Scrape Website Data to Google Docs
This automation intelligently crawls a website, uses AI to extract the main content from each page while ignoring boilerplate, and compiles it into a clean, well-organized Google Doc.
This automation acts as a smart web scraping agent. Here's how it works:
- It starts with a website URL you provide.
- It crawls the website by following internal links, up to a specified depth and page limit that you can control.
- On each page, it uses AI to identify and extract only the meaningful content, like article text and titles, while ignoring distracting elements like ads, navigation bars, and footers.
- It automatically creates a new Google Doc to store the results.
- After scraping each page, it immediately adds the extracted title and content to the Google Doc, creating a running report of its findings.
- The final document is neatly formatted with headings for each page, making the compiled information easy to read, share, and use.
Usage Ideas
- Market & Competitor Research: Scrape competitor websites or blogs to analyze their content strategy, product features, and pricing.
- Content Aggregation: Collect articles, blog posts, or news from various pages on a single topic into one document for easy reading.
- Knowledge Base Creation: Convert an online documentation site or internal wiki into a portable, searchable Google Doc for your team.
- Sales & Lead Generation: Extract company descriptions, services, and "About Us" information from prospect websites to prepare for sales calls.
Customization Ideas
You can easily adapt this template to fit your specific needs. The AI assistant can help you:
- Choose your destination: While it defaults to creating a Google Doc, you can ask the assistant to save the scraped content to other services like Notion, or send summaries to Slack.
- Extract what matters to you: The AI is trained to pull the main text content, but you can customize it to extract specific pieces of information, such as product prices, article authors, publication dates, or contact details.
- Control the scope: Easily configure the starting URL, how many pages to scrape, how many links deep to crawl, and whether to stay on the original website or follow links to subdomains.
- Format your output: Change the title, structure, and formatting of the final Google Doc to match your needs. For example, you can add your own introductory text or change how page titles and URLs are displayed.