Business directory extractor is Datacol-based module, which implements business directory companies information extraction. In this simple example data are exported to xlsx file(open in Excel to explore). You can also customize Datacol export settings to publish information to other file formats, database, CMS etc.
1. Install Datacol trial version; 2. Choose contact-parsers/business-directory-extractor.par in the campaign tree and click Start button to launch business directory extractor campaign.
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Before launching contact-parsers/business-directory-extractor.par you can adjust the Input data. Select the campaign in the campaign tree for this purpose. In this way you can setup links to business directory categories you need to extract companies from.
Please contact us if the business directory extractor will not collect data after you have made changes to the Starting URL list.
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3. Wait for data extraction results to appear. When you see the first results, you can force running campaign to stop (click Stop button).
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4. After campaign is finished/stopped you can find business-directory-extractor.xlsx file in Documents folder.
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If the source website blocks your IP-address (after blocking you will get no more extraction results), use proxy.
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[tab name=”Data processing and Export”] Data processing options for data, harvested by business directory extractor: