How To Scrape Homedepot Data For Free [A Step By Step Guide]
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Introduction
Do you like shopping online or scrolling through various shopping websites? Are you someone who opens different websites to see what’s new in the market? If yes, you might be aware of the trending DIY furniture and home accessories.
Home Depot is the most popular website for home improvement items. It is a one-stop solution for all your home decor necessities. What do you get here? Everything you can think of using at home, from supplies, DIY furniture, garden decor, and barbecue setup, is available at this shop. While talking about the e-commerce market, Home Depot is like the gold mine of data. Hence, the demand for this data is high in the market. And so, it becomes essential for business owners to scrape this data.
So the next question is:
Why scrape Home depot data?
We already know that the market is unpredictable. If you continuously sit to monitor the prices of the products, you can’t handle any other task. But you cannot neglect the market trends to grow your business. What should you do in such situations?
Scraping the data is the most feasible option as it gives you the data of all the products within a few minutes. So, when you want to know the different trends in the home decor market now and how Home Depot deals with them, you can scrape the Home Depot website through ProWebScraper.
By scraping this data, you will also understand the demand for different market products and how Home Depot deals with them. Moreover, you know their marketing strategies and get a chance to analyze how customers respond to them. Thus, scraping data also helps you monitor your competitors and their strategy. When you already know what your competitor is doing, it becomes easier to make better strategies than them and lure the audience. Thus, scraping data always gives you a competitive edge.
But the question is, which data can you scrape and how?
The answer is simple. But let me explain it through a tutorial.
What data will we scrape in this tutorial?
We can scrape data such as:
- Product Name
- SKU
- Brand
- No of reviews
- Price
- Star rating
How to scrape data from home depot?
To make it easy for you to understand and execute the scraping process, we have worked out distinct stapes of the process.
Each stape, as you will see, comprises a few simple steps to follow:
Stape 1: Create a free account at ProWebScraper
Go to prowebscraper.com and create your free account. If you have already created an account, then log in.
Once you have logged in to your account, you will be redirected to your dashboard.
Stape 2: Configure your scraper
Now you can start configuring your scraper by simply entering the URL of the Homedepot product’s page.
Once the website is loaded at ProWebScraper, you can select the data you want to scraper by using ProWebScraper’s easy point-and-click selector feature.
You will understand it better once you look at the entire process, step-by-step:
(2.1) Copy and paste the URL
- Copy the home depot product’s page such as https://www.homedepot.com/p/Commercial-Electric-Tilting-Wall-Mount-for-37-in-to-90-in-TVs-MB-50901/311842875
- Paste this URL into the box, and then click on the ‘Go’ button.
(2.2) Start data selection
- Once the page loads, you can start configuring the scraper.
- All you need to do is click on the page to select that data point from the page, as you can see in the screenshot.
- To extract the data, such as product names, you will need to click on them.
- Let’s see an example to extract the product name.
- You can select other desired data with the same point-and-select process, such as SKU, brand, no of reviews, etc.
- You need to “Add Column,” locate and select data and give a proper name to the column.
(2.3) Clean Data with a regular expression
- You had seen that when I clicked on SKU to select it, the other two data were also selected. But we want to scrape SKU ID only in this particular column. Now the question is how to do that? It’s very simple with ProWebScraper. You can use regular expressions.
- To apply regular expression, follow the steps mentioned below:
- Go to column setting.
- Click on “Set regular expression.”
- In the Match field, add “SKU”.
- Click on Apply.
- That is it. You can see that now, in the column, only SKU is selected.
💡 Reference: You can refer to this tutorial to learn more about "Regular Expression".(2.4) Select data using a CSS selector.
- You can see that price data is not appearing on the page. Then how do you select price data? ProWebScraper has the solution for this also.
- You can use Prowebscraper’s advanced feature “CSS selector.”
- To scrape the price, follow the steps mentioned below:
- Go to column setting.
- Click on “Use CSS selector.”
- Then in the “enter selector” field add this selector string “div#standard-price > div.price > div”
- Then click “Apply”.
You will see that the price got selected.
- Here you can see that the price is not in the proper format, so you must apply a regular expression to get the price. Let’s see in the screenshot below.
NOTE:
By using CSS selector, you can scrape rating stars too.
Use below CSS selector string to scrape.
In an enter selector : div.product-details__review > a.product-details__rating-container
In an enter attribute: title
💡 Reference: You can refer to this tutorial to learn more about "CSS Selector".(2.5) Save and run the scraper.
- Once all the data points have been selected, click the “Save” button to save your scraper.
- It will ask you to enter some names in the “Scraper Name” field. Then, enter a name of your choice. And then click “Save and run”.
Step 3: Download data in JSON or CSV format
Once the scraper run gets finished, you can see the data preview and also be able to download data in JSON or CSV format.
How to scrape data in bulk
By now, you have learned how to scrape data for one product. Now let’s see how to scrape data from multiple products. To scrape data for multiple products, you do not need to create a new scraper for every product. You can scrape data with a current scraper. You need to add product URLs to the scraper. To do this:
- Go to “Manage Inputs”
- Click on “Import URLs”
- From the popup, browse the file.
- Click on “Upload URL list.”
- You can see that all URLs are added to the input box.
- When you save and rerun scraper, it’ll scrape data from all your imported product URLs.
You can download a sample file with the product URL from here "Homedepot Product URLs.csv".Sample data
You can download the sample data file from here: Homedepot Product Detail.csvConclusion
So, if you are wondering that only a technical person can scrape websites, you are wrong — scrapers like ProWebScraper demand no coding. As you saw in the tutorial, you only need to click and set your scraper. Don’t tell me you don’t have the time to click and scrape data!
Now don’t waste time and quickly sign up for a ProWebScraper account.
P.S. You can scrape the initial 100 pages for free!
