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freelancer.com 2026-04-14 🟡

🔹 Daily Amazon Electronics Scraper
👤 Client: 🇯🇴 Amman, Jordan Member since 2026-04-09
💰 Price: $12 / hr Average bid
🚩 Problem: Automate daily extraction of new electronics listings from Amazon with price data.
📦 Existing: Not specified

Specifications:

[Target] Extract product title, ASIN, URL, and current price for new listings in the Electronics category on Amazon.
[Method] Use Python or Node.js for scripting. Implement a daily cron job or cloud function to run the script automatically.
[UI/UX] Not applicable
[Stack] Python (requests, BeautifulSoup, pandas) / Node.js (axios, cheerio, csv-parser)
[Security] Handle Amazon’s anti-bot measures by rotating user-agents and using proxies. Consider a headless browser approach for more robust scraping.
[Format] Store results in CSV or simple database table for easy access and analysis.

Workflow:

1. Set up the environment with chosen language (Python/Node.js) and necessary libraries.
2. Write a script to scrape Amazon Electronics category, extracting product title, ASIN, URL, and current price.
3. Implement logic to flag only new products that did not appear in previous runs.
4. Add functionality to rotate user-agents and use proxies to avoid detection by Amazon’s anti-bot measures.
5. Optionally, implement a headless browser approach for more robust scraping if needed.
6. Schedule the script to run daily using cron or a lightweight cloud function.
7. Store scraped data in CSV or simple database table for easy access and analysis.
8. Create a README with setup steps and an example output file.