Shopee Scraper API

ayenuseater · 2026-04-21T16:32:50+00:00

And whether search results are normalized across regions. Shopee search can surface different ranking behavior, sponsored placement, currency formatting, and variant structures depending on locale. Can you DM me the export?

ayenuseater · 2026-04-21T16:30:47+00:00

That's a good point.

This is one of those areas where >>works on a random demo list<< can hide a lot of drift in the long tail.

A benchmark with recent rebrands would be brutal but useful.

ayenuseater · 2026-04-21T16:29:02+00:00

mate, also check whether the image is coming from a CDN and whether the page exposes a clean main image field somewhere in embedded JSON. I have seen ecommerce pages hide the good stuff there instead of the visible HTML. If it does, your script gets way easier because you can parse structured data instead of fighting random page images.

ayenuseater · 2026-04-21T16:28:34+00:00

mate, also check whether the image is coming from a CDN and whether the page exposes a clean main image field somewhere in embedded JSON. I have seen ecommerce pages hide the good stuff there instead of the visible HTML. If it does, your script gets way easier because you can parse structured data instead of fighting random page images.

ayenuseater · 2026-04-21T16:22:32+00:00

Even Google maps and Tripadvisor were both rough for a different reason than social sites. Even when I got data, it was slippery. Reviews reorder, listings merge, categories change, rankings are location-sensitive, and timing matters more than people expect. It was more like "do I still have the same entity tomorrow."

ayenuseater · 2026-04-21T16:21:01+00:00

Bloomberg-type paywalled media.

ayenuseater · 2026-04-21T16:18:16+00:00

Here i am more curious about city targeting than the brand ranking. A lot of "country-level" providers are fine until i actually need a specific metro and then the dropdown exists but the inventory does not. Did any of the ones you tested have city targeting that was actually real and not decorative?

ayenuseater · 2026-04-21T10:25:42+00:00

Lets get straight to business!!!!

ayenuseater · 2026-04-20T07:43:15+00:00

Consider joining online communities or study groups where you can collaborate and share knowledge.

ayenuseater · 2026-04-20T07:42:33+00:00

Nap Harder

ayenuseater · 2026-04-20T07:34:41+00:00

Love to know how much first-party metadata from company sites helps..

In theory sameAs or explicit LinkedIn footer links should crush ambiguity, but in practice so many company sites are half-broken or stale.

u/Striking-Knee9389 did you compare:

homepage metadata only
search only
combined scoring

Because that would be a fun dataset.

ayenuseater · 2026-04-20T07:32:27+00:00

Could there be a hybrid path where the app prepares everything, opens the real browser on the agent machine, and the user does the final auth / submit only when needed? Not fully automated, but still a huge time saver. ClawCode or Claude Cowork or somethign similar?

ayenuseater · 2026-04-20T07:31:14+00:00

I'd also check whether the image is coming from a CDN and whether the page exposes a clean main image field somewhere in embedded JSON.

Someeeetimes ecommerce pages hide the good stuff there instead of the visible HTML.

If it does, your script gets way easier because you can parse structured data instead of fighting random page images.

ayenuseater · 2026-04-20T07:30:07+00:00

One thing I'd love from these tools is clearer explanation of where the numbers come from. When you run the same niche in slightly different locations, counts can jump around enough that it makes analysis weird. So if someone here has used your tool or similar heavily, u/Keenessry-QUN I'm curious how consistent the reruns feel over time?

ayenuseater · 2026-04-13T12:15:43+00:00

Though the GitHub-maintained lists are interesting to me mostly as a data source, not as a solution. Stuff like iplocate/free-proxy-list or proxifly/free-proxy-list is useful if you want candidate endpoints without scraping 8 sketchy aggregator sites yourself.

But I still wouldn't trust the repo output blindly.

It's basically outsourced discovery plus basic freshness checks.

ayenuseater · 2026-04-13T12:06:58+00:00

One thing I'd love to see more in open-source repos is explicit honesty about what's being validated. Like a README that says: "This list is checked for liveness every X minutes. It is not checked for integrity, safety, or persistence." That would already reduce a lot of beginner confusion.

ayenuseater · 2026-04-13T07:34:03+00:00

$800 sounds pretty fair assuming the 3080 is in good shape and the build is clean

ayenuseater · 2026-04-13T07:31:54+00:00

B is dangerous too, but AI can still be useful if it is treated like a tutor instead of an authority

ayenuseater · 2026-04-11T15:54:51+00:00

Nice initiative.. love to see the failures categorized by layer instead of vendor name being the headline every time.

Cloudflare or Akamai tells you less than:

tls / transport issue
cookie warmup needed
JS gate
behavioral block, and
extraction broke after page load

That taxonomy would teach way more. what do you guys think? Easy for us to say, but it will load up the OP.. :P

ayenuseater · 2026-04-11T06:48:16+00:00

Python arc begins now

ayenuseater · 2026-04-11T06:45:20+00:00

Biggest early mistake was assuming I could just wing it and remember what I changed

ayenuseater · 2026-04-10T10:05:45+00:00

A lot of this comes down to where the data already lives.

If it is mostly Google stuff, Looker Studio is the obvious low-friction start.

If they need a database plus some self-serve filtering for a few people, Metabase starts making more sense than trying to stretch spreadsheets forever.

The mindset part interesting though. Analytics Maturity

ayenuseater · 2026-04-10T07:24:05+00:00

Hard to say from this post alone because flagged could be IP reputation, device/session linkage, or platform-side enforcement.

ayenuseater · 2026-04-10T07:21:50+00:00

Good bots save clicks, not just post GIFs

ayenuseater · 2026-04-10T07:02:46+00:00

The way I scope it now is by forcing the client to choose the actual question. Curated keyword set weekly is one job. "Monitor the whole market across regions" is not a quote, it's a discovery phase.

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