Simplescraper

Enhance your data with Simplescraper AI ​

Summarize, analyze, format, or extract meaning from your scraped data using AI.

Simplescraper AI Enhance allows you to ask your scraped data anything, using Artificial Intelligence. It's perfect for automatic summarization, analysis, formatting, and extracting meaning from data. Depending on the prompt type, AI results are saved to a new column, extracted to new structured columns, or written back to the original properties.

This guide explains how to set up and use AI enhance in your workflow.

1. Activate Simplescraper AI Enhance ​

2. Choose your preferred Run Mode ​

You have two options for how the AI Enhance feature will operate:

  • Automatic: Runs automatically after each scrape task is completed, and before any integration step you may have set up

  • Manual: Click the 'Run AI' button to manually trigger AI Enhance to run on the most recently scraped data. If you choose this method, AI enhanced data will not automatically be sent to any integrations you may have set up, however you can trigger the integration step manually


3. Select AI Prompt ​

Choose a prompt type from the dropdown. Each type handles your data differently:

AI Enhance prompt options dropdown

  • Extract structured data — Define new columns with a schema (field name + description). The AI extracts matching data from each row and saves it to new columns. Useful for pulling structured fields like price, title, or category from unstructured text.

  • Enhance property values — Select existing properties and give each one a specific instruction. The AI enhances the data values according to each instruction. Useful for cleaning, formatting, translating, or transforming data in place (e.g., "separate using pipe symbol", "return just the number", "translate to Spanish").

  • Summarize text — Generates a concise summary of each row's data as bullet points, saved to a new "AI_enhanced" column.

  • Custom prompt — Write your own instruction. The AI applies it to each row and saves the result to the "AI_enhanced" column. Use this for anything the other modes don't cover.


4. Choose Data Properties for AI Analysis ​

Select the properties you want the AI to analyze. You can include all scraped properties or only the ones relevant to your task. A preview of each property's value is shown to help you decide.

When using "Replace properties" mode, the properties you select for replacement are automatically included and locked in this list. You can toggle additional properties on to give the AI extra context.


5. Choose to Combine Rows ​
  • Individual Rows (default): AI Enhance processes each row separately. Suitable for summarizing individual items, translating comments, formatting data, or replacing property values.
  • Combined Rows: Toggle on 'Combine Rows' to merge all rows into a single data block. Useful for summarizing an entire feed or aggregating sentiment from a collection of reviews.

6. Generate an example ​
  • Use the "Generate example" button to see a sample AI enhancement based on the first row of data in your scrape results. This allows you verify that the AI will produce data as you expect (note that the AI will not return identical results each time).

7. Run AI Enhance ​
  • If you wish to run AI enhance manually and are in manual mode, click 'Run AI'. The number of rows that will be enhanced as well as an estimate of the credits used will be shown. Click confirm and Simplescraper will begin the process. If you are in automatic mode, AI Enhance will run immediately after each scrape is completed.

8. Review Enhanced Data ​
  • After the AI has completed its analysis, results will appear in your data table. Where they appear depends on the prompt type:
    • Summarize text / Custom prompt: A new "AI_enhanced" column is added to your results
    • Extract structured data: New columns matching your schema fields are added
    • Enhance property values: The original data values are enhanced in place

9. Integrations ​
  • If you've set up an integration, AI Enhance will run before the integration step. This may result in your data taking a slightly longer time to arrive at its destination.

Notes:

  • Simplescraper AI enhance charges 1 credit for every 500 words processed. This includes both the text sent to be enhanced and the AI's response.
  • The estimated number of credits required to run AI enhance on your data will be displayed in the "Notes" section below the configuration
  • AI results will not be identical for each run

Please reach out via chat if you have questions or would like help with any steps.