With the help of eScraper and Smart Scan feature you can automatically detect products and scrape the most common product fields, like: name, price, sku, description, images and other fields into .csv file without any technical skills.
So, in order to scrape data from any site you need to follow few steps:
Let’s go through the steps one-by-one.
Install eScraper free trial version. Here you can find the download link. Please note, the free trial version allows you to scrape up to 100 products. You can find both free trial and paid plans here.
On the first run you will see an option to create a new scan. The “Create new” option allows you to detect fields to scrape automatically without any manual configuration or technical skills with the help of Smart Scan. Use this option to proceed.
Run eScraper and choose Create new to use Smart Scan
Import option allows you to upload previously configured scrapes. If you have a configuration provided by a support team, you’re welcome to load it here.
On the next step you need to specify the product URL from the site that you would like to scrape. It is important to specify product URL. If you specify homepage URL, eScraper will not be able to detect product fields automatically.
Create new configuration by specifying the product URL
It is a good idea to find the product that contains variations, prices, and all data that you need to scrape, to make sure our automatic scan can detect all possible fields.
In case you receive empty file or some fields were not detected, please check the product URL once again and make sure it is accessible via URl.
On this step you can check the fields that eScraper have detected. You can proceed with the scrape by clicking OK.
Automatically detected fields for automated product data extraction
Important! If the site that you’re scraping contains any banner or blocking window, or if you need to login, you can use the right pane browser and apply the change that is required to proceed.
Also here you can see the list of fields that eScraper have detected. The list of fields can contain:
If you can see all fields that you need to scrape, hit Ok to proceed
It may take some time to scrape the whole site. It is a good idea to stop the scrape as soon as few products were detected and data scraped. This way you will be able to check the result without having to wait till the whole scraping process ends.
Product data extraction process
On this step you can find the data extraction summary. It allows you to track the process real time. So here you can find:
Wait till the scrape is finished, or you can stop the scrape and save the extracted data into a .csv file.
Check the result file with the data scraped from the site that you have provided.
Result file
In case you would like to import the file, you should carefully check all rows and columns to make sure all data is accurate and available.
Also it is a good idea to open the product URL using the link from the first column and check if all values were extracted into file correctly.
In case you need any additional fields, variations, or if your file is empty, contact eScraper support team, and they will assist you with the configuration free of charge.
Do not hesitate to download the free trial version and check eScraper Smart Scan feature!
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