Scraping website, encypted traffic

May 18, 2020 4 Replies

Hi



I am working on a pricelist of lcsc.com, so I can select components and com pare prices. I am using Google Web Scraper which needs a number of links to scrape the page. So I am trying to get the web pages for each part.



Site:



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I have a list of parts, about 30k partnumbers from the site, for example th is part number:



C4410



I type this part number into the search box and the website lists this page :



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But, there is no link bewteen the number typed into the search box and the part page, so I cannot just generate links from the part number. Also, the http request seems to be incrypted (I used Flipper4 to check that), so no w ay to see how I need to arrange the query



But, maybe I could make the part list, and use a automatic tool to place th at in the search box and click the search button



But then I need to integrate some third party tool with Web Scraper



Or I could find a web scraper that supports this input field



Any hints?



Regards



Klaus


ompare prices. I am using Google Web Scraper which needs a number of links to scrape the page. So I am trying to get the web pages for each part.

this part number:

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e part page, so I cannot just generate links from the part number. Also, th e http request seems to be incrypted (I used Flipper4 to check that), so no way to see how I need to arrange the query

that in the search box and click the search button

Digging deeper, I might have found a way to do it

Just use google search:

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The link to the page comes up, and I can use scraping to go down that link

You can GET a JSON document resolving the search term at

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The network tab of browser dev tools (e.g. context menu -> Inspect Element in Firefox) is quite helpful for things like this.

? David

page:

the part page [?]

Thanks David for the hint :-)

sure why not! they only have a quarter million parts.

What's "Flipper4"

It's encrypted because it's HTTPS, but the payload prior to encryption is not obfuscated, I used firefox "Web console"

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