Walmart Coupons

Walmart Web Scraper written in Python 3 to extract coupon details for a store location. If you would like to know more about this scraper you can check it out at the blog post 'How to Scrape Coupons from Walmart using Python 3' -https://www.scrapehero.com/how-to-scrape-coupon-details-from-a-walmart-store-using-python-and-lxml/

Getting Started

These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development and testing purposes.

Fields to Extract

1. Discounted Price
2. Category
3. Brand
4. Product Description
5. Activated Date
6. Expired Date
7. URL

Prerequisites

For this web scraping tutorial usng Python 3, we will need some some packages:

• Python Requests
• LXML
• UnicodeCSV

Installation

PIP to install the following packages in Python (https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/installing/)

Python Requests, to make requests and download the HTML content of the pages (http://docs.python-requests.org/en/master/user/install/)

Python LXML, for parsing the HTML Tree Structure using Xpaths (Learn how to install that here – http://lxml.de/installation.html)

Running the Scraper

We will execute the script to get the coupon details of store ID 2159:

python3 walmart_coupon_retriever.py 2159

Sample Output

This will create a CSV file:

Sample Output