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Ebay Scraper using scrapy and residential proxy

base code to scrape Ebay product listings utilising scrapy and residential proxies.

Prerequisites

To get started install scrapy using methods provided in thier documentation. Check here for more information

For more understanding check out the youtube tutorial. here

Authentication & Proxy setup

Once you have an active subscription take note of the ip address,port,username and password.

Navigate to middlewares.py in /ebay/ebay/ folder and modify the following lines to authenticate and setup the proxy.

 request.meta["proxy"] = "IP Address:Port"
        dict = {
                "User": "Username",
                "Passw": "Password"}

replacing IP Address, Port with the ip address of the proxy and also filling the username with the proxy username and the password with the proxy password

Running the scraper

Navigate to the project folder and run the following command.

scrapy crawl ebay

Results

to save the results into a csv file run the following command.

scrapy crawl ebay -o filename.csv

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