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It’s no secret that our world is constantly changing and one means of communication will be replaced by the next. With the rapid development of technology, many things can be done online. This might give you the impression that good old telephony is dying. But is it?

Smartphones are still an essential part of our lives. Many customers love the personal communication a phone call can offer. Therefore, calling remains the quickest way to sell your products, especially when they are expensive and complicated.

In this tutorial, I will take yellowpages.com as an example to show you how to extract phone numbers online.

Use the sample URL to follow through:

https://www.yellowpages.com/los-angeles-ca/auto-body-shops

Step 1. Create a Go to Webpage - to open the target URL

• Enter the sample URL in the search bar on the home screen and click Start

Step 2. Auto-detect the webpage - to create the workflow

• Click auto-detect webpage from the Tips panel and wait for it to complete
• Choose the desirable auto-detect results (1/5)
• Check the Paginate to scrape more pages option to see if it works for our webpage
• Delete the data fields we don't want from the Data Preview section
• Click Create Workflow and check the Data Preview section to see if we have the data we want.

Step 3. Save the task and run it to get data

• Click Save on the upper right to save your task
• Click Run next to it and wait for a Run Task window to pop up
• Select Run on your device to run the task on your local device

Here is the sample output from a local run. Happy data hunting!

Author: The Octoparse Team

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