80legs

Start by deciding what you need from the page, not how to fetch it. In 80legs, you create a job around a clear goal—collect reviews, capture prices, index articles—then point the crawler at your starting links. Add a JavaScript rule to identify fields (titles, prices, authors, timestamps), define which links to follow, and set boundaries by domain or pattern. Upload a list of seed URLs or import them from a file; the platform handles concurrency, politeness, and retries for you. Before scaling up, run a small test crawl, inspect the results, and refine your selectors. When the output looks right, schedule the job, choose your format (JSON or CSV), and deliver results to S3, GCS, or a webhook. Use rate controls and automatic IP rotation to avoid hammering a site, and enable deduplication so you don’t process the same page twice.

When you need breadth instead of depth, tap into Giant Web Crawl. Filter the large-scale snapshot by domain, language, or content type, and export just the slices you care about. This is useful for building search indexes, training models, benchmarking content coverage, or identifying emerging topics without designing a custom spider. You save time on discovery and still keep control over how you normalize and store the data. Combine this snapshot with your own rules to enrich the results—tag topics, extract entities, or compare historical changes across crawls. more