Changelog

14 Nov 2024

2 bots released

We've added two new bots to our collection:

Bot updates

The Google Review Extractor can now export review URLs in addition to the review texts.

Test the new feature now!

New videos

Follow these tutorials and bring your advertising campaigns on a whole new level:

Watch these guides and automate your SEO tasks:

Extract LinkedIn data to Excel:

And there are more!

13 Nov 2024

Bot release

Export TikTok followers to Excel in bulk.

Our brand-new TikTok Followers Extractor is here!

Test the new tool NOW!

11 Nov 2024

Find website pages for a list of company names or people in bulk.

Our brand-new Company Website Finder is here!

Test the new tool NOW!

14 Oct 2024

Bot release

We've released the brand-new TikTok Profile Extractor! This tool can export extract information from public TikTok profiles to Excel in bulk.

Test the new tool NOW!

Video tutorials

Discover real-life bot use cases in our quick video tutorials:

07 Oct 2024

Export TikTok profile data to Excel in bulk.

Our brand-new TikTok Profile Extractor is here!

Test the new tool NOW!

30 Sep 2024

Bot release

We've released the brand-new LinkedIn Company Post Extractor! This tool can export LinkedIn company posts to Excel in bulk.

New feature

You can now add notes to your Botster jobs. Blue, green yellow or pink - which color do you like best?

Video tutorials

Watch our short and easy-to-follow video tutorials with diverse bot use cases:

17 Sep 2024

We've just released the brand-new LinkedIn Company Post Extractor! This tool can export LinkedIn company posts to Excel in bulk.

Test the new tool NOW!

14 Sep 2024

Company search strategies

Find companies in bulk. In most cases, just entering a keyword is enough!

New videos

Watch our tutorials and automate a wide range of routine tasks!

31 Aug 2024

New bots

We've released two brand-new LinkedIn tools:

Test the new tools NOW!

New videos

Watch our tutorials on how to use automation bots for a wide range of purposes!

Ready-made bots

Customizable bots

Explore vast scraping opportunities offered by our No-Code Bot Builder. It can:

27 Aug 2024

Good news for those who use our LinkedIn bots! Now you can:

Test the new tools NOW!

31 Jul 2024

HR automation tools

Speed up your recruiting workflow! No programming skills needed:

New videos

Ready-made bots

Automate repetitive everyday tasks with our smart tools:

Customizable bots

Our customizable No-Code Bot Builder can do amazing things such as:

And much more! View more examples on the No-Code Bot Builder's page.

14 Jul 2024

Automation tools for real estate agents

Automate your real estate tasks! No coding knowledge needed:

New videos

Ready-made bots

Customizable bots

Here are two examples of what you can do with our customizable No-Code Bot Builder (but there are more - follow our updates on LinkedIn):

14 Jun 2024

New bot

Now you can extract all links from a web page to Excel in seconds with our brand-new Page Link Extractor!

Outreach tips

If you're in search of emails and physical addresses, these blog posts are for you!

New videos

Watch our latest video tutorials. You can access them on the bot pages whenever you have questions about how to launch the bots:

Customizable bots

Learn how to use the No-Code Bot Builder for:

Keyword tools

SEO tools

31 May 2024

New bot

Are you a Microsoft fan? This novelty is for you! Export Bing search results to Excel in bulk with our brand-new tool - the Bing Search Scraper!

Test the new tool NOW!

Bot updates

New videos

Watch our latest video tutorials. With them, using our bots becomes much easier:

E-commerce tools

28 May 2024

Are you a Microsoft fan? This novelty is for you! Export Bing search results to Excel in bulk with our brand-new tool - the Bing Search Scraper!

Test the new tool NOW!

14 May 2024

Radius search

Have you ever wished there was a tool that could automatically fetch every lawyer company or any other business within 1 km of your office in just a minute?

There is no better tool for that than the Google Maps by Radius Finder! Not only does it find the desired companies, but it also exports their details into a spreadsheet.

Test this powerful tool now!

New videos

Watch our brand-new video tutorials. They explain in under 2 minutes how to use our most popular tools:

YouTube growth tips

30 Apr 2024

List Scraper released

Need to scrape data from paginated websites such as lists of events, product catalogs and more? Use the newly released No-code List Scraper that is perfect for this purpose!

New videos

Watch our newly created video guides on how to use different bots. Watching them will take you no longer than 2 minutes!

Lead generation tips

22 Apr 2024

Need to scrape data from paginated websites such as lists of events, product catalogs and more? We've just released the No-code List Scraper that is perfect for this purpose!

Test the new tool NOW!

31 Mar 2024

New bot for ALL your scraping needs!

We're happy to release the brand-new No-Code Bot Builder - an all-in-one tool for scraping virtually any data from virtually any site! Remember that we value privacy above all and extract only publicly available data. You can use this tool whenever a regular bot doesn't extract the fields you need, or can't access the websites you require.

The No-Code Bot Builder allows Botster users to create their own custom bots that can:

  • Extract data from web pages
  • Monitor web content changes on a regular basis and receive updates

In the future, we're planning to add a feature for extracting structured data from catalogs (e-commerce or directories). Follow our updates!

New videos

We've prepared a bunch of new video guides on how to use Botster bots. Watch them and learn:

Follow for more!

Outreach hacks

Are you struggling to launch an effective bulk mailing campaign? We've got you covered:

20 Mar 2024

Have you been dreaming of a customizable bot builder? Here you are — a long-desired novelty from Botster! Our No-code Bot Builder is an all-in-one tool perfect for one-time data extraction as well as for regular monitoring. Works with all kinds of websites.

Test the new tool NOW!

And - yes, now you can extract absolutely any field from absolutely any site! No more limits!

14 Mar 2024

 Exporting hotel prices in bulk

Have you always spent hours checking hotel prices online? Now you can do it in minutes! With the help of the Booking.com Hotel Scraper, you can extract 100s of hotel prices in just a few clicks.

New video

Watch our new video guide on how to export YouTube video information to Excel in bulk with the YouTube Video Info Extractor.

Tools for guest blogging

29 Feb 2024

Exporting product images from Amazon reviews

Amazon Sellers! Did you know you can export every review image and video posted by your buyers (or your competitors' buyers)? You can easily do this using the Amazon Review Extractor!

On the bot’s start page, tick “with media only”. The columns “Review image” and “Review video” will contain the links to the product photos and videos made by the buyers.

New video

Watch how you can monitor content theft and protect your copyright with 3 plagiarism image checker tools.

In this video, you’ll learn:

  • How to detect picture plagiarism using image URLs
  • How to disclose photo plagiarism using keywords
  • How to reveal new cases of image plagiarism in real-time mode
  • How to detect image leaks

The video spotlights the following tools:

Read our full guide on how to monitor photo plagiarism.

On the blog

Read our selection of posts on logistics automation:

14 Feb 2024

New bot

Make sure that all pages of your site are always up and running - monitor URL status codes in bulk with our powerful Batch Uptime Monitoring bot (just released!).

This tool periodically checks a URL's availability and sends a downtime alert to your email, Slack or Telegram whenever a URL responds with anything other than 200 (OK) status code.

New features

We're glad to announce that the LinkedIn Employee Finder is up and running again! This online tool will find a company’s employees on LinkedIn and export their data into a spreadsheet.

The improved bot can distinguish between current and former employees. Now it exports even more fields than before:

  • Input URL
  • Profile URL
  • Profile public identifier
  • Profile first name
  • Profile last name
  • Profile full name
  • Profile follower count
  • Profile occupation
  • Profile headline
  • Profile summar
  • Profile country
  • Profile country full name
  • Profile city
  • Profile state

Company search tips

If one of your regular tasks is company search, bring it to the next level with one of these strategies:

31 Jan 2024

New video feed

Learn to use our bots in literally half a minute! Watch our quick and easy-to-understand videos in the new feed at the bottom of the homepage (log out to see them).

Keyword research insights

Make up top-notch keyword lists with Botster! Together, let's find:

14 Jan 2024

Test the new bot and follow our expert lead generation tips for educators and home improvers!

New bot

The following bots now feature detailed launch instructions:

  • The Social Media Accounts Finder scans Google SERPs and extracts links to selected social networks for a list of company names or people that you provide.
  • The Outreach and Guestpost Explorer automatically parses Google Search results using special search operators to help you find sites that accept guest posting and link exchanges.

And the longed-for Booking Hotel Extractor is working again!

Smart leadgen techniques

This month, we're helping educators and home improvers get their clients:

28 Dec 2023

We wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! Here is a bunch of our New Year updates.

New bots

We've had a productive December and released 4 new bots:

  1. The URL to IP Address Converter allows you to get website IP address values in BULK for a list of URLs
  2. The City ZIP Code Lookup Tool finds US ZIP codes by city name and state in bulk. This bot works with US cities only πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ
  3. The OpenAI Items Categorizer classifies the given items with the appropriate group. Perfect for wholesalers
  4. The OpenAI Site Classifier classifies websites by topic

Outreach hacks

14 Dec 2023

Some important mid-December updates for you!

New features

  • The Google Image Scraper can now save the extracted images to your Google Drive. To make use of this new feature, follow these easy steps:
    • Connect your Google Drive with Botster
    • Select "Google Drive" before launching the bot
    • Tick "Files"
    • Start the bot!
  • The RSS Monitor bot can now filter the forwarded RSS feed records by keywords. For example, it can forward the RSS feed ONLY IF it contains a certain keyword. Also, it can ignore the feed if it contains undesired keywords.

Test these new cool features NOW!

Lead generation tips

People eagerly use our bots for lead generation. Learn how to do this in these niche examples:

New video content

Enjoy our smart video tutorials in the new format - we're now publishing quick and engaging YouTube Shorts!

Also, we've just launched a brand-new TikTok channel. Become one of our first followers!

30 Nov 2023

We've prepared a bunch of December updates for you!

New features

Our coders have largely updated the Bulk Website Screenshot Maker. Now it can:

  • Save the screenshots to your computer as single files or as a ZIP archive. To activate this option, connect your Google Drive with Botster
  • Export screenshots depending on the user's geo location
  • Extract screenshots in different image extensions (.png or .jpg)
  • Enhance snapshot quality by waiting for a while before capturing the screen
  • Automatically run on a periodic basis

Watch how to use the new features in an easy-to-follow video tutorial.

On the blog

Read our automation tips for Amazon sellers:

13 Nov 2023

Check out our mid-November updates!

New bot released

The Google Lens Image Extractor bulk-exports images and their source URLs from Google Lens search results.

New video tutorial

The Google Maps by Radius Finder now features a detailed video walkthrough.

On the blog

We've prepared a bunch of helpful tips on BULK company search. Read and learn:

22 Oct 2023

Bulk meta tag extraction

Meet the brand-new Meta Data Checker by Botster! It can easily grab the following data in bulk for a list of websites:

  • User URL
  • Title
  • Meta description
  • Follow
  • Favicon
  • Canonical
  • Meta keywords
  • Internal links count
  • External links count
  • Inbound links count
  • Images count
  • Scripts count
  • Title length
  • Description length
  • Charset
  • Generator
  • H1
  • H2
  • H3
  • H4
  • H5

New videos

Watch our newly designed video guides:

04 Sep 2023

For those of you whose work largely depends on our bots, we've prepared a bunch of important updates.


Exporting Google Maps data by radius

You can now launch the Google Maps by Radius Finder by pinning the starting point on the map directly. No need to look for the place_id or coordinates anymore!


Extracting DNS records

The Bulk DNS Lookup Bot can now skip certain records types to make your resulting files smaller and more convenient to analyze.


Outreach hacks

Read our expert tips on how to automate and facilitate your outreach campaign:

03 Jul 2023

If you are working with YouTube this post is for you!

Meet the upgraded YouTube bots and read our latest selection of lead generation tips for your YouTube channel.

Test the updated bots!

YouTube lead generation lifehacks

Read the tips on how to use YouTube for lead generation:

18 Jun 2023

If you're dealing with lead generation of any sorts – this email is for you. If not, well, you might learn something new today.

Folks who are dealing with automation and data harvesting are well aware that Google Maps can be turned into an endless source of valuable data, all you're going to need is a couple of reliable tools and a few know-hows.


Meet the bots!

  • The Google Local Business Finder scrapes Google Local results in bulk for a list of keywords. Use it to export all-embracing information about local businesses including your competitors.
  • The Google Maps Scraper extracts business information and contacts from Google Maps by keyword. Use it to make a phone database of your potential B2B clients in just a few minutes.
  • The Google Review Extractor exports user reviews from Google Maps. Monitor the newly appearing client reviews about your business with the help of this tool.
  • The Google Maps by Radius Finder scrapes places located within a certain radius. Only a keyword is needed!

Google Maps data extraction lifehacks

Some of our bots have hidden talents that you probably weren't aware of!

30 Apr 2023

If you often work with Google (and who doesn't), our latest updates are for you. And if, by any chance, you're in the hospitality business, we've prepared a bag of automation tricks for you as well.

Hot updates

Our bots are getting smarter and more convenient!

Radius search on Google Maps

Learn who's around with the help of the Google Maps by Radius Finder. This new tool performs a Google Maps radius search by keywords and returns up to 50 results per each query.

This bot can be used for:

  • Detecting and analyzing your nearest competitors
  • Making up lists of businesses
  • Searching for potential partners, etc.

Automation tips for the hospitality industry

Late spring and summer are the best time for traveling! Our blog posts will help you:

19 Apr 2023

Not a whole lot happened in the past two weeks, but if you're working with Google Ads or geeking out on SEO, our new updates are going to put a smile on your face.

Begin by testing the new keyword scraping bot and learn which Botster tools can be used as an alternative to Ahrefs!

Exporting PPC keywords

On April 12th, the world launched its first manned spaceship - and we launched a new bot! πŸš€

The Domain PPC Keywords Finder bulk-extracts all of the domain's paid keywords for the past year, sorted by search volume and by relevance.

This tool can be used for such purposes as:

  • Analyzing your competition’s ads by domain
  • Finding keywords for Google Ads
  • Improving your advertising campaigns
  • Holding automated e-commerce PPC campaigns
  • SEO optimization
  • Product promotion
  • Understanding PPC conversion tracking, etc.

New blog content. Level up your keyword research

Did you know that Botster offers plenty of keyword research tools? In these blog posts, we're telling you how to make the most of them:

04 Apr 2023

We're happy to release a couple of new features for periodic bots and a bunch of lead generation blog-posts!

Scraping new items only

All periodic bots (the ones that work on your schedule, e.g. "every Monday") can now single out the new items that appeared since the latest data crawl.

For example:

If you are regularly scraping comments, reviews, products and other data, you’ll definitely appreciate this feature. No need to look through the old data anymore!

This is an optional feature, of course. If you need to scrape all the data every single time you can still do it by default.

Generate industry-specific leads

Here’s a fine selection of lead-gen blog posts we wrote for people working in a wide variety of industries:

28 Feb 2023

We're excited to announce 9 (nine!) new bots that will help you up your automation game.

These are designed to make your life easier and more efficient, with features like extracting LinkedIn accounts by email, retrieving Google Ads history, and finding addresses and zip codes in bulk.


New bots

πŸ•· Web Scraping and data extraction

πŸ“ Geolocation Bots


Marketing

We've launched a new YouTube channel in Spanish πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡ΈπŸ‡²πŸ‡½πŸ‡¦πŸ‡· so make sure to check that out if Spanish is your language of choice!

For everyone else, don't forget to follow our main YouTube channel, which we promise we'll start updating again with some good stuff really soon.

12 Sep 2022

Summer is over, time to get back to sΜΆcΜΆhΜΆoΜΆoΜΆlΜΆ  automating your routines!

πŸ€– New Bot

Meet our new and long-desired team member - the Google Shopping Ads Scraper! This online tool scrapes Google Shopping Ads from search result pages. Perfect for store owners - and for shopping fans! πŸ›οΈ

πŸ”₯ New Features

  • The Google Search Scraper can now extract up to 500 search results per keyword πŸ’ͺ This is a long-awaited feature that is now live and ready for testing.
  • The Email to Messengers Forwarder has become even more convenient: our paid subscribers can now receive their emails without the Botster subject header and footer in the message body.

πŸ€“ Bot Walkthroughs

The naughty bots listed below used to cause some difficulties with our users. We've improved them and added some tips on how to handle possible issues:

  • The most frequent question that we receive from you is: 'How to find place_id and cid for the Google Review Scraper?'. Since our previous instructions were not comprehensive enough, we've written a more detailed guide. Hope this helps!
  • The Twitter Tweets Extractor now features a comprehensive walkthrough.
  • The Linkedin Company Finder has received a list of the bots that it can be combined with.
  • The 'Troubleshooting' paragraph of the Email to Messengers Forwarder bot now enlists more issues and solutions than ever.
  • The work flow of the Google Rank Checker has changed, and we've updated the bot instructions accordingly.

✍️ On the Blog

What can be more enjoyable than lying in the palm shadow on the beach and... writing new blog posts! Our summer vacation was so inspiring, that this time we have more new blog posts than bots πŸ˜€

🀝 Social Stuff

Learn automation by watching our YouTube channel.

Let's be friends on LinkedIn, Facebook or Twitter.

05 Jul 2022

One bot, two bots, three bots, four,
Five bots, six bots, seven bots, MORE!

This has been our motto this month! Meet the new bots and features:

πŸ€– New Bots

We've got 8 newbies this time:

πŸ”₯ New Features

We've added some cool features to our oldies:

πŸ–₯️ Interface upgrades

Jobs on your dashboard can now be folded to save screen space.

πŸ”Two-Factor Authentication

If you are a security and privacy paranoid (like we are), email 2FA is now available for extra security of your account. To activate it, navigate to your Settings.

πŸ€“ Bot Walkthroughs

Some of our bots lacked step-by-step tutorials. We've written them for the following ones:

✍️ On the Blog

Export contacts in bulk and generate hot leads with these effective tips from our blog:

All these tips are applicable to any type of business!

🍿 Video Tutorials

Watch out for our new video walkthroughs:

🀝 Social Stuff

Learn automation by watching our YouTube channel.

Let's be friends on LinkedIn, Facebook or Twitter.

15 May 2022


Hello, automation fans πŸ‘‹

This month, we continued working to facilitate your business processes. We've created some new smart bots and enhanced the existing ones:

πŸ€– New Bots

See who has just joined our robotic team:

πŸ”₯ New Features

Our platform received a number of cool upgrades:

  • Log information for monitoring bots (such as the Uptime Monitoring Bot) is now available on your job pages.
  • We've updated our pricing page to help you understand the differences between the plans available.

πŸ€“ Bot Walkthroughs

Some of our bots lacked a step-by-step walkthrough. For your convenience, we've added them to the following tools:

✍️ On the Blog

Generate leads for your business with the latest practical tips from our blog:

🍿 Video Tutorials

All eyes are on our latest video tutorials! We've recorded short and simple guides for people of almost all digital professions:

Looking for more email scraping tools? Watch this comprehensive video overview of what else we've got!

🀝 Social Stuff

Learn automation by watching our YouTube channel.

Let's be friends on LinkedIn, Facebook or Twitter.

05 Apr 2022

Hello, automation fans πŸ‘‹ April golden, April cloudy, gracious, cruel, tender, rowdy!

In the past couple of months we worked our fingers to the bone improving our existing tools and creating new ones:

πŸ€– New Bots

Meet our newcomers!

πŸ”₯ New Features

We’ve leveled up some of our bots:

  • Google First Result Finder can now skip results from multiple other websites.
  • You can select how many images you need to extract from Google Images using the Google Image Scraper.
  • Company Email Finder returns only the emails that are relevant to the domains entered.
  • YouTube Search Scraper returns more than 50 results on request.
  • Custom file types – bots can now send Excel and JSON data files to your email.
  • You can select which type of separator you need in downloadable CSV files (available options: TAB, comma, semicolon).
  • All of your new invoices are now available for download.

✍️ On the Blog

Read our expert tutorials in our blog:

1. Using Instant Data Scraper Tools for Shopify Automation is about choosing an appropriate Shopify scraper tool to automate your work with online stores. You’ll learn:

  • How to retrieve all-embracing product data from a Shopify store;
  • How to track price drops on Shopify;
  • How to get insider information about your competitors’ product inventory and sales.

2. In Lead Generation Hacks: How to Export Instagram Followers and Followings?, we draw a real-life example of how you can generate leads for your business by extracting Instagram followers and followings with the help of three advanced tools.

🍿 Video Tutorials

Video content is king! We’ve prepared some new online tutorials on how to use our smart bots:

🀝 Social Stuff

Learn automation by watching our YouTube channel.

Let's be friends on LinkedIn or Facebook.

30 Jan 2022

Hello automation fans πŸ‘‹ It's February already, can you imagine?

We worked hard during the first month of the year to bring you a bunch of new tools and updates:

πŸ€– New Bots

πŸ”₯ New Features

  • Google Ads Scraper now returns even more ad snippets. Its success rate has skyrocketed!
  • Google Review Scraper can now run periodically (every day, once a week or twice a week).
  • Instagram Followers Scraper can also run periodically and is capable of scraping - wow! - up to 125,000 followers during one session! (We are still experimenting with this.)
  • CSV files can now be attached to Slack and Telegram notifications (not only to emails).

⬆️ Limits are going up!

Thanks to the increase in our processing power, some of our bots got their limits increased significantly:

✍️ On the Blog

Enjoy our latest blog post called Amazon In Stock Alert Tool: Secret Lifehacks for Price Drop Tracking. Find out how to get instant Amazon alerts when the price drops without installing Amazon's official app and how to automate monitoring in-stock and out-of-stock products.

🀝 Social stuff

Learn automation by watching our YouTube channel.

Let's be friends on LinkedIn or Facebook!

20 Dec 2021

Christmas came a few days early, along with some awesome bots, updates and tutorials from the Botster team πŸŽ…

Read along to learn what's new:

LinkedIn Scraping Bots

LinkedIn bots have always been among our most demanded tools! This is why we’ve developed some new ones for your convenience:

Smart Data Validation Tools

Data validation has never been as important as it is in the digital age. We’re here to help you with validation:

  • Email Validator checks if the email addresses you’ve provided are valid.
  • IP Validator bulk-checks if the IP addresses you’ve provided are valid and extracts additional details about them.
  • Phone Validator checks if the phone numbers you’ve provided are valid.

Google Image Scrapers

Who loves Google Images? We do! Here are two more bots for your entertainment (and work):

API testing finally begins!

Great news! You can now control most of our bots using our API. It's currenlty running in closed Beta, however if you are eager to test it out contact us by replying to this email.

Recent Updates

We are constantly improving our software for your convenience. Check out our latest updates:

  • If you are working with a team you can now select a team member to whom you would forward notifications after a bot completes a job request.
  • Amazon Price Tracker has learned to track product availability and sends notifications when a product becomes available for purchase, or if it goes out of stock instead.
  • Google Maps Scraper can now return up to 200 results instead of 60 during a single session.
  • Google First Result Finder is now capable of processing up to 3000 queries per launch, instead of 500.
  • Google Trends Scraper has become more stable and doesn’t stop working even you submit hundreds (or even thousands) requests.
  • Instagram Comment Scraper can now scrape up to 10,000 comments in one session! It does take some time to do that, however!
  • Email to Messengers Forwarder can now forward email attachments to Slack.

From now on you can access all of our updates and stay up-to-date with our new features without leaving your Botster Dashboard.

Today our blog reader - tomorrow a leader!

We have been quiet for such a long time because we were... working on our new blog posts! The articles that we publish are far from mere theory – on the contrary, they are full of practical tips and secret lifehacks on how to use automation to your benefit. Check them out and learn new things:

Latest videos

It's better to see something once than to hear about it a thousand times! This is why we are regularly publishing new videos on our awesome YouTube channel. Here are just a couple of new ones:

If you don’t want to miss out on our new videos, be sure to subscribe to our YouTube channel!


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