How to Easily Scrape Crypto Data from CoinMarketCap with Scrapify

Data analysis in the cryptocurrency space often requires access to large datasets that are not readily available for download. Many analysts find themselves stuck in the tedious process of manually copying information from websites like CoinMarketCap. Fortunately, there’s a more efficient solution available.

Scrapify offers a streamlined approach to extracting crypto data automatically. Here’s a step-by-step guide on how to use this tool to gather comprehensive cryptocurrency information without the manual effort.

Setting Up Your Crawler

The process begins by creating a new crawler in your Scrapify dashboard. This automatically opens the Configurator, where you’ll design the workflow for your data extraction process.

Creating the Crawler Flow

The first step is adding a “scroll to bottom” action. This ensures that all data on the page is fully loaded before the scraping begins – a crucial step for dynamic websites like CoinMarketCap where content loads as you scroll.

Next, add a scrape action to extract data from the initial page. One of Scrapify’s powerful features is the Table Mode, which allows you to capture entire tables of data with a single click – perfect for CoinMarketCap’s tabular layout of cryptocurrencies.

Handling Pagination

To collect data beyond the first page, configure a loop action that automatically clicks the “next page” button. You can specify how many iterations (pages) you want to scrape – in this example, 10 pages were selected.

Within this loop, add another “scroll to bottom” action followed by a scrape action. This combination ensures that each new page is fully loaded before the data is extracted.

Finalizing and Running Your Crawler

After setting up the workflow, save your crawler configuration. At this point, you can customize the name of your configuration and adjust export and graph settings according to your needs.

Return to the crawler dashboard and initiate the crawl with a simple press of the crawl button. The system then works automatically, navigating through pages and collecting data without further intervention.

Accessing Your Data

Within minutes, all the cryptocurrency data from your specified pages is collected and organized. The example showed successful extraction of all CoinMarketCap data from the first 10 pages.

Once the crawl is complete, you can download your dataset or export it for further analysis in your preferred tools.

Efficiency Gains

The primary benefit of using an automated scraping tool like Scrapify is the dramatic reduction in time spent on data collection. What might take hours of manual copy-pasting can be accomplished in minutes, allowing analysts to focus on actual data analysis rather than data gathering.