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Bhagyeshwari Chauhan
- Oct 27, 2020
- 6 min
5 Major Challenges That Make Amazon Data Scraping Painful
Amazon has been on the cutting edge of collecting, storing, and analyzing a large amount of data. Be it customer data, product information, data about retailers, or even information on the general market trends. Since Amazon is one of the largest e-commerce websites, a lot of analysts and firms depend on the data extracted from here to derive actionable insights. The growing e-commerce industry demands sophisticated analytical techniques to predict market trends, study custom
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Bhagyeshwari Chauhan
- Oct 21, 2020
- 6 min
How To Scrape Amazon Data Using Python Scrapy
With a large number of companies providing products, price, review, and other forms of monitoring solutions for Amazon, scraping Amazon is a huge business today. But trying to scrape Amazon data on a large scale is a challenging task, often leading to getting blocked by Amazon’s anti-scraping technology. Amazon is a tough website to scrape for beginners. Hence, through this blog post, we aim to provide an easy to understand step by step guide on how to scrape Amazon data usi
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Bhagyeshwari Chauhan
- Jun 18, 2020
- 8 min
Scraping Amazon Reviews using Scrapy in Python
Are you looking for a method of scraping Amazon reviews and do not know where to begin with? In that case, you may find this blog very useful in scraping Amazon reviews. In this blog, we will discuss scraping amazon reviews using Scrapy in python. Web scraping is a simple means of collecting data from different websites, and Scrapy is a web crawling framework in python. Web scraping allows the user to manage data for their requirements, for example, online merchandising, pric
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Tony Paul
- Mar 18, 2020
- 5 min
COVID-19 And Predatory Pricing Online
This blog an investigation into unfair pricing practices by sellers on amazon during COVID-19. We also look into some other details around reviews, discounts, and the time of listing of products. You can download the reference data here – Reference data. As the world fights to contain the COVID-19. coronavirus disease, some people are using it as an opportunity to rip off people. Many countries are facing massive shortages of supply of masks. On Amazon and other eCommerce we
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Srishti Saha
- Dec 6, 2019
- 4 min
How Scraping Amazon Data can help you price your products right
Amazon is one of the largest e-commerce platforms across the globe. It has one of the largest customer bases and one of the most versatile and adaptive product portfolios. It definitely gets the advantage of a large amount of data and better operational processes in place due to its standing as one of the largest retailers. Having said that, even you can use Amazon’s data as an advantage to yourself to design a better product and price portfolio. A simple tool for the same is
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Bhagyeshwari Chauhan
- Oct 4, 2019
- 12 min
How to Scrape Amazon and Other Large E-Commerce Websites at a Large Scale
The e-commerce industry is being more and more data-driven. Scraping product data from Amazon and other large e-commerce websites is a crucial piece of competitive intelligence. There is a massive volume of data in Amazon alone ( 120 + million as of today). Extracting this data every day is a huge task. At Datahut, we work with many customers helping them get access to data. But some people need to set up an in-house team to extract data for many reasons. This blog post is fo
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