Service Intelligence

Price Scraping

Dominating the digital shelf with real-time competitive pricing.

Monitor your competition's pricing across thousands of sites. Our price scrapers provide the granular data needed for dynamic pricing strategies and margin optimization.

Price monitoring is easy to start and hard to keep running. The prices themselves are the simple part; the difficulty is that a competitor restructures a page, your scraper keeps running, and the figures in your dashboard quietly stop being true.

We collect prices, stock and promotions across the sites you name, check the numbers before they reach you, and fix collection when a source changes. You get a comparable series rather than a snapshot.

What Price Scraping includes

Dynamic Monitoring

Track price changes as they happen, minute by minute.

Stock Detection

Know when competitors are out of stock or running low.

Promotion Tracking

Identify flash sales, coupons, and hidden discounts.

MAP Monitoring

Enforce Minimum Advertised Price compliance globally.

Technical Protocol

  • [1]Time-Series Data Storage
  • [2]Currency Normalization
  • [3]Global Geo-Location Support
  • [4]Delta Change Tracking

Common Use Cases

Dynamic Pricing EnginesE-commerce Competitor AnalysisRetail ArbitrageBrand Protection

Enterprise Standard

99.9% Extraction Reliability

What you get

Every record carries these fields

The schema is yours to change — add fields, drop fields, rename them to match what your systems already read. This is the default.

FieldTypeWhat it is
product_idstringYour identifier, so rows join to your catalogue.
matched_skustringThe competitor’s own code, where published.
titlestringAs listed on their site, not as listed on yours.
pricedecimalThe price actually shown to a shopper.
currencystringISO 4217. Not assumed from the domain.
list_pricedecimalPre-discount, where shown. Null when there is none.
in_stockbooleanStock state at capture time.
sellerstringMatters on marketplaces with several sellers per listing.
promotionstringFlash sale, coupon or multibuy text, where present.
ratingfloatOptional, useful when price alone does not explain a gap.
product_urlstringSo anyone can verify a row by hand.
captured_attimestampUTC, ISO 8601. The series is only as good as this.
Sample output

One record, as it arrives

CSV — the format most pricing teams load directly.

Values here are illustrative. On a real sample these are your products, from your target sites — see below.

record.json
{"product_id": "SKU-10044","matched_sku": "B09TKD2YRQ","title": "Kettle 1.7L Brushed Steel","price": 34.99,"currency": "GBP","list_price": 44.99,"in_stock": true,"seller": "Example Retail Ltd","promotion": "22% off until 31 Oct","rating": 4.6,"product_url": "https://example-store.com/p/kettle-1-7l","captured_at": "2026-10-15T06:00:00Z",}
Who buys it

What people use it for

Retail and e-commerce

Repricing against a named competitor set, with stock state so you do not match an out-of-stock price.

Brands and manufacturers

MAP monitoring across resellers, with the listing URL as evidence.

Travel

Rate and availability tracking where the price moves several times a day.

What it costs

Three ways to buy, and what moves the number

Fixed price

A defined one-off project with a known scope and a delivery date.

Retainer

Continuous collection, weekly or monthly. Selector fixes after a site changes are included.

Dedicated developer

A scraping engineer working inside your team, for roadmaps rather than deliverables.

What drives the quote for price scraping

  • How many sites, and how many products on each.
  • Refresh frequency - hourly is a different service from daily.
  • Whether you need product matching across sites, which is the hardest part.
  • How much history you want kept and queryable.

How we price it →

Your options

Build it, buy a tool, or have it run

All three are reasonable. Which one fits depends on how much of this you want to own.

Build it in-house

Collecting one competitor’s prices is a weekend. Forty is a different job: a matcher that knows your SKU is their listing, stock state so you do not undercut an out-of-stock price, and maintenance every time one of the forty restructures a product page.

Buy a self-serve tool

Repricing tools assume the data is already correct. They are good at deciding what to do with a price and not built to argue with the source about whether the price is real - the variant, the seller, the promotion that only applies over three units.

Have it run for you

We own the collection and the matching, check figures before they reach you, and fix a source when it changes. You get a series that is comparable week to week rather than a snapshot that is right today.

Honestly

What goes wrong, and what happens then

Collection breaks. The question worth asking a supplier is not whether it breaks but whether you find out from them or from your own data.

A competitor restructures a product page and the scraper keeps running.

What it costs you

The single most expensive failure here. It does not error - it returns the old price, or the strikethrough price, and you reprice against a number that is not real.

What we do

Prices are range-checked against the recent series for that product. A move that large fails validation and holds the row rather than shipping it.

A listing has several sellers at different prices.

What it costs you

You match against a marketplace reseller rather than the brand and conclude the market moved when it did not.

What we do

Seller is a field, not an assumption. You choose which seller the comparison is against.

A promotion is conditional - three for two, or members only.

What it costs you

The headline price looks like a cut that is not available to the shopper you are competing for.

What we do

Promotion text is captured alongside the price so a conditional offer is visible rather than flattened into a number.

Before you ask

What we will not do, for this service

  • Collect at a frequency a retailer’s terms or crawl rules do not permit, however much you want the refresh.
  • Collect prices from behind a login or a trade-only account.
  • Match products on your behalf without telling you the match confidence - a wrong match is worse than a missing row.

The full terms →

How the work runs

The same six steps on every engagement, whether it is one site or ten thousand.

  1. STEP 01

    Interaction

    Hand-shake connection has been established between potential customer and Business Team.

  2. STEP 02

    Consultation

    Potential customer exchange information and Business Team consult them with expert advice.

  3. STEP 03

    Evaluation

    Compliance & Technical specialist examines the identified business need of potential buyer.

  4. STEP 04

    Execution

    Potential Buyer confirms the compliance details to allow Engineering team to start Execution.

  5. STEP 05

    Disposition

    Delivery team dispose off the Exemplary Service to ensure the customer delight.

  6. STEP 06

    Exceed Expectation

    Build a strong long term relationship with a client by exceeding their expectations at every stage.

Questions people ask about price scraping

What happens when a target site changes its layout?

It happens regularly, and it is part of what you are paying for. We monitor our scrapers, so in most cases we spot a break before you do. Fixing selectors after a layout change is included in retainer and dedicated developer arrangements. On fixed-price projects we agree a support window upfront.

What if a site blocks the scraper?

We build collection to be well-behaved: sensible request rates, proper identification and respect for published crawl rules. If a site does not want to be collected from, that is a signal we take seriously rather than a problem to engineer around. Where a site is simply slow or rate-limited, we schedule around it.

How quickly can you start, and how long does a build take?

Most projects start within a few days of the requirements being agreed. A single straightforward site is usually running within a week. Large multi-site pipelines take longer, and we will give you a schedule with the quote rather than a vague estimate.

What formats can you deliver in?

JSON, CSV, Excel, XML, or straight into a database. We can drop files to S3, SFTP or Google Drive, push to a webhook, or expose the data through a REST API. Tell us what your systems already read and we will match it.

How do you price the work?

Three ways: a fixed price for a defined project, a weekly or monthly retainer for ongoing collection, or a dedicated scraping developer working as part of your team. Which one fits depends on how often the data changes and how much of the work is ongoing rather than one-off.

Every question we are asked →

Before you commit

Request a free sample 100 rows within 24 hours

Send a target URL and the fields you want. We return 100 real extracted rows within 24 hours so you can check the structure and the quality yourself, before any money changes hands.

See pricing
  • Send one URL and the fields you want.
  • 100 real rows back within 24 hours.
  • No payment, no commitment, no contract first.
  • If it cannot be collected properly, we say so.
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