Datasets & Web Scraper IDE
Datasets
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Filtering a Dataset: How to Work with Each Function
When working with a large dataset, filtering can be a powerful tool to help you focus on the most relevant information for your analysis. In this documentation, we'll walk you through how to use the following functions to filter a ...
Getting started with Web Scraper IDE
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SLA - incident plan Full SLA
FULL SLA Type Examples ETA General Support Questions How to set up the delivery preferences How to set up subscription Up to 4 business hour Infrastructure Service offline Unable to initiate collection Delivery failu...
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SLA - incident plan Self Serve
Self Serve Type Examples Time till response ETA Remarks General Support Questions 1 business hours up to 1 business day T1 online support Infrastructure Service offline Unable to initiate Collection Delivery failure...
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What is the Data Collector?
Data Collectors are automated tools that enable businesses to automatically collect all types of public online data on a mass scale, while heavily reducing in-house expenses on proxy maintenance and development. The Data Collector ...
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What is Data Collector IDE?
Data Collector's IDE is its integrated development environment. The IDE is a Public web data on any scale at your fingertips, you can: Build your collector in minutes Debug and diagnose with ease Bring to production quickly Brows...
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What is an “input” when using a Data Collector?
When collecting data, your “input” are the parameters you'll enter to run your collection with. This can include keywords, URL, search items, product ID, ASIN, profile name, check in and check out dates, etc.
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What is an “output” when using a Data Collector?
The output is the data that you've collected from a platform based on your input parameters. You'll receive your data as JSON/NDJSON/CSV/XLSX.
Quick Tour of Web scraper IDE
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How to start using the data collection tool
There are two ways to use the data collection tool : - Develop a self-managed collector on your own - Request a managed collector
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Develop a self-managed collector
To develop a custom collector using our Integrated development environment (IDE), you will need to insert an URL and start interacting with the development environment using Javascript language. Step 1 - Start from scratch You can ...
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Request a managed collector
To request a custom collector, fill out a form so we can understand what you want to collect and in what structure you’d like to receive the data. Step 1 - Create and define the project A : Name the projectB : Select a Project Own...
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I requested that you build a new Data Collector. How can I confirm that someone is working on it?
You'll receive an email that the developer is working on your new Data Collector, and you will be notified when your collector is ready. Status of the request can also be found on your dashboard :
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Data Collector Dashboard
Any collector you create using a template or a custom collector will appear on your Data Collector dashboard. Dashboard overview : - Free trial : As part of the 7-day free trial, you’re entitled to 1,000-page loads- Update availab...
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Dashboard - Collector action menu
The collector action menu allows performing different actions with the collector. Initiate by API - start a data collection without having to enter the control panel Initiate manually - Bright Data's control panel makes it easy t...
Data Type & Delivery
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How to find your Google Cloud Private Key
1. Go to the Google Cloud Platform Console home page - https://console.cloud.google.com/ 2. Expand the menu by Google Cloud Platform, and click IAM & Admin. 3. Click ‘Service accounts’. 4. Choose an existing service account from t...
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Can I download a media file with Data Collector? Is there an extra cost for downloading media files?
Yes, you can download and deliver media files with Data Collector. A media file is charged as one page load. * Reminder: Screenshots of pages are not considered a page load; only image resources are charged as page loads. How...
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What are the available formats for datasets?
JSON, NDJSON, CSV, and XLSX.
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What are the delivery methods for collected data?
Your data can be delivered to you by email, Webhook, Amazon S3, Google Cloud Storage, SFTP, and Microsoft Azure.
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How to change delivery method to webhook
On the Data Collector main page of the Control Panel, click the expand window icon in the delivery method window to adjust your settings. Choose Webhook in the Deliver my data by optionCopy your URL from webhook.site and paste it i...
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What happens if I select to get my data "on a job completion"?
Send a bulk of requests and receive your data when it's all ready.
Web scraper IDE - Coding Environment and Tutorials
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IDE Page
A : See more examples - Examples of template code that our collector engineers built. B : Add another step (stage) - It is useful to add stages when you want to collect data from multiple pages. For example, in case you want to co...
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Coding environment - IDE Interaction code
These are all of the codes that you can do with the IDE input - Global object available to the interaction code. Provided by trigger input or next_stage() calls navigate(input.url); navigate - Navigate the browser session to a UR...
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Coding environment - IDE Parser code
These are all of the codes that you can do with the IDE input - Global variable available to the parser code let url = input.url; $ - An instance of cheerioFind more information on the cheerio website. $('#example').text() $('$ex...
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Finding element selectors
In order to target an element (to click it or pull text out), you need to specify the element with a CSS selector. A CSS selector can match one or more items on the page. Most commands in the interaction code will require a selecto...
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Building element selectors
Selectors are built out of 4 basic components: p : the element type selector. This example will match any <p></p> element on the page [href] : square brackets is an attribute selector. This example will match any element with the ...
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jQuery expressions
You can use jQuery-like expressions in interaction code. For instance: wait($('selector')); // wait for this element to appear click($('selector')); // click on this element after it appears // wait for an element that matches the ...
Troubleshooting
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I updated input/output schema of my managed collector. Can I use it while BrightData updates my collector?
When input/output schema is updated, the collector needs to be updated to match new schema. If the collector is in work and not updated yet, you'll see 'Incompatible input/output schema' error. UI : Via API : {"error":{"code":"...
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If I face an issue with a Data Collector, what should I do?
Select “Report an issue” from the Bright Data Control Panel. Once you report your issue, an automatic ticket will be assigned to one of our 14 developers that monitor all tickets on a dailybasis. Make sure to provide details of wha...
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When “reporting an issue” about the Data Collector, what information should I include in my report?
Please provide the following information when reporting an issue: Select the type of problem you're facing (for example: getting the wrong results/missing data points/the results never loaded/delivery issue/ UI issue/collector is ...
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How can I debug real time collectors?
We store the last 1000 errors inside the virtual job record so you can see example inputs that were wrong (there's a CP button to view the errors in the IDE). The customer should already know which inputs were wrong because they go...