From e8df1517e32250aadfa7a7c922b0f2e5b061d4ed Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?John=20F=C3=A1w=E1=BB=8Dl=C3=A9?= <johnfawole18@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2023 17:44:28 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Create scrapeEbay.py

This is the code for an article I wrote recently.

After reading the article, I want people to access the code via a repo easily.

Hence, the reason I am raising this PR.
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 scrapeEbay.py | 60 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 60 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 scrapeEbay.py

diff --git a/scrapeEbay.py b/scrapeEbay.py
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+import requests
+import json
+from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
+
+API_KEY = "YOUR_API_KEY"
+url = "https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p4432023.m570.l1312&_nkw=airpods+pro&_sacat=0"
+
+payload = {"api_key": API_KEY, "url": url}
+r = requests.get("http://api.scraperapi.com/", params=payload)
+html_response = r.text
+soup = BeautifulSoup(html_response, "lxml")
+
+
+result_list = []
+
+# Find all product items on the page
+listings = soup.find_all("div", class_="s-item__info clearfix")
+images = soup.find_all("div", class_="s-item__wrapper clearfix")
+
+for listing, image_container in zip(listings, images):
+    title = listing.find("div", class_="s-item__title").text
+    price = listing.find("span", class_="s-item__price").text
+
+    product_url = listing.find("a")
+    link = product_url["href"]
+
+    product_status_element = listing.find("div", class_="s-item__subtitle")
+    product_status = (
+        product_status_element.text
+        if product_status_element is not None
+        else "No status available"
+    )
+
+    if title and price:
+        title_text = title.strip()
+        price_text = price.strip()
+        status = product_status.strip()
+
+        image = image_container.find("img")
+        image_url = image["src"]
+
+        result_dict = {
+            "title": title_text,
+            "price": price_text,
+            "image_url": image_url,
+            "status": status,
+            "link": link,
+        }
+        result_list.append(result_dict)
+
+# print(result_list)
+
+# Output the result in JSON format
+output_json = json.dumps(result_list, indent=2)
+
+# Write the JSON data to a file
+with open("ebay_results.json", "w", encoding="utf-8") as json_file:
+    json_file.write(output_json)
+
+print("JSON data has been written to ebay_results.json")