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If you want to scrape and extract the details of thousands of products for each brand and check the competitor prices of products periodically (on an hourly basis), then you should read Scalable do-it-yourself scraping – How to build and run scrapers on a large scale and How to prevent getting blacklisted while scraping Disclaimer: Any code provided in our tutorials is for illustration and learning purposes only. This code should be able to scrape eBay prices and details of most brands available.

Price monitoring – eBay is one of the largest marketplaces in the world, scraping eBay for price and comparing with the Amazon scraper and Walmart scraper pricing data can help create an efficient price monitoring system.

Brand monitoring – You can replace the search term in this tutorial to include a brand name and easily monitor which brand products are being sold more often on eBay.

eBay Keyword monitoring – You can easily monitor eBay for a specific keywords using this tutorial.

Here are a few reasons on how web scraping eBay can be useful – Why Scrape eBay?ĮBay scraping using the code above can be useful for a number of reason. We would love to know how this scraper worked for you. This will create a CSV file named apple-ebay-scraped-data.csv that will be in the same folder as the script. Here are some of the data extracted from eBay in a CSV file from the command above. You can read about choosing your data format, just to be sure. If you would like to extract details in bulk, a JSON file is more preferable. In this article we are only scraping the product’s name, price, and URL from the first page of results, so a CSV file should be enough to fit in all the data. As an example, to find all of the products Apple currently has on eBay, we would run the scraper like this. The script must be run with the argument for brand. You can type in a brand that eBay currently has on its site such as – Samsung, Canon, Dell, etc. The brand argument represents any brand available on eBay.

h, -help show this help message and exit If you type in the script name in terminal or command prompt with a -h usage: ebay_scraper.py brand We have named the script ebay_scraper.py. If you would like the code in Python 2.7, you can check out the link at Running the Python eBay Scraper

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You can download the link at if the embed above does not work. Since we will be monitoring prices by their brand, here is the one for Apple –

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Python LXML, for parsing the HTML Tree Structure using Xpaths ( Learn how to install that here – ).

Python Requests, to make requests and download the HTML content of the pages ( ).

PIP to install the following packages in Python ( ).

Here is a guide to install Python 3 in Linux – įor this eBay scraping tutorial using Python 3, we will need some packages for downloading and parsing the HTML. Read More – Learn to scrape Yelp business data You could also scrape details such as the number of products sold or the ratings given by consumers, but for now, we will keep this eBay scraper simple and extract these.

Save the scraped eBay product data to a CSV file.īelow is a screenshot of the data to extract using our eBay scraping tutorial.

Parse the page using LXML – LXML lets you navigate the HTML Tree Structure using Xpaths.

Download HTML of the search result page using Python Requests.

Construct the URL for the search results to scrape eBay.

Scraping eBay listings at regular intervals can be useful to check the details of products and compare them with your competitor sites. Web scraping eBay can help with collecting information for eBay keyword monitoring, price monitoring, brand monitoring and pricing intelligence.

In this article, we will show you how to scrape eBay and extract data such as prices and names of products in all categories by a brand.

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