flipkart-scraper

Scrapes product details and searches on Flipkart.

Disclaimer: I am not affiliated or linked to flipkart in any way. This repository is an exploratory project and not meant for commercial use.

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Features

• Does not require any client id/secret or any other authorisation

• Fetch product details from URL of product which includes

  • Product Name
  • Current and Original Price
  • User Rating
  • Stock avalibility
  • Flipkart Assured Product
  • Share URL (More presentable URL)
  • Seller Information (Seller Name and Rating)
  • Product Thumbnails
  • Highlights
  • Available Offers
  • Product Specifications

• Search product on Flipkart from its query, giving the following details

  • Product Name
  • Product Link
  • Product Thumbnail
  • Current Price of Product
  • Original Price of Product

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Example Usage

Navigate to examples for basic use cases.

NPM Package

NPM Package can be used to parse the contents of webpage to return a valid JSON object response.

Refer to examples/js_demo example for a quick overview of using the npm package.

The package can be installed with npm

npm i @dvishal485/flipkart_scraper

• Fetching Product Details

  1. Fetch the product page using fetch API or axios or any other networking module.

  2. Parse the webpage content using the library.

     import flipkart_scraper from "@dvishal485/flipkart_scraper";
     
     const product_webpage = "fetch_desired_flipkart_product_page"; // use fetcher of your like
     
     const product_details = flipkart_scraper.parse_product_details(product_webpage);
     console.log(product_details);

• Searching Products

  1. Fetch the search page (https://www.flipkart.com/search?q={query}) using fetch API or axios or any other networking module.

  2. Parse the webpage content using the library.

     import flipkart_scraper from "@dvishal485/flipkart_scraper";
     
     const url = flipkart_scraper.build_search_url("asus vivovook", {
       max_price: 40000,
       min_price: undefined,
       page_number: 2,
       sort: "price_high_to_low",
       others: undefined,
     });
     
     const webpage = await fetch(url).then(
       async (response) => await response.text()
     );
     
     const search_result = flipkart_scraper.parse_search_results(product_webpage);
     console.log(search_result);

Rust Crate

• Fetching Product Details

  Snippet to fetch and print product details from Flipkart using product's URL.

  use std::error::Error;
  use flipkart_scraper::{ProductDetails, Url};
  
  #[tokio::main]
  async fn main() -> Result<(), Box<dyn Error>> {
      let url = "https://www.flipkart.com/samsung-galaxy-f13-waterfall-blue-64-gb/p/itm583ef432b2b0c";
      let details = ProductDetails::fetch(Url::parse(url)?).await;
      println!("{:#?}", details);
      Ok(())
  }

• Searching Products

  Snippet to search a particular product on Flipkart using a given query.

  github.com/dvishal485/flipkart-scraper/blob/3cf7e8ca96269c7a64ca8b02fd661b5e0f041872/examples/search_product/src/main.rs?plain=1

  use flipkart_scraper::ProductSearch;
  use flipkart_scraper::search::{SortOrder, SearchParams};
  use std::error::Error;
  
  #[tokio::main]
  async fn main() -> Result<(), Box<dyn Error>> {
      let query = "samsung washing machine";
      let params = SearchParams {
          page_number: Some(1),
          sort: Some(SortOrder::PriceLowToHigh),
          min_price: Some(10000),
          max_price: Some(20000),
          others: None,
      };
  
      let details = ProductSearch::search(query.into(), params).await;
  
      if let Ok(s) = details {
          println!("{:#?}\n\nTotal {} search results.", s, s.results.len());
      } else {
          println!("{}", details.unwrap_err());
      }
      
      Ok(())
  }

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License

This Project is licensed under GNU General Public License (GPL-3.0).

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