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Download Product Search Results from Target
If you’re interested in e-commerce data, specifically from Target, you have 2 options that we support for scraping their public data.
Manual Search Result Scraping
You can use the HAR File Web Scraper shown on this page to extract out product data from search results performed on Target’s website.
1. Search on Target
To get started, run a search for products on Target and apply any relevant filters you may want (e.g. price, store, colors, etc…) and then when happy with the results, right click on the page and hit “Inspect” to open up developer tools and begin recording your web traffic. Refresh the page to reload the initial data from Target now that you’re recording.
Now scroll through the product search results and hit next to load more and more pages of products as you record this data from Target.
2. Export & Download
Once you’ve browsed through enough products, go to the “Network” tab in developer tools and click the down arrow labeled “Export HAR…” to download a HAR file containing the raw JSON data from Target. Upload that file to the HAR File Web Scraper and look for the products in the parse. You’ll then be able to extract out product data into CSV files you can quickly download and use with spreadsheet programs like Excel.
Automated 3rd Party API Scraping
If you need automated scraping support, you’ll want to check out our integration for Scraping RedCircle Target Product Data API. RedCircle is a third party service that maintains a database of products, pricing, inventory, photos, descriptions and more from Target’s public website, exposing this useful data via API. Our service will help you query this API and extract out the data into downloadable CSV files.