Quick Start

This walkthrough takes you from an open web page to a downloaded spreadsheet. It takes about two minutes. Every screenshot below is from CrawlPilot 3.1 running on a real Walmart search page.

Before You Begin

  • CrawlPilot is installed and pinned to your toolbar.
  • If the side panel shows a banner asking to connect, click it and allow access. See Permissions for why.

Step 1 — Open a Page with a List

Open any page that shows repeated items. Good first tries:

  • A shop's search or category page (Walmart, Amazon, eBay, Etsy)
  • A job board's search results
  • A directory or a blog's article list

Step 2 — Open CrawlPilot

Click the CrawlPilot icon in the toolbar. The side panel opens on the right.

CrawlPilot looks at the page first. On a listing page it tells you how many items it sees and offers to get them all:

CrawlPilot's home screen on a Walmart laptop search: "45 products on this page" with a "Get them as a table" button
The home screen suggests the right tool for the page you're on.

Click Get them as a table. If CrawlPilot doesn't suggest anything, click A list under Or choose what you want.

Step 3 — Point at One Item

Click Point at one item, then move your mouse over one product on the page. CrawlPilot highlights the whole list that the item belongs to and labels it with the number of items it found.

The picker highlighting Walmart's results grid, labelled "Results for laptop · 45 items"
Hover one card: the whole list lights up.

Click the item to select the list.

Tip
Click the middle of a card, not a button inside it. If the highlight covers too much or too little, press ↑ for a wider section or ↓ for a narrower one, then Enter to select. Esc cancels.

Step 4 — Check What Was Found

The panel shows how many items were found, how many details each one has, and a preview of the first rows. Below the button it says whether CrawlPilot will also follow a Next link to more pages.

The panel showing "45 items found, 16 details each" with a preview table and a "Get all 45 items" button
A preview of the rows, before anything runs.

Click Get all 45 items (or Get the data from N pages when there are more pages). To change how many pages to read, click Change.

Step 5 — Open Your Table

When the run finishes, the panel shows Done and saves the data to My data.

The panel showing "Done · 45 items from 1 page" with a "See your table" button
Every run is saved in My data.

Click See your table to open it in a full tab. There you can sort, filter, rename or remove columns, and edit cells.

Step 6 — Export

Click Export at the top right of the table and choose a format:

The data table of 45 Walmart laptops with the Export menu open: Excel, CSV, JSON, Google Sheets, Webhook, Airtable, Zapier
Excel, CSV and JSON download locally; Sheets, webhooks, Airtable and Zapier send rows where you point them.
  • Excel (.xlsx), CSV or JSON download a file.
  • Send to Google Sheets keeps a sheet you own up to date. See Settings to connect one.

You've finished your first extraction.

What's Next?

  • More pages: get a list that goes on over several pages with the List Extractor.
  • Many URLs: get the same details from a list of pages with the Page Extractor.
  • Your saved runs: open, download or run again from My data.
  • Images: save every picture on a page with the Image Downloader.

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