This is another post in ScrapeTheFamous, in which I will be parsing some famous websites and will discuss my development process. The posts will be using Scraper API for parsing purposes which makes me free from all worries about blocking and rendering dynamic sites since Scraper API takes care of everything. In this post, we are going to scrape AliExpress. AliExpress is a Chinese B2C portal to buy stuff. The script I am going to make consists of two parts, or I say, two functions: fetch and parse. The fetch will accept a category and return all links of individual items and parse will parse an individual entry and returns a few data points in…
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Develop Google scraper in Python with Scraper API
This is another post in ScrapeTheFamous, in which I will be parsing some famous websites and will discuss my development process. The posts will be using Scraper API for parsing purposes which makes me free from all worries about blocking and rendering dynamic sites since Scraper API takes care of everything. So this post is about scraping Google search results, the script will accept a keyword and would return results across multiple pages. The data will be stored in a text file in JSON format. The code that is parsing the result is pretty straightforward and given below: def google_scraper(query, start=0): records = [] try: URL_TO_SCRAPE = "http://www.google.com/search?q=" + query.replace(' ', '+') +…
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Create Ebay Scraper in Python using Scraper API
Learn how to create an eBay data scraper in Python to fetch item details and price.In this post of ScrapingTheFamous, I am going o write a scraper that will scrape data from eBay. eBay is an online auction site where people put their listing up for selling stuff based on an auction. Like before, we will be writing the two scripts, one to fetch listing URs and store in a text file and the other to parse those links. The data will be stored in JSON format for further processing. I will be using Scraper API service for parsing purposes which makes me free from all worries blocking and rendering dynamic sites since it takes care of everything. The first script is to fetching listings of a category.…
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Develop AirBnb Parser in Python
Planning to write a book about Web Scraping in Python. Click here to give your feedback So I am starting a new scraping series, called, ScrapeTheFamous, in which I will be parsing some famous websites and will discuss my development process. The posts will be using Scraper API for parsing purposes which makes me free from all worries blocking and rendering dynamic sites since Scraper API takes care of everything. Anyways, the first post is about Airbnb. We will be scraping some important data points from it. We will be scraping a list of rental URL and fetch and store data in JSON format. So let’s start! The URL we…