Sentiment analysis

This article serves as a comprehensive guide to scraping Amazon reviews, addressing the growing technical and policy challenges that make manual collection and simple scripts ineffective. It begins by outlining the immense business value of review data for sentiment analysis, competitor research, and market insights. The guide then provides a practical, step-by-step implementation of an Amazon review scraper using Python, covering basic setups, handling anti-scraping mechanisms like CAPTCHAs and IP blocks with Selenium and proxies. Recognizing the limitations of DIY methods against Amazon’s tightening restrictions, the article introduces the Pangolin Scrape API as a professional, enterprise-grade solution. It demonstrates how this API bypasses login walls to deliver complete and structured data, including the valuable “Customer Says” feature, ensuring high stability and success rates. Finally, through detailed case studies on competitor analysis, brand monitoring, and product optimization, the article illustrates how leveraging a professional scraping API transforms raw data into actionable business intelligence, making it an essential tool for sellers, data analysts, and brands in the competitive e-commerce landscape.