Web Scraping with GPT-4 Vision AI + Puppeteer is Mind-Blowingly EASY!

[@zeeeeeman]

This is such a timely video - i'm doing something similar to resurrect a website from the wayback machine.

[@rakysreplays8259]

The best video I've seen about web scraping

[@shineymcshine]

Thanks for the JS example, everyone else has scraping tutorials in Python

[@beemerrox]

Wow. this video provides GREAT value. Just in time for what I´m doing now. Thanks mate!

[@hxxzxtf]

🎯 Key Takeaways for quick navigation: 00:00 *🌐 Web scraping has been revolutionized by AI, particularly with the latest Vision AI model, making data extraction more efficient.* 01:07 *💻 Manually copying HTML and using Chat GPT for extraction is one method, but OpenAI's API offers programmable solutions for scalability.* 02:16 *🔄 Using Puppeteer with Bright Data's scraping browser helps circumvent website restrictions and rate limiting during scraping.* 05:33 *🖥️ Puppeteer allows for easy scraping of HTML content, but there's a need to manage and clean up the extracted data before analysis.* 08:35 *💡 Extracting only necessary data from HTML can optimize costs when using OpenAI's models for analysis.* 12:17 *💰 Text-based scraping methods can be cost-effective, but they require ongoing maintenance due to HTML structure changes.* 14:49 *📸 Utilizing OpenAI's GPT-4 Vision API enables data extraction from screenshots, potentially offering a more robust solution for complex web scraping tasks.* 17:52 *🖼️ Using base64 encoding allows passing images to models, enhancing data processing capabilities.* 18:49 *💸 Consider cost-effectiveness when choosing between complex HTML-based or text-based approaches for web scraping.* 19:58 *🎚️ Adjusting image resolution can significantly decrease token usage in web scraping, but it may increase the likelihood of errors.* 20:53 *🖼️🔄 Balance image resolution and price when utilizing Vision API for web scraping, as higher resolution images incur higher costs.* 21:19 *🧹 Clean up HTML before web scraping to reduce token usage and ensure accuracy in results.* 22:57 *🤖 Explore advanced features of AI tools, such as identifying clickable elements, to enhance web scraping automation.* Made with HARPA AI

[@reidevanson181]

what an amazing video - like its so niche but so useful

[@ByteGrad]

Glad you liked it

[@benhasanaltun]

Thanks for sharing!

[@SupCortez]

Thank you infinitely for sharing this masterclass lesson with the universe for free. Subbed

[@niclas.pandey]

thank you a lot ♥

[@Lars16]

This is a great video. But the problem with scraping has hardly ever been parsing the HTML or maintaining the parsers. The biggest problem is efficiently accessing websites that actively try to block you by gating their content being a login or captchas. Then comes IP blocking (or worse data obfuscation) if you Scrape their website in a large volume.

[@binhtruongdac2861]

That’s why you need smth like Bright Data, yes, it’s not free unfortunately

[@karenapatch1952]

Octoparse can deal with this, and it's free. No thanks

[@beemerrox]

@@karenapatch1952 Thanks! Didnt know, looks awesome!

[@Andrew-qc8jh]

yeah this is pretty cool to see but it doesn't look that helpful in comparison to methods using beautifulsoup.

[@dmitriydorogonov7918]

Perfect video, thanks

[@juliushernandez9855]

Can you create a video how to deploy puppeteer and next js to vercel?

[@justcars2454]

When doing web scraping but at a large scale it will be so much expensive, its better to use chatgpt or a better llm, trough its api, and automatilcy making chatgpt handle the errors untill it find the perfect code, its better if it can try finding hidden api endpoints first then building the script for the website based on that enpdoint .... And all this automatily, you just need to make chatgpt, be able to correct itself, and making scripts by itself and run it on your pc, and handle errors untill getting the exact script that succefully scrape what you want.

[@yaboy7120]

hidden api endpoints are your best friend 😊

[@felipeblin8616]

Great video. Some question though. What about hallucinating? How can be sure is not doing it?

[@RobShocks]

Have you thought about or tried using a local model to scrape, it would save all the costs

[@Zaddy_Woods]

Could you explain a little more please?

[@dupatrio9305]

Where can I learn basic coding from scratch to be able to do that?

[@hishamazmy8189]

amazing

[@imranhrafi]

It's interesting, but what if I want pagination? I will still need to select next button in old way. Is there any other way of doing the pagination?

[@MrVliegendepater]

scrape all url's from all sitemaps and then define how many levels deep you like to go... you will get more info than needed but it will do the job. If you put your html contento to markdown and secondly embed the markdown content into a vector database, you could query anything on the content.

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[@jameskayihura1675]

Let’s say I want to scrape LinkedIn mentions. Basically LinkedI will request authentifications. Can this be applied to my question? Thanks

[@amitjangra6454]

I am scrapping (dropping html) with python code with selenium (aprrox 60,000 articles) and later creating vector embeddings for Llama 3 and asking it to write article for me.

[@richerite]

Do you have a GitHub link? What did you mean write article

[@5minutes106]

We're you able to scrape 60,000 articles without getting your IP address blocked ? That's impressive if you did

[@OnlyUseMeEquip]

@@5minutes106 obviously not, you just rotate proxies

[@Garejoor]

can crewAI do this as well?

[@gregsLyrics]

and how do you get to the next page to scrape?

[@amadeuszg1491]

I am interested in creating a price comparison website featuring approximately 10-20 shops, each offering around 10,000 similar products. Unfortunately, these shops do not provide APIs for direct access to their data. What would be the most efficient approach to setting up such a website while keeping maintenance costs reasonable?

[@Braincompiler]

Make it like the other comparison sites and provide an upload for CSV, XML and so on or YOU provide the API for them so their shop systems can push the data ;) Crawling by yourself is the last option and could be made with XPath and stuff.

[@amadeuszg1491]

@@Braincompiler Yes, but in this case store needs to send me the csv, xml file with their products. What if they dont?

[@Braincompiler]

@@amadeuszg1491 Yes of course. If your comparison site has a benefit for them be sure they will.

[@abhisycvirat]

I did this 6 years ago, scraped each website and compared the price using SKU

[@水手大力-y8l]

elegant

[@subhranshudas8862]

how do you handle paginated data?

[@binhtruongdac2861]

You just need to use the URL with page number in query params then run for loop to request multiple html page

[@LifeTrekchannel]

How to do this using Braina AI? Braina can run GPT-4 Vision.

[@dmytroocheretianyi7577]

Perhaps it will be cheaper on Claude.

[@Kamil_Aqil]

10/10

[@hellokevin_133]

Hey man, mind if I ask what programming languages you know other than Javascript/TS ?

[@laihan4469]

How a full stack dev work with AI?

[@ThePriceIsNeverRight]

This is good but costly to maintain 💸

[@UserAliyev]

First

[@semyaza555]

2nd

[@antronx7]

So is this what modern software engineers do these days? Write scripts to glue paid services together?

[@Fatman305]

Yeah. Makes zero sense... Paying for each scraped page is probably one of the worst ways of doing this. I guess it's fine if your total bill is very low, but really, for serious work it would make way more sense to ask the AI how to store these pages locally and analyze that local data...locally...

[@laughremixsquad]

🫡 those 90,000 tokens. Thanks you for your sacrifice. 😢