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freelancer.com 2026-04-21 🟡

🔹 Extracting Vendor Products for Shopify
👤 Client: 🇺🇸 Surat, United States Member since 2025-10-23
💰 Price: $52 Average bid
🚩 Problem: Organizing products from a vendor site into a structured format for easy re-import to Shopify.
📦 Existing: Not specified

Specifications:

[Target] Extract product images and descriptions from the vendor's website.
[Method] Web scraping using Python with libraries like BeautifulSoup or Scrapy.
[UI/UX] Not applicable; focus on data extraction and structuring.
[Stack] Python, BeautifulSoup/Scrapy, local file system for media storage, Excel for data export.
[Security] Ensure no sensitive information is exposed during the process. Use secure methods to handle vendor access instructions.
[Format] Local folder structure with custom naming convention; Excel workbook with specific column headers.

Workflow:

1. Receive vendor website URL and access instructions from client.
2. Set up web scraping environment using Python, selecting appropriate libraries for the task.
3. Define local folder structure based on provided naming convention.
4. Scrape product images and videos, saving them to the defined folder with correct names.
5. Extract required data (title, handle, SKU, description) from each product page.
6. Populate a single Excel workbook with extracted data using appropriate column headers as per template provided by client.
7. Verify that all products are correctly listed in both media and data files.
8. Ensure the folder structure and file names match the agreed convention.
9. Test import into Shopify’s bulk upload tool to confirm no errors.