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How to scrape the sales value from my Roblox marketplace product page?

My problem is that I am web scraping my sales on Roblox with Selenium, because requests returns the false value every time so I made selenium write my JSON response to a text file.

And now I want to only get the sales value from it, how do I do this?

Python function:

def submitData(self):
        self.title.setText("Roblox Sales Checker")
        try:
            ID = self.ID_INPUT.text()
            url = f'https://api.roblox.com/Marketplace/ProductInfo?assetId={ID}'

            driver.get(url)
            driver.add_cookie("My Auth Cookie,but not for you :)")
            driver.refresh()

            search = driver.find_element_by_css_selector("body > pre").text

            f = open('apiResponse.txt', 'w')
            f.write(search)
            f.close()

            f = open('apiResponse.txt', 'r+')
            apiResponseText = f.readlines()

            print(apiResponseText)

response.txt:

{"TargetId":6970745869,"ProductType":"User Product","AssetId":6970745869,"ProductId":1183920723,"Name":"beautifulSky","Description":"","AssetTypeId":10,"Creator":{"Id":2657343484,"Name":"Bestgamedev1209","CreatorType":"User","CreatorTargetId":2657343484},"IconImageAssetId":0,"Created":"2021-06-18T15:12:36.253Z","Updated":"2021-06-18T15:12:36.297Z","PriceInRobux":null,"PriceInTickets":null,"Sales":20624,"IsNew":false,"IsForSale":false,"IsPublicDomain":true,"IsLimited":false,"IsLimitedUnique":false,"Remaining":null,"MinimumMembershipLevel":0,"ContentRatingTypeId":0}
Solution

  • If you import json, Sales will be given as:

    json.loads(apiResponseText)["Sales"]

    Here is a small example:

    import json
apiResponseText='{"TargetId":6970745869,"ProductType":"User Product","AssetId":6970745869,"ProductId":1183920723,"Name":"beautifulSky","Description":"","AssetTypeId":10,"Creator":{"Id":2657343484,"Name":"Bestgamedev1209","CreatorType":"User","CreatorTargetId":2657343484},"IconImageAssetId":0,"Created":"2021-06-18T15:12:36.253Z","Updated":"2021-06-18T15:12:36.297Z","PriceInRobux":null,"PriceInTickets":null,"Sales":20624,"IsNew":false,"IsForSale":false,"IsPublicDomain":true,"IsLimited":false,"IsLimitedUnique":false,"Remaining":null,"MinimumMembershipLevel":0,"ContentRatingTypeId":0}'
y=json.loads(apiResponseText)["Sales"]
print(y)

    and the output is:

    20624