Scrape Crypto coin prices from CoinMarketCap

Coinmarketcap is a website that provides free access to current and historic data for Bitcoin and thousands of altcoins. From the website, people can have an overall view of the constant coin market.

In this tutorial, we are going to scrape crypto coin prices and other info from Coinmarketcap.

Sample URL: https://coinmarketcap.com/

Here are the steps in this tutorial:

1. Create a Go to Web Page - to open the target website
2. Auto-detect web page data - to create a workflow
3. Modify the action order - to correctly load more information
4. Run your task - get the data you want

1. Create a Go to Web Page - to open the target website

• Create your task by inputting the URL in the search box on the homepage
• Click the "Start" button to move on

2. Auto-detect web page data - create a workflow

• Click Auto-detect web page data and wait for it to complete

• Go to Data preview to remove unwanted data or rename it if needed
  • Delete unwanted data fields directly by clicking the delete icon
  • Modify the data field names by double-clicking the headers

• Click Create a workflow to generate a workflow

The automatically generated workflow would look like the below:

3. Modify the action order - to correctly load more information

In this case, we need to drag the Loop Item out of the Scroll Page step which means extracting data after the whole page is loaded. And set the scroll page for one screen.

• Pull the Loop Item down to Scroll Page

• Set Scroll for one screen
• Repeats 30 times
• Wait 2s
• Click Apply

4. Run your task - get the data you want

• Click the Save button first to save all the settings you have made
• Then click Run to run your task either locally or cloudly

• Select Run on your device and click Run Now to run the task on your local device
• Wait for the task to complete

Below is a sample data run from the local run -