Scrapfly Zapier Integration

Scrapfly is available on Zapier a popular no-code automation platform. The Scrapfly Zapier App includes access to all Scrapfly APIs:

  • Use Web Scraping API to scrape any webpage data.
  • Use Extraction API to extract data from Zapier inputs.
  • Use Screenshot API to take screenshots of any webpage.

To use Scrapfly with Zapier all you need is a Zapier.com account and a Scrapfly API key, which you can find on your dashboard.

Example Templates

Using Zapier and Scrapfly creating web-scraping powered automations is incredibly easy without any coding experience. Let's take a look at some example templates.

Scraping with Google sheets

Google Sheets is a popular cloud-based spreadsheet tool ideal for automation and web scraping. This example demonstrates how Google Sheets can be used as a web scraping database.

See Zapier Google Sheets + Scrapfly Template

In short, this example uses Google Sheets as a scrape URL input and result output, in short it:

  1. Tracks rows on Google Sheets for URLs
  2. On new URL added:
    1. Scrape URL using Scrapfly Web Scrape API
    2. Parse Scraped HTML using Scrapfly Extraction API
  3. Save the extracted data back to Google Sheet

Zapier chrome extension and Zapier Tables

Zapier has an extensive infrastructure suitable for many day-to-day scraping tasks. This example demonstrates how Zapier Chrome Extension is used to schedule web scraping and how scrape results are saved to Zapier Tables.

See the Zapier Chrome Extension Template

Scheduling Scrape Loops

Zapier also provides a scheduler that can scrape multiple URLs at regular intervals. This example demonstrates how to schedule a scrape loop using Zapier and store results to Google Sheets.

See the Loop Scraping Example

Errors

Zapier will return the Scrapfly API error message in the Zapier error reporter that matches the standard Scrapfly API error messages. For more see:

Pricing

No additional costs.

Summary