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🔹 Extract and clean product descriptions from eBay listing templates
👤 Client: 🇺🇸 JAMESTOWN, United States Member since 2012-06-03
💰 Price: $120 Average bid
🚩 Problem: Automate the extraction of clean, readable text from complex HTML content.
📦 Existing: Not specified

Specifications:

[Target] Extract specific div content
[Method] Python with BeautifulSoup
[UI/UX] N/A
[Stack] Python, BeautifulSoup
[Security] N/A
[Format] Cleaned Excel file

Workflow:

1. Parse each HTML row using BeautifulSoup to locate the

element.
2. Extract and clean text by removing all HTML tags while preserving paragraph structure.
3. Remove trailing inventory tags from the cleaned text.
4. Write the cleaned description back into the Excel file, clearing the Short description column.