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How to Make Money with Web Scraping

Published on October 03, 2024by Botster

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If you’ve been looking for how to make money web scraping, then you’ve just landed on the best page you could ever have!

It doesn’t matter what you’ve read about whether or not you can make money scraping websites. In this no-BS guide, I will hold you by the hand and show you the exact things you’ll do and the tools you can use to make money as a professional web scraper!

From this step-by-step guide, you’ll learn:

How to make money scraping data from search engines
How to make money web scraping data from social networks
How to make money with web scraping ecommerce websites

If you’d like to see a video version of this entire guide, I’ve added it below and you can watch it in just 2 minutes:

As always, I’ve made this guide to be as practical as possible so as to aid learning and help you grasp the concepts more deeply.

Without a doubt, there are probably a million ways to make money off of the Internet, and web scraping is just one of them. But then, you’d be surprised to find out that there are hundreds of ways to make money scraping data on the Internet!

In this guide, we’ll focus on just 3 ways which if you take the time to master just by following this guide (and some others on this blog), you’d have both the knowledge and skills to build a digital business and run it from the comfort of your home.

Quickly, let’s get into the nitty-gritty of how to make money from web scraping without wasting any time.

How to make money from web scraping

How to make money scraping data from SEARCH ENGINES

Despite what people say about using AI for research and sourcing information on social media platforms like TikTok, the relevance of search engines is as strong as ever.

And since Google remains the largest search engine, that's where you have the easiest chance of making money with web scraping because there’s so much info to scrape from it. So yeah, we'll start from there.

This is the point where I introduce you to the Google Search Scraper, a bot that can automate the process of searching and extracting data from Google.

The Google Search Scraper is designed to perform a Google search based on a keyword you provide and return up to 500 results, meaning you can easily find up to 500 businesses, professionals, or leads in one go, depending on what you’re looking for!

You might be wondering, what makes this bot special for searching Google to make money with web scraping?

For one, it can help you focus your search on a specific location so you get highly targeted results. For two, it automatically extracts all the results from your search into a spreadsheet so you don't have to copy and paste them into Excel one after the other! Simply download the file in one click, and you're good to go!

See? You can easily run a lead gen agency powered by this bot alone, and you’d only still be scratching the surface of what you can do with automated bots.

Before you can access the Google Search Scraper and start to make money web scraping, you must first create a free Botster account:

Registration is fast and easy, and your credit card details won't be requested. Just register your account and use the Google Search Scraper to make money from web scraping by helping clients find whatever info they need to find in bulk.

As already mentioned, you can use this bot to find businesses or professionals for lead gen or competitor analysis. You can also use it to find products for product research and even general research for SEO purposes.

Quickly, here’s how to launch the Google Search Scraper for any web scraping job:

Open the Google Search Scraper’s start page by clicking on “Start bot:”

Give the job a name and set a project folder if you wish. I’ll name mine “University in USA” because that’s what I’ll be searching for now:

Enter a keyword for your search. If you target more than one market, I recommend creating separate jobs for each:

Select how many positions need to be extracted:

Select OS, device, and language:

Enter a location. Best if it’s the same one you’re targeting:

Set up notification preferences; remember to tick “Attach results to the notification email”:

Finally, click on “Start this bot” to launch the Google Search Scraper into action!

And voila! You’ve just completed the first strategy for how to make money using web scraping!

I bet that took you less than a minute. Now, all you have to do is wait about a minute for the bot to complete the search.

Video guide

If you’d rather learn how to use the Google Search Scraper by video, here’s a quick walkthrough I made for it:

Results

Once the bot run is complete, you can download it to your computer for easy analysis in Excel. This should give you something similar to this:

How to make money using this web scraper

Given that what I just showed you is how to launch the Google Search Scraper, how then can you make money web scraping in real life with its help?

First, I'll suggest reading my guide on how to find companies that need marketing help where I illustrate the practical and real-life usage of this bot for proper lead generation and growing a digital marketing agency.
I’ll also suggest reading another guide on how to find companies looking for distributors where I demonstrated how to use the Google Search Scraper to make a list of companies from Google and even social media.
Finally, read this guide on the best real estate lead generation software where I demonstrated how to use this bot to generate real estate leads in Dubai even if you’re not physically in Dubai.

Other search engine scrapers

The Google Search Scraper is not the only search engine scraper that can help you make money from web scraping. Here are a few others you can check out:

How to make money web scraping data from SOCIAL NETWORKS

The next method of how to make money with web scraping that I’d like to show you involves scraping or extracting data from social networks.

Of course, it’s no surprise that social media is soaked with people’s data, from their names to their addresses and even contact info. You don’t need to worry about whether you’re violating people’s rights because all the data we’ll be extracting are publicly listed.

In this step, I’ll be showing you exactly how to make money web scraping LinkedIn for corporate leads, and we’ll be using another automated bot known as the LinkedIn Profile Extractor.

As its name suggests, the LinkedIn Profile Extractor is designed to scan people’s profiles and extract all sorts of information it can find there, including skills, education, certifications, and contact info, among others.

The amazing thing about this bot is that it can fetch data from up to 1,000 profiles in just 2 minutes or less and pack every data it finds into a spreadsheet.

Follow the steps below to learn how to make money scraping data using the LinkedIn Profile Extractor:

Open the LinkedIn Profile Extractor’s start page and name your job.
Select how many job experiences to extract:

Select which data to extract:

Paste a list of LinkedIn profile URLs:

Now, launch the bot into action and that’s it! That’s how to make money web scraping LinkedIn; fully automated lead generation with very little input from you.