WP Content Crawler – Get content from almost any site, automatically!

Title, excerpt, content, tags, categories, slug, date, custom meta, taxonomies, meta keywords, meta description, featured image, post images, status… Just everything.

Just click to an element to find its CSS selector. You can also get alternative CSS selectors that you might be interested in. There is no need to leave your admin panel anymore.

After the settings are configured, the plugin finds URLs of the posts and crawls them automatically in the background.

Recrawl posts automatically to keep them updated all the time. You can limit how many times a post can be updated, set update interval, and ignore old posts.

You want to delete old crawled posts? The plugin can delete them automatically.

You can set how many times URL collection and post crawling events should run each time for a site. For instance, you can save 3 posts every minute, or run URL collection 5 times every 2 minutes.

The target category does not exist in your site? No problem. The plugin can create the target categories for you. Just define the CSS selectors that find category names. They can even be created as subcategories.

You can define the permalink of the posts. You can get the permalink from the target site, enter custom text, and even create templates for the slugs by using short codes.

Save taxonomy values by retrieving them from the target site or entering manually. Saving details of custom post types is easier than ever.

A custom post type has custom categories? No problem. You can define custom category taxonomies used by the custom post type and select those categories when defining the categories of the post. The plugin can also create custom categories for you.

Save anything as custom post meta. You can use a CSS selector or just type the value.

Prepare post content, title, excerpt, list item and gallery item templates using short codes. Moreover, you can define templates for values of each CSS selector using the options box.

You can write alternative selectors to get the data even if the target site has post pages designed different from each other.

You can use plain text or regular expressions to find and replace anything. You can even modify the HTML of the page, create your own HTML elements and write selectors to use them. You can even change image URLs. You have the power.

Target post has more than one page? No worries. You can save paginated posts as well.

Some sites create posts with a list inside. You can extract the list from the post, create a template that should be applied to each list item and even reverse the list.

Sometimes you need to get rid of some elements, such as advertisements, comments, you name it. Just write its CSS selector and it is removed.

Target site has hundreds of categories? Piece of cake. Just write the CSS selector and the plugin will insert them for you.

Set post type. It can be a post, a page, a product, or any other post type available in your WordPress installation.

You can remove links from the post. Just check the checkbox and the links are gone. That easy.

You can set a password for the posts to show them only to the users who have the password.

You can add notes for yourself to remind you things about the site. CSS selectors, TODO list, anything.

Test post crawling, URL collection, CSS selectors, regular expressions, find and replace options and proxies on the fly. You can also enable caching to conduct the tests much faster and reduce the requests sent to the target site.

Using the tester, you can test all options you configured in the site settings to make sure everything works as you want before enabling automatic crawling.

Using the tools, you can save posts manually with their URL, recrawl posts with their ID or delete already-saved URLs.

You can provide custom general settings for each post to override them and make them suitable for a site.

You can directly publish the saved posts or keep them as draft to check them before publishing.

Saving all images in the content of the post is as easy as checking a single checkbox.

You can save the images in the target page as gallery and provide a template for each image to make it suitable for the gallery library that you use on frontend. You can also save the images as WooCommerce gallery by just checking one checkbox.

Get anything from target page as a short code and use the short codes in the plugin’s templates to place any data anywhere you want.

Use a proxy or proxies to get content from the sites to which your IP does not have access.

Attach cookies, such as session cookies, to each request. By this way, for example, you can crawl the target site as if you are logged in.

You can set how many times post crawling or URL collection CRON events should run. By this way, you can, e.g., save 100 posts every minute. Just be careful and consider your server’s capacity.

Set CSS selectors whose values should not be empty for category and post pages. When an empty value is found using those selectors, you can get an email notification.

When you enable JSON parsing for a CSS selector, you can get the values from the JSON easily.

Find-replace in response HTML, find and replace in element attributes, exchange element attributes, remove element attributes, manipulate HTML of an element, remove HTML elements…

Use the artificial intelligence of Google Cloud Translation API or Microsoft Translator Text API to automatically translate the posts. Note that these are paid services.

If you are a developer, you can use actions and filters to extend and modify the plugin.

Check duplicate posts by URL, post title and/or post content. If you are using WooCommerce, products whose SKU already exists are considered as duplicate and they will not be added to your site.

You can add/remove minutes to/from the post date. By this way, you can schedule post publishing.

Save price, inventory, shipping, attributes, and advanced options. You can save the product as a simple or an external product. You can also set downloadable file options and define the product as virtual. The options are available for WooCommerce versions greater than or equal to 3.3.

You have the control! Define many options for the values found by a CSS selector. The options include find-replace, calculation, template, and JSON parsing settings. You can easily import/export the options defined in the options boxes as well.

Rename, copy, and move saved files easily. You can also define title, description, caption, and alt texts for the saved media files using templates in which you can use any short code. It is also possible to give random names to the saved files.

WordPress does not allow showing iframes and scripts since they pose a security risk. You can turn iframe and script HTML elements into short codes by just checking a checkbox. The short code will show iframes and scripts from the allowed source domains defined by you.

With quick save button, you can save the settings much more quickly. No need to wait for page to reload.

Define regular expressions in find-replace options to find-replace anything. You can also use delimiters and modifiers to match more precisely.

When alternative sizes of the saved images are available, the plugin assigns them into srcset attribute of img elements so that your pages will load faster in different screen sizes.

When you save images, their “alt” and “title” attributes are automatically retrieved from the target site and assigned to the saved media. You can also define templates for them to apply your SEO strategies.

Learn when there is a problem. The plugin will show you the details of the error so that you can fix it right away.

The plugin is able to handle different character encodings, even if the target site contains mixed encodings. You can convert the encoding by checking a single checkbox.

Fix navigation to the top! The plugin stores where you were before switching to a new tab and restores your previous location when you activate that tab again. No more getting lost among the settings.

With manual crawling tool, save multiple posts by entering their URLs. You can also enter category URLs so that the tool can get post URLs from there. Moreover, you can set it to crawl multiple posts at the same time.

The plugin collects URLs automatically. However, if you want it to crawl only certain URLs, you can add them to the database manually using the manual crawling tool. By this way, the specified URLs will be crawled using your scheduling options, automatically.

You can enable or disable automatic crawling for each site individually.

You can import and export site settings easily. Just copy and paste the code created by the plugin.

Add unlimited sites and activate how many of them you want.

See what’s going on in the background. Active sites, number of posts crawled, number of posts updated, last crawled and updated posts, last added URLs, last and next run of CRON events, currently being saved posts and URLs…

You can update the plugin with just one click whenever an update is ready. Just go to your updates page in your admin panel.

You can check the online documentation whenever you feel a need.

Each setting in the plugin has a quick guide that will help you understand what each setting does.

Watch video tutorials to easily learn how to use the plugin.

You can translate the plugin into your own language using Poedit.