---
title: "Scrape"
description: "Fetch any URL and extract its title, description, body text, links, social profiles, emails, and phone numbers — all in one column."
url: https://help.manyreach.com/en/articles/100-scrape
collection: "Enrichment tools"
updated: 2026-07-15
language: en
---

# Scrape

Fetch any URL and extract its title, description, body text, links, social profiles, emails, and phone numbers — all in one column.

Scrape is the workhorse enrichment in Manycrawl. Point it at a column of URLs and it visits each page in your browser, pulls back structured data, and drops it into your sheet. No API key needed.

## How to set it up

When you add a Scrape column, you'll see a settings panel with four sections.

### Source column

Pick the column that contains the URLs you want to fetch. This can be a Places Search result, a Crawl output, a Search Engine result, or just a manually pasted list. Manycrawl shows you the first row's value as a preview so you can confirm you've picked the right column.

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### What to scrape

Check the boxes for the data you actually need. Skipping fields saves storage and keeps your table lean. Each box has a **\+ Column** button next to it — clicking that adds the field as its own column in your table instead of hiding it inside the scrape record.

The available fields are grouped into four categories:

**Page basics**

-   **Final URL (after redirects)** — the resolved URL after any redirects fire
    
-   **Title** — the page title from the `<title>` tag
    
-   **Meta description** — from `<meta name="description">`
    

**Content**

-   **Body text** — plain text, best for feeding into AI prompts
    
-   **Markdown** — structured version, larger size
    
-   **Full HTML** — raw page source (disabled by default to save storage)
    

**Links & references**

-   **Page links** — every link found on the page
    
-   **Social profiles** — LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, etc.
    

**Contact info**

-   **Email addresses** — every email found in the page content
    
-   **Phone numbers** — every phone number found in the page content
    

### Scraping Settings

**Enable scrolling** — scrolls to the bottom of the page to trigger lazy-loaded content. Useful for sites with infinite scroll or content that only appears after you scroll.

**Parallel scrapes (1–8)** — how many URLs to fetch at once. Higher numbers run faster but open more tabs simultaneously, which uses more memory. Start at 1 and increase if you have a fast machine and a lot of rows.

## What you see after scraping

Once a row finishes, the Scrape cell shows a green check and the URL. Alongside it, Manycrawl populates whichever fields you checked as their own columns — Title, Description, Body text, Links, and so on.

Some fields show up as **counts** rather than full data: `188 links`, `2 emails`, `5 social media`. That's because pages can return dozens or hundreds of items per field, and dumping all of them into a single cell would make the table unreadable.

## Opening the full scraped data

To see everything Scrape pulled for a row, **click the scraped cell** to open the Record Details panel.

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Inside Record Details you'll see:

-   The requested URL and the redirect URL
    
-   Title, description, and full body text
    
-   The complete list of links (e.g. all 188), with the first ten shown and the rest collapsed
    
-   Social media grouped by platform — Facebook URL, Twitter / X URL, YouTube URL, TikTok URL, Instagram URL
    
-   All emails found on the page
    
-   All phone numbers found on the page
    

## Promoting grouped data into its own column

Next to every grouped field in Record Details, there's a **\+ Add to column** button. Clicking it pulls that specific data point out of the record and into its own column in your table.

For example, if you click **\+ Add to column** next to _Facebook URL_, Manycrawl creates a new "Facebook URL" column in your sheet and fills in the Facebook URL for every row that has one — not just the row you opened. Same for Instagram, LinkedIn, the first email, the first phone number, and so on.

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This is the cleanest way to work with grouped data: scrape once, then promote only the fields you care about into proper columns you can sort, filter, export, or reference in other enrichments via `{Column Name}`.

## Tips

-   **Start broad, then narrow.** Keep all the fields checked on your first scrape so you can see what's actually on each page. Once you know what you need, uncheck the rest for faster runs.
    
-   **Use + Column on the scrape settings** for fields you know you'll need every time (Title, Description, Body text). Use **\+ Add to column** from Record Details for grouped data you want to promote after seeing what's there (specific social platforms, first email, etc.).
    
-   **Body text feeds AI well.** When you chain Scrape into an Analyze and Write column, reference `{Body text}` — it's already stripped of HTML noise and works better in prompts than Markdown or Full HTML.
    
-   Avoid Full HTML if not needed, as it will consume a lot of space on your computer and slow down the extension