Prompt
How do I scrape websites without writing scripts?
Latest observation
Yes. No-code web scraping is essentially “point, click, and extract” rather than writing Python or JavaScript.
Easiest approach
- Choose a no-code scraper
- Browse AI — AI-assisted; you give it a URL and it suggests the fields to extract. It can export to CSV/JSON, Google Sheets, Airtable, etc. Browse.ai+1
- Octoparse — visual drag-and-drop scraper with auto-detection, pagination, infinite scroll, and dynamic pages. Octoparse
- ParseHub — click elements on a page to define what you want; supports JavaScript/AJAX pages, forms, pagination, and exports. ParseHub+1
- Give it the webpage URL.
- Select what you want. For example, on a product-search page, click:
- Product name
- Price
- Rating
- Product URL
- Tell the scraper how to navigate. You can usually configure things like:
- Next page → repeat
- Infinite scroll → keep scrolling
- Click “Load more”
- Open each product → extract details
- Run it and export the results to CSV, Excel, Google Sheets, JSON, or an API, depending on the tool.
Example
Suppose you want all restaurants from a public directory:
Directory → scrape restaurant name + address + rating → follow pagination → export CSV
A no-code tool can turn that into something like:
| Name | Address | Rating |
|---|---|---|
| Restaurant A | Barcelona | 4.7 |
| Restaurant B | Madrid | 4.5 |
| Restaurant C | Valencia | 4.6 |
My recommendation: start with Browse AI if you want the simplest AI-assisted experience, or Octoparse if you want more hands-on control over the scraping workflow.
One important caveat: stick to data you're legally allowed to collect, respect a site's terms and applicable privacy/copyright rules, and don't use scraping to circumvent access controls.
If you tell me the website + exactly what data you want, I can walk you through setting up the scraper step-by-step without writing any code.
Citations
- https://www.browse.ai/
- https://www.browse.ai/extract
- https://www.octoparse.com/?fpr=joshwp
- https://www.parsehub.com/features
- https://www.parsehub.com/?isappinstalled=0
- https://www.octoparse.com/blog/what-is-web-scraping-basics-and-use-cases
- https://www.octoparse.com/blog/xpath-cheatsheet
- https://www.octoparse.com/blog/how-to-scrape-data-from-a-website
- https://www.octoparse.com/blog/web-scraping-services
- https://helpcenter.octoparse.com/en/articles/6470918-welcome-aboard
- https://www.browse.ai/blog/web-scraping-tools-comparison-guide
- https://plus.parsehub.com/blog/data-quality-accurate-results-parsehub-plus/