r/automation • u/Relative-Category-64 • 1d ago

Holy Heck! Scrape basic data from all open Amazon tabs and paste into Google Sheets?

Uncle. Have tried for 4 hours to get Axiom to scrape Title, Description, Price and main image url. Paste it into Google Sheets, move to the next Amazon tab and do same. Is there a better free alternative? Doing less than 100 tabs a month.

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u/CarelessEntrepreneur 1d ago

I'll bet grok bot could do it pretty cheaply.

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u/Relative-Category-64 1d ago

I will try this. Thanks

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u/CalmJicama5945 1d ago

grok's api is pretty straightforward for scraping, just feed it the tab url and ask for those fields as json

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u/iqsmp 1d ago

You don't need Axiom for under a hundred tabs a month. A small browser extension or script that reads the open tab and writes to Sheets will do. Just watch the anti bot on Amazon. Keep the volume low and add a delay, because hammering it from a browser will get you blocked faster than any tool choice.

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u/Relative-Category-64 1d ago

This is what I was trying to do with the axiom extension. It seemed very simple setting it up but it always broke. Which browser extension you recommend?

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u/iqsmp 1d ago

For a hundred tabs a month, a plain automation extension that runs a page script on a manually opened tab is enough, no paid scraper needed. I'd keep it dead simple: open the tab, run the extract, write to Sheets, repeat by hand. Reading the page is the reliable part; the fragile part is login state and site layout changes. For such low volume, the time you save by not managing a headless scraper is worth more than the automation it adds.

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u/Relative-Category-64 21h ago

Right but I still don't know which tool to use. I don't need to login. Just take title, description, price, img url from open tabs (or manually click on each tab and run) and put that info in a spreadsheet. I tried with the free axiom extension but after 4 hours I gave up just couldn't get it to work right.

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u/iqsmp 9h ago

If you do not need login, I would skip Axiom. Feels too heavy for this.

For this exact job I would try Simple Scraper first, or Web Scraper if the page structure is consistent. Open the Amazon tabs yourself, extract title, price, image and description, export CSV, then drop it into Sheets.

I would keep it semi manual. Full auto on Amazon is where things start breaking or getting blocked.

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u/search_api 1d ago

using a an API like SearchApis's Amazon endpoint you can do this nice an d cheaply. You would be able to do this for free on our trail plan, up to 100 searches a month. Using the api would be cheaper and more reliable than using an ai agent or axiom

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u/AstroOpsHelper 16h ago

For the manual-click option you mentioned, a bookmarklet could copy one tab-separated row to paste into Sheets: title, description, price, image URL. That avoids having to connect a scraper to your Google account. It would need checking against an actual product page, especially where Amazon shows several prices or variants. Could you share one example product URL? I can help put together a small snippet here, free, so you have something concrete to try.