How to scrape AppSumo

AppSumo is the most famous daily deals website worldwide, aimed at online services and digital goods. 

Founded in 2010, the platform has become the largest online platform focused on SaaS apps offering Lifetime Deals (LTDs). 

The deals mostly include software, learning courses, ebooks, and more. 

There are tons of products and services listed on AppSumo. A wide range of uses can be made of this information, including market research, software development, generating new business ideas, and competition research.

In this tutorial, we will show you:

#1 How to scrape deals listings from AppSumo Select

#2 How to scrape a single product from AppSumo Select

#1 How to scrape deals listings from AppSumo Select

AppSumo Select offers the trendiest and hottest software deals. In this section, you will learn how to automatically scrape the hottest AppSumo Select deals with the deal names, descriptions, prices, and deal URLs.

 No need to create any scraping recipe for this. Just follow the steps below. 

Step 1: Go to Public Recipe Library

From your dashboard, select Recipe Library to access the public scraping recipes. 

Step 2: Select the “Trending AppSumo Select Deals” recipe

From the Scraping Recipe Templates, search and select the “Trending AppSumo Select Deals” recipe and choose the “Use in a workflow” option.

Then, click Continue.

Step 3: Run the workflow

Now, you can run the workflow to get the results.

Step 4: View and Save the results

Once the workflow has finished running, you can view the results and export them to CSV or Google Sheets.

#2 How to scrape a single product from AppSumo Select

Here, we will show you how to scrape a single trending product from AppSumo Select with product overview, description, image, review counts, etc. Let’s see how you can use our ready-made recipe to scrape different trending product pages.

Step 1: Go to Public Recipe Library

From your dashboard, select Recipe Library to access the public scraping recipes. 

Step 2: Capture the desired product page URLs

Go to https://appsumo.com/ and capture the URLs of your desired AppSumo Select trending deals.

For example,

Step 3: Select the “AppSumo Product Page Select Deal” recipe 

From the Recipe Library templates, select the “AppSumo Product Page Select Deal” and click the “Use with data input” option.

Step 4: Add the captured URL(s) via data input

Add the URL(s) captured from AppSumo using the data input option. You can add a single URL or a list of URLs to scrape the data automatically.

Step 5: Add the “AppSumo Product Page Select Deal” recipe

From the Public Scraping Recipes list, add the “AppSumo Product Page Select Deal” recipe, selecting data input as the source. 

Step 6: Run the workflow

Now, you can run the workflow to get the results.

Step 7: View and Save the results

Once the workflow has finished running, you can view the results and export them to CSV or Google Sheets.

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