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Amazon Product Scraper

junglee/amazon-crawler
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Use this Amazon scraper to collect data based on URL and country from the Amazon website. Extract product information without using the Amazon API, including reviews, prices, descriptions, and Amazon Standard Identification Numbers (ASINs). Download data in various structured formats.

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OOM (out of memory) issue

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icionaime opened this issue
2 months ago

Recently, I got more and more of this issue. I have been using the scraper for months and never got this one.

lukas.prusa avatar

Hi Ici On Aime Inc., thanks for opening this issue!

I will address two issues here, as you've encountered both of them.

  1. OOM issue - This is unfortunately caused by our recent implementation of a more advanced scraping system, which is able to better impersonate real browsers and hence get blocked less. We've got one feature in development, which should reduce the usage by a bit, although not that significantly. I see that you are running the scraper with 2 GB, which is a little low for this, so I would recommend you the default 4 GB.
  2. Failing runs with 0 results - I can see that you've experienced this in some of your runs. It was caused by a change on Amazon, it will get fixed tomorrow.

I will keep you updated here, thanks!

IC

icionaime

a month ago

Thanks for the update!

lukas.prusa avatar

Hi again, the 2nd issue is now fixed, it was caused by a "new blocking method" (or an error on Amazon, it's hard to tell), which was causing our scraper to sometimes fail with 0 results.

I will keep you updated about the progress with the OOM issue, although as said, it will only help a little.

IC

icionaime

a month ago

Hello Lukas, please check the run Lg9yNRDTshpGu0lHh. We were running the scraper with 4 GB as recommended, and still the same issue.

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icionaime

a month ago

Hi again, same issue on 5 out of 7 runs tonight : https://share.zight.com/p9uogkqJ. I am wasting money here. Can you please follow-up on this.

lukas.prusa avatar

Hi, thanks for sharing the failing runs!

We are going to look into it right now, as that is definitely not supposed to happen on 4 GB.

I will keep you posted here, thanks!

lukas.prusa avatar

Hi again, thanks for your patience.

We've updated the scraper with the fix a few days ago. There was indeed a bug in our memory usage.

Anyway, it seems to be running pretty consistently now, so I will close this. Feel free to reopen this if you are still experiencing this issue, thanks!

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  • 380 monthly users
  • 69 stars
  • 97.1% runs succeeded
  • 2.9 days response time
  • Created in Oct 2018
  • Modified about 3 hours ago
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