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Grocery website

requested: 2/9/2010 version: 2.31.5

Demonstrates how to extract data from a difficult AJAX website.

Target URL: https://www.alimentacion.alcampo.es/tienda/home.php

Download demo project and sample data extract Alcampo.zip

Request

 I would like to extract all the products of all the stores of Alcampo supermarket (Hiper Alcampo Dropdown List)

First of all, I would like to extract all the categories and subcategories of the products. 

Then, I would like to extract all this products's atributtes: name, brand, photos, unit of measurement, category/subcategories, and store. 

Solution

This website is probably one of the most difficult websites you'll come across when extracting web data.

The website makes extensive use of AJAX, but the most difficult thing about this website is that different sections of the website is hidden or shown depending on your mouse possition, so it is difficult to figure out how to website actually works. Furthermore, the same AJAX actions sometime redirect to a full page load and sometime they don't.

To understand this project you'll need a good understand of AJAX and how Visual Web Ripper handles AJAX.
 
The sample data extract does not include downloaded images because of size constrains, but when you run the project images will be saved to your local disk.

Download demo project and sample data extract Alcampo.zip

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