Price Scraping
Price Scraping
We build MAP Monitoring infrastructure that catches every price change. Our pricing intelligence platform tracks millions of SKUs across retailers, identifying MAP violations, dynamic pricing shifts, and competitor moves in real-time. No more blind spots in your market intelligence.
Technical Architecture
Price scraping demands precision at scale. We deploy Scrapy spiders optimized for e-commerce structures, targeting category pages and product listings with Faceted Navigation handling. For sites requiring Dynamic Rendering , Playwright handles infinite scroll and lazy-loaded product grids. Our Crawl Frontier prioritizes high-value SKUs and detects price change signals through delta comparison. We implement Brotli Compression support for faster page loads on compression-enabled sites.
Data Quality & Validation
Price data requires multi-layer validation. First, we extract prices using XPath and CSS Selectors with fallback chains—when selectors break, regex patterns catch remaining cases. Currency normalization handles international variants automatically. Deduplication uses SKU matching algorithms that handle retailer-specific product IDs, UPCs, and ISBNs. For Data Imputation , we fill missing prices from similar products or historical patterns when sites temporarily hide pricing. Data Normalization standardizes sale prices, subscription pricing, and bulk discounts into unified schemas.
Anti-Bot Strategy
E-commerce sites deploy sophisticated anti-scraping—Browser Fingerprinting , Honeypot links, and behavioral analysis. We counter with residential proxies providing authentic ISP IPs, stealth browser profiles with realistic User-Agent strings, and human-like interaction patterns. Our TLS Fingerprinting randomization ensures our connections match browser hello signatures. When CAPTCHA challenges appear, we route to human solvers with sub-2-minute resolution.
Compliance & Ethical Standards
We extract only publicly displayed pricing—no bypassing login walls or subscription barriers. Our Data Sanitization removes any inadvertently collected personal data. GDPR and DPDP Act 2023 compliance includes documented data retention policies and automated deletion of expired records. We respect robots.txt directives and implement polite crawl rates that don’t impact target site performance.