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A blog for people & companies looking to make a big business impact with data acquired using web scraping and web crawling. Learn the best practices, business use cases, legality, and how you can do your job better with data.
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Y Combinator 2025: How AI is Reshaping Startups and Markets
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Why Every Amazon Seller Must Scrape Their Competitor’s Reviews
Monitoring your product’s reviews is incredibly useful to assess customer satisfaction and identifying areas of improvement.
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How to Build an Amazon Price Tracker using Python
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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

Bhagyeshwari Chauhan
Oct 27, 20207 min read
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How To Scrape Amazon Data Using Python Scrapy
To scrape data from Amazon using Python's Scrapy framework, you'll need to set up a Scrapy project, create a spider to define your scraping logic, and handle potential anti-bot measures . This involves defining items to store the scraped data, writing parsing functions to extract specific information, and potentially using proxies to avoid getting blocked by Amazon. Introduction With a large number of companies providing products, price , review, and other forms of monitorin

Bhagyeshwari Chauhan
Oct 21, 20207 min read
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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

Tony Paul
Mar 19, 20205 min read
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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
Srishti Saha
Dec 6, 20194 min read
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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

Bhagyeshwari Chauhan
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