Web scraping of printer toner/ink website with import of data to Magento

We intend to scrape product data from a printer toner/ink website. For every product on the website we will create one SKU in our Magento Ecommerce store and import the associated data that has been scraped. The scraped data needs to be cleaned and modified to ensure it meets our Magento Ecommerce store data standards. We will use four CSV files to import the data.

This tasks require that you scrape the data, clean and modify the data to meet our data standards, create four CSV files for import and import the data to our non-production Magento store.

Navigation Structure:

The website we want scrape is organised into this navigation structure:

Brand > Category > Models > Products

Brand Page:

There are 16 brand categories currently for the following brands:

Brand

Canon

Dell

Epson

HP

Konica Minolta

Kyocera

Lanier

Lexmark

OKI

Panasonic

Ricoh

Samsung

Sharp

Toshiba

Xerox

Within each brand are one or more of the following categories:

Ink Cartridges

Toner Cartridges

Thermal Rolls

Category Page:

Within each category page is a list of printer models.

Models Page:

Within each model page is a list of products that are for use with that printer model broken into product segments such as below:

Compatible Brand Toner Value Pack

Genuine Brand Toner Value Pack

Compatible Brand Toner

Genuine Brand Toner

Compatible Brand Image Drums

Genuine Brand Image Drums

Product Page:

The final product page has the data that we intend to scrape. Each product page has a unique URL. The same product page will be linked from multiple printer model pages as one product is normally compatible with multiple printers.

We need four CSV files created with the data that is scraped. The four CSV files we need created are:

1) [login to view URL]

2) [login to view URL]

3) [login to view URL]

4) [login to view URL]

For each unique product URL we will create one product SKU in our Magento Ecommerce store. This is [login to view URL] and product_type.csv.

For each printer part/model we will cross reference the product SKU(s) that are compatible. For example, these parts/models:

SKU1: PartY, ModelZ

SKU2: PartY

SKU3: ModelZ

… we will cross reference in our database like:

PartY: SKU1, SKU2

ModelZ: SKU1, SKU3

This is [login to view URL] and [login to view URL]

*** Images need to be downloaded and will be referenced in the [login to view URL] import file for import to our Magento Ecommerce store ***

The scraped data needs to be cleaned and modified to ensure it meets our Magento Ecommerce store data standards.

Once complete each CSV file is to be imported to our non-production Magento Ecommerce store.

Existing Products

Our Magento Ecommerce store currently has products from the website we intend to scrape. We will provide a list of product URLs (The unique product URLs from the website that is being scraped) that you do not need to import. After scraping the data from the website you can remove the product URLs that we provide so the same data is not imported twice.

Data Cleaning and Modification

An example of data cleaning and modification is:

“HP LaserJet 1000” would be imported to our Magento Ecommerce store as “HP”,”LaserJet”,”1000”:

The brand and series are both placed into their own separate column. Again, by looking at our existing store data you can clearly see that Laserjet is a series of HP and should be placed into a separate column.

The product attribute “3,500 pages at 5% coverage” would be imported to our Magento Ecommerce store as “Approx. 3,500 pages at 5% coverage”:

By looking at our existing attributes you can see that we use “Approx.” in our data.

Important:

It is your responsibility to test each file using our non-production Magento Ecommerce store to ensure all data is able to import successfully.

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Project ID: #5819420

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