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What are the best practices for scraping Alibaba’s wholesale data with Node.js?
- Puppeteer in Node.js is ideal for navigating Alibaba’s dynamic content, capturing wholesale product listings, prices, and seller info.
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Monitoring network requests reveals JSON data for product details, allowing faster extraction compared to HTML parsing.
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- Rotating proxies and user-agent strings minimizes the risk of detection, especially when accessing Alibaba’s high-traffic product pages.
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Organizing data by industry or category allows for targeted analysis, especially on bulk items like electronics or machinery.
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Saving timestamps with product prices supports trend analysis, which is useful for tracking bulk price fluctuations in wholesale markets.
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- Node.js’s asynchronous capabilities allow for concurrent scraping across multiple categories, reducing the overall scraping time.
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