How to Extract Amazon Product Prices Data with Python 3 | 3i Data Scraping

How to Scrape Amazon Product Data from Amazon Product Pages?

·         Markup all data fields to be extracted using Selectorlib

·         Then copy as well as run the given code

Setting up your Computer for Amazon Scraping

We will utilize Python 3 for the Amazon Data Scraper. This code won’t run in case, you use Python 2.7. You require a computer having Python 3 as well as PIP installed.

Follow the guide given to setup the computer as well as install packages in case, you are using Windows.

Packages for Installing Amazon Data Scraping

Python Requests for making requests as well as download HTML content from Amazon’s product pages

SelectorLib python packages to scrape data using a YAML file that we have created from webpages that we download

Using pip3,

pip3 install requests selectorlib

Scrape Product Data from Amazon Product Pages

 


An Amazon product pages scraper will extract the following data from product pages.

·         Product Name

·         Pricing

·         Short Description

·         Complete Product Description

·         Ratings

·         Images URLs

·         Total Reviews

·         Optional ASINs

·         Link to Review Pages

·         Sales Ranking

Scraping Amazon Products from Search Results Pages

Scraping Amazon Product Data

The Amazon search results pages scraper will extract the following data from different search result pages:

·         Product’s Name

·         Pricing

·         URL

·         Ratings

·         Total Reviews

The code and steps for extracting the search results is similar to a product pages scraper.

Run an Amazon Scraper for Scraping Search Results

You can begin your scraper through typing this command:

python3 searchresults.py

When the scraping is completed, you need to see the file named search_results_output.jsonl with the data.

The example of it is:

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=laptops

https://www.3idatascraping.com/contact-us.php

What Should You Do If You are Blocked When Scraping Amazon?

Amazon may consider you as the “BOT” in case, you start extracting hundreds of pages by the code given here. The thing is to avoid having flagged as a BOT while extracting as well as running the problems. How to cope with such challenges?

Imitate the human behaviour to the maximum

Use Proxies as well as Switch Them

Let us assume that we are extracting thousands of products on Amazon.com using a laptop that normally has only single IP address. Amazon would assume us as a bot because NO HUMAN visits thousands of product pages within minutes. To look like the human — make some requests to Amazon using the pool of proxies or IP Addresses.

Specify User Agents of the Newest Browsers as well as Switch Them

If you observe the code given, you would get a line in which we had set the User-Agent String for requests we are doing.

Like proxies, it’s good to get the pool of different User Agent Strings. So, ensure that you use user-agent strings for the popular and latest browsers as well as rotate these strings for every request you do to Amazon.

Decrease the Total ASINs Extracted Every Minute

You can also try to slow down the scrapping a bit for giving Amazon lesser chances of considering you as the bot. However, around 5 requests for every IP per minute isn’t throttling much. If you want to go quicker, add additional proxies.

Continue Retrying

Whenever you get blocked by the Amazon, ensure you retry the request. Our codes retry immediately after scraping fails, you can do a better job by making the retry queues using the list, as well as retry them when all the products get scraped from the Amazon.

If you are looking to get Amazon product data and prices scraping using Python 3 then contact 3i Data Scraping!

 

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