Web Scraping Lazada Using Selenium and BeautifulSoup

Introduction What is Web Scraping? Web scraping is the process of automatically collecting data from websites using code. Instead of copying and pasting data by hand, a program visits a webpage, reads its content, and extracts exactly what you need. This is super helpful for gathering a lot of information very quickly. By the end of this article, you will learn how to: Understand how web scraping works on dynamic websites. Use Selenium to load and control a web browser. Extract specific product information using BeautifulSoup. Save your cleanly structured data into a JSON file. Why do we need Selenium? Many modern websites, like Lazada, load products dynamically. This means the product details don't exist in the page's basic HTML code right away, they pop up a few seconds later using JavaScript. Because of this, simple scraping tools (like the requests library) won't work. To fix this, we use Selenium . Selenium acts like a real user by opening a browser and waiting for the products to