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American Eagle data,
at warehouse scale.

We extract product details, size availability, clearance pricing, fabric compositions, and review data from American Eagle and Aerie. Delivered as clean JSON, CSV, or Parquet to S3, BigQuery, or Snowflake on your cadence.

Products extracted
185K /day
Inventory updates
1.2M /24h
Review records
45K /run
Active pipelines
64
Uptime
99.98%
Data Dictionary

Every field we extract from ae.com

Structured, schema-consistent data across all major object types — delivered clean, typed, and ready to query.

Complete list of extractable fields for Product Catalogue objects from ae.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

product_idnamebrandcategorysub_categorydescriptionfabric_compositioncare_instructionsfit_guidepage_url
product_catalogue
● 200 OK
"product_id": "0119-6742",
"name": "AE Ne(x)t Level High-Waisted Jegging",
"brand": "American Eagle",
"category": "Women",
"sub_category": "Jeans",
"fabric_composition": "71% Cotton, 21% Viscose, 7% Polyester, 1% Elastane"
# product_idnamebrandcategorysub_categorydescription
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Complete list of extractable fields for Pricing & Promos objects from ae.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

product_idlist_pricesale_pricecurrencydiscount_pctpromo_textclearance_flagreal_rewards_eligibleprice_timestamp
pricing_& promos
● 200 OK
"product_id": "0119-6742",
"list_price": 49.95,
"sale_price": 34.96,
"currency": "USD",
"discount_pct": 30,
"clearance_flag": false,
"promo_text": "30% Off All Jeans"
# product_idlist_pricesale_pricecurrencydiscount_pctpromo_text
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Complete list of extractable fields for Inventory Matrix objects from ae.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

product_idskusizelengthcolourstock_statuslow_stock_warningonline_exclusive
inventory_matrix
● 200 OK
"sku": "0119-6742-073-4R",
"size": "4",
"length": "Regular",
"colour": "Onyx Black",
"stock_status": "In Stock",
"low_stock_warning": false,
"online_exclusive": false
# product_idskusizelengthcolourstock_status
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Complete list of extractable fields for Ratings & Reviews objects from ae.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

review_idproduct_idratingtitlebodyhelpful_votesfit_ratingdate_postedverified_buyer
ratings_& reviews
● 200 OK
"review_id": "REV-982374",
"rating": 5,
"title": "Perfect stretch and fit",
"helpful_votes": 12,
"fit_rating": "True to Size",
"date_posted": "2023-11-04",
"verified_buyer": true
# review_idproduct_idratingtitlebodyhelpful_votes
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Complete list of extractable fields for Visual Assets objects from ae.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

product_idcolourprimary_image_urlgallery_image_urlsmodel_size_wornmodel_heightswatch_image_urlvideo_url
visual_assets
● 200 OK
"product_id": "0119-6742",
"colour": "Onyx Black",
"primary_image_url": "https://s7d2.scene7.com/is/image/aeo/0119_6742_073_f",
"model_size_worn": "Size 4",
"model_height": "5'9"",
"swatch_image_url": "https://s7d2.scene7.com/is/image/aeo/0119_6742_073_s"
# product_idcolourprimary_image_urlgallery_image_urlsmodel_size_wornmodel_height
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Capabilities

Everything you need from American Eagle — nothing you don't

Our ae.com scraper maps the entire fashion catalogue: complex size and colour matrices, Aerie inventory, clearance pricing, and fabric metadata — with JavaScript rendering and geo-proxying built in.

Full Catalogue Extraction

Extract product titles, descriptions, fabric compositions, care instructions, and fit guides across all American Eagle and Aerie categories.

Multi-Dimensional Inventory

Map complex stock matrices. Track exact availability across waist sizes, inseam lengths, and colour variants.

Dynamic Pricing & Promos

Capture base price, markdown price, clearance tags, and promotional banner text like 'Buy One Get One 50% Off'.

Review & Fit Mining

Extract written reviews, star ratings, and aggregate fit metrics (Runs Small, True to Size, Runs Large) to analyse customer sentiment.

Visual Asset Mapping

Collect high-resolution image URLs, colour swatches, and model sizing data for visual merchandising analysis.

Geo-Targeted Extraction

Route requests through regional proxies to capture localised pricing, inventory, and promotions across different countries.

Store Stock Levels

Query BOPIS (Buy Online, Pick Up In Store) availability for specific geographic radii and store locations.

Taxonomy & Breadcrumbs

Preserve the exact site hierarchy and category breadcrumbs to understand product placement and site architecture.

Scheduled Diffs

Run continuous pipelines at daily cadences with change-detection diffing to monitor rapid inventory depletion.

// engagement pipeline

From category URL to warehouse record

Brief in. Clean data out.

Define Scope
d 0

Provide category URLs, search terms, or brand filters (AE vs Aerie). We design the extraction schema together.

Pipeline Build
d 2–4

We configure Scrapy / Playwright crawlers, proxy rotation, session management, and CAPTCHA handling for ae.com.

Validation & QA
d 4–6

Schema validation, null-rate checks, price-outlier detection, and sample matrix mapping before full launch.

Delivery
ongoing

JSON / CSV / Parquet pushed to your S3 bucket, BigQuery dataset, or Snowflake stage on agreed cadence.

Under the hood

How our ae.com pipeline handles the hard parts

Fashion scraping requires handling multi-dimensional product variants and aggressive anti-bot systems. Here is how we maintain data integrity.

pipeline-monitor · ae.com · live ● active
// fingerprinting
Identity rotation
TLS fingerprintrandomised
User-agentrotated
IP poolresidential
Challenges blocked0
// pagination
Page coverage
48,291 pages queued running
// observability
Pipeline health
99.9%
uptime
142ms
p99 lat
0.3%
null rate
2
alerts
Anti-bot layer
Residential proxy rotation + fingerprint spoofing

Retailers deploy strict bot detection to prevent competitor scraping. Our crawlers use residential ISP proxies with realistic browser fingerprints, randomised request timing, and full cookie session management.

JavaScript rendering
Full Playwright execution for dynamic variants

Apparel sites load size and colour inventory via asynchronous API calls when a user clicks a swatch. We run full Playwright browser sessions to trigger these events and capture the complete matrix.

Schema stability
Resilient selectors with fallback chains

E-commerce platforms change their DOM structures frequently during seasonal updates. Our selector strategy uses multiple fallback chains per field so a layout change does not break your data pipeline overnight.

Change detection
Only re-scrape what has changed

For massive apparel catalogues, we maintain a hash index of last-seen values per SKU. Subsequent runs only push diffs, reducing compute cost and downstream processing load.

Monitoring & alerting
24/7 pipeline health with anomaly detection

Every run emits structured logs to our observability stack. We alert on null-rate spikes, missing price fields, schema drift, and coverage drops.

Applications

Who uses American Eagle data — and how

Teams across industries use ae.com data to build competitive products and smarter operations.

01
Competitor Price Monitoring

Apparel retailers track AE and Aerie pricing, promotional frequency, and clearance cadences to optimise their own markdown strategies.

02
Trend & Assortment Analysis

Merchandising teams analyse fabric compositions, fit trends (e.g., high-waisted vs low-rise), and colour adoption rates to inform future collections.

03
Inventory Depletion Tracking

Analysts monitor out-of-stock rates across specific sizes and lengths to estimate sales velocity and demand forecasting.

04
Customer Sentiment Analysis

Product teams mine review text and aggregate fit ratings to understand consumer preferences and identify quality issues.

05
Market Research

Investors and market researchers track category expansion and Aerie brand growth through product count and stock depth indicators.

06
Visual AI Training

Machine learning teams use structured metadata paired with high-resolution imagery to train fashion recognition and recommendation models.

Why DataFlirt

"American Eagle and Aerie hold critical market signals for youth apparel trends, sizing distributions, and discount velocity — but extracting this requires mapping a massive multi-dimensional inventory matrix."

Most teams underestimate the investment required: reliable ae.com scraping requires residential proxies, full JavaScript rendering for complex size selectors, CAPTCHA handling, and anomaly monitoring. DataFlirt absorbs that complexity so your engineers can focus on the analysis — not the infrastructure.

Technical Spec

American Eagle scraper — technical capabilities

Everything supported by our ae.com scraper — rendered SPA elements, auth walls, rate-limit evasion and beyond.

JavaScript rendering
Full Playwright sessions required for colour swatches and dynamic size matrices
Supported
CAPTCHA bypass
Automated 2Captcha + CapSolver integration with fallback to manual queue
Supported
Residential proxy rotation
ISP-grade residential IPs from US / CA / UK pools rotated per request
Supported
Multi-region pricing
Capture localised currency and pricing based on target geography
Supported
Variant/variation mapping
Parent to child SKU relationships with all size/length/colour combinations
Supported
Review pagination
Full review corpus including all pages, not just the top 10 visible
Supported
Real Rewards account history
Gated loyalty points, purchase history, and account-specific offers
Partial
Saved Items / Wishlists
User-specific saved items requiring authenticated session state
Partial
Infrastructure

Infrastructure powering the ae.com pipeline

Open-source tooling on proven cloud infra — no vendor lock-in, full observability.

ScrapyPlaywrightPython 3.12RedisPostgreSQLApache AirflowAWS LambdaS3CloudWatch2CaptchaCapSolverResidential ProxiesDockerKubernetesGrafanaPrometheusBigQuerySnowflake
Scrapy + Playwright Stack

Scrapy handles crawl orchestration, deduplication, and retry logic. Playwright handles JavaScript rendering, cookie sessions, and interaction flows. Combined via scrapy-playwright middleware.

Residential Proxy Infrastructure

We maintain pools of residential ISP proxies across target regions. Rotation happens per-request with sticky sessions where required. IP score monitoring prevents blacklisted pool contamination.

Cloud-Native Orchestration

Pipelines run on AWS Lambda (burst) and ECS (sustained). Airflow handles scheduling, dependency management, and SLA alerting. All state stored in managed Postgres.

Output & Delivery

Your data, your destination

Data delivered to where your team already works — no new tooling required.

JSON
Newline-delimited or nested — schema versioned per run
CSV
Flat file with typed columns — Excel/Sheets compatible
XLS
Legacy Excel format for direct business analyst use
Parquet
Columnar format for BigQuery, Snowflake, Athena
AWS S3
Direct bucket delivery — compatible with any data lake
Webhook
HTTP POST per record for real-time downstream processing
API
REST endpoints to query your extracted catalogue data
BigQuery
Streamed directly into your dataset with schema auto-detect
S3
Direct bucket delivery — compatible with any data lake
// faq

Common questions.

About ae.com scraping, legality, and pipeline operations.

Ask us directly →
Is scraping ae.com legal?

Scraping publicly available information from retail websites is generally permissible under applicable law. DataFlirt targets only public, non-authenticated product, pricing, and review data. We do not extract personal data, circumvent authentication walls, or violate GDPR. Clients should review terms of service and consult legal counsel for specific use cases.

How do you handle size and colour matrices?

Apparel sites use complex matrices where availability depends on selecting a colour, then a waist size, then a length. We use Playwright to simulate these selections or intercept the backend API responses that populate the matrix, ensuring 100% accurate stock status for every specific SKU variation.

Can you track Aerie inventory as well?

Yes. The Aerie catalogue is fully integrated into the ae.com site architecture. Our pipelines can target Aerie exclusively, American Eagle exclusively, or both simultaneously using the same unified schema.

How fresh is the data?

Full catalogue refreshes at daily cadence complete within a 4-8 hour window depending on category depth. We can configure specific high-priority categories (like new arrivals or clearance) to run at higher frequencies.

Can you extract promotional overlays?

Yes. We capture base prices, markdown prices, and text from promotional banners or badges applied to the product image, allowing you to calculate the true final price a consumer sees.

What is the minimum viable engagement?

Our smallest packages start at defined category tracking with weekly delivery. For full-site tracking or custom schema requirements, we price based on volume and delivery frequency. Contact us with your use case for a scoped quote.

Can I request a sample dataset before committing?

Absolutely. We provide a sample run of specific product categories as part of the pre-engagement scoping process so you can validate schema fit, matrix completeness, and data quality before signing any contract.

$ dataflirt scope --new-project --source=ae.com ready

Tell us what
to extract.
We do the rest.

20-minute scoping call. Pilot dataset within the week. Production within two. Whether you need a one-off catalogue dump or continuous inventory monitoring across thousands of SKUs — we scope, build, and operate the pipeline. Tell us what you need.

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