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  How to scrape customer reviews from a hotel booking site?

  Posted by Herleva Davor on 12/18/2024 at 6:20 am

  Scraping customer reviews from hotel booking sites can be challenging due to their dynamic nature. Most sites load reviews via AJAX, so you’ll need to inspect the network traffic to find the relevant API endpoints. For static content, libraries like BeautifulSoup can handle the job, but for dynamic pages, tools like Puppeteer or Playwright are more suitable. Pagination is another key consideration since reviews are often spread across multiple pages. A scraper should be able to detect and follow “Next Page” links or send sequential API requests to collect all the reviews.
  Here’s an example of scraping reviews with BeautifulSoup:

  import requests
  from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
  url = "https://example.com/hotel-reviews"
  headers = {"User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0"}
  response = requests.get(url, headers=headers)
  if response.status_code == 200:
      soup = BeautifulSoup(response.content, "html.parser")
      reviews = soup.find_all("div", class_="review-item")
      for review in reviews:
          user = review.find("span", class_="user-name").text.strip()
          comment = review.find("p", class_="review-text").text.strip()
          print(f"User: {user}, Review: {comment}")
  else:
      print("Failed to fetch the page.")
  

  Dynamic content often requires error handling to manage timeouts or unexpected changes in the page structure. Managing IP rotation and delays is also important to avoid being flagged by anti-scraping measures. How do you handle pagination and dynamic loading when scraping reviews?

  Herleva Davor replied 4 days, 13 hours ago 1 Member · 0 Replies
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