Aliexpress product page scraping module. This module does not initiate a selenium web driver instance. It is a group of functions, each function scrapes single data point from the very specific AliExpress product page (e.g. get_price_variations gets all product properties combos along with prices and availability for each combo) . However, you have the option to scrape all data points available using mainScraper function.
To scrape all product page data points use mainScraper function example:
from aliexpress import mainScraper
myBrowser = webdriver.Firefox()
url = "https://www.aliexpress.com/item/33......"
print(mainScraper(myBrowser, url, logging = True))
this prints what mainScraper returns; which is a dictionary including all available data points from the product page structured as per PRODUCT_DATA dictionary in the mainScraper definition body: (you can see corresponding function for each data point)
"product_description":get_product_disc(browser, logging),
"store_name":get_store_name(browser, logging),
"seller_rating":get_seller_rating(browser, logging),
"seller_followers":get_seller_followers(browser, logging),
"product_rating":get_product_rating(browser, logging),
"number_of_reviews":get_number_reviews(browser, logging),
"number_of_orders":get_number_orders(browser, logging),
"shipping_cost":get_shipping_cost(browser, logging),
"shipping_duration":get_shipping_time(browser, logging),
"product_specs":get_specs(browser, logging),
"recommended_urls":get_recomm_urls(browser, logging),
"product_images":get_all_images(browser, logging),
"product_variations":get_price_variations(browser,logging)
}
Note: logging argument is a boolean argument (True/False) which default is True. Use it when verbose is a demand by printing scraping steps and failures (if any), besides logging every step/failure in the file logging.txt with date and time.
If you want to scrape a single data point from the product page you need to first get the product page, then use the function for scraping your required data point.
from aliexpress import get_product_page, get_seller_followers
myBrowser = webdriver.Firefox()
url = "https://www.aliexpress.com/item/33......"
get_product_page(myBrowser, url, logging)
print(get_seller_followers(seller_followers))
which print number of followers for the product seller.