I Found a Loophole to (Successfully) Web Scrape Using ChatGPT. Here’s How it Works

Scrape any website with ChatGPT using this approach (demo with Amazon and Twitter)

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In a previous article, I made a demo on how to scrape websites by writing simple prompts for ChatGPT like “scrape website X using Python.”

But that doesn’t always work.

Actually, after trying to scrape dozens of websites using ChatGPT, I came to the conclusion that plain prompts like the one before almost never work when it comes to web scraping.

But I found another approach that will help us scrape any website out there using ChatGPT and some basic HTML.

First Things First — Use The Advanced Version of ChatGPT (Playground)

To quickly scrape websites using ChatGPT, we need to use the advanced version of ChatGPT — Playground. This version has fewer restrictions and is way faster when it comes to generating code.

Here’s how it looks.