Web scraping answers, without the sales fog.

An AI web scraper lets you describe the fields you want, such as title, price, rating, availability, or URL, and returns structured rows without asking you to write CSS selectors or XPath. The AI part should reduce setup work. It does not remove the need to check the output.

For a one-time job, begin with one representative URL and the smallest useful field list. Inspect the returned rows, then add more URLs after the first page works. ScrapeNow is built around that short path. See the complete beginner workflow.

No. In ScrapeNow, fields such as name, price, or company URL become the requested output schema. More advanced platforms may expose selectors or workflow actions when you need precise, reusable automation.

Use short names that describe one value per column. Product title, current price, and stock status are more useful than “get everything.” Test several rows before expanding the schema.

ScrapeNow currently supports Windows 10 and Windows 11. It uses Google Chrome when available and can fall back to Microsoft Edge. macOS is planned but is not released yet.

Yes. Foreground and Assisted capture let you load the rendered page, apply filters, scroll, accept cookies, navigate tabs, or prepare another visible state before capture. Read the dynamic website workflow.

Yes, when you are authorized to access and process the page. You sign in inside a visible local browser. ScrapeNow captures the state you reached without sending your website password or browser cookies to hosted extraction. See scraping behind a login.

Assisted capture lets you complete a cookie prompt or CAPTCHA yourself before capture continues. ScrapeNow does not solve or bypass CAPTCHAs and access controls for you.

Yes. Add multiple URLs to one run and apply the same field list across them. Consistent fields keep the combined result tabular. Review the multiple URL guide before running a large list.

ScrapeNow can discover likely pagination links for you to review. The current release does not promise a fully automatic crawl-and-extract loop across every pagination pattern, infinite scroll, or “Load more” implementation.

Not as a first-class list-to-detail workflow yet. You can supply known detail URLs, but automatic deep scraping from a list page into every linked record remains on the product roadmap. Octoparse, Browse AI, ParseHub, or Thunderbit may be a clearer fit when that workflow is required today.

Yes. Completed structured rows can be reviewed in the app and exported as CSV or JSON. CSV fits flat spreadsheet data; JSON is often better for nested or multi-valued fields.

Yes. ScrapeNow keeps local run history and lets you clone a previous configuration. It does not yet record and replay a complete sequence of browser actions.

ScrapeNow is free to install. Eligible new accounts receive 500 welcome credits. Hosted AI extraction consumes credits, and permanent one-time top-ups are available without requiring a subscription.

ScrapeNow temporarily processes reduced page content with hosted extraction infrastructure. Page size, requested output, and extraction effort affect usage. Credits make occasional use possible without requiring every user to maintain models or scraping infrastructure.

Your website sign-ins, cookies, browser sessions, run history, returned results, and exports stay on your computer. ScrapeNow sends reduced page content and the fields you requested for temporary hosted processing, then returns structured rows. Read the full privacy policy.

No. For authorized logged-in pages, you sign in inside the local browser. ScrapeNow’s hosted extraction does not receive the website password or your browser cookies.

No. Browser control, session material, history, results, and exports stay local, while reduced page content and your requested fields are processed temporarily by the hosted extraction service. We describe it as a clear local-browser and hosted-processing boundary, not as an entirely offline product.

Choose ScrapeNow for one-off or occasional Windows jobs where you want a short path from a real browser page to named fields and structured rows. It is especially useful when you need to prepare a dynamic or authorized logged-in page yourself.

Choose a mature automation platform when you need unattended schedules, change monitoring, cloud runners, proxy controls, team features, a public API, direct integrations, or a complete list-to-detail workflow today. Our web scraper comparison guide maps those use cases without pretending one product wins every job.

Not currently. ScrapeNow is strongest for user-initiated desktop runs. Browse AI, Octoparse, ParseHub, and Thunderbit all document scheduling or monitoring capabilities that may make them a clearer current choice for recurring unattended work.

Not as a general released capability today. Social connectors are planned, but every platform requires its own access, compliance, and reliability work. We will document only connectors that are actually released and supported.

No scraper can guarantee every website. ScrapeNow does not bypass authentication, CAPTCHAs, access controls, website restrictions, or data that is absent from the captured page. Use it only where you are authorized and respect applicable law and site terms.