IKEA Scraper

Easily scrape the stock level's of your favourite IKEA Products, all from the comfort of your python shell

Table of Contents

• A guide to adding to stores.json

A guide to adding to stores.json

1. Go to the website of the IKEA Region of your choice. In this case, IKEA UK

2. Find a random item. In this case, BLÅHAJ Soft toy, shark, 100 cm

3. Find the Stock Checker, this should be a Drop Down box, enter Inspect Element on this Element.

4. Copy the inner data from that Element. It should look something like:

       <select class="range-dropdown range-dropdown--with-label" id="new-stockcheck-dropdown">
          <option class="range-dropdown__option--disabled" value="" disabled="">Select a store</option>
          <option value="113">Belfast</option>
          <option value="142">Birmingham</option>
       ...
   </select>

5. Remove the <select class="range-dropdown range-dropdown--with-label" id="new-stockcheck-dropdown"> <option class="range-dropdown__option--disabled">...</option> and the remaining </select> from your copied HTML

6. From here you can manually convert the HTML in to a JSON array by using a tool like Find and Replace in your editor of choice.

   1. Substitute </option> for ","

   2. Substitute "> for ": "IKEA

   3. Substitute <option value=" for nothing.

   4. Make sure to remove the trailing comma from the last entry in your newly converted JSON.

   5. Create a new entry in the stores.json file with the country code of the stores country you have just converted.

   6. Paste your converted code in to the new entry. It should look something like this:

      {
        "gb": {
            "113": "IKEA Belfast",
            "142": "IKEA Birmingham",
            ...
        },
        ...
      }

7. Create a new pull request with your updated stores.json file.