Scrape product variants

May 26, 2022 10:17
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If you need to scrape e-commerce data, especially the product data, you may have encounter a situation like this:

For some products with different options, you want to collect each variant's price, SKU, etc. Taking this hair dye product as an example, you may need to scrape its pricing for each color.

In this tutorial, we will show you how to scrape information of different product variants. To show you how to do it with Octoparse, we can take this web page URL as an example:

https://www.walmart.com/ip/SoftSheen-Carson-Dark-and-Lovely-Fade-Resist-Rich-Conditioning-Color/10314047

For this product, its color, pricing, images, page URL, and product ID will vary when you switch the option.

1. Enter product URL(s) to start a new task

2. Create a loop item to loop through each color option

Click the 1st color option on the list, and then choose Select all on the Tips panel

Choose Loop click each element

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Click Click Item inside the Loop Item to uncheck Open in a new tab.
Click Apply to save

(Optional) Click Loop Item to change the "Loop Mode" from Fixed List to Variable List. Then, enter the Element XPath: //DIV[@class="variants__list"]/LABEL/DIV[2]. This is important when you have different products with different numbers of colors to scrape.

Tip: The XPath above only works for the example web page we use in this tutorial. For your own target websites, you will need to write the XPath on your own. Check out this tutorial to learn how to write it: What is XPath and how to use it in Octoparse