Scraping eBay Listings in Go in 2023

Oct 5, 2023 ยท 3 min read

Let's go through a step-by-step tutorial for extracting data from eBay listings using Go. I'll explain each part of the code in detail.

Setup

We'll use the net/http and github.com/PuerkitoBio/goquery packages.

Install them:

go get github.com/PuerkitoBio/goquery

And import:

import (
  "net/http"
  "github.com/PuerkitoBio/goquery"
)

Define the eBay URL and a user-agent:

url := "<https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=baseball>"
userAgent := "Mozilla/5.0 ..." // Use your browser's UA string

Fetch the Page

Make a GET request to fetch the HTML:

client := &http.Client{}

req, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", url, nil)
req.Header.Set("User-Agent", userAgent)

resp, _ := client.Do(req)

defer resp.Body.Close()

We create a http.Client, make a GET request, set the user-agent header, send the request, and make sure to close the response body.

Parse the HTML

Load the HTML into goquery to parse it:

doc, _ := goquery.NewDocumentFromReader(resp.Body)

Extract Listing Data

Find all listings with a CSS selector:

doc.Find(".s-item__info").Each(func(i int, s *goquery.Selection) {

  title := s.Find(".s-item__title").Text()
  url, _ := s.Find(".s-item__link").Attr("href")
  price := s.Find(".s-item__price").Text()

  // Extract other fields like details, seller, etc

})

Loop through them, and use .Text() and .Attr() to extract text/attributes.

Print Results

fmt.Println("Title:", title)
fmt.Println("URL:", url)
fmt.Println("Price:", price)

fmt.Println(strings.Repeat("=", 50)) // Separator

Full Code

package main

import (
  "net/http"
  "github.com/PuerkitoBio/goquery"
  "fmt"
  "strings"
)

func main() {

  url := "https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=baseball"

  userAgent := "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/98.0.4758.102 Safari/537.36"

  client := &http.Client{}

  req, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", url, nil)
  req.Header.Set("User-Agent", userAgent)

  resp, _ := client.Do(req)

  defer resp.Body.Close()

  doc, _ := goquery.NewDocumentFromReader(resp.Body)

  doc.Find(".s-item__info").Each(func(i int, s *goquery.Selection) {

    title := s.Find(".s-item__title").Text()
    url, _ := s.Find(".s-item__link").Attr("href")
    price := s.Find(".s-item__price").Text()

    details := s.Find(".s-item__subtitle").Text()
    seller := s.Find(".s-item__seller-info-text").Text() 
    shipping := s.Find(".s-item__shipping").Text()
    location := s.Find(".s-item__location").Text()
    sold := s.Find(".s-item__quantity-sold").Text()

    fmt.Println("Title:", title)
    fmt.Println("URL:", url)
    fmt.Println("Price:", price)
    fmt.Println("Details:", details)
    fmt.Println("Seller:", seller)
    fmt.Println("Shipping:", shipping)
    fmt.Println("Location:", location)
    fmt.Println("Sold:", sold)

    fmt.Println(strings.Repeat("=", 50))
  
  })

}

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