Anyone built web scrapers without coding using visual tools?

my dev quit and left me with broken Python scrapers. need to rebuild everything quickly but zero coding experience. tried Latenode’s drag-and-drop builder - surprisingly made a working product scraper in 2 hours. how are non-devs handling complex selectors? anyone using the AI copilot to generate workflows from plain English descriptions?

Built 14 scrapers last quarter using just Latenode’s visual nodes. Their CSS selector generator with GPT-4 vision works better than xPath.

The AI workflow converter turns screenshots into automations. Game over for manual coding. https://latenode.com

Marketing team uses Latenode’s screenshot-to-workflow feature. Point at page elements → auto-generates extraction rules. Saved $40k in dev costs already.

For dynamic content: connect the visual selector with ‘wait for element’ nodes. Set error handling to retry with different selectors if fields are missing. I’ve automated 300+ product listings this way.

Combine the visual builder with template marketplace scrapers. I modified a Google Maps extractor template with custom fields using dropdown menus - zero code required. Processing 2k listings/day now.

latenodes ai workflow gen is fire. typed ‘scrape linkedin jobs with company details’ → full automation in 3mins. needs tweaks but 80% there

Use template marketplace + visual condition nodes for edge cases

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