I wrote about ScrapingBee a couple of years ago where I gave a brief intro about the service. ScrapingBee is a cloud-based scraping service that provides both headless and lightweight typical HTTP request-based scraping services. Recently I discovered that they are providing some cool features which other online services are not providing as such. What are those features? I thought to explore and explain them with a real use case. I used Python language to automate the Daraz group’s shopping website, a famous e-commerce website service in Asian countries like Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka. I am automating DarazPK since I am in Pakistan. You can view the demo…
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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 Amazon Scraper in Python using Scraper API
Learn how to create an Amazon scraper in python to scrape product details like price, ASIN etcIn this post of ScrapingTheFamous, I am going o write a scraper that will scrape data from Amazon. I do not need to tell you what is Amazon. You are here because you already know about it 🙂 So, we are going to write two different scripts: one would be fetch.py that would be fetching URLs of individual listings and save in a text file. Later another script, parse.py that will have a function taking an individual listing URL, scrape data, and save in JSON format. I will be using Scraper API service for parsing purposes which makes me free from all worries blocking and rendering dynamic sites since it…
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Create your first web scraper with ScrapingBee API and Python
Learn how to use cloud based Scraping API to scrape web pages without getting blocked.In this post, I am going to discuss another cloud-based scraping tool that takes care of many of the issues you usually face while scraping websites. This platform has been introduced by ScrapingBee, a cloud-based Scraping tool. What is ScrapingBee If you visit their website, you will find something like below: ScrapingBee API handles headless browsers and rotates proxies for you. As it suggests, it is offering you all the things to deal with the issues you usually come across while writing your scrapers, especially the availability of proxies and headless scraping. No installation of web drivers for Selenium, yay! Development ScrapingBee is based on REST API hence it can…
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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…
