Development of a parser for goods from an online store website

A parser of goods from the website of an online store, from a catalog or any other source will allow business owners to obtain valuable information. A parser of goods is a program whose algorithms allow you to collect information from predefined sources on the World Wide Web. Since we are talking about goods, competitors’ online stores are most often the source.

Parsing goods from an online store allows you to:

• monitor the assortment in order to always be aware of and offer customers relevant products on time;
• monitor prices to keep pace with market trends;

• receive descriptions and characteristics of goods in automatic mode to fill your own catalog.

You can also scrape goods from the site manually if we are talking about several stores or product items. But if you need to monitor tens of thousands of positions in a highly competitive market, the best solution is a custom-made parser of goods from any site.

Such a software solution will allow you to flexibly customize the search and free up the time of several specialists – which means it will save money. The more products need to be parsed, the more profitable is the decision to order the development of a parser rather than using ready-made applications.

Many entrepreneurs are engaged in organizing joint purchases, ordering large quantities of goods in other countries or from large retailers. In order to quickly receive information about the most profitable offers and at any time to be able to familiarize yourself with the assortment, you can use a special parser for joint purchases. It allows you to download the entire assortment from the manufacturer’s or retailer’s website. It is also possible to unload by individual categories of goods, the search for which is available in the catalog – for example, only children’s goods or only outerwear.

Also, a similar parser of joint purchases provides convenient formats for uploading and using data – in the form of an Excel spreadsheet, in CSV format and others. When ordering, you have the opportunity to choose options for uploading the parsing results. Such co-purchase parsers are also useful for retailers and manufacturers who want to facilitate co-purchasing for small sellers.

We also use product parsers to quickly fill your own online store. Parsing goods from an online store allows you to collect names and articles of goods, their detailed descriptions, cost, images, characteristics in list format and other data from donor sites. Sources of data can be websites of manufacturers, official distributors, etc. The data can be uploaded to a separate file in a convenient format, or immediately uploaded to your site by embedding it in HTML markup.

When uploading product cards directly to the site using a parser, you can set up automatic changes. For example, set your margin in percent or absolute values ​​if the data source is the website of an online store of wholesales. You can also set up automatic data collection at certain intervals, which will update only the data on your site in which the parser has recorded the changes.

You can order a parser for small and medium-sized businesses from AVADA MEDIA. We implement the most useful features, including parsing for use with the WooCommerce WordPress plugin.

Product parsers for WooCommerce allow you to upload catalogs to an online store created using the plugin as conveniently and quickly as possible. Another commonly used platform for building online stores is OpenCart. We offer a parser for Opencart goods that takes into account the peculiarities of this platform – it is installed on the website of an online store on the OpenCart platform as a separate module and requires only actual urls for data collection to work.

Additional parser functions

If you order a program for parsing the catalog of goods, at the same time you can order the development of a number of additional functions, if you need them:

• price change according to a custom formula when placing product cards automatically;
• the ability to automatically create or edit the directory structure of your online store for the structure of the data obtained during the parsing process;
• extraction of descriptions, photographs and any other information separately;
• setting up automatic replacement of phrases by a template;
• parsing with clearing text from HTML;
• parsing data that is loaded by JavaScript;
• stop parsing when blocking IP;
• loading pictures with changing metadata;
• and much more.

Determine for what purpose you are parsing – its functionality depends on it. Do you just need competitor analysis or autocomplete your site? Also, determine in what form the data should be received and saved, how often you will be parsing: one-time, sporadically, or with a certain frequency (and how often).

For projects involving frequent periodic website parsing, loading large amounts of data and complex manipulations with them, it is best to order the development of a parser from professionals. Usually, Python is used to write algorithms – middle and senior specialists in this language work at AVADA MEDIA. We offer the development of a parser for the customer’s tasks with a guarantee of the result.