What is Web Scraping and how to scrap phone numbers from websites?
Web scraping is a process of extracting data from a website and save it into a structured form like Excel or CSV formats. There are so many websites where millions of phone numbers are available of users either for business or people but they are not in a proper format, website format doesn’t allow you to download all these phone numbers in a single click than web Scrapers doing that work, Website scraper can extract the thousands of people phone number in few minutes and allows you export it into excel spreadsheet, the website which are most popular and have millions of people and business data few of them are yellow pages, White pages, Yelp, yell, etc.What is Anysite Scraper
Anysite Scraper is web scraping software that extracts the data from almost all websites, People use this software mainly to extract contact information from public directories like the yellow page, white pages, yell, yelp, etc, it is a most powerful software that has more than a hundred prebuilt web scrapers ready to use, for example when you open this software you will see list of prebuilt software with website name like if you are looking to scrape data from yellow pages you will find “yellow pages Extractor” there, you can run all these extractors to scrape the data, you can scrape contact information like, People Names/ Business title Phone numbers Email addresses Physical addressesHow to use Anysite Scraper to extract thousands of phone number
Anysite Scraper is pretty simple to use to extract the data, in this case, we will extract phone numbers from the Anywho website which provides a free online people search directory where you can find people by their name, address and phone numbers, let’s understand in simple steps.Step1: Download Anysite Scraper and install it.
Step2: Open the Anysite Scraper software
Sep3: New Desktop window will open search Anywho in “Paid Websites Scraper”
Step4: Click on Run Extractor after finding anywho scraper.
Step5: Now you can put any name in the search bar of the website to find phone numbers.
Step6: Click on the Search button of the window upper left side now
Now the software will start extracting the data, it will scrape all the result after crawling all webpages of the particular name which was searched in the website. You can import this contact information into excel or CSV form after clicking on the save button on the window. In this way to you can scrape thousands and thousands of phone number from these websites,