Easiest Way to Scrape Data From eBay [Tutorial]

Introduction:

Do you fancy some eBay product data?

Why not?

Access to eBay product data like price, images, condition etc. can give you enormous leverage in your business.

But it would be difficult to get hold of this data from hundreds of pages in a manual fashion.

Copying and pasting it would take ages.

Needless to say, some of it may not even be accurately copied.

Does it mean you have to give up?

Nope.

All you need is an automated web scraping solution.

A solution called eBay product scraper is what you need for scraping product data from eBay.

It needs no programming knowledge or requires no coding on your part.

Wondering how you can use it?

No worries.

We have put together this tutorial to help you understand how to use this eBay product scraper for your specific needs.

In this tutorial, we will build an eBay product scraper to scrape product data like title, price, image, condition, etc.

We’ll build this web scraper using ProWebScraper.

This eBay product scraper will scrape the following fields from the eBay product page:

1. Title
2. Price
3. Image
4. Seller
5. Condition
6. Seller Feedback Score

Take a look at the screenshot of the data which we will be scrapping.

Well, let’s get started.

While web scraping can be complicated, using eBay product scraper is amazingly easy. You just need to follow three simple steps to get hold of the data you need:

1. Create a Free Account on ProWebScraper
2. Create and Configure a Scraper
3. Downloading Your Data

Step 1: Create a Free Account on ProWebScraper

• Just go to Prowebscraper.com and create a free account. With ProWebScraper, you can scrape 1000 pages for free.
• Once you’ve logged into ProWebScraper, you’ll be directed to your ProWebScraper scraper tab. Here’s what it’ll look like:

Step 2: Create & Configure the Scraper

• The next step would be to create and configure the specialized scraper for eBay product data.
• So now we will simply enter the URL of an eBay product page and start configuring our scraper.
• Once the website is loaded at ProWebScraper, we will select desired product data using ProWebScraper’s easy point-and-click selector feature.
• Let’s go through the entire process, step-by-step:

(2.1) Enter eBay Product URL and click on the Go to load website.

• Once you are on ProWebScraper’s Scraper tab, copy and paste the URL of the eBay product page, such as https://www.ebay.com/itm/New-Yeezy-Boost-350-Citrin-NRF-FW3042-100-Authentic-and-New-Mens-Multisize/223989490323, and click on “Go” to load the page.

(2.2) Select the data you want to scrape

• As soon as the specific page is loaded, you can start configuring scraper.
• To select the data you need, just click on it.
• For example, if you want to scrape the title of the product, just click on that.

NOTE: To rename selected data points, just double click on the column name and rename it.

(2.3) To select more data points.

• In the same way, to scrape more data points such as price, image, and seller, you can click on the “Add column”, and then click that data point on-page to select that data point.

(2.4) To scrape an image URLs and get it in full size by using Regex.

• Just point and click to select the images. You will get all images in a small size.
• But if you want all the images in full size, you need to apply regex to resize the image.
• To apply regex, Go to column settings > Set Regular Expressions

1. Match the size number like: s-l64
2. And replace it with: s-l1600

• You can see the preview of the images that we could get the images in small size by point and click functionality, and after applying regex how the same images appear.
• Image that we get by click:
• https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/94kAAOSwZgBepOAv/s-l64.jpg
• Image after applying the regex:
• https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/94kAAOSwZgBepOAv/s-l1600.jpg

Note: This only shows how you will just scrape URLs of images. If you want to download images, ProWebScraper also has a special functionality. All you need to do is purchase image credit to download high quality images.

(2.5) Save and Run the scraper.

• Once you have selected all the data points you need, click on the “Save” button to save your scraper.
• For now, you can enable the option ”is this listing page”, name your Scraper, and then click Save and run.

(2.6) Once you save the scraper, it will take you to the scraper dashboard. From there, you can download the results of the run once it is over.

Step 3: Downloading your Data in CSV or JSON

• Now that the process of scraping is over, the next step would be to download the data. Downloading the data is also equally simple. Your data will be available for download within the Scraper Dashboard.
• Go to Run History tab to access the data. You can see the previous runs including the latest one with the results at the top.
• The data will be available for download (1) in JSON or CSV format.
• You can see the “Data Preview” of scraped data (2).

Sample Data File (CSV Format) :

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1s0AOTen0Z7IbzOCgKxV6uj_d30hgbAsE/view?usp=sharing

Sample Data Preview:

Pro Tip: How to scrape data from multiple URLs

• Obviously, there are just countless products on eBay. But if you have some specific pages in mind, you can easily use ProWebScraper to get it done.
• For example, if you have gathered some URLs and you want to scrape data from those multiple URLs, you simply need to copy and paste these URLs.
• Go to Manage Input tab, paste your URLs in “Enter or Paste new URL(s) here” field.
• Then click on “Save” and Run scraper. That’s it, you will get the scraped data from those URLs.
• Here’s an example of how to input multiple URLs by copying and pasting URLs.

• As you can see hereafter entering multiple URLs and then run scraper, data is scraped from 5 URLs and still scraper is running.

Conclusion

• Getting hold of your e-commerce competitor’s data is not an option; it’s become a compulsion. Likewise, scrapping eBay data, as you can see, is not just a necessity but an inevitable requirement of sorts.
• In effect, those who can scrape eBay product data easily, quickly and on the scale will get a competitive advantage. Aren’t there other web scraping tools? Yes, there are. But what you need is a specialized and tailor-made tool that caters specifically to your need for eBay product data.
• Therefore, ProWebScraper to precisely what you need to grab with both hands!
• We hope that this tutorial will get you started on scrapping eBay product data and help you scale up your business.
• Feel free to share your unique inputs and comments here and let us grow!