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Groupon is a website that provides professional personal services including classes, photography, local services and so on.
In this tutorial, we are going to show you how to scrape information about photography services from Groupon.com.
To follow through, you may want to use this URL in the tutorial:
The main steps are shown in the menu on the right and you can download the demo task file here.
1. Create a Go to Web Page - open the target web page
Enter the URL on the home page and click Start
2. Click "x" - to close the ad
Click "x" on the upper right corner of the ad
Click Click element on the Tips panel
Uncheck Open in a new tab in the Options settings
3. Auto-detect webpage data - to generate a workflow
Click Auto-detect web page data on the tips panel
Wait for the detection to complete
Delete unwanted fields in the data preview panel
Untick Add a page scroll
Click Create workflow
Choose Select subpage URL
Select the Title URL field
Click on Confirm
4. Extract Data - to select the data to scrape
Click on the wanted data
After the chosen data turns green, Click Text on the Tips panel
Edit the field name by double-clicking it
The final workflow will look like this:
5. Run the task - to get the target data
Click the Save button first to save all the settings you have made
Then click Run to choose a mode to run your task either locally or cloudy
Waiting for the task to complete
Below is a sample data run from the local. Excel, CSV, HTML, and JSON formats are available for export.
