How to Extract eBay Data for Original Comic Art Sales Information?

Data Fields to Be Scrapped

There is an example shown of the artwork drawn by hand in pencil by some artist and then another artist inks the drawing over them. Typically, 11 × 17-inch panels are used. The vitality of the drawing style, as well as the obvious skill, appeal to everyone.

Get two panels of original art for inside pages from Spiderman comics from the 1980s a few years ago, around 2010. You can pay perhaps $200 or $300 for them and made slightly more than twice that much when you sell them a year later.

Nonetheless, if you are interested in purchasing several pieces in the $200 level right now and wanted to get additional information before doing so.

Below written is the full code with the main output in two csv files.

The leading 800 listings of original comic art from Marvel comics in the form of internal pages, covers, or splash pages are ordered by price in the first csv file. The following fields are scraped from eBay in the csv:

• the title (which usually includes a 20-word description of the item, character, type of page)
• Price
• Link to the item's full eBay sales page complete list of all figures in the artwork *just after first eBay search, the software cycles through the page numbers of new matches at the bottom. eBay flags the application as a bot and prevents it from scraping pages with numbers greater than four. This is fine because it only includes goods that are normally sold for less than $75, and nearly none of them are original comic art – they are largely copies or fan art.

The second file format is doing the same thing, but for things that have previously been sold, using the same search criteria. Because it requires Selenium.

If you execute Selenium more than two or three times in an hour, eBay will disable it and you will have to manually download the HTML of sold comic art.

Expected Result

You can check the result by executing the code once a day and looking through the csv file for mostly lesser-known characters of $100-$300 US dollar range currently for the sale.

Tools that are used: Python, requests, BeautifulSoup, pandas

Here are the below steps that we will follow:

We will scrape the following product

https://ebay.to/3qaWDIw

• Using the “original comic art” as the search string
• only cover, interior pages, or splash pages
• only comic art from Marvel or DC
• comics above the price of $50
• sorted by price + shipping and highest to lowest
• 200 results per page

We'll find a comprehensive of available original comic art based on your search parameters. We'll retrieve the title / brief explanation of the listing (as a single string), the page URL of the real listing, and the price for each listing.

We'll get the main comic book character's name in one field and the identities of all the characters in the image in a second field for each listing.

We'll make a CSV file using an eBay product data scraper in the following format: a title, a price, a link, a character, and a character with several characters.

Installing all the Packages for the Project

!pip install requests --upgrade --quiet
!pip install bs4 --upgrade --quiet
!pip install pandas --upgrade --quiet
!pip install datetime --upgrade --quiet
!pip install selenium --upgrade --quiet
!pip install selenium_stealth --upgrade --quiet

Initially use the time package so that you can keep the record of the program’s progress and slowly use the date and time in the csv file name

import time
from datetime import date
from datetime import datetime

now = datetime.now()
today = date.today()
today = today.strftime("%b-%d-%Y")
date_time = now.strftime("%H-%M-%S")
today = today + "-" + date_time
print("date and time:", today)
date and time: Jul-17-2021-15-14-55

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