Get data from the web and learn more about your customers
Web scraping gives you the tools to gather data from product reviews, news articles, social media, and forums. Use that data to make informed decisions on product development, marketing strategies, pricing, and distribution.
Competitor analysis and benchmarking
Monitor and analyze competitors’ websites, social media, and pricing to uncover their strengths, weaknesses, and market gaps. Use these insights to refine your products, services, and marketing strategies.
Lead generation and sales prospecting
Use web scraping to collect contact email addresses and phone numbers, both from websites or online directories. This data can be used to build a database of potential customers, which can be plugged into targeted sales and marketing campaigns. Web scraping can also help you identify key decision-makers in target organizations, find suitable influencers, or recruit top candidates.
Product and market trend analysis
Collect and analyze data on popular products, market trends, and customer preferences from sources such as e-commerce platforms, forums, and blogs. Use the information to identify emerging trends, understand consumer demands, and develop new products or services that cater to evolving market needs.
Industry and regulatory compliance
Understand the regulatory landscape and industry-specific requirements that your business must safely navigate. Systematically extract data from government databases, industry associations, and online news sources to keep track of industry regulations, standards, and policies. Minimize the risks of non-compliance, such as fines, legal issues, and reputational damage.
Competitor research with AI
After extracting the data you need, use our AI Product Matcher to find product pairs in provided datasets to i.e. compare your prices with your competitors.Get a head start with further data manipulation, all while keeping your data safe within Apify's ecosystem, where you can integrate your workflow with other platforms and schedule your tasks to run on a regular basis.
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Why Xcrawl?
Never get blocked Every plan (free included) comes with Xcrawl Proxy, which is great for avoiding blocking and giving you access to geo-specific content. | Customers love us We truly care about the satisfaction of our users and thanks to that we're one of the best-rated data extraction platforms on both G2 and Capterra. | Monitor your runs With our latest monitoring features, you always have immediate access to valuable insights on the status of your web scraping tasks. |
Export to various formats Your datasets can be exported to any format that suits your data workflow, including Excel, CSV, JSON, XML, HTML table, JSONL, and RSS. | Integrate Xcrawl to your workflow You can integrate your Xcrawl runs with platforms such as Zapier, Make, Keboola, Google Drive, or GitHub. Connect with practically any cloud service or web app. | You focus on core product features Xcrawl is built by developers, so you'll be in good hands if you have any technical questions. Our Discord server is always here to help! |
Never get blocked Every plan (free included) comes with Xcrawl Proxy, which is great for avoiding blocking and giving you access to geo-specific content. |
Customers love us We truly care about the satisfaction of our users and thanks to that we're one of the best-rated data extraction platforms on both G2 and Capterra. |
Monitor your runs With our latest monitoring features, you always have immediate access to valuable insights on the status of your web scraping tasks. |
Export to various formats Your datasets can be exported to any format that suits your data workflow, including Excel, CSV, JSON, XML, HTML table, JSONL, and RSS. |
Integrate Xcrawl to your workflow You can integrate your Xcrawl runs with platforms such as Zapier, Make, Keboola, Google Drive, or GitHub. Connect with practically any cloud service or web app. |
You focus on core product features Xcrawl is built by developers, so you'll be in good hands if you have any technical questions. Our Discord server is always here to help! |
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