How to Build a Browse & Capture Workflow

Learn how to build custom workflows and create detailed data reports with minimal manual effort.

Pline Browse and Capture Workflow is simple to set up, enabling a quick method for data extraction where precision matters most.

Follow these three simple steps to quickly set up your Custom Browse and Capture Workflow.

Step 1: Getting Started

In this guide, we'll create a workflow to collect data on women’s sneakers from Amazon product listings.

  • Visit the detailed page of the target website.

  • Open the Pline extension.

  • Choose Browse and Capture mode and click 'Get started'.

Selecting the “Browse and Capture” option in Pline extension to extract curated data from Amazon product pages.

  • Click on 'Build workflow'.

Clicking “Build workflow” in Pline to start custom data extraction on the Amazon product detail page.

Step 2: Select Page Type

Websites display data in various formats, and Pline Browse and Capture mode provides four different page formats to match your target webpage, including:

  • Vertical List

  • Detail View

  • Grid

  • Table

This tutorial will demonstrate how to extract data using the Detail View format.

Choosing “Detail view” as the page type for extracting product information using Pline.

Step 3: Select Data Fields

  • Tag the data field you want to collect (e.g., Product_name)

  • Add a field name and extract type, then click Save.

Creating a field named “Product_name” and saving extracted product title from Amazon detail page.

You can also delete any data field by clicking the bin/delete icon.

  • Repeat the same process for the remaining fields (e.g., price, ratings).

  • Once you have selected all your required data fields for extraction, now click Next to proceed to the next step.

Selected fields including product name, price, rating, and color displayed in Pline workflow builder.

  • Now add a name to your workflow, and select Save workflow to finish.

Saving the custom workflow as “Amazon shoes” with a preview of the extracted sample data.

That's it! You've successfully built your new custom Browse and Capture workflow, which is ready for precise data extraction from websites.

Additional Tips

  1. Log in to Pline to save your customized Browse and Capture Workflow for future use.

  2. Use clear and descriptive names for workflows to make them easily searchable.

  3. Regularly review and update workflows to meet your current data extraction needs.

Need assistance with running a Custom Browse and Capture workflow? Read the following section for more information.

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