Amazon is the world's largest online marketplace and e-commerce platform. Scraping Amazon provides access to millions of records of product as well as user submitted data in the form of reviews, ratings and images. The scraped data can be used for competition monitoring, price comparison, market research, customer sentiment analysis, brand monitoring, consumer behaviour analysis, product stock/availability monitoring etc.
The following are the most common Amazon Scraping requirements:
- 1. Scraping Amazon Product Data
- 2. Scraping Amazon Best Sellers List
- 3. Scraping Amazon Reviews and Rating
- 4. Scraping multiple high resolution product images from Amazon
- 5. Scraping a list of Amazon product pages (URLs)
- 6. Scraping Amazon Product Data for a list of ASINs (Keywords)
Scraping Amazon Product Data
When you load Amazon's website and perform a search for a particular class of products (for ex: Mobile Phones), thousands of products are displayed in the search results which spans over multiple pages. By following each product link, you can view additional details regarding each product. WebHarvy lets you automatically scrape the product data displayed by Amazon. This includes (not limited to):
Product name, Price, Images (download multiple product images), Bullet Points (description), Product Description, ASIN, Dimension, Weight, Item/Model number, Reviews, Rating, Best Seller Rank under various categories etc.
Watch the following video which shows how most of the above data can be scraped from Amazon product listings using WebHarvy.
Since Amazon has varying page layouts for various products, and since the amount of details present can vary from product to product, the Capture Following Text Technique is used to obtain data accurately from product details pages. This helps to get data based on a heading text, irrespective of the location of the text on the page. This is used to select product data like ASIN, Price, Shipping Weight etc. Know More
Data scraped can be easily exported as a local file (CSV, TSV, XML, JSON formats supported) or to a database (MS SQL, MySQL). There is no limit to the amount of data which can be extracted and exported. Listings which span across multiple pages can be easily extracted.
Scraping Amazon Best Sellers List
WebHarvy can also scrape data from Amazon's Best Sellers Lists. The steps to be followed are the same as that for scraping data from normal Amazon product listing pages.
Scraping Amazon Product Reviews and Rating
Apart from seller provided product data, Amazon also stores a wealth of buyer feedback in the form of product reviews and ratings. Using WebHarvy you can easily scrape product reviews, reviewer details and ratings as shown in the following video.
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Scraping Amazon Product Images
Multiple product images in high resolution can be easily scraped from Amazon product details pages using WebHarvy, as shown in the following video.
The technique explained here is used to capture multiple product images automatically.
Scraping a list of Amazon product page URLs
When you already have a list of Amazon product page URLs and need to scrape data from all of them, the Add URLs to configuration feature of WebHarvy can be used. The following video shows how.
Refer : How to scrape a list of URLs using a single configuration
Scraping Amazon product data for a list of ASINs
Another common requirement is to extract product details corresponding to a list of ASINs. The Keyword Scraping feature of WebHarvy allows you to automatically perform search for a list of ASINs at Amazon.com and extract search result data for each ASIN. Please watch the following video which shows the details involved.
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Summary
The best thing about using WebHarvy for scraping products from Amazon is that configuring the scraper is incredibly easy. You can start extracting data from Amazon within minutes of installing the software. And in case you need any assistance you are assured to get a reply from us (support@webharvy.com) within 24 hours.
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