In the last post of the scraping series, I showed you how you can use Scraper API, an online data extractor to scrape websites that use proxies hence your chance of getting blocked is reduced. Today I am going to show how you can use Scraper API to scrape websites that are using AJAX to render data with the help of JavaScript, Single Page Applications(SPAs), or scraping websites using frameworks like ReactJS, AngularJS, or VueJS. I will be working on the same code I had written in the introductory post. Let’s work on a simple example. There is a website that tells your IP, called HttpBin. If you load…
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Scraping dynamic websites using Scraper API and Python
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Creating an e-commerce bot to buy online items with ScrapingBee and Python
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…
