I need to build a database of sellers on Alibaba and Tradekey, possibly including photos of their products but I'm more interested in consolidating and categorizing their contact information. Has anyone here tried scraping the site, do they block bots, and can anyone recommend a good tool? Once I have a good tool to do this with I will probably run several instances from multiple IP's at different times and realize that I might have to limit how quickly I do this. I plan to import all of the data into a mysql db. Any advice / suggestions / information would be appreciated.
[First post, not my first project.]
[First post, not my first project.]