Automated Web Content Extractor
Whole-site content migration captured in hours, not weeks
The Results
90%
Time Saved vs Manual Migration
100%
Content Captured
The Challenge
Established websites on legacy WordPress, Joomla, and custom PHP often need to move onto modern platforms like Astro and Next. js, and every page of titles, body copy, images, and meta tags has to arrive intact on the new build.
On larger sites of 500 pages or more, recreating that existing content by hand is slow and ties up the team that should be focused on the new platform. Manual moves also risk small slips: a missed page, a broken image path, a flattened heading, or an internal link still pointing at an old URL.
The goal was to capture every page accurately and free the team to build, rather than retype what already existed.
Our Solution
- Engineered a Python-based content extractor that crawls a full website from its sitemap and follows internal links to find orphaned pages.
- Extracted structured content for every page, including titles, meta descriptions, heading hierarchy, body HTML, images, and the internal link graph.
- Built smart HTML parsing that preserves formatting while stripping legacy template wrappers, with concurrent fetching and rate limiting to respect server load.
- Serialised the output to clean JSON and Markdown and downloaded images locally, ready to import straight into a new CMS.
- Processed more than 1000 pages on a recent migration with full content capture and preserved page hierarchy.
What We Delivered
01 Site Crawling 3 deliverables
- Sitemap-based crawl
- Orphan page discovery
- Internal link mapping
02 Content Extraction 4 deliverables
- Titles and meta
- Heading hierarchy
- Body HTML capture
- Image download
03 HTML Processing 3 deliverables
- Template stripping
- Format preservation
- Rate-limited fetching
04 Export Output 3 deliverables
- Clean JSON export
- Markdown export
- CMS-ready import
Our Automation Process
A proven methodology that delivered results
Process Mapping
We mapped your existing workflows to identify automation opportunities and inefficiencies to eliminate.
Integration Design
We designed reliable integrations between your tools and systems, ensuring data flows correctly.
Implementation
We built and tested automated workflows, ensuring reliability and handling edge cases gracefully.
Monitoring & Maintenance
We set up monitoring to ensure reliability and provide ongoing maintenance to keep systems running smoothly.
Built with
"What would have taken us weeks of copy-pasting was done in hours. The tool even preserved our page hierarchy."
Web Migration Client
Content Migration Project
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