The Magpie guides, page 2

Step-by-step guides to extracting text, finding pages and pulling web data into the tool you already use — every command in them was run against a live site first, and each one ends where its method breaks and what to switch to.

Magpie title card: How to Extract a Color Palette From Any Website

How to Extract a Color Palette From Any Website

Extract color palette from website HTML, rendered CSS, or one JSON command. DevTools, grep, and magpie brand, tested on real sites, failure modes included.

Motherlode Lab · · 10 min read

Magpie title card: How to Extract Clean Text and Main Content From Any Website, over a cleaned article body beside its cluttered source page

How to Extract Clean Text and Main Content From Any Website

Extract text from website pages without the nav, ads, and scripts. Five methods compared: online extractors, BeautifulSoup, trafilatura, browsers.

Motherlode Lab · · 10 min read

Magpie title card: Go (Golang) Web Scraping Tutorial, over a 200 OK JSON fetch of a product schema

Go (Golang) Web Scraping Tutorial

A Golang web scraping tutorial with runnable code: net/http, goquery, Colly crawling, rod for JavaScript pages, and real timings from every step.

Motherlode Lab · · 8 min read

Magpie title card: Google Sheets Web Scraping — IMPORTXML and Beyond, over a spreadsheet filling with scraped rows

Google Sheets Web Scraping: IMPORTXML and Beyond

Google Sheets web scraping with IMPORTXML, IMPORTHTML, and Apps Script — verified limits, real failure modes, and when to switch to a dedicated scraper.

Motherlode Lab · · 9 min read

Magpie title card: HTML Scraper: Get the Source and Data From Any Web Page

HTML Scraper: Get the Source and Data From Any Web Page

Get any page's HTML three ways - view-source, curl, and a command-line html scraper that returns the server source and the rendered DOM. Measured runs.

Motherlode Lab · · 9 min read

Magpie title card: How to Import Data From a Website Into Excel, over a JSON product record with its price and fetched-at timestamp

How to Import Data From a Website Into Excel

Import data from a website to Excel with Power Query, JSON endpoints, or a scraper bridge. Tested steps, real failure modes, and a validation checklist.

Motherlode Lab · · 10 min read

Magpie title card: Job Scraper: Collect Postings From Any Job Board

Job Scraper: Collect Postings From Any Job Board

Build a job scraper that returns typed posting records from Greenhouse, Lever and Ashby boards, plus a fallback ladder for boards that publish nothing.

Motherlode Lab · · 9 min read

Magpie title card: Web Scraping With LangChain Loaders

Web Scraping With LangChain Loaders

LangChain web scraping tested: what WebBaseLoader really returns on a live page, and two measured ways to wire in a local scraper via MCP or the CLI.

Motherlode Lab · · 10 min read

Magpie title card: News & Article Scraper: Collect Articles From Any News Site

News & Article Scraper: Collect Articles From Any News Site

Build a news scraper that returns typed article records, full text and webhook alerts from any news site. Every command live-tested on 2026-10-16.

Motherlode Lab · · 8 min read