I found a web scraping tool called Octoparse that works great for scrapping e-commerce information. It's very easy to use and you can follow all the steps in this video. Give it a try and let me know what you think. I just created a new post What is Paintless Dent Repair, Answers to Frequently Asked Questions and I wonder if I can use Octoparse to collect PDR images that I can use for the post? I will have to find out.

Welcome back to Casey's SEO, so this is an update from my previous episode, where i was trying to find a good scraping tool for a potential project that i may get into here in the future. So basically, i wanted to add a like a woocommerce site to my WordPress website that i currently have right now and i was just trying to think of what is a easier way to do this. So if i did go into this little project, it's probably going to be more of an affiliate type of site. So it's none of my own products. I can basically take all these products off of somebody else's site and potentially put the vote, put them on mine and sell them.

That is for details later on, and i will get into that if i go this direction in the future, but i didn't want to spend hours and hours doing all this manual labor to potentially put up like a thousand different items. So i wanted to find a way to scrape this information, so it would make it a lot easier. Now i did find a cool little piece of software. That almost did everything that i wanted it to do. It's not the software's fault and we'll get into that.

But i found octoparse so on the previous episode, i put up a link that had multiple different um pieces of software that you could potentially use. All of them are a little bit different. I tried a different one. I cannot even remember the name, but it wasn't going to fit my needs. Then i kept doing a little bit more research on the old web interweb here and i found octoparse that actually solved all my problems, so you can go ahead and download this.

You can use everything for free, the only part that i noticed um, where you could get yourself into a little problem to where it's not free is. It goes and saves all the tasks that you do and you only get. I think 10 tasks that you can save at once, but just go ahead and delete them, and then you can use 10 more. So you won't have a problem but, like i said, free to use it's a separate piece of software, so you'll download it from their website and i will put the link up under the post here but go ahead, download it and then you can basically take any Type of website that you want the website that i tried to scrape to begin with was using shopify and they had their images set up differently. So their images like, if you scrolled over them, they got larger and I've noticed before with this website.

They're kind of a pain in the butt to take off of their website on some of them. I would have to actually use like uh snagit from was it techcrunch or camtasia the company that makes camtasia, and then i would just basically screenshot them and cut them and add them edit them and use them. So i was not able to get a link to the image off of there, but you can still scrape all the other information so that one didn't work. But i tried it on a different website that i don't know what shopping cart they were using, but it gave you all the links to all the images all the the titles it gave you all the information that would give you. You know a 90 percent head start now.

What you can do is when you get all those images all the image links you can use. I haven't done this yet, but i think you can use a program from chrome and it shows you how and this other link that I'm going to be posting for you and you can just put all the links in there and then it will download all the Images for you, so you have all those to your disposal right away. So pretty simple! It should save you a lot of time if that's something that you're looking to do but definitely checked out, octopars, and my guess is: if you need it to go way in depth and scrape a lot a lot of content, i mean you can pay for one Of their other packages, but for me the free version worked, i got everything i needed and then, if i do go into this little other project, i will definitely let you guys know if it was just thought and i wanted to see what piece of software out There would work for this little project, so that is it for today. If you guys have any questions or know anything else from the software standpoint.

That would work great, please. Let me know