URL (Web Scraping)

Web Scraping is used to bring data directly into Explorazor to perform analysis and generate insights.

To fetch data from the internet you can use a URL connector to web scrape a website.

  1. Go to Datasets / Add New / Fetch Data from URL
  2. Enter a Source Name for the data being retrieved, a name for the dataset to be uploaded on Explorazor
  3. Click ADD URL Enter values of the variables required to scrape data from the source website
    • Name - A unique name for the Table
    • URL - Website URL
    • xPath - Location with information (table) on the webpage / full XPath
    • Header-Index - Default (0)
    • Skip-Begin - Default (1) To skip the Header
    • Skip-End - Default (0)

To locate the xPath value - Right click on the webpage and click Inspect In the window that opens up locate table-summary, right click on it and then click on Copy and Copy full xPath

  1. Click Submit The table will be added.
  2. Click View tables
  3. In the Web Scraping screen click Confirm to submit the table
  4. The saved Data source appears under Datasets