The web,
in tables.
Explore website content with SQL without building a new scraper for every idea. Use the pages others have collected, add sources that interest you, and keep refining your questions.
One collection of websites. Several ways to query it.
Take a group of investment firm websites. Search their text for “artificial intelligence” or “AI,” list links from portfolio pages, or compare destinations linked by several firms.
Which firms mention artificial intelligence or AI?
Find pages mentioning “artificial intelligence” or “AI” and read the surrounding text to see what each firm says.
Where do their portfolio pages lead?
Find company website links on portfolio pages. Read the nearby headings and descriptions to understand each mention.
Which destinations appear across firms?
Find destinations linked by more than one firm, then inspect the source pages for the relationship each firm describes.
Discover pages about artificial intelligence
| url | snippet | score |
|---|---|---|
| https://research.example/ai | Our artificial intelligence research explores emerging technologies… | 2.5 |
| https://investments.example/insights | Investing in artificial intelligence companies and the teams behind them… | 2.3 |
| https://ventures.example/approach | Our team studies artificial intelligence applications across industries… | 2.1 |
Query page text,
HTML structure and links.
Find matching passages, turn page headings into rows, or see which websites link to the same destination. Use SQL to combine those details across collected pages.
Find relevant passages
Find related websites
Check where a finding came from
The next idea shouldn’t need
another scraper.
Periplus keeps the captured HTML alongside queryable text, structure and links. Need another field? Return to the stored pages and change your query.
How Periplus came to beResearch the websites
other people have collected.
Pages added to Periplus are available for everyone to query. Explore someone else’s sources, or add websites for your own project and give others a new starting point.
Add sources for everyoneTake the results
into your project.
Download results as CSV, or run queries from your notebook or application with the Python SDK. Include source URLs and capture dates, and keep the SQL so you can inspect and reuse the method.
Add websites you’d like to research.
Start discovery from website URLs, with a depth and total page limit. Then choose exact captures to retain and pages to refresh.