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Fiverr Tutorial 5: How to copy a specific data from a webpage and Value Paste it in Microsoft Excel

How to copy a specific data from a webpage and Value Paste it in Microsoft Excel?

 

What is Web Scrapping:

Copying specific data from many websites into your Excel and share the file to your Buyers is called Web Scraping. In a word web scraping is the process of extracting web data. Not only it is important for your Buyers, I believe it is also important for your own Business Analysis. You need web data because you base all your decisions related to business strategy on web data. Whether it is price intelligence, sentiment analysis, or lead generation, you need data to arrive at your strategy.


Excel for Web Scraping:

Excel is amazing application to scraping data from web. It is a fantastic application that deals with your data and you can play with your data. No words more about Excel. Let's come to the point.


How to copy a specific data from Web:

If your buyer share links, then you need to go to that site or if buyer not share any link, just mention you to collect specific items data mentioned by buyer, then you need to search that item in search engine to visit website. After landing that website your task starts:


Step 1: Select the text you want to copy by Shift Key + Left Mouse Click.


Image 1: Selection some text from a web site


Step 2: Press Ctrl + C to Copy the text.


Step 3: Open your Excel file, Select a cell you want to paste. Right Click in that cell, Select Paste Special and from Paste Special dialog box, select Unicode Text and press OK.

 Image 2: Paste Special dialogbox


Step 4: After successfully pasting the values into Excel file, save it.


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