E-commerce Scraping Tool - Add scrapping condition...
# apify-platform
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Hello team @Apify , I am helping a friend to build a basic scrapper using the Apify maintain E-commerce Scraping Tool. I just want to know how or if there is a way to add a Scrapping condition for example. I want to scrap all product listed in a brand category or search result category. Ei: Prada Shoulder Bag - "Condition" only scrap result that have the word Prade and ignor the rest. Is that possible out of the box or do I have to request assistance to build a specific Jason format? Thank you very much
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Asking this question in Actor's "issues" tab would be best. I see You already did so. So let's just wait for response from the original dev, if there is a way to do it directly in the scraper / do they have in plans to add this feature. For now I can recomment to post-process you result from the scraper e.q. with this utility actor: https://apify.com/lukaskrivka/dedup-datasets e.q. You can loop over final dataset and save only needed items. But still it means You will spend some resources on scraping items / categories you don't need. So it's an option, but not the best (and might be acceptable if usage of E-commerce actor is cheap for you/you have enough budget).
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The problem is the Actor get very expensive quickly when using e-commerce tool with let's say 50 website, so i was trying to find a way to simply ignore items if they don't match the "Condition"
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one option would be creating your own scraping logic with https://apify.com/apify/web-scraper or https://apify.com/apify/cheerio-scraper or for now let's just wait for response from e-commerce scarping tool devs 🙂 They should appear shortly, I guess 🤓
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Thanks @olegv._apify I am hoping to resolve this with low-code or no-code. Basically get the developers to help with my issue. However, yes you are right create my own actor maybe an option, but to be honest it seems difficult.
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If you are not familiar with coding. You can also try to find someone in #1022804760484659210
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