Ignores settings and doesn't return emails
I thought the program was solid due to the number of sources it uses. Unfortunately, no matter what scrape settings I applied, the app ignored them.
Max records 10? It returned everything it found (50+ in this case.)
Scrape emails? Nope. It never returned one. (I confirmed that the email was indeed available.)
Max threads 3? Nah, how about 6.
The program does have a lot of promise, but it is too buggy for me.
Grant_LocalScraper
Dec 4, 2024I am very sorry to hear you have had a bad experience I would love to hear more about these issues can you email me the details to support@localscraper.com? There are thousands of happy users of LocalScraper and I would love the chance to make you one as well.
For the max records issue I would love to know which scraper was having this issue, if there is a problem it should be an easy fix.
The email scraper works, the problem was probably with your proxy settings. Improper proxy authentication will cause the pages to not load when you try email scraping. The best way to test this is, disable the proxies and try your scrape again. You should see emails and social details in the last columns.
The program can't use more threads than you authorize, you may have just been seeing the UI not clearing the last number used. As you mention if you chose 3 and you ran the program twice it may have reported 6 used. If I knew more about which site you were targeting and which version of the scraper used I could look into this.