The chart and tables below show the number of products in the Top 10 categories sold by Amazon.com. The previous data can be found here. There has been approximately an increase of 100,000 products since last year and a decrease of 100,000 products since last month. Electronics 118,328,809 Cell Phones & Accessories 79,174,534 Home & […]
XPath (XML Path Language) is a syntax for defining parts of an XML document. We will explain the relevance of Xpath in web scraping. XPath is a query language for identifying and selecting nodes or elements in an XML document using a tree like representation of the document. XPath was defined by the World Wide […]
We decided to have a look at Amazon.com books and see if it discriminates (ok maybe that is a harsh word) by language. They, of course, don’t write these books – they just sell them. They are US headquartered and it is almost obvious that a majority of their books are probably written in […]
We have written about the differences between a free service and a paid web scraping service previously. Unfortunately, the 125,000 claimed “users” of Kimono Labs woke up to the rude realities of such a free web scraping service. Kimono Labs, got acquired by Palantir and gave their “beloved users” just 2 weeks to find an […]
Here are some stats from Amazon.com Total Products sold on Amazon.com = 473,578,572 35,158,862 products are Prime Eligible 31,197,636 items Ship for Free by Amazon 21,317,553 items are Amazon Global shipping Eligible 9,690 items are Prime Pantry items 39,944,324 items are Used 14,723,626 items have a 4 Stars & Up review rating
We decided to take a look at Twitter for the Super Bowl 50 between the Panthers and the Broncos and monitor the hashtag #SuperBowlSunday, before during and after the game. We monitored 33,000 tweets and they came from 27,433 unique users, so obviously we had some users who were really into it and a lot […]
The number of products sold by Amazon has increased slightly from October and as of now the count stands at 489.5 million products. This is a slight increase from the 467 million products sold in October almost back to the 485 million products in July.
It is that time of the year again as you look at your holiday gift list and wonder what you buy for some of the people on your list. An ugly holiday sweater maybe? Maybe not. If you have walked miles and miles through malls and specialty gift stores and are about to give up, […]
Nicole Leinbach-Reyhle at Forbes recently wrote an article comparing Etsy and Amazon in the “handmade” category. It explored the foray of Amazon into this category where Etsy has been the dominant player. When Amazon tries to enter a space, everyone sits up and takes notice. At ScrapeHero, we decide to look at this comparison through […]
We recently looked at the hot Boston based eCommerce retailer Wayfair and how many products it sells through Walmart.com. It appears that the Wayfair has a broader sales relationship strategy in play and also use Amazon.com to sell their products. Wayfair sells 277,391 products on Amazon.com A similar number of products to Walmart. Looks like […]
Walmart.com has some major help in filling up its product catalog especially in the home furniture area. Wayfair.com (Wayfair Inc is a U.S.-based e-commerce company that sells furniture. Formerly known as CSN Stores, the company was founded in 2002, and now sells many other home furnishings, luggage, toys, and pet items.[1] Headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts) […]
In our periodic effort to keep track of Walmart.com’s progress towards world e-commerce domination compared to Amazon, here is the data from the Top 10 product categories sold on Walmart.com. This is similar to the Top 10 product categories for Amazon.com that we recently published. Walmart.com sells 2,139,524 products across 60 categories Walmart.com Top 10 […]
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