Long story, short. I work for my local hardware store, and I'm trying to streamline and automate as much stuff as possible. As such, this is part of a larger project I'm trying to complete.
Like the title states, I'm trying to pull a list from an Excel file (a list of UPC barcodes). I want to then search each barcode on www.truevalue.com using their search function; finally, I want to pull the SKU number from each result and put it into another Excel file with its corresponding UPC barcode. You may be thinking that our store rep would be willing to help us with getting this information, but corporate has been less than helpful.
I have spent days trying to figure this out; unfortunately, I went to school for biology, chemistry, and business rather than computer science. So this stuff is fairly new to me.
I've acquainted myself with Scrapy and Selenium in my attempt to figure this out. All the tutorials and FAQs I've read/watched show how to search for 1 individual item and pull information from the resulting page; consequently, I believe I could write code (in Python) that would accomplish that. However, I haven't been able to find any explanation for searching multiple products and then exporting the list of SKUs into an Excel file.
I guess I'm just kind of at a loss as to what module or function I would need to use to allow me to interface Excel with Selenium in this way. I'm not dead set on using Scrapy or Selenium. I'm willing to learn anything I need that would allow me to figure this out. So if you guys have a better idea, I'm game. Forgive me if I misused any technical terms, as I said, I am new to all of this. Thanks for taking your time to read, and I hope you guys can help!