Web Scraping & Automation
Overview
Devin is your tireless web scraping assistant. It can build web scrapers or even do repetitive web research and information gathering tasks itself!
Use Cases
- Web scraping and data collection
- Automated data extraction
- Converting scraped data to structured formats
- Handling both static and dynamic web content
- Browser automation for repetitive tasks
- Building automated data collection pipelines using the External API
Example Prompts
Example Sessions
Emoji Data Processing
Scrape Emojis
Learn how to parse and convert emoji Unicode data from GitHub repositories into human-readable formats. This session demonstrates working with JSON data sources and string manipulation for emoji processing.
https://app.devin.ai/sessions/4f8a7b129820493b9c0ca140cddede50
YouTube Content Extraction
Scrape YouTube Playlist
Discover how to programmatically extract video metadata from YouTube playlists. This session covers using Python to access video titles, descriptions, and other playlist information while respecting YouTube’s terms of service.
https://app.devin.ai/sessions/8c6edbbb0bce4b70acd09255e1994c0b
E-commerce Data Collection
Scrape Ebay Data
Learn techniques for gathering product information from eBay listings at scale. This session explores automated web scraping approaches for collecting prices, descriptions, and seller information while handling pagination and rate limiting.
https://app.devin.ai/sessions/dc70fe0649cb4041852da384e65d42be