UPDATE: December 2016 Amazon has about 368,876,590 products as of Dec 1, 2016. Read Updated Report Amazon sells 391,337,440 products in the US Highlights 58,407,108 Books 91,774,413 in Electronics 37,983,555 products out of the 391 million are Prime shipping eligible products
Amazon launched a “Made on Kickstarter” storefront and it was covered widely on most tech mags like Techcrunch, Verge, Mashable etc. The storefront is available at https://www.amazon.com/b?node=13514636011 Count of products in Top categories We decide to take a look at how many products Amazon has on launch day. Here is the breakdown for the top […]
Startups and Data Everybody’s gotta start somewhere – so goes the saying. Startups especially start from nothing. In today’s world full of data, the question is where do startups get their data? Let’s look at the sources of the data in the various stages of a startup. Development Phase At this stage a startup usually […]
The big news of the day – “Amazon launched Amazon Prime in India“. How exciting ! We decided to go beyond the PR and hype machine and look at the hard cold facts and data on what it means to the India eCommerce scene. Last month we had written a blog comparing the major e-commerce […]
Summary Google Analytics is rife with Fake or Ghost referrers, this post takes a look at how Google itself classifies these users by Age, Sex, Interests etc Anyone with a website that uses Google Analytics must have noticed quite a bit of traffic coming from “Referrals”. Some of the sites, whose names keep changing every […]
Amazon has ventured into some areas like the Dash buttons or the Echo which have a niche use. The Dash buttons let you replenish items from the Amazon store with the click of a button ! We decided to take a look at how many products you can order with their own exclusive Dash button […]
The India eCommerce market is going through a lot of growth. A largely untapped market due to the lack of infrastructure – logistics, electronic payments, shipping and cultural opposition to eCommerce has seen a huge uptick in acceptance and sales over the past few years. The large eCommerce players all publish various statistics on who […]
There is a lot of content available on the millions of websites on the Internet, and all of them involve some amount of programming to get them there, however, to get to all this content using a programmatic API isn’t really possible. If you need data scraped from a website in a specific format in […]
The chart and tables below show the number of products in the Top 10 categories sold by Amazon.com. The previous data can be found here. There has been approximately an increase of 100,000 products since last year and a decrease of 100,000 products since last month. Electronics 118,328,809 Cell Phones & Accessories 79,174,534 Home & […]
XPath (XML Path Language) is a syntax for defining parts of an XML document. We will explain the relevance of Xpath in web scraping. XPath is a query language for identifying and selecting nodes or elements in an XML document using a tree like representation of the document. XPath was defined by the World Wide […]
We decided to have a look at Amazon.com books and see if it discriminates (ok maybe that is a harsh word) by language. They, of course, don’t write these books – they just sell them. They are US headquartered and it is almost obvious that a majority of their books are probably written in […]
We have written about the differences between a free service and a paid web scraping service previously. Unfortunately, the 125,000 claimed “users” of Kimono Labs woke up to the rude realities of such a free web scraping service. Kimono Labs, got acquired by Palantir and gave their “beloved users” just 2 weeks to find an […]
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