Scraping and WordPress: How do I show content from other websites?

Resolved loiborg
(@loiborg)

10 years, 2 months ago

Is there an easy way to ‘link’ to specific data on other websites that automatically gets updated, as the other sites update? Preferably easy to use for someone with minimal coding skills. An example:
A Kindle costs $229 on Amazon.com – my site shows:

Kindle – $229 on Amazon.com

When the price drops to $225, for instance, my site will automatically be updated to state:

Kindle – $225 on Amazon.com

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Youss2700
(@youss2700)

10 years, 2 months ago

You can try scrape4me dot com

Thread Starter loiborg
(@loiborg)

10 years, 2 months ago

@youss2700: Thanks for the reply. The site you mentioned worked like a charm – very easy to use and gave the correct result the first time!
It does seem to run the script whenever it is called, meaning there is a slight delay for the scraped text to be shown.
Is there a way to make it cache the result somehow and then maybe check for updates every 24 hours?

Does anyone else have any suggestions? 🙂

Youss2700
(@youss2700)

10 years, 2 months ago

I don’t know how to do a catch. Why not just use a loader to indicate to users to wait for a while..? You can add this to the script: document.getElementById(‘image’).style.display = ‘none’;

Take a look at this example: http://jsfiddle.net/99vJp/

Thread Starter loiborg
(@loiborg)

10 years, 1 month ago

@youss2700: Great solution, thanks! Is it possible to also add text next to a loader (such as one from ajaxload [dot] info), like “fetching prices” or something?

Youss2700
(@youss2700)

10 years, 1 month ago

You mean like this: http://jsfiddle.net/99vJp/3/

Good luck

Youss2700
(@youss2700)

10 years, 1 month ago

Forgot to close the span at the end…update: http://jsfiddle.net/99vJp/4/

Thread Starter loiborg
(@loiborg)

10 years, 1 month ago

Thanks a bunch, Youss2700! It’s a good solution.

I’ll mark the topic as resolved, but if someone wants to add something or has a different way of doing this, please do so. 🙂

Youss2700
(@youss2700)

10 years, 1 month ago

You’re welcome:)

anshul1994
(@anshul1994)

9 years, 5 months ago

scrapeme.com is a nice idea but then how do you use its api to post data for around 10000 products?

anshul1994
(@anshul1994)

9 years, 5 months ago

and how do I manage Sku for them to get the right data for right product?

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