Monitoring competitors’ prices and product lineups can help online retailers win pricing battles; optimize sales and special offers; and track product trends over time. For many small ecommerce businesses, however, keeping tabs on the competition is a painful, manual process.Fortunately, thanks to an easy-to-use application framework called Scrapy almost anyone can create a web spider to crawl competitors’ websites and collect pricing data. If you can read HTML and CSS, you can make Scrapy
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