American Apparel is a North American manufacturer and fashion apparel retailer based in Los Angeles, California. The company was founded in 1989 by Canadian businessman Dov Charny. The scraper presented in this article will allow you to extract product and price information presented in the online store of the company: americanapparel.net.<\/p>\n
Approx number of goods:<\/strong> 500 PLEASE NOTE!<\/strong> The number of requests can exceed the number of products, because data about variations, images, etc. can be scraped from other resources and will require additional requests. Also part of the product data can be delivered using XHR requests, which also increases the total number of required page requests.<\/p>\n To use the web scraper for American Apparel online store\u2019s website, you must have an account with our Diggernaut service. You can just simply follow this comprehensive guide:<\/p>\n You can also setup a schedule for running your scraper and collect data regularly.<\/p>\n Below is a sample of a dataset with several products in JSON format (so you can easily review it and see data structure). The dataset can be downloaded as CSV, XLSX, XML, or any other text format using the templates.<\/p>\n American Apparel is a North American manufacturer and fashion apparel retailer based in Los Angeles, California. The company was founded in 1989 by Canadian businessman Dov Charny. The scraper presented in this article will allow you to extract product and price information presented in the online store of the company: americanapparel.net. Approx number of goods: […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":311,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,30,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ecommerce-scraping","category-free-scrapers","category-web-scraping"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diggernaut.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diggernaut.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diggernaut.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diggernaut.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diggernaut.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.diggernaut.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":657,"href":"https:\/\/www.diggernaut.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions\/657"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diggernaut.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diggernaut.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diggernaut.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diggernaut.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nApprox number of page requests:<\/strong> 500
\nRecommended subscription plan:<\/strong> Free<\/p>\nHow to use the web scraper to extract product and price information from americanapparel.net<\/h3>\n
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Scraping configuration for the digger<\/h3>\n
---\nconfig: \n debug: 2\n agent: Firefox\ndo:\n- link_add:\n url: http:\/\/store.americanapparel.net\n- link_add:\n url: http:\/\/store.americanapparel.net\/en\/factory-store\/\n- walk:\n to: links\n do:\n - find:\n path: .cd-primary-nav a\n do:\n - parse:\n attr: href\n - normalize:\n routine: url\n - link_add:\n pool: main\n- walk:\n to: links\n pool: main\n do:\n - find:\n path: .product > a\n do: \n - parse:\n attr: href\n - normalize:\n routine: url\n - link_add:\n pool: sub\n- walk:\n to: links\n pool: sub\n do:\n - sleep: 3\n - find:\n path: .pdp\n do:\n - variable_clear: allli\n - variable_clear: descr\n - variable_clear: li\n - variable_clear: id\n - variable_clear: views\n - variable_clear: color\n - variable_clear: imgnum\n - variable_clear: imgxl\n - variable_clear: viewsnum\n - variable_clear: stp\n - object_new: product\n - eval:\n routine: js\n body: '(function (){var d = new Date(); return d.toISOString()})();'\n - object_field_set:\n object: product\n field: date\n - static_get: url\n - object_field_set:\n object: product\n field: url\n - find: \n in: doc\n path: head meta[name="description"] \n do: \n - parse:\n attr: content\n - space_dedupe\n - trim\n - to_block\n - node_replace:\n path: br\n with: "\\n"\n - split:\n context: text\n delimiter: \\n+\n - find:\n path: div.splitted\n slice: 0\n do:\n - parse\n - space_dedupe\n - trim\n - object_field_set: \n object: product\n field: description\n - find:\n path: .product-style\n do:\n - parse\n - space_dedupe\n - trim\n - object_field_set: \n object: product\n field: sku\n - find:\n path: .price\n do:\n - find:\n path: .red-text\n do:\n - parse:\n filter:\n - (\\d+\\.?\\d*)\n - if:\n match: (\\d)\n do:\n - object_field_set:\n object: product\n field: price\n type: float\n - register_set: USD\n - object_field_set:\n object: product\n field: currency\n - register_set: 1\n - variable_set: stp\n - find:\n path: span[data-test="test"]\n do:\n - variable_get: stp\n - if:\n match: (1)\n else:\n - parse:\n filter:\n - (\\d+\\.?\\d*)\n - if:\n match: (\\d)\n do:\n - object_field_set:\n object: product\n field: price\n type: float\n - register_set: USD\n - object_field_set:\n object: product\n field: currency\n - find:\n path: .product-name\n do:\n - parse\n - space_dedupe\n - trim\n - object_field_set: \n object: product\n field: name\n - find:\n path: .main-img\n do:\n - parse:\n attr: src\n - object_field_set:\n object: product\n field: images\n joinby: "|"\n - find:\n path: .logo\n slice: 0\n do:\n - parse\n - space_dedupe\n - trim\n - object_field_set: \n object: product\n field: brand\n - find:\n path: .breadcrumbs a\n do:\n - parse\n - space_dedupe\n - trim\n - object_field_set: \n object: product\n field: category\n joinby: "|"\n - find:\n path: '.product-details > input#skuVarData'\n do:\n - parse:\n attr: value\n - normalize:\n routine: replace_substring\n args:\n \\s+\\\/\\s+: _\n - normalize:\n routine: json2xml\n - to_block\n - find:\n path: body_safe > name\n do:\n - parse\n - space_dedupe\n - trim\n - object_field_set:\n object: product\n field: name\n - find:\n path: colors\n do:\n - find:\n path: zoomimage\n do:\n - parse:\n filter:\n - \\s*(.+)\\?\n - variable_set: imgxl\n - register_set: ?$ProductZoom$\n - object_field_set:\n object: product\n field: images\n joinby: "|"\n - find:\n path: name\n do:\n - parse\n - space_dedupe\n - trim\n - object_field_set:\n object: product\n field: variations\n joinby: "|"\n - object_save:\n name: product<\/code><\/pre>\nSample of scraped data<\/h3>\n
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