Advanced Automation & Web Scraping – Easy & Free – Part 2

Shave hours off your weekly workflow by learning how to effectively scrape contact info, people data, and profile information into nicely-formatted Excel files and Google sheets.

In Part 1 of this webinar series, which aired back in August, we covered the easy methods, mostly using Instant Data Scraper and DataMiner. We were asked to go deeper using examples and tools that require something more complex.

The good news is you can still do it ALL FREE, with the right skills and right tools!

We’ll show you how to access and use a couple of key resources in Google Chrome’s Developer Tools:

• the Network tab (and how to combine it with Postman or Insomnia, tools that do API calls)
• the Web Scraper tab (after installing Webscraper.io — not your typical Chrome extension).

Now you’re not limited by complex page layouts requiring multi-step automated scraping processes. And with the Network tab, you aren’t even limited (in most cases) by the number of results per page that are normally displayed, and it even returns fields of data per record you don’t really see on the webpage itself! We’ll show practical sourcing examples of both kinds.

It’s all public data & legal (no firewalls breached). It can shave hours off your weekly workflow, whether it’s conferences, events, research sites or social profile repositories (including great tech communities beyond GitHub, but we’ll show you some tricks there, too) that are rich with people data that you thought couldn’t be tapped without time-consuming individual copy-and-pastes, and you’ll have it all in nicely-formatted columns in Excel files or Google sheets — either in seconds, or if it’s more complex, just set it to run, get a cup of coffee and return to download your auto-generated results.

But some steps leading up to that are not instantaneous: you must dig behind the scenes. You’ll learn to get comfortable with the right mouse click > Inspect option on websites!

Both our presenters are uncanny in their ability to take advanced sourcing topics and boil them down to their clear, step-by-step essence, making seemingly complex tools and methods easy to understand and implement at your own desk with practical examples you probably have on your own passive prospect pipelining ticklist.

Register for free to reserve your seat now. Can’t attend? No problem! Register for the webinar, and you’ll receive a link to view the video recording the next day. Everyone who attends the live broadcast will receive HRCI and SHRM credits.