Sunday 19 May 2013

How to scrape product listings from Amazon using WebHarvy ?

WebHarvy can be used for scraping data from Amazon's website. Product listings under various categories in the Amazon website can be easily scraped using WebHarvy. Information such as Product title, cost, description, details, avialablity/shipping info etc can be extracted.

Scraped data can be easily exported as a local file (CSV, TSV, XML formats supported) or to a database (MS SQL, MySQL). There is no limit to the amount of data which can be extracted and exported. Listings which span across multiple pages can be easily extracted.

There is a small limitation while scraping data from Amazon's website. The first row of products from Amazon's web pages cannot be extracted using WebHarvy. While configuring, you need to start by clicking on the first product in the second row. Or in case the listing displays one product per row, you need to start configuring by clicking on the fourth product, as shown in the demo below. Please contact our support (support@sysnucleus.com) to get detailed instructions (including video demonstrations) in case you face any problems.

Demo below shows how WebHarvy can be used to scrape product listings from Amazon's website:

 The best thing about using WebHarvy for scraping produts from Amazon is that configuring the scraper is incredibly easy. You can start extracting data from within minutes you install the software. And in case you need any assistance you are assured to get a reply from us (support@sysnucleus.com) within 24 hours.

We recommend that you try the evaluation version available for download.

Keywords : Scraping Amazon, Scraping Amazon Product Listings, Amazon Scraper

Source: http://www.webharvy.com/articles/scraping-amazon.html

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