Qarece Web Crawler

Author: (EJ) Vivek Pandey

Save hours spent on manually adding and updating products to your e-commerce site and do it in seconds!

This web crawler gathers the latest details, variations, imagery and pricing informations of a catalog of products given their urls from their corresponding online stores and prepares files ready for upload to your e-commerce platfrom. It was built with the purposes of making product additions easier for e-commerce retailers.

Supported Ecommerce Stores

• Macys
• Sephora
• 6pm (Future Enchancement)
• Amazon (Future Enhancement)

Output Files Customized for Platforms

• Woocommerce (De-Facto)

Important Notes

• The internal category mapping, profit rates, and shipping rates are to be adjusted by you according to your business logic in the reference files located at product_scraper/product_scraper/reference_data folder. The current values are default placeholders.

Custom Enhancements for Your Business

This crawler prototype was initially built as per the needs of Qarece - New York. If you want a custom implementation or enhancement for your e-commerce business, reach out to the author at [email protected].

Development rates are on a hourly basis or project basis depending on your needs.

How to Run

• Clone the Repo (Duh)
• Make sure you have Python, Scrapy and Pandas installed in your system
• Add the urls of products you want to crawl by going to /product_scraper/product_scraper/input/urls.txt. Check the supported e-commerce stores above.
• Navigate back to the base of the scraper where the scrapy.cfg file is. cd /product_scraper
• python setup.py
• scrapy crawl products-spider
• python clean-scraped-results.py
• The output file to upload in woocommerce is ready at /product_scraper/product_scraper/output/Product-formatted-for-wp.csv. Run it twice, once in a new products import mode, and again in update mode to update existing products
• The output file to hide products that are no longer available in market will be ready at /product_scraper/product_scraper/output/products_to_unpublish.csv. Run it once in update mode to hide products that exist in your catalog but are not available in the market anymore.
• Any products that could not be crawled successfully with associated errors will be detailed in /product_scraper/product_scraper/output/errors.txt

TODO

• An automated way to update catalog in woocommerce using output files without having to upload manually
• An automated script to prepare urls.txt by exporting the catalog from woocommerce in csv, and making a list of product's market urls