Scraping sites with login?

[Blackker]

Hi everyone,


What's the best way to scrape gated content, once I have the login?

Gated content = you need to login or you won't see the content.

I guess DIY is the cheapest way, but as a nocoder I'm struggling with that. I'm trying building scripts with ChatGPT, and it sucks. Yesterday I wasted an entire day trying to build a super basic one, and it failed miserably – you get an error, ChatGPT gives a new script that should fix it, you get a new error and ChatGPT gives you a script similar or equal to the initial one that returned the first error. I've tried several different coding projects, and they all end up this way for some reason.

Thanks everyone!

 

[Ashk881]

Hi everyone,


What's the best way to scrape gated content, once I have the login?

Gated content = you need to login or you won't see the content.

I guess DIY is the cheapest way, but as a nocoder I'm struggling with that. I'm trying building scripts with ChatGPT, and it sucks. Yesterday I wasted an entire day trying to build a super basic one, and it failed miserably – you get an error, ChatGPT gives a new script that should fix it, you get a new error and ChatGPT gives you a script similar or equal to the initial one that returned the first error. I've tried several different coding projects, and they all end up this way for some reason.

Thanks everyone!

There are browser automation SaaS services out that do this for you.
Tools like Axiom.ai and such. You can easily find them with a Google search for *browser automation nocode*

Another alternative is paying a dev to build the tool for you. You will also need multiple accounts and proxies.

 

[Funiki]

Another post the same. Folks , Chat GPT its not a dev. It can build scripts or bots but is not a developer.

What would i suggest?
1- First , what websites are you scraping? Did they have a common CMS? Identify.
The login pages are static so your bot will only need to request that url first to login and then scrape the content
2 - Hire a dev to do this bot for you

 

[Blackker]

1- First , what websites are you scraping? Did they have a common CMS? Identify.

The website is build with React. No CMS

 

[Funiki]

The website is build with React. No CMS

React Js its a framework. Not a cms, that’s right. But you still have the 2nd point , the login page ?

 

[Blackker]

React Js its a framework. Not a cms, that’s right. But you still have the 2nd point , the login page ?

Yes, there's a login page.

How much do you think a bot like this could cost?

 

[proxygo]

try scrapebox - gsa

 

[EndlessWorlds]

if youre writing the code yourself, theres a couple of articles out there that tell you how to do it. its pretty simple

 

[darknexus]

To scrape gated content, first, log in to the website using your credentials. Then, use web scraping tools like Python with libraries like BeautifulSoup or Selenium to access the content behind the login. Make sure you're following the website's terms of service to avoid legal issues.

 

[Blackker]

To scrape gated content, first, log in to the website using your credentials. Then, use web scraping tools like Python with libraries like BeautifulSoup or Selenium to access the content behind the login. Make sure you're following the website's terms of service to avoid legal issues.

Thanks for the simple guide. I have two doubts:

1. You're saying that I have to manually login each time? No big deal, but what if I want this to go on autopilot?

2. I don't expect any website to allow unauthorized scraping of gated content. My guess is that all one can do is avoiding detection (proxies?)