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Tools to scrape paginated websites

The problem, in plain words: “I need to extract URLs matching specific patterns across all pages of a paginated site that requires login and download each page's HTML, preferably running inside my existing browser (userscript/extension) and using free tools when possible.”

No tool in the catalog fully fits this yet.

You want an in-browser workflow to log into a paginated site, download each page’s HTML, and extract URLs that match patterns across all pages.

Updated September 2026.

Partly fits

Tampermonkeypartial · 62

It provides the userscript environment needed to automate in-browser navigation and extraction, but the product itself doesn’t provide an out-of-the-box crawl+pagination+URL-pattern workflow.

Won’t cover: It is a scripting manager rather than a ready solution for crawling paginated pages and filtering extracted URLs by pattern.

SiteScooppartial · 51

It’s designed to extract structured data and supports auto-pagination locally in the browser, which lines up with your extraction goal for many sites.

Won’t cover: It doesn’t clearly describe an authenticated, login-required crawl flow for downloading each page’s HTML and extracting only matching URLs.

Nothing fully fits this yet

A tool for authenticated, paginated crawling that reliably downloads HTML and filters URLs by pattern.

Questions

Is there a tool that fully solves this?

Not fully, yet. A tool for authenticated, paginated crawling that reliably downloads HTML and filters URLs by pattern.

What won't these tools cover?

It is a scripting manager rather than a ready solution for crawling paginated pages and filtering extracted URLs by pattern. · It doesn’t clearly describe an authenticated, login-required crawl flow for downloading each page’s HTML and extracting only matching URLs.

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