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Amazon web data extraction and cleaning in VB, Excel  

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Status: Cancelled

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Budget: $30-250

Created: 11/25/2009 at 17:28 EST

Bid Count: 13

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$ 125

11/30/2009 at 17:28 EST

Project Creator: marbats
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Hello,
I am using Excel 2007 to write Visual Basic programs (recording and changing Macros in Excel) for extracting and cleaning data from Amazon.com. The first task I would like to accomplish is to be able to dynamically extract all information on top 100 electronics products (including rank, prices, product characteristics, reviews, etc.) I need a consultant who is experienced in web scraping and could help me complete the task. I would prefer to use VB, but if it is much easier to do in VB.NET or some other way, I could learn. This is for academic purposes: mostly, for helping my students with their empirical work (they usually do manual data collection, which is a waste of time).
In the future, it would be great to have an easily adjustable web crawler to dynamically extract, reorganize, and clean online data from price comparison sites. Other web sites I would like to be able to collect data from are Shopper.com and Google Products.
I wrote a few programs by recording Macros, but it takes a lot of time to complete the whole thing and I am still to deal with some complications. I would be happy to provide you with what I have so far.
Thank you,
Maria

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11-27-2009 04:32 EST

check pm please.

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11-28-2009 18:05 EST

I am interested .Please check my PM

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11-25-2009 23:05 EST

please view pm.

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11-26-2009 13:52 EST

Hello, i've completed various project that are similar in the past in vb.net. Please PM for details, i will happily show you all of my works and finish your project in a timely manner.

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11-26-2009 02:25 EST

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Can You forward me the specification and templates

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11-26-2009 03:37 EST

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Hello there!! We are SolutionBytes, ready to work for you, have gone through all of your requirements you mentioned. But we need to discuss further so that we could start asap. Please have a look on your msg box, our work will let you know the value and the vision we can bring to your project. Work will be fully transparent. looking for a long term business relationship with you. Regards nareenatsb.

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11-26-2009 07:59 EST

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please check PMB.

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11-26-2009 09:14 EST

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Please read my PM

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11-26-2009 09:39 EST

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Hi I do a sort of similar work everyday. I always have to clean up data from our online bank account. I can do an export option but it normally in a different format than what we see it on webpage. And normally the numbers are not actually numbers but labels. So I have to do the cleaning up to make it into numbers so it will enable me to post it in our accounting system or do mathematical operations when necessary.Completion of the job depends on the quantity of data but normally its very quick for me. If this is a regular job I can lower the price.

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11-26-2009 13:18 EST

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Hi, I have sound knowledge in Excel, VB and VBA. I can reach your expectations. I done some projects for some Electronic companies get hitwise report and other stuffs. So I feel i am fit for your expecation. Give me a chance to work in your carpet. Regards, IQtech

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11-27-2009 12:11 EST

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Please have a look at your PM.

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11-28-2009 03:20 EST

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I am good at VB/VBA programming.I have done a relative software,and it's used for collect the stock data from a website.Looking forward to your reply. Kevin

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11-28-2009 03:28 EST

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I can develop a cralwer using perl which can crawl all information from your website that you have asked. Your contribution will be just to click on the cralwer to initiate it.You will receive the output in excel or DB whichever is ok for you. Kindly awaiting your reply.

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