Amazon Reviews

This is a very tricky question actually and a good one as well. Most sites, if not all, protects its resources. When we say resources, that means, information. There are more efficient way of capturing information that is asked from the owner itself. But, asking for it most of the times comes with a dollar value. Though the information posted online is already in a public domain, owners put in place some hurdles for those who would want to capture the data in clever way. Automated web-crawler Anit-bot's job is to challenge, hinder and of course discourage such approach. But those are three were never a deterrent for coders to do the web-scraping approach. Most sites put the information in layers and layers deep into the HTML framework. That's something to tire out the engine from spotting the right data. With programming languages are increasingly smarter and simply get's around it anyway.  Web-crawlers are predictable and works in cyclical manner. The key here is "cyc

Webscraping is a tricky process. Most website has it's robot/auto-crawler engines that will prevent automated website access. The most efficient is with an API. But, with site's like Amazon, it doesn't comes easily. If you're a seller, definitely you'll have visibility on those type of resources. The only drawback is, only for your inventory. So what you do if you'd like to do competitive analysis on your products?  There are other paid services to scrape for reviews. But the context still the same. The requirement with webscraping is a understanding the page html structure. For an amazon reviews, you'll below: Looks simple, but, it's farther from the truth. As you can, it can be confusing once you're into layers of the html framework. Were the fun begins. So, navigate those tags and be sure to capture the right information. 

Here's a page for your webscraping needs. https://reviewsatamazon.blogspot.com/p/amazon-reviews.html