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Amazon vs Walmart – the battle rages on

Amazon vs Walmart – the battle rages on

Here is an update to our article referenced by Business Insider. Walmart.com sells 4,417,344 products as of Sep 30, 2015, out of which most products are NOT sold at Walmart itself. If you drill down further into just products sold “Only at Walmart” the number is far lower 4,764 products – just 0.1 %! Amazon.com sells […]

Number of products sold by Amazon.com – July 2015 – huge increase of 162 million products in 4 months

Number of products sold by Amazon.com – July 2015 – huge increase of 162 million products in 4 months

UPDATE: As of December 1 2016 – Amazon Sells 368,876,590 items. Check the detailed post here How many products does Amazon.com sell – December 2016 The number of products sold by Amazon today is 485,434,647. This is a huge jump from the number in our last post from March. The increase from March 31 to July 31 […]

How many products does Walmart.com sell in comparison to Amazon.com?

How many products does Walmart.com sell in comparison to Amazon.com?

UPDATE (April 2017): Please find the updated post here   The data in this post is current as of April 2015. If you would like to see updated data, please check the other related posts on this site for Walmart or Amazon. Walmart.com sells 4,259,605 products and Amazon.com sells 356,227,986 products   Walmart.com sells a […]

Amazon Top 10 Categories

Amazon Top 10 Categories

A picture speaks a thousand words, or so the saying goes – so here we go

Did you read this interview text?

Did you read this interview text?

Recently scraping.pro (one of our favorite blogs) interviewed our very own Tony Paul and asked him about many current and future trends on Web Scraping. Our favorite quote from this interview about Tesla and open source You can’t steal what’s free and freely available – pure genius in our view You can read the whole […]

Chart: Count of products in Amazon US for major categories

Chart: Count of products in Amazon US for major categories

EDIT: Amazon sells about 368,876,590 products as of Dec 1, 2016. Updated post available here – How many products does Amazon.com sell – December 2016 Total Products 323,187,951 Books 52,039,819 Electronics 42,426,029 Home and Kitchen 39,708,640 Digital Music Songs 32,977,000 Cell Phones and Accessories 24,039,269 Sports and Outdoors 19,665,787 Clothing Shoes and Jewelry 17,599,928 Collectibles and Fine Art […]

How many books does Amazon sell?

How many books does Amazon sell?

We all know Amazon.com started as an online seller of books and now they sell everything. This post tells you how many total products Amazon has and out of those 52 million are books ! So they still sell a good percentage of their total products – nearly 16% as books.

How many products does Amazon Store sell?

How many products does Amazon Store sell?

A question that comes up often and it is a nice data point. As of now Amazon US store has 323,187,951 products for sale. That is a staggering number – 323 million products !

Why *not* scrape yourself

Why *not* scrape yourself

Before you get all kinds of ideas about what the topic of this article means – please look at the context – We are talking about Web Scraping here ! This post will talk about reason why not to do this yourself and why to call in a professional (wink wink – use ScrapeHero) You […]

Webscraping using Python without using large frameworks like Scrapy

Webscraping using Python without using large frameworks like Scrapy

Scrapy is a well-established framework for scraping, but it is also a very heavy framework. For smaller jobs, it may be overkill and for extremely large jobs it is very slow. If you would like to roll up your sleeves and perform web scraping in Python. continue reading. If you need publicly available data from scraping […]

Why pay for a web scraping service rather than get it for free

Why pay for a web scraping service rather than get it for free

Free has a price We have all heard of the saying “There is no free lunch” and no matter how many times businesses come around giving us something for free, there is always a price. So you use Google for free or Gmail for free or any of the companies that fall into the following […]

5 tips for scraping big websites

5 tips for scraping big websites

Scraping bigger websites can be a challenge if done the wrong way.Bigger websites would have more data, more security and more pages. We’ve learned a lot from our years of crawling such large complex websites, and these web scraping tips could help solve some of your challenges Web Scraping Tips Here are 5 web scraping […]

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