Scraping Multiple Pages of a Javascript-heavy ecommerce Website with Selenium and Beautifulsoup

Introduction

Web scraping is a powerful technique to gather data from websites. When dealing with modern eCommerce websites that heavily rely on Javascript and React, scraping can become challenging. In this article, we’ll demonstrate how to use Selenium and BeautifulSoup to scrape multiple pages of product listings from a Javascript-heavy eCommerce website.

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Setting up Selenium

Selenium is a popular web testing library that can interact with JavaScript-heavy websites. First, you need to install Selenium and a web driver for your preferred browser. For this example, we’ll use the Chrome web driver.

1 — Install Selenium:

pip install selenium

2 — Download the Chrome WebDriver and add its path to the system’s PATH variable, or specify the path in your script.

Scraping the Product List

We will create a function to scrape product information from an example eCommerce website. Replace example.com with the target website's URL.