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Python Web Scraping for Business Intelligence: Monitor Competitors 24/7 for Free

DEV Community·Brad·18 days ago
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Python Web Scraping for Business Intelligence: Monitor Competitors 24/7 for Free Your competitors update their pricing and features without telling you. This Python script checks them automatically. Production-Grade Scraper import requests from bs4 import BeautifulSoup import time , random , csv from datetime import datetime class BusinessScraper : def __init__ ( self ): self . session = requests . Session () self . session . headers [ ' User-Agent ' ] = ' Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) ' def get ( self , url ): time . sleep ( random . uniform ( 1 , 3 )) try : r = self . session . get ( url , timeout = 10 ) r . raise_for_status () return BeautifulSoup ( r . content , ' html.parser ' ) except Exception as e : print ( f " Failed { url } : { e } " ) return None def extract_prices ( self , url ): soup = self . get ( url ) if not soup : return [] results = [] for el in soup . find_all ( class_ = lambda x : x and ' price ' in x . lower ()): text = el .…

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