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The first thing I did was choose which pages I wanted to crawl and extract from. Basically, we want to be very fine-tuned in what we ask of our crawler and make lots of exclusions, or conversely, only include the pages we want. It’s super important that we inspect the pages we want to crawl and make sure that we are not sending the crawler to button events that trigger deletion of content, data, or subscribers. Ensure you do not delete data accidentally by crawling willy nilly Hit “OK” and wait for the page to load in the next modal window:Įnter your login info, log in and then hit “OK” again (bottom right this time). It’s important so we’ll cover this more once logged in.Įnter your login URL (you want a page with the login form on it). Some portals have buttons or text links that alter data (think “Delete Tweet”) that we want to avoid. Screaming Frog UI > Configuration > Authentication See here for information on our exclude feature. If you log into a website and then crawl it, the SEO Spider will click every link on the page this includes links to add or delete data. On the next modal, click the “Forms Based” tab, and click “Add” (bottom left). Planning what we’ll crawl and scrape looks like this: Poking around Convertkit logged in, we see a Broadcasts ( /campaigns ) page with a list of sent emails and info about them:Ĭlicking on a “View Report” link, we then see some stats and a right-hand sidebar with pages for content of email, recipients, opens, clicks, unsubscribes.

SCREAMING FROG SCRAPER MANUAL

You aren’t able to export all the data you want without tons of manual action.Ĭrawling and scraping engagement data out of Convertkit allows us to view all emails sent, create a summary of average opens, or sort by engagement metrics like clicks or open rates or even unsubscribes. The problem with Convertkit (one of the many problems) is a common one.

The example use case we’ll use is getting your content’s engagement data out of Convertkit.

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This post is a deeper end to end walkthrough from authenticating to getting your data out in a format you can use, and covers some caveats and considerations for getting the most out of that process – logging in, what URLs to crawl, ways to include and exclude link clicks and pages to protect your data and not do unintended things, as well as how to go about fine tune extracting just the data that you want. If you ‘re just looking for how to authenticate with Screaming Frog, click that above link.

SCREAMING FROG SCRAPER PASSWORD

ScreamingFrog is my crawl tool of choice and has a method for crawling password protected websites. This post is not about how to game that type of login, it’s about getting your own data out of accounts when it’s not accessible by export or API. Often, with those tools it’s cost effective to just pay for API access to their data. They will flag your account if they think you are violating the terms, or put a temporary lock on your ability to access those pages. That said, some data tools don’t allow you to scrape in their terms of use. The use cases for crawling and scraping data only available when you are logged in somewhere (where it’s your data) are near infinite. You can often get some data, request it, find a CSV button, but it’s frequently, it’s not all of what you want. In a perfect world, we’d have easy access to the data hidden behind our logins for the websites we use: news and posts from my connections for Linkedin, Twitter, and email list data around emails sent in Convertkit, etc. Why scrape data you already have login based access to I provide tips, examples, and alternative options for how to find what you might be looking to scrape as I go through.

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The use case we are following is logging into my email software (ConvertKit) and scraping the engagement data from it. This guide is for logging into a platform and scraping the data you want from it.

Final CSSPath Extraction Settings for 5 main report pages.

Crawl an iframe if what we want is inside?.

Important! Exclude pages or URL patterns that could mess with data.

Using Screaming Frog Custom Extraction with CSSPath for targeting.

When to use CSSPath vs Xpath vs Regex when targeting what you want to scrape.

Targeting what DOM elements we want to scrape with CSSPath.

Choose what HTML elements to extract from seed URL pages.

Generate an initial list of paginated pages without crawling them to get it.

Why scrape data you already have login based access to.