How I Used AI to Scrape 500 Pages in Just 5 Minutes!

Today I want to share something super cool that happened during my recent project. You know how web scraping usually takes forever to code? Like, spending 3–4 hours just writing and debugging code? Well, I managed to scrape 500+ pages in just 5 minutes!

first time it was a pain to write perfect prompts, but trust me — keep practicing and you’ll become a pro at this!

Photo by Phil Hodkinson on Unsplash

I needed to grab data from a one of the large users list website. We’re talking about hundreds of pages of people’s profiles containing their:

• Names
• Jobs and locations
• Professional details

Instead of breaking my head over the code, I thought, “Why not try using AI (LLM) for this?” Trust me, it was cool and worked great! Let me show you how I did it.

Breaking Down the Problem

I split the task into smaller parts and created specific prompts for each step: those are

1. Initial Setup Prompt
2. Login Page Navigation Prompt
3. Login Form Handling Prompt
4. Homepage Verification Prompt
5. Profile Data Extraction Prompt
6. Pagination Handling Prompt