/Book-Store-Scraper

An automated book store scraper that collects data on book titles, authors, prices, and reviews from online book stores for comprehensive market analysis.

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Book Store Scraper

The Book Store Scraper is a Python-based web scraping tool designed to extract information from book store websites. This project aims to provide a convenient way to gather details about books, prices, and other relevant data from various online bookstores.

Features

  • Data Extraction: Retrieves book details such as title, author, price, and more.
  • Customizable: Adjustable settings for extracting specific information based on your requirements.
  • Output Formats: Save extracted data in various formats, such as JSON or CSV.

Prerequisites

  • Python 3.8

  • Dependencies List -

  • Requests: HTTP library for making web requests.

    • Install: pip install requests
  • Beautiful Soup: HTML parsing library for pulling data out of HTML and XML files.

    • Install: pip install beautifulsoup4
  • Lxml: XML and HTML parsing library for Python.

    • Install: pip install lxml
  • Selenium: Browser automation tool for web scraping (useful for dynamic content).

    • Install: pip install selenium

Acknowledgements

  • Requests: The Requests library made it easy to handle HTTP requests in our scraper.

  • Beautiful Soup: Special thanks to Beautiful Soup for providing a powerful tool for HTML parsing in Python.

  • Lxml: Kudos to the Lxml library, which significantly enhanced XML and HTML parsing capabilities in our project.

  • Selenium: We appreciate the Selenium project for enabling browser automation, allowing us to scrape dynamically loaded content from Wikipedia pages.

Contact

Email : miteshgupta2711@gmail.com

Linkedin : https://www.linkedin.com/in/mitesh-gupta/

Twitter : https://twitter.com/mg_mitesh