Building a directory or catalog usually starts with the least exciting part: getting the initial set of listings — names, links, prices, categories — into a file you can actually work with.
Whether you're seeding a new directory site, building a product catalog, or putting together a competitor list, the starting point is usually the same: a source page with a lot of repeating listings, and a need to get the key fields — name, link, price, category — into a file you can actually sort, filter and import elsewhere.
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Get ClickScrape — $5.99 one-timeClickScrape gets you the data into a file. It does not connect to your directory site or CMS and push listings in for you — that import step, whether it's a bulk-upload tool your platform provides or a manual copy from the CSV, is on your end. Think of ClickScrape as solving the "getting the source data out" half of the problem, not the "getting it into my site" half.
For a one-time or occasional data pull to seed or refresh a directory, that's a good fit. For continuously synced listings, you'd want a platform actually built for scheduled integration.
No — ClickScrape exports a CSV, Excel or JSON file. Getting that data into your actual directory site or CMS is a separate import step you handle yourself, whether that's a bulk-upload feature in your platform or a manual paste.
Whatever's visible on the source page — commonly business or product name, website link, price, category, and an image. You click each field once on an example listing and ClickScrape repeats that across the rest of the page.
You point it at one page at a time, but it collects every matching record on that page and keeps going through that page's own pagination or load-more as you browse. For listings spread across genuinely separate source pages, you'd run it again on each one and combine the exports.
It's built for on-demand use — a one-time or occasional pull works well. It's not a scheduled or automatic sync, so keeping a directory continuously current would mean re-running it yourself when you want fresh data.
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