLs for use in your data workflows. Choose the right method based on whether you need the visual content or…

How to extract images from websites

Extract data from tables, iFrames, images, and pages with mixed content formats.

Complex data structures

Yes, Browse AI includes geolocation-based extraction capabilities that allow you to access data from a specific country.

Does Browse AI offer geolocation-based extraction for region-specific content?

Not directly, however, you can convert PDFs to HTML first, then use Browse AI to extract the data from the HTML version.

Can I extract data from PDF files?

No, Browse AI doesn't currently support direct file downloads, but you can extract file URLs that can be used to download files elsewhere.

Can I download files using Browse AI

Advanced features to extract dynamic content.

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