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Welcome! This beginner-friendly guide walks you through how to get started with Spidra. From creating an account to scraping your first website and saving it as a reusable preset. You don’t need to write a single line of code. Just follow these simple steps.

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Step 1: Sign Up or Log In

To begin, create an account or log in to your existing one. You can sign up using your:
  • Email and password or
  • Google/GitHub account
Sign up or log in using Google or GitHub

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Step 2: Open the Playground

Once you’re logged in, click on Playground from the sidebar. This is where the magic happens. It is your workspace for running scrape jobs using natural language prompts.
Want a deep dive into the Playground interface? Check out the Playground documentation
Navigating to the Playground

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Step 3: Add Your Target URL(s)

Paste the URL of the page you want to scrape into the Target URL field and press Enter. You can add one or multiple URLs for batch scraping. For this guide, we’ll use:
https://remoteok.com/remote-react-jobs
Now in the Prompt field, enter this instruction: 
Extract the latest job listings on this page. For each job, return:
- Job title
- Name of company
- Link to job post
- Job price tag
Structure the result as a table.
This prompt tells Spidra exactly what to extract from the page. Entering a target URL and extraction prompt

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Step 4: Choose Output Format

Select your preferred output format using the dropdown. You can choose from: Markdown, or JSON. For this guide, we’ll use Markdown.

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Step 5: Configure Options (Optional)

Below the prompt section, you’ll see two optional checkboxes you can enable: ✅ Extract only content – This skips common page elements like headers, navbars, and footers to keep your results clean. ✅ Use stealth mode (proxy) – Activates proxy rotation to help bypass bot detection and avoid IP blocking. But in case you don’t check this box, Spidra can still detect and solve captchas and Turnstile automatically. Advanced checkboxes for stealth and content extraction

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Step 6: Start Scraping

Once your setup is ready, click the Start Scraping button. Spidra will now load the page, execute your operations, and extract the data based on your prompt. You’ll see the results displayed on the right side of the screen in real time. Clicking Start Scraping to launch the job You can now proceed to download your scraped data.

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Step 7: Save as a Preset

To reuse this configuration in the future, click Save as Preset. You’ll be prompted to enter:
  • A Preset Name
  • A short Description
Presets help you avoid repeating the same setup. It is perfect for recurring tasks or scheduled integrations. Once saved, your preset will appear in the Presets tab, ready to rerun, edit, or publish to the Marketplace.

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What’s next?

That’s it — you’ve just run your first scrape with Spidra! You can now:

Integrations

Automate data delivery with Integrations.

Presets

Learn how to manage your Presets.

Logs

Monitor and debug records of your scraping jobs.

Playground

Explore the Playground in more depth.