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Does anyone scrape products off one site for use on another site? Something I have thought a lot about recently ... seems like a great way to get into dropshipping.

If so what do you use? Software? Service?
#data #scraping
  • Profile picture of the author wakeforce139
    Hm, why would you want to use the same data that someone else is? I guess it's a quick way to get off the ground but for long term I would think you should aim for uniqueness.
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    • Profile picture of the author dave_hermansen
      Scraping data from another site is a great way to get your website ignored by Google. Why would Google index content that it's already indexed on another website?
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  • Profile picture of the author kaizenify
    Ah sorry guys that's my bad ... of course info needs to be changed, but scraping is a great way to get base of information fast ... give it to a VA to rename every title and rewrite every description ... but at least you have it all there on one sheet ready to go.

    Plus currently I am not really concerned with product detail pages ... I am looking to just get product up and concern myself with the home page. Unique product pages are not the focus right now.
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  • Profile picture of the author maden
    There is no specific software to scrape data from the different websites there is. You should probably get somebody to make the scraper for you and get the data you need.
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  • Profile picture of the author wakeforce139
    Yeah if you did it that way sure, why not? Basically any product that is available for people to sell is listed on multiple websites and usually they all have the same or close to the same info on them.
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  • Profile picture of the author NolanGrayson
    I have gone through the process of scraping information before. I used ScrapeSentry.com for its services then, and I use it to protect my site from being scraped now. I figured out just how easy it is to go through and do when I did it, so now I make sure that no one can go through and do the same thing to me or the customers that use my site. It is a great way to get information, but I wouldn't recommend using it as a basis to start a business. It can get really complicated that way.
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  • Profile picture of the author rimeimeng
    I wouldn't recommend using it as a basis to start a business. It can get really complicated that way.
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