How to Extract Cryptocurrency Data with Listly
Introduction
For marketers and researchers alike, data collection has become one of the most tedious aspects of analysis. It takes a long time to extract large amounts of data from a website and into a spreadsheet for viewing. Listly solves this problem!
Listly is a leading web scraping tool that simplifies the data extraction process greatly. It makes it easy for you to generate an Excel spreadsheet with all of your data, pulling it cleanly from your desired web page. Today, we’re going to show you how to use Listly’s group extraction to collect data.
Installing Listly
The first thing you’ll need to do is install the Listly Chrome Extension. Head over to the Chrome Web Store and search for Listly. You’ll see an option to “Add Listly to Chrome.” Once you select that, you’ll see that Listly is now one of your Chrome extensions in the upper-right corner.
To pin the Listly extension, select the puzzle piece icon in the upper-right corner of your Chrome browser. Then, select Listly to pin the extension. Once you’ve done this, you’ll see the Listly logo appear as a permanent extension in your Chrome browser.
Now that you’ve pinned it, you simply need to make an account with Listly. Click the extension, and in the bottom right corner, you’ll see an option to Create an Account. Just follow the on-screen instructions, verify your email, and you will be ready to start using Listly!
Scraping a Website With Listly
Say you want to analyze the latest cryptocurrency data. It would take hours for you to manually extract data points for each different currency. That’s where Listly comes in. First things first, head on over to your target site! We’re going to use https://coinmarketcap.com/.
To begin scraping, navigate to the page you’d like to harvest. Then, click the Listly icon in the upper-right corner of your browser; select Listly Whole.
You’ll be taken to Listly’s data extraction page. Many websites split up their results across multiple pages, so you may need to do a group extraction to extract all the data you need. To do this, click the + Group icon in the upper-right corner of the page.
Once you’ve done this, you’ll be taken to the group extraction page. Here, you can paste the URLs of all the webpages you’d like to harvest. Once you submit the URLs, Listly will begin scraping each page for data.
You’ll be taken to your Listly dashboard, where you can track the progress of your extraction. At first, you’ll see the status of your recent extraction as Doing.
After some time, it will update to Success and you can view your data.
To export your data as an Excel spreadsheet, simply click the Success button and then select Group Excel. Listly will begin downloading your spreadsheet. All done!
Why Listly?
Listly has dozens of features that set it apart from other web scraping tools on the market.
For starters, Listly is always accessible as a handy Chrome extension. Other data extraction tools are often large, separate applications that you need to download.
Another great aspect of Listly is its Group Extraction mode. This key feature allows you to scrape multiple webpages at once and export them as a single spreadsheet. This makes it easy and straightforward to harvest large amounts of data quickly.
There are a few automatic features in Listly, as well, such as the Auto-Scroll, Auto-Save, and the Auto-Click features. These central aspects of Listly reduce the amount of work you need to do to harvest data, automatically clicking, scrolling, and saving data as you go!
Listly makes it easy to harvest data. Try it out today!
