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This video will show you how Grepsr works. Watch the video and get started with your first project at Grepsr today!
Grepsr is a cloud powered web crawling and web scraping service to crawl and extract data from websites, emails, documents etc .
In this video we will show you how to schedule your data crawlers to run automatically.
- On your project page, click on the Scheduling tab.
- Here you can schedule the start date and time for the crawler to run.
- Choose how often the crawler will run. Depending on your user level, you can run it daily, weekly or monthly.
- You then need to chose a date until when the crawler stays active.
In some cases, you may also want to run the crawler on demand.
In this video we will show you how to receive the crawled data automatically via email.
- On your project page, click on the Data delivery tab.
- In the email section, enter the email where you would like to receive the data. You may also enter multiple emails.
When the data is ready, you will be emailed a link to download the files from our CDN.
In this video we will show you how you can sync the crawled data to your Dropbox folder.
- On your project page, click on the Data delivery tab.
- In the Dropbox section, click on "Authorize with Dropbox" to link your Dropbox account.
- You will then be taken to the Dropbox website for authorization.
- Enter your Dropbox login credentials to login.
- Upon logging in, click on "Allow" to let Grepsr link with your Dropbox account.
In this video we will show you how you can sync the crawled data directly to your FTP servers.
- On your project page, click on the Data delivery tab.
- In the FTP section, enter the your FTP host, port and your login credentials.
- Grepsr will immediately verify and link the project to your FTP.
You are now ready to receive crawled data files directly into your FTP server!
In this video we will show you how to sync the crawled data directly to your system via HTTP callbacks. This functionality requires technical knowledge.
- On your project page, click on the Data delivery tab.
- In the HTTP Callback section, enter the direct URL to the callback script on your server.
- Grepsr will send a HTTP POST message to your callback script when the data is ready to download.
- The callback message will include direct download URLs to the data.
We have browser plugins for all major browsers to help you easily capture screenshots. Browser plugins are especially useful if you need to take screenshot of pages that are behind login screens or are difficult to capture with Grepsr's on-site screen shot capture feature.
In this video we will show you how to explain your requirements visually by marking them on screenshots. If you have problems taking screenshots, please use our browser plugins.
In this video we will show you how you can perform a search on the crawled data. This functionality is only available to users depending on the user level.
- On your project page, you will see a search option on the right, just above the data.
- To do a simple search, you can choose which columns to search the data from and enter your search keyword.
- There are advanced search options available as well. For example to get an exact match, you can put your keywords inside quotes.