WP Content Crawler - Get contents from almost any site, automatically 1.14.0

WP Content Crawler is an industry-leading WordPress plugin designed for high-level web scraping and content automation. Developed by Turgut Sarıçam, it is engineered to "crawl" target websites, extract specific data (titles, images, price, body text), and automatically publish them as posts, pages, or WooCommerce products on your own site.

As of late 2025, it remains one of the most powerful "Autoblogging" tools available due to its surgical precision using CSS selectors and its recent integrations with ChatGPT for content rewriting.

## Core Scraping & Automation Features

The plugin is built to handle the complexities of modern websites, ensuring that extracted content looks native to your site:

Visual Inspector: An intuitive "point-and-click" tool that lets you find the CSS selectors for any element on a target site without needing to write code.

ChatGPT Integration: Automatically rewrite, summarize, or translate crawled content using AI before it hits your database, ensuring your posts are unique and SEO-friendly.

WooCommerce Support: Seamlessly import products from e-commerce giants, including prices, variations, and image galleries.

Post Meta & Taxonomies: Extract custom data into specific WordPress custom fields or map them to your own categories and tags.

Scheduled Crawling: Runs in the background via WP-Cron, allowing you to set intervals (e.g., every 30 minutes) to check for new content on source sites.

Find & Replace: Clean up the content on the fly by removing unwanted links, scripts, or specific words before saving.

### Technical Architecture

WP Content Crawler is a standalone plugin that requires a healthy server environment due to the resource-intensive nature of web crawling.

Component

Requirement / Feature

Logic

Uses CSS/XPath selectors to locate specific HTML data.

Background Tasks

Relies on WP-Cron (or a real system Cron job for better stability).

Bypass Tools

Supports Cookies, Request Headers, and Proxies to crawl protected or geo-blocked sites.

Translation

Integrates with Google Translate, Microsoft Translator, and DeepL APIs.

Security

Includes duplicate detection via URL, title, or content hash to prevent spam.

## Strategic Use Cases in 2025

How professionals are using WP Content Crawler today:

News Aggregators: Automatically pulling the latest headlines from multiple niche sources to create a "one-stop" industry portal.

Affiliate Stores: Importing product data from marketplaces like eBay or Amazon into WooCommerce, then applying AI to rewrite the descriptions for better ranking.

Real Estate Portals: Syncing property listings from various local agency sites into a single search directory.

Content Curation: Gathering "inspirations" or references for a creative blog, then adding a manual editorial layer before publishing.

### Pro Tip: The "AI-Rewrite" Strategy

The biggest risk of automated crawling is the "duplicate content" penalty from search engines. In 2025, the most effective way to use this plugin is to set up a Prompt Chain with the built-in ChatGPT feature. Instead of just grabbing the text, instruct the AI to: "Rewrite this news article from a professional perspective, change the tone to 'Informative', and provide a 3-bullet summary at the top." This turns a scraped post into a high-value piece of unique content.

### Installation & Getting Started

Environment Check: Ensure your PHP max_execution_time and memory_limit are high enough to process external requests.

Site Settings: You create a "Site" for every domain you want to crawl.

The Tester: Always use the built-in "Tester" tab before starting a crawl. It will show you exactly what the plugin "sees" to ensure your selectors are correct.

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Quick Start Guide for WP Content Crawler

This video tutorial is the perfect starting point to understand the plugin's working logic and how to use the visual selector tool to identify content on any target website.