Yellow pages scraper is Datacol-based module, which implements businesses information extraction (phone number, address etc). In our example data are saved to xlsx file. You can also adjust Datacol export settings to publish information to database, other file formats, CMS etc.
1. Install Datacol trial version; 2. Choose contact-parsers/yellowpages.com.par in the campaign tree and click Start button to launch Yellow pages extractor campaign.
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Before launching contact-parsers/yellowpages.com.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 Yellow pages request results you need to extract data from.
Please contact us if the Yellow pages scraper 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 yellowpages.com.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 Yellow pages extractor: