Product Planning 🗺️
Scraper Roadmap
Use Cases ✨
Scraper Use Cases
Name
Description
Audience
Scraping products
Price tracking
Volume tracking
Review tracking
Scraping availability
Database management and bulk actions.
Managing Amazon reviews
Solopreneurs
Marketing
Extract data from travel websites to analyze hotel pricing, room availability, reviews and airline ticket pricing. Stay competitive through the use of this data.
Marketing
Scrape Real Estate listing, Agents, Brokers, Houses, Apartments, Mortgages, Foreclosures, MLS. Keep a watch on new data by setting up custom notifications.
Tech
Marketing
1. get a list of articles with a keyword (ahrefs) 2. upload the list to hunter to find emails from domain (hunter)
3. email the people
Marketing
Commonly Scraped Websites 🖥️
Zillow
Github
Yelp
Amazon
Product 🖥️
User Problems With Existing Solutions 🤕
- Requires tinkering to make things work
- Coding / technical knowledge for automations
- Need to maintain when websites change
- Need to be updated for individual websites to work properly
Differentiation Ideation 😻
Focus on time-sensitive data and notifications
Advantages of being the first.
Focus on individual use-cases instead of bulk
Almost every scraper out there, requires set up and is designed for people who need a LOT of data.
The power of our platform is that we can pipe the data other web apps and enrich it.
Example: you found an interesting person on LinkedIn. You click on a PB, and 1) scrape profile data 2) enrich the email 3) send them a template via gmail 4) add to CRM. Optional, you can customize the first sentence of the templated email.
Scrapers for non-scraper user audience
People who do a lot of copy-pasting in their workflows, but who do not even think about scraper use cases.
Existing solutions would not work for a one off case and would output information in excel format and you will still need to do the same copy-pasting.
Building a complete solution for use-cases
Scrapers just get the data. And that data then needs to be cleaned up and sent to other services that do enrichment and other manipulation.
We can provide multiple actions so that the output is the final outcome that people are looking for.
Example: build lists with emails, not list with just names.
Example: send SMS, when a datapoint on a tracked website meets the parameter, not just track data. etc.
Additional Functionality ➕
Scheduled Scraping
"Instant" scraping
Example is Instant Data Scraper. It automatically finds lists and outputs the data for you. All in one click.
Tracking changes to meet a criteria
Scraping rich text (with images and formatting)
Playbooks 📚
Competitor References
Scrapers
Product Hunt Scraper Products
Upvotes
Name
One Liner
Link
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Comments
1,348
AnyPicker
45
1,344
Spider Pro
95
1,342
Simple Scraper
62
671
Apify
55
667
Data Scraping Studio
36
652
Nest Learning Thermostat (3rd gen)
13
613
Web Scraper API
26
602
ScrapingBee (formerly ScrapingNinja)
34
520
Website Metadata Scraper API
35
455
Scrapbox
27
347
ScrapingBot
12
326
Scraper AI
13
326
15
265
Reader API for DataStack
12
255
Dota Mania
7
244
Review Scraper API
17
239
Evaboot - Smart Sales Navigator Scraper
42
206
ScrapeLogo
11
185
SCRAPE
24
183
Agenty
7
171
Photo Scanner and Colorizer
11
152
Zoom Escaper
10
138
LinkedIn Contact Exporter by Scriberr
20
114
Manipulist
4
82
Scraping for Growth
10
82
The Java web scraping handbook
3
82
Glancify
11
73
Shieldsquare
6
70
Scraped Plate
7
61
Wanderlust Scrapbook
0
52
Scape & Drama Filters
4
44
MLScrape API Beta
1
35
Scrapster: Document your life
2
35
Scrapp Bookmarks
3
29
Shaper Hands
4
26
Scrap Mechanic
1
26
CitationLabs
0
21
Facebook Scrapbook
5
16
Scrappy Cat
2
16
Shuttertop
0
15
Scape Shape
4
14
Sammy Screamer
1
Price Trackers
Reviews
Acquisition 📢
Strategy
- Build relevant playbooks for an audience
- Test with people on the cutting-edge of innovation for the audience
- Take in insights and suggestions to improve product
Resources
Finding more use cases
Articles
Random ideas
- Use Google Sheets as a database that will sync with e-com tools and other platforms.
Compliance
Pricing
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