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E-Commerce Market Intelligence

Large-Scale Competitor Pricing Intelligence Scraping Cluster

Architected an anti-bot resilient scraping cluster extracting daily competitor pricing, stock levels, and promotional discounts across 18 major retail portals.

Client: OmniRetail Intelligence
Timeline: 2 Weeks
Primary Outcome
2.4M
Product SKUs Monitored Daily
PythonPlaywrightPostgreSQLCloudflare WorkersAWS S3
The Challenge

Legacy Bottlenecks & Technical Constraints

The client needed daily pricing updates on 2.4 million retail products to feed their dynamic pricing engine, but competitor sites blocked standard crawlers with Cloudflare and Datadome.

Heavy Cloudflare Turnstile captchas and IP rate limiting blocking standard scrapers.
Massive dataset volume requiring clean deduplication and efficient storage.
Unannounced website layout modifications breaking traditional XPath selectors.
The Engineering Solution

Architectural Design & Implementation

We built a distributed crawler fleet using Playwright with stealth browser fingerprints and rotating residential proxy pools.

Residential IP rotation dynamically switching across millions of clean endpoints.
Automated regex and schema validation cleaning malformed product titles and prices.
Direct export to PostgreSQL and compressed Parquet snapshots in AWS S3.
Dead-letter queues retrying throttled pages automatically with randomized delays.

Core Technologies Deployed

Production technologies selected for high performance, zero technical debt, and enterprise scale.

PythonPuppeteerPostgreSQLCloudflareDocker
The Results

Quantifiable Business & Engineering Outcomes

2.4M
Daily SKUs Extracted

Fresh pricing and stock records refreshed every 24 hours.

99.8%
Crawl Success Rate

Zero IP bans or captcha blocks across all 18 target retail websites.

4x
Client Revenue Growth

Enabled real-time algorithmic price matching that won the Amazon Buy Box.

Soft Clerk's data extraction pipeline is remarkably resilient. We get clean, structured data on millions of products delivered to our S3 bucket on schedule every single day.

Sarah Jenkins
Chief Data Officer, OmniRetail

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