Amazon Scraping Case Study |Scrape Amazon Product Reviews and Ratings

Scrape product reviews from Amazon

Tuesday, September 19, 2017 11:30 AM

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In this tutorial, we will show you how to scrape the product reviews from Amazon.com. For Amazon scraping, you could use our ready-to-use Task Template available on the home page or follow this tutorial to build the task from scratch.

To demonstrate, we will use this URL as an example: https://www.amazon.com/Kindle-Paperwhite-Waterproof-Storage-Special/dp/B07PS737QQ/ref=sr_1_2_sspa?dchild=1&keywords=Kindle+E-readers&pd_rd_r=b8c0eaa7-acb5-41d5-b8bc-cf91731b15f1&pd_rd_w=BdW2G&pd_rd_wg=eeTzE&pf_rd_p=b9deb6fa-f7f0-4f9b-bfa0-824f28f79589&pf_rd_r=2NWW91Z6XMD4KT7W8TM2&qid=1634004515&sr=8-2-spons&psc=1&spLa=ZW5jcnlwdGVkUXVhbGlmaWVyPUFVNDcwVDRSWENBVzImZW5jcnlwdGVkSWQ9QTAzMzA0NzIxRlc5V1FDM1NaQ0pKJmVuY3J5cHRlZEFkSWQ9QTA0ODM4NTAxVElDNUJKTFFaRFpWJndpZGdldE5hbWU9c3BfYXRmJmFjdGlvbj1jbGlja1JlZGlyZWN0JmRvTm90TG9nQ2xpY2s9dHJ1ZQ==

Here are the main steps in this tutorial: [Download demo task file here]

1. Open Target Webpage

2. Click To See All Reviews

3. Auto-detect Webpage and Create Workflow

4. Adjust AJAX timeout for Paginate

5. Check the Data and Workflow

6. Run Task to Extract Data

1) Open Target Webpage

Paste the URL and click Start

2) Click To See All Reviews

Scroll down the page to find the See all reviews button
Click on it and choose Click URL

3) Auto-detect Webpage and Create Workflow

Select Auto-detect web page data

Wait for the detection - uncheck Add a page scroll - Create workflow

4) Adjust AJAX timeout for Paginate

Click on Click to Paginate - adjust Timeout to 10s

5) Check the Data and Workflow

Go to Data preview to check if the current data output, double click on the header to rename it, or click ... to delete a field

Below is how the final workflow looks like, if everything is in place, you can continue to run the task

6) Run Task to Extract Data

Run the task on the top right corner: Run task on your device to run the task on your local device, or select Run task in the cloud" to run the task on the Cloud (for premium users only)

Here is the sample output -

Happy Data Hunting!

Author: The Octoparse Team

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