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How to web scrape prices from websites using Python

  Running an e-commerce business in today’s world can be quite a job. Everyone is trying to beat each other with different tactics in marketing campaigns, prices, customer service, etc… To keep up with your competitors you must know their prices for the same products as yours to stay just below them to attract customers.  With that said, let’s take a look at how you can scrape prices from your competitor’s e-Commerce website for prices on products that matches your products.  Back in the day, an organization had to manually go to the competitors’ stores, check their prices and then return to their company and update the product catalog with new prices. This used to require a lot of human resources and was very time-consuming. As more and more companies turn to the e-commerce part of their business, the prices for products in a digital world become more transparent. This gives customers the option to check for the best price every time they want to shop for a new product.  In this short