Scrape Amazon Reviews with Scrapy using Python
We search many things on the internet daily to purchase something, for comparing one product with another, how to decide that a specific product is superior to another? – We straight away check the reviews as well as see how many stars or positive feedbacks have been provided to the products. Here, we will extract reviews from amazon.com with how many stars it has got, who had posted the reviews, etc. We would be saving the data in CSV or an excel spreadsheet. The data fields we will scrape include: Review’s Title Ratings Reviewer’s Name Review’s Description or Content Useful Counts Now, let’s start. We choose Scrapy – a Python framework used for big-scale web data scraping. Together with it, a few other packages would be needed to extract Amazon products data. Requests – for sending a request of the URL Pandas – for exporting CSV Pymy SQL – for connecting My SQL server as well as storing data there Math – for implementing mathematical operations You may always install these packages l