How to pull data from each item's detail page
A listing gives you name, title and a link; the detail page gives you email, phone, full description and specifications. "Follow detail" opens each item's link in a background tab, extracts the fields you've defined, and merges them back into the main results table. This is where most of the value in a scrape usually is.
Takes about 10 min
Steps
Start from the listing page
Let auto-detect find the repeating items first.
Enable "follow detail pages"
Each item's link will be opened in a background tab during extraction.
Define which fields to take from the detail page
These are merged into the main table alongside the listing fields.
Test on a few items first
Run a short extraction and check the merged results before committing to the full set.
Extract the full set
Expect it to be slower — you're loading one page per item rather than one page per batch.
Worth knowing
- This is much slower than listing-only extraction because it loads a page per item. Set a delay if you're doing hundreds.
- Verify the first few rows before running the whole set. A mis-mapped field across two hundred rows is a re-run.
- Detail pages sometimes differ in layout between item types, which can leave gaps in the merged data. Spot-check a variety.
Questions
How does follow detail work?
It opens each item's link in a background tab, extracts the additional fields you've defined, and merges them back into the main result table alongside the listing data.
Why is extraction so much slower with it enabled?
Because it loads one page per item rather than one page per listing. A hundred items means a hundred page loads, and adding a delay to avoid being blocked makes it slower again.