Scrape Amazon NEW METHOD with Python 2020

Whilst working ona new personal project i noticed that scraping amazon with requests and bs4 no longer worked, so I am sharing a new method of how to get prices and titles from any amazon product page.
Code: github.com/jhnwr/scrapeamazon
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[@mattmovesmountains1443]

Subscribed from this video. It was paced well and did a great job at isolating the main functionality here without burying it in complex implementations.

[@JohnWatsonRooney]

Thank you I’m glad you liked it

[@ferilukmansyah3037]

@@JohnWatsonRooney keep passionate about creating content

[@TheKrannyMaster]

Hey bro - thanks for this! Ran into the issue using bs4 - thanks for showing me another option!

[@nerdtowncity5930]

We need a 2023 breakdown like this

[@ghaithmoe9573]

The problem with "requests_html" that it's too slow, So I'm using "lxml" instead of using "html.parser", it works fine. Thanks for your hard work John.

[@KendaBeatMaker]

can you point me to a tutorial?

[@randomstuff.1]

I was stuck with the old one. Thanks for new one

[@dimuthuathapaththu5406]

Love ur content... Great work 💖💖💖

[@nakjkro3523]

Thank you Bro, You help my assignment. Subscribed.

[@yunfeiericzhao7601]

Hi John, do you save the code somewhere so I can simply copy and run it and see how it works?

[@mhdshahul]

hi sir, thanks for this amazing video ! i am trying to do same for search result when we have lots of tv with model and price, (the page before this one). But it shows only the example i chose to have the xpath... do you have a recomendation ?

[@rustams7502]

This is great. Thanks so much

[@KhalilYasser]

Thank you very much. You are awesome.

[@shilashm5691]

Thanks brother.. This works good.

[@catesconsultinggroupllc937]

@John Watson Rooney Do you have any insight as to why I wouldn't be getting any results in the terminal at all? I'm not receiving an error or results. I've tried commenting out r.html.render(sleep=1) in case it was timing out.

[@rickynguyen5179]

Hi, John, thanks for your video. It was great and I've learned much from your scraping video. I have a website that i want to scrape but the url has longtitude and latitude within it. I have used many of your technique to scrape but it was unsuccessful. Is there differerent approach to scrape data from url with coordination ? Thanks

[@MrFlibbleflobble]

If you have managed to get the URL(s) that you want, then just turn them into a string and use some string manipulation. Seperate by characters, or extract the first or last X characters. Or use a module that can search a string for certain criteria (like using * for anything, $$$ for 3 numbers, $*$ for a number, anything, another number).

[@chillfilofii]

3:57 The function keeps stating that I am missing the parameter URL while I am copying and pasting as instructed....any idea how to solve it? I do notice that I copy and paste the URL as a STR and yet in some parts of the STR URL the numbers are shown in blue color, followed by % signs. Thanks for all your help.

[@ugurdev]

I can not get html-requests to ever run unfortunately, throws an exception when it is trying to download chromium. Tried to insert the file manually inside the folder it wants to create, but still ignores it and wants to download. Google wasn't much help, I also wonder if I could just use geckodriver.

[@mubeenkhan8877]

Hi John, Can you please tell me how can i set this up in google sheets and then get the data from title colum with many entries.?

[@123Nachodark123]

thank you so much for the vid! I have a question... How can i get the full price (price+tax+shipping)? when i try to run the code, simply copying the xpath of it i get an error (i believe it is because i am trying to get the value form a table, as i am opening the "DETAILS" to see the full price. English is not my first language, so sorry if i didnt explain myself really well!

[@TheKturner05]

Hey John I watched your video where you scraped the wkisky site with scrapy and I was excited to get started scraping amazon with scrapy but this method you dont seem to use scrapy? instead opting for a bsoup integration. Why dont you utilize scrapy with Amazon?

[@JohnWatsonRooney]

Hi Ken, I do sometimes - for Amazon I'd use scrapy and splash (i have done in some of my personal projects), but i like to change it up and keep it open for those who don't want to use Scrapy the whole time.

[@arcosd63]

What semantics are you writing? Is Request_HTML similar to Python semantics?

[@ferilukmansyah3037]

I just scraped amazon, I want to ask how to deploy to a production server, heroku for example

[@entertainmentvlogs9634]

What you usually do if these XPath or selector id changed by Amazon. is there any way to auto get the XPath or selector is for an attribute.?

[@harishreddy4172]

Thank you! 😊

[@kristjantiido3174]

Thanks for this new method, I was using the old method for a couple of days, but then it just stopped working for some reason

[@rverm1000]

Nice I'm going half to try that

[@chaejongseik]

Freaking awesome

[@mrjt6404]

I need help, the price is under . So can not able to scrap price. I can do finding s and write out under that. Can you please do any other ways while s come. Thank you 👍

[@Achiesamablog]

I know this vid is old now but amazon kinda detects we are bot when we use this method. But not all the times, though. its just 50 50. I tried with proxies with some headers but still no change, currently my script works since I am looping until successful but its meh solution. Is there new solution available? (without selenium)

[@morschlesinger7081]

How would you get a list of all the ASINs of one specific Amazon store?

[@quentinfitzgerald3305]

RuntimeError: Cannot use HTMLSession within an existing event loop. Use AsyncHTMLSession instead. Trying to figure out AsynchgHTMLSession is a bit off scope for me at the minute as Im just trying to learn the basics of using requests and bs4. Just wondering why you didn't get that error John as you ran it multiple times. I'm running my script in a jupyter notebook would that be a problem?

[@JohnWatsonRooney]

Yes that is the issue it won’t run in a notebook. Also this package hasn’t been updated for a couple of years so may not work properly with later versions of python

[@quentinfitzgerald3305]

@@JohnWatsonRooney Works now that Im running it from the command line, cheers

[@karthikb.s.k.4486]

Nice tutorial. How to customize the terminal with arrow and name of folder / project please let us know thr steps

[@robinsonortizsierra9629]

Interesante!!! como podri hacer para descargar varios productos a la vez con los precios correspondientes y guardarlos en un dataframe. muchas gracias

[@AdityaKumar-br1dx]

2:36 im getting an error in jupyter notebook "name 'r' is not defined"

[@alexgreat3349]

how long can your code run before it returned 503 ?

[@Tooske.]

Thanks for the tutorial helped me quite alot, still i got a little issue with the price, for e.g 'price': 100,99\xa0€' how can i fix it ?

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[@danielcanizalez8558]

Thanks a lot it help me!! I need to scrap this: class="a-icon a-icon-prime a-icon-medium" role="img" aria-label="Amazon Prime" and its not found this class with xpath :( any help?

[@im4485]

Nice.Just Subbed.How do you learn new things.Books?

[@JohnWatsonRooney]

Thank you! Yes books sometimes, online courses sometimes. But mostly nowadays the official docs or online KZbin/google

[@jonathanfriz4410]

Hi, John I try this and get an error that starts with: [W:pyppeteer.chromium_downloader] start chromium download. Download may take a few minutes. --> any idea about it? Q&A this week?

[@JohnWatsonRooney]

It’s an extra requirement, let it run once and it will be fine. QNA this week! Thursday

[@jonathanfriz4410]

@@JohnWatsonRooney Thanks John you're the man. Alarm set!

[@MaloneMatty]

Have you noticed overnight that Amazon have changed the pagination elements? class_="s-pagination-item s-pagination-next s-pagination-button s-pagination-separator" (the new class) doesn't render in Soup, but looks like it still appears as element.

[@MaloneMatty]

Looks like that the classes for the next button pagination are alternating - Some instances the class is s-pagination-item s-pagination-next s-pagination-button s-pagination-separator as an tag, while other instances it is a-last class from a tag.

[@JohnWatsonRooney]

Amazon has changed a lot since this video I’m afraid, I think the principles are the same but the exact code doesn’t work

[@vijayanand6854]

Hi bro i am getting RuntimeError: Cannot use HTMLSession within an existing event loop. Use AsyncHTMLSession instead.

[@JohnWatsonRooney]

Hey man, it doesn’t work in a jupyter notebook because of the event loop - try it in a normal script

[@rubyachu8066]

Thanks John. It works. but when i run with more Amazon links, it throws Captcha page to error. Please help me to scrape more pages with this script without captcha. Thanks

[@JohnWatsonRooney]

Hi - unfortunately this is a bit outdated now, I will look into a better solution

[@r3zamr]

When will we have another live Q&A John?

[@JohnWatsonRooney]

Hopefully mid next week! I’ll give at least 24hours notice (I have to plan it around my schedule right now)

[@r3zamr]

John Watson Rooney thank you so much.

[@bartproffitt5240]

I get this error when i run the code--- price': r.html.xpath('//*[@id="priceblock_ourprice"]', first=True).text AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'text'

[@JohnWatsonRooney]

Something has changed Amazon side meaning this now doesn’t work properly. I’m working on a update!

[@carlosparera2510]

Hi, John any news on this? It looks like amazon renders the price with js so it is never available on first render, I am able to grab it with scrapy by crawl again and again until i get the price, but i would love to do it with request-html or somehow simpler

[@axvex595]

I don't get why the old method doesn't work? Any ideas? If so please leave a reply, it would be really helpful!

[@JohnWatsonRooney]

I had started to notice that Amazon was blocking requests and sending you to a "are you a bot" page, instead of the content if you didnt render the page in someway. So I started doing it this way to get around it!

[@axvex595]

@@JohnWatsonRooney thanks for the quick and informative reply!

[@yativijay1336]

its not working in colab will u please help in that

[@avinashshukla2148]

Sir , I have learnt from your videos. Thanks a lot. I would like to request to provide the scraping location wise as well. Because price differs location to location. If you could explain that would be very helpful. Thanks in Advance!!

[@danilkumar9423]

Hello

[@danilkumar9423]

Kuch important puchna tha can we discuss?

[@samcamus3000]

Is the module works in python 3.7?

[@JohnWatsonRooney]

Yes it does I’ve used it with 3.7 and 3.8

[@KendaBeatMaker]

r.html not working for me, i know i will find the reason but as is right now this is the error Unresolved attribute reference 'html' for class 'Response'

[@KendaBeatMaker]

ok seems i was missing 'pyppeteer'

[@KendaBeatMaker]

Holy shit it works! thank you sir

[@JohnWatsonRooney]

Glad you sorted it!- I should have mentioned the need for that, it usually installs it automatically the first time you run your code

[@zaine1646]

@@KendaBeatMaker What do you mean by this though, cause I'm having the same issue.

[@KendaBeatMaker]

@@zaine1646 you are using Pycharm maybe? Pycharm gave this warning but it works fine. That wasn’t my exact problem. Let me know some more detail I should be able to help.

[@surendratamang8848]

Has anyone not encountered captcha?

[@aleksandarpavlovic8747]

Hey, How to convert results into csv or excel file?

[@JohnWatsonRooney]

I normally create a list of Dicts, and use Pandas to turn them into a DataFrame then export to CSV

[@ameurchabane6001]

hi every body i safer with this error --- pyppeteer.errors.TimeoutError: Navigation Timeout Exceeded: 8000 ms exceeded. - i can't go one like this when i want to scrape this message face to me .......................... please help me

[@SlackOps]

Please I need an aliexpress web scraping tutorial

[@benjaminchung7805]

can i hire you for a project?

[@Scarfacew1]

This is not working bro, the code just keeps going forever and doesn't return anything

[@namanshah2017]

I want to do data scraping of amazon prime video of 100 movies

[@xpurplerain]

POV: I having built a big tracker for over 10 products

[@ManishKumar-br5sf]

i want this scraped list in excel how can i get it