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How to extract all of the items (name, price) from Newegg.
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import itertools | |
import requests, lxml, lxml.html | |
import json | |
# 7603 Hard Drives | |
# 7611 RAM | |
# 6642 random store | |
def newegg_stores_req(): | |
r = requests.api.get('http://www.ows.newegg.com/Stores.egg/Menus') | |
return [store['StoreID'] for store in json.loads(r.content)] | |
def newegg_categories_req(store_id): | |
r = requests.api.get( | |
'http://www.ows.newegg.com/Stores.egg/Categories/%i' % store_id) | |
return [cat['NodeId'] for cat in json.loads(r.content)] | |
def newegg_items_page_req(node, page): | |
r = requests.api.post( | |
'http://www.ows.newegg.com/Search.egg/Advanced', | |
json.dumps({'NodeId':node, 'PageNumber':page}) | |
) | |
#'''{"NodeId":6642,"PageNumber":%i}''' % page) | |
prodlist = json.loads(r.content)['ProductListItems'] | |
if prodlist is None: return False | |
items = [ | |
(item['Title'], float(item['OriginalPrice'][1:].replace(',', ''))) | |
for item in prodlist | |
] | |
return items | |
def newegg_items(node): | |
last_res = list() | |
page = 0 | |
while last_res != False: | |
yield last_res | |
page += 1 | |
last_res = newegg_items_page_req(node, page) | |
def checkpoint(items): | |
with open('checkpoint.json', 'w') as f: | |
json.dump(items, f, indent=2) | |
def allitems(nodes): | |
items = list() | |
for node in nodes: | |
checkpoint(items) | |
for page in newegg_items(node): | |
items += page | |
checkpoint(items) | |
checkpoint(items) | |
nodes = list(itertools.chain( | |
*[newegg_categories_req(store) for store in newegg_stores_req()] | |
)) | |
items = allitems(nodes) | |
for name, price in items: | |
print name[:20], price |
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