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How does website scraping work for non coders

I recently started a service based business for real estate professionals and want to have a cold call list. I want to scrape zillow for real estate agents names and numbers with listings of certain parameters and locations to a google sheet. What no code webscraping tools possibly made by indiehackers are out there

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    Simple Scraper is a nocode tools made by an indie hacker, looks easy to use, but not sure if it works for you or on zilliow

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      +1 Simple Scraper. Can even act as an API.

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        Can it scrape a lawyer directory too?

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          As long as it's visible in a web browser... you can scrape it.

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      Big thanks for recommending Simplescraper, Jason! @majid, @nanatoni - yeah it can handle Zillow and directories.

      If it seems like you can't capture the data you want, hit the chat on simplescraper.io and we'll get on it. Peace

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    Phantombuster works well for social media. I am not sure if there is particularly a tool for zillow. I have scraped zillow previously using Python, they have a lot of protection on their site but with proxies you should be able to do it. It's better to hire someone than using a no code tool for complex websites like zillow.

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      +1 for Phantombuster

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    Simplescraper and Parsehub are my go-to scrapers. Simple and gets the job done.

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    Maybe just pay a high school kid 10 bucks an hour to copy and paste?

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    I cannot believe that this came up in my feed at the same time that I came on here to ask the same question!!

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