Prompt
What tools can scrape public profiles from websites?
Latest observation
A few tools can scrape publicly accessible profile pages from websites, but the right choice depends on the site’s structure and terms of service.
Common tools
Code-based scraping tools
- Python + BeautifulSoup: Good for static HTML pages.
- Scrapy: A full-featured Python scraping framework for larger projects.
- Selenium / Playwright: Better for sites that load content dynamically with JavaScript.
No-code / low-code tools
- Octoparse
- ParseHub
- Apify
- WebHarvy
These are useful if you want to avoid writing much code.
Browser automation / headless scraping
- Puppeteer: Node.js tool for controlling Chrome.
- Playwright: Similar, often preferred for modern sites.
Data extraction services / APIs
- Apify actors
- Diffbot
- Zyte
- Bright Data
These often handle crawling, proxies, and anti-bot challenges for you.
Important note
Even if profiles are public, scraping may still be restricted by:
- the website’s Terms of Service
- robots.txt
- privacy laws
- rate limits / anti-bot protections
If you’re collecting personal data, make sure you have a lawful basis and only gather what you’re allowed to use.
If you want, I can help you choose the best tool for:
- a specific website
- static vs JavaScript-heavy pages
- small one-time scraping vs large-scale crawling
Observation history
How did Obsurfable measure this prompt?
Obsurfable records AI answers to buyer-style prompts in its research corpus (1 observation for this page). Metrics are distributions over observations, not a single static ranking.
Which AI systems does Obsurfable collect answers from?
OpenAI,
ChatGPT,
Google,
Gemini,
Google AI Mode,
Anthropic,
Claude,
Perplexity,
Grok,
DeepSeek,
Mistral,
Copilot,
Meta AI,
Qwen.
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