Web Scraper with Screenshots

Example web page scraper saving text, images, and screenshots.

This educational Live Script scrapes a webpage and webpages linked from that page for image and text content and collects screenshots along the way with user-selectable magnification and image file format. It is designed to scrape the MATLAB File Exchange, which offers a searchable index with links to splash pages for each file, each standardized splash page containing a preview of an optional image, a text overview, and a citation, as well as other information.

The script is NOT a general scraper and only supports Chrome as a browser. It depends upon the particular structure of the File Exchange web pages, but may offer a useful model for other scraper applications.

This script may interest File Exchange users and others interested in scraping. Additional educational Live Scripts by the author are here.