Artificial intelligence has made many tasks significantly easier in the last few years, and web scraping is among them. This list presents the best web scraping AI tools anyone can use to quickly and easily collect useful data from just about any public website.
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- 1. Kadoa
- 2. Bardeen
- 3. Browse AI
- 4. WebScraping.AI
- 5. ScrapeStorm
- 6. AnyPicker
- Build Own Custom AI Web Scraping Tool
1. Kadoa
Price: Free with premium options
As someone who’s spent quite a few hours coding custom scrapers, I was immediately impressed by Kadoa’s ability to understand and extract data from unstructured websites with minimal setup. This alone makes AI web scraping such a wonderful upgrade over traditional scraping.
The intuitive interface allowed me to configure complex scraping tasks without writing a single line of code, making it an excellent choice for both beginners and experienced developers who want to save time. There’s also a Chrome extension that lets you select data by simply clicking it.
During my testing, I intentionally made changes to some target websites, and Kadoa’s AI automatically detected and adapted to these changes. This feature alone can save hours of maintenance work, especially for large-scale scraping projects.
2. Bardeen
Price: Free with premium options
Bardeen has secured a place on this list of the best web scraping AI tools, thanks to its AI Browser Agents. This feature allows you to extract information from websites using natural language commands, just as a human would.
I used an AI Browser Agent to scrape a local news site and was able to easily set up an automation that scraped data from Google search results and automatically populated a Google Sheets document.
While Bardeen is currently only available as a Chrome extension, which may be limiting for some, its simplicity and capabilities more than make up for this constraint.
3. Browse AI
Price: Free with premium options
Browse AI allows you to create custom web scrapers simply by interacting with websites as you normally would. The browser extension observes your actions and automatically generates a robot that can repeat those steps, making it incredibly easy to extract data from even the most challenging websites.
Once you have scraped the desired data, you can count on Browse AI’s machine learning algorithms to automatically detect and correct inconsistencies in scraped data.
Getting started with Browse AI is remarkably straightforward, with a process designed to have users up and running in about five minutes. After signing up for a free account (no credit card required), install the browser extension, and follow the step-by-step instructions to learn how to train your own AI scraping helper.
4. WebScraping.AI
Price: Personal plan at $42/month, Plus plan at $99/month, Startup plan at $249/month
WebScraping AI provides a powerful API-based scraping service, so it’s better suited for developers and tech-savvy users who want more control over their scraping processes, without dealing with the complexities of proxy management and CAPTCHA solving.
Since the service uses real browsers to render pages, even many traditional anti-scraping measures can’t stop it, and the scraped content always reflects what a user would see.
I was impressed by the ability to ask WebScraping.AI questions about the scraped page and receive AI-generated answers. Just know that the cost of this AI web scraping tool is measured in credits. However, users should note that while this AI integration is powerful, it does consume more API credits than standard scraping requests.
5. ScrapeStorm
Price: Free with premium options
ScrapeStorm sets itself apart from some other tools by offering a desktop application for Windows, Mac, and Linux. Built by ex-Google crawler team members, this AI-powered visual web scraping tool combines the ease of use found in Browse AI with the power and flexibility of WebScraping AI.
ScrapeStorm’s Smart Mode uses artificial intelligence algorithms to automatically identify list data, tabular data, and pagination buttons without manual configuration. There’s also the Flowchart Mode, which allows users to create scraping rules through visual click operations.
ScrapeStorm allows users to export scraped data to various formats, including Excel, CSV, TXT, and HTML, as well as databases like MySQL, MongoDB, and SQL Server. This flexibility makes it an excellent choice for users who need to integrate scraped data into existing workflows or databases.
6. AnyPicker
Price: Free with premium options
AnyPicker is a Chrome extension that brings the power of AI-assisted web scraping directly into your browser, and it’s always just one click away.
The AI-powered smart detection feature automatically identifies data patterns on web pages so that you can easily select and extract the information you need. Websites that require login credentials are no problem for AnyPicker. Simply log in to the website you want to scrape, activate AnyPicker, and start extracting data.
I haven’t experienced issues with the software, but you should test the tool using the free plan before buying a premium plan.
Build Own Custom AI Web Scraping Tool
For those with programming experience who want more control over their web scraping process, it’s possible to build a custom AI-powered web scraping tool by combining traditional web scraping libraries, like Beautiful Soup, with modern AIs through APIs, such as those from OpenAI or Anthropic.
The basic process involves using Beautiful Soup to scrape raw data from websites, then sending that data to an AI API for processing. The AI can help with tasks like data cleaning, entity recognition, sentiment analysis, and even generating summaries of scraped content.
If you’re reading this because you’re a website owner concerned about protecting your site from web scraping, this guide describes several solutions to protect your website from AI scraping.
Image credit: DALL-E. All screenshots by David Morelo.
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David Morelo –
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David Morelo is a professional content writer in the technology niche, covering everything from consumer products to emerging technologies and their cross-industry application. His interest in technology started at an early age and has only grown stronger over the years.
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