Home Depot offers an extensive selection of products, including building materials, appliances, tools, flooring, lighting, plumbing fixtures, garden supplies etc. It is one of the largest home improvement and DIY retailer in the United States. In this article you will learn how to scrape Home Depot product data.
Web Scraping is the process of automatically extracting large amounts of structured data from websites, in table format – which can be downloaded as a spreadsheets file or saved to a database. It allows you to save a copy of the data displayed by websites as local file in your computer or in a database.
WebHarvy
WebHarvy is an easy to use, visual web scraping software which can be used to scrape data from any website, including ecommerce websites like homedepot.com. WebHarvy can be downloaded and installed in your computer. We offer a free 15 days evaluation version of WebHarvy so that you can try the software and see if it works as per your requirement before purchasing.
How to scrape Home Depot product listings?
WebHarvy contains a built-in browser which can be used like a normal browser in your computer. This browser allows you to click and select data (like name, price, image etc.) displayed by web pages for extraction. WebHarvy automatically detects and handles patterns of data occurring in web pages. So, you need to select data from only the first product in a listing of multiple products, WebHarvy will intelligently select similar data from the remaining products.
Video
The following video shows how WebHarvy can be used to scrape product details like name, price, images etc. from Home Depot product listing pages.
The regular expression strings used in the above video to select title, price and product URL are given below.
alt="([^"]*)
"price__format[^>]*>\$[^>]*>[^>]*>([^<]*)
href="([^"]*)Download & Try
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