# Group Extraction - Generate 1,2,3…Sequential Page URLs

{% hint style="success" %} <mark style="color:$success;">**Wait!**</mark> **Learn about an easier way to generate sequential page URLs**

If you're trying to group extract pages numbered sequentially, using the [Pagination Template feature](/getting-started/databoard-features/settings-pagination-templates.md) makes it simpler—you can skip the step of getting 1,2,3...page addresses. Pagination templates automatically click 'next page' buttons to extract sequential pages.
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## How to Use&#x20;

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#### Check the URL pattern

As you click through page numbers on the web page you want to extract, watch how the URL changes. In most cases, only the number after <mark style="background-color:red;">page=</mark> changes. (Page 1 may have the parameter omitted.)

[<mark style="color:$success;">https://www.example.com/categories/420186/?sort=latest</mark>](https://www.example.com/categories/420186/?sort=latest)

[<mark style="color:$success;">https://www.example.com/categories/420186?page=2\\\&sort=latest</mark>](https://www.example.com/categories/420186?page=2\\\&sort=latest)

[<mark style="color:$success;">https://www.example.com/categories/420186?page=3\\\&sort=latest</mark>](https://www.example.com/categories/420186?page=3\\\&sort=latest)

Using this principle, you can easily create pagination addresses for all pages with a single URL.

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#### Use an automatic URL generation tool

**A. Use conversational AI service&#x20;**<sup><mark style="color:green;">**recommended**<mark style="color:green;"></sup>

You can easily generate sequential page addresses using LLM-based conversational AI services like ChatGPT. After checking the page URL pattern like the example page below, try saying "Create URL addresses with Page number from 1 to 30".

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**Listly test page link:** [**https://test.listly.io/pagination/basic?page=2**](https://test.listly.io/pagination/basic?page=1)

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**B. Use URL builder**

Search "sequential url generator" or "url builder" in Google or other search engines to find various free web tools. This guide uses **Online Sequential Number, URL & Text Generator** as an example.\
(If you understand URL structure, you can easily create them with Excel formulas too.)

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Service link: [Online Sequential Number, URL & Text Generator](https://reznortech.rf.gd/online-sequential-number-text-url-link-generator.php?utm_source=chatgpt.com\&i=1)
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When you go to the service link, this screen appears:

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Set options like the example below to generate sequential page URLs:

<mark style="color:$success;">Example URL:</mark> [<mark style="color:$success;">https://www.example.com/categories/420186?page=2\\\&sort=latest</mark>](https://www.example.com/categories/420186?page=2\\\&sort=latest)

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Enter the options as follows and click the Generate button:

* Enter the unchanging part before the page number.
* Enter the starting page number. (Page 1 often has parameters omitted, but entering page=1 still works fine.)
* Enter the ending page number.
* Enter the increment step. Usually it's 1,2,3... sequential, so enter 1.
* Enter the unchanging part after the page number. Leave blank if there isn't one.
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#### Use the results

Once URLs are generated sequentially based on your input range, copy the generated addresses and paste them into **Group Extraction** to extract multiple pages at once.

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