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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

Even though Amazon is the leader in e-commerce marketplaces – eBay still has its fair share in the online retail industry. Brands selling online should be monitoring prices on eBay as well to gain a competitive advantage. To scrape product data from eBay at a huge scale regularly is a challenging problem for data scientists. Here is an example of scraping eBay using python to identify the prices of mobile phones. Lets us imagine a use case where you need to monitor the pricin

Stock trading has one of the most complex and complicated dynamics in the present day world. In today’s time, multiple algorithms and researches have been produced to understand the complexity of the stocks trading. There is an increasing effort to understand the system dynamics of stock trading to predict the emergent behaviour of the stock prices. In order to predict stock prices adequately, one needs to have access to historical data of the stock prices. Mostly, you will b

Web Scraping with Python is a popular subject around data science enthusiasts. Here is a piece of content aimed at beginners who want to learn Web Scraping with Python lxml library. What is lxml? lxml is the most feature-rich and easy-to-use library for processing XML and HTML in Python programming language. lxml is a reference to the XML toolkit in a pythonic way which is internally being bound with two specific libraries of C language, libxml2, and libxslt. lxml is unique i