Octoparse-web scraping

Originally published as  https://www.octoparse.com/blog/scraping-and-cleansing-alibaba-data# Finding suppliers has been an ongoing challenge for most eCommerce businesses. If you are one of them, you might get the answer from  Alibaba , one of the largest B2B marketplaces made for buyers and sellers.   In this article, you'll learn how to scrape data from Alibaba and utilize it to find the best supplier. To make it easier to follow, we'll demonstrate the process using "toy car" as an example and show you how to get an insight into toy car suppliers' verified years, average product ratings, and total reviews.   Table of Contents Why scrape data from Alibaba Use Octoparse for data scraping Use QuickTable for data cleansing and analysis   Why scrape data from Alibaba In the past 20 years, Alibaba has attracted more than 26 million active buyers worldwide, as well as suppliers from more than 190 countries and regions. There are more than 5,900 product categories on ...

Originally published as  https://www.octoparse.com/blog/scraping-and-cleansing-amazon-data# Have you tried to compare the prices among your competitors on  Amazon ? It is definitely the right thing to do when running your e-commerce business. However, it is only a tiny part of competitor research and there's so much you can do with the data that's available on Amazon.   In this article, we'll show how you can conduct competitor research on Amazon with data scraping and cleansing. Even if you are a beginner and this is your first time collecting and analyzing data, you can get it done easily by following the steps below.   To make this guide easier to follow, we'll take Headphones & Earbuds on Amazon as an example. We'll scrape the relevant data and find out what's the average rating for each product under this category.   Table of Contents Why conduct Amazon competitor research Extract data from Amazon using Octoparse Clean and analyze data using QuickTable ...

Originally published as  https://www.octoparse.com/blog/scraping-and-cleansing-yahoo-finance-data# The stock market must be one of the most fast-changing things in the world. It tends to react quickly to various factors, like inflation concerns and consumer spending. Especially during the pandemic, its change has been more dramatic than ever. Investors are experiencing ups and downs. How can you make a smarter investment if you are one of them? It is likely that data will provide the useful information you need to make better decisions. In this article, we'll introduce how you can scrape data from the  stock quotes page on Yahoo! Finance . After that, we'll clean up the scraped data and determine how many stocks are seeing their values rise and vice versa.   Table of Contents Why scrape data from Yahoo! Finance Extract data - collect data easily by Octoparse Clean data - make sure raw data is accurate and consistency Analyze data - classify each stock and add up the numbe...

  Originally published as  https://www.octoparse.com/blog/web-scraping-and-ecommerce-business# When will the expansion of the e-Commerce industry reach a turning point? The answer is definitely not the year 2023. Although its growth is slowing, top e-Commerce statistics for 2023 remain optimistic about online sales. According to  Insider Intelligence's report , sales of e-Commerce are expected to increase by 10.4%, reaching a market size of $6.3 trillion in 2023. And this number is predicted to climb to over $8.1 trillion in 2026. However, a flourishing industry is always born with intense competition. Whether you're considering starting your e-Commerce business or running one right now, you might need to utilize everything you have to stay ahead of the rat race. And data, it's the perfect tool. Its value has endured testing and has never decreased--in fact, it has increased. According to  a report by Statista , the global big data market will reach $103 billion by 2...