AI Scraper
Learn how to use MrScraper's AI-powered scraper to extract data effortlessly with prompts.
MrScraper's AI Scraper lets you extract structured data from any web page by simply describing what you need — no coding or manual setup required. You provide a URL and a prompt, and the AI automatically analyzes the page, extracts relevant data, and returns the result in a structured format like JSON or CSV.
Tip
This feature is ideal for users and developers who want fast, flexible, and intelligent web scraping without writing rules or managing selectors.
When to Use the AI Scraper
Use the AI Scraper when you want to:
- Quickly extract data from a website without building a scraper manually
- Automate repetitive data collection tasks where precision is less critical
- Prototype or test scraping ideas before committing to a full custom workflow
- Extract data from websites with complex structures that are difficult to scrape manually
For large-scale, highly structured, or repetitive tasks that require full control, consider using the Manual Scraper instead.
AI Scraper Agents
MrScraper provides three specialized AI Scraper agents to handle different scraping scenarios:
| Agent | Description | Best Used For |
|---|---|---|
| General | Extracts data from a single page using one prompt. | Product detail pages, profile pages, article pages, or any one-off page extraction. |
| Listing | Scrapes multiple items from paginated or list-based content (products, categories, posts, listings). | Use on URLs that show lists of items, such as E-commerce category pages, blog indexes, directory listings, search results, and multi-item pages. |
| Map | Collects all internal and external links from the target URL. | Discover all URLs inside a page, Site structure mapping, and link audits. |
Scraper Modes
The AI Scraper offers two modes, allowing you to balance between cost efficiency and success rate when accessing websites.
| Mode | Description |
|---|---|
| Cheap Mode | More affordable and faster with basic retry schema, uses datacenter IPs, ideal for simple websites without heavy bot protection. |
| Super Mode | Higher success rate with premium rotating proxies residential, advanced retry schema with multiple fallback strategies, and automatic fallback to browser engine if other engines fail, making it more effective at bypassing bot detection and accessing protected websites. |
Recommendation
Start with Cheap Mode for testing. Switch to Super Mode if you encounter blocks or need higher reliability.
Screenshot Capture
You can enable screenshot capture to get a visual snapshot of the scraped page along with your data. This is useful for verifying results, debugging issues, or archiving page states.
Note
Screenshots are always captured in Super Mode, and are optional in Cheap Mode.
Proxy Settings
You can adjust your proxy country if the scraper encounters blocks during the initial run. Switching to a different region often helps maintain access to sites with strict geo or IP restrictions.
Tip
Changing proxy country can help bypass geo-restrictions or IP-based blocks.
Scraper API
Once your first scraping session is set up, the Scraper API lets you automate and scale the process—no need to run the chat interface manually each time.
Example Use Case
After creating a scraper for an Amazon search results page that lists multiple products, you can reuse it via the API to scrape new URLs under the same domain and extract all product listings with the same structure at a fraction of the cost.