This is a submission for the Bright Data Web Scraping Challenge: Build a Web Scraper API to Solve Business Problems
What I Built
I created an AI-powered web scraper called WebCrawlAI.
It can scrape any type of data from a given website and return only the information you need.
Key Features:
- Scrapes all kinds of data from websites.
- Filters and provides only the relevant information based on your requirements.
- Easy-to-use API for seamless integration into your projects.
Website:
Visit the live project here: WebCrawlAI
API Endpoint:
- [POST]: https://webcrawlai.onrender.com/scrape-and-parse
- Payload:
{
"url": "",
"parse_description": ""
}
Technologies Used:
- Gemini API: For powerful AI capabilities.
- Render: To deploy and host the project.
- Flask (3.0.0): For building the web API.
- BeautifulSoup (4.12.2): For parsing and extracting data from HTML.
- Selenium (4.16.0): For automating web browsing and handling dynamic content.
- lxml: For fast and efficient XML and HTML parsing.
- html5lib: For parsing HTML documents in a web browser-like manner.
- python-dotenv (1.0.0): For managing environment variables.
- google-generativeai (0.3.1): For integrating AI-powered features into the scraper.
How It Solves a Business Problem
Web scraping is a critical tool for businesses that rely on large amounts of data.
However, scraping interactive or complex websites can be challenging. WebCrawlAI solves this problem by:
- Automating the data extraction process.
- Handling complex websites, including those with dynamic content or CAPTCHA challenges.
- Providing clean and structured data ready for analysis.
Businesses can use this tool for market research, competitor analysis, price monitoring, content aggregation, and more.
It saves time, reduces manual effort, and ensures accurate results.
Demo
Check out the project live: WebCrawlAI
And the code: GitHub
Here’s a preview of how it works:
- Input the website URL and a description of the data you want to extract.
- The scraper fetches and parses the data, returning only the relevant results.
How I Used Bright Data
To complement the functionality of WebCrawlAI I made use of Bright Data’s scraping browser to open new possibilities.
Below is how Bright Data performed its magic:
- Automated Proxy Management: Ensures reliable connections and avoids blocks.
- CAPTCHA Solving: Handles CAPTCHA challenges seamlessly.
- Fully Hosted Browsers: Runs and scales Selenium scripts without the need for local infrastructure.
- Zero Operational Overhead: No need to maintain scraping or browser infrastructure, allowing me to focus on the API's core functionality.
Additional Prompts
My submission qualifies for:
- Prompt 1: Scrape Data from Complex, Interactive Websites. WebCrawlAI excels at handling dynamic websites and interactive elements, making it a powerful solution for scraping even the most challenging sites.
Thank you for reviewing my submission!
I hope WebCrawlAI demonstrates the potential of combining AI and web scraping to solve real-world business challenges.
My Other Project
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- Teaser Page: https://dub.sh/portify-teaser
- GitHub: https://github.com/ArjunCodess/portify
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Great Job!