Scraping using Regex
With Price Comparison Pro, you can scrape using CSS, xPath and Regex. In this KB, you’ll see how to scrape usuing Regex. Many websites…
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How to debug Price Comparison Pro scraper issues from your price comparison table
Directly under the prices in the price comparison tables produced by Price Comparison Pro you’ll see a ‘refresh price’ button. If you click this,…
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Adding the Price Comparison Pro shortcode to product pages using Elementor
If you are using Elementor to edit your WooCommerce product detail template then you’ll find below the technique to use to place the price…
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Choosing the price comparison widget display style
There are 4 display styles available for the price comparison widget. If you are using the price comparison widget with WooCommerce, visit wp-admin ->…
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Scraping WooCommerce website prices
If you’re scraping a website that uses WooCommerce, normally Price Comparison Pro will scrape the prices with no extra CSS/xPath/Regex config for the website…
Read moreScraping from a price element which has multiple classes (spaces between class names)
If you find a price HTML element which has multiple classes in the class=”” attribute, then you should understand a bit more about how…
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Scraping prices from bol.com
This website is fairly easy to scrape from. If you understand how CSS works, right click the price on a product page and you’ll…
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How to set up the search comparison widget
There are two widgets in Price Comparison Pro – the standard ‘price comparison’ table that you can add through shortcodes on any page, or…
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Scraping prices and images from size.co.uk
I have a customer who is failing to scrape prices from size.co.uk. They went to the effort of adding our PhantomJS scraper in order…
Read moreCommon issues with Price Comparison Pro
The main complaint people have is that prices are not updating. If this is happening to you: Check you have the correct domain entry…
Read moreImporting Price Comparison URLs
You can either manually enter the relevant URLs for each product or you can automate this process. If you have a large number of…
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Installing Price Comparison Pro
After purchasing the Price Comparison Pro, you will receive a zipped file, from there, please follow these steps: In your WP admin area, click on…
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How to view the scraped HTML
There are a few techniques for viewing the HTML scraped. You may wish to view the raw HTML scraped in order to help you…
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Choosing your Scraping Type
Price Comparison Pro provides multiple scraping types. Below is a guide explaining when to use each. You’ll find the Scrape Type on your Price…
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How to scrape prices from HTML attributes
You’ll find some websites have prices contained within HTML attributes. For example, when you view the source of a page where you’d like to…
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How to configure CSS selectors to identify retail and sale prices
The Price Comparison Pro widget uses CSS or xPath selectors to identify regular and sale prices on scraped product pages. If you have a…
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