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RUN - 14 active pipelines - animed.co.uk live

Veterinary data,
at warehouse scale.

We extract POM-V listings, pet nutrition pricing, stock depth, and active ingredients from Animed Direct. Delivered as clean JSON, CSV, or Parquet to S3, BigQuery, or Snowflake on your cadence.

Products extracted
18.2K /day
Price updates
42.1K /24h
Stock checks
89.4K /run
Active pipelines
14
Uptime
99.98%
Data Dictionary

Every field we extract from animed.co.uk

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

Complete list of extractable fields for Product Listings objects from animed.co.uk. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

skutitlebrandcategoryanimal_typeprescription_requiredactive_ingredientspricelist_pricecurrencyurl
product_listings
● 200 OK
"sku": "ANI-10492",
"title": "Bravecto Chewable Tablets for Dogs",
"brand": "Bravecto",
"category": "Flea & Tick",
"animal_type": "Dog",
"prescription_required": true,
"active_ingredients": "['Fluralaner']",
"price": 28.5
# skutitlebrandcategoryanimal_typeprescription_required
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Complete list of extractable fields for Pricing & Stock objects from animed.co.uk. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

skupricelist_pricediscount_pctstock_statusstock_quantitybulk_discount_tiersdelivery_costlast_checked
pricing_& stock
● 200 OK
"sku": "ANI-10492",
"price": 28.5,
"list_price": 35.0,
"discount_pct": 18.5,
"stock_status": "In Stock",
"stock_quantity": 142,
"delivery_cost": 3.99,
"last_checked": "2026-08-14T10:22:00Z"
# skupricelist_pricediscount_pctstock_statusstock_quantity
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Complete list of extractable fields for Veterinary Classifications objects from animed.co.uk. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

skulegal_categorypom_vnfa_vpsavm_gsldispensing_rulesdatasheet_urlmanufacturer
veterinary_classifications
● 200 OK
"sku": "ANI-10492",
"legal_category": "POM-V",
"pom_v": true,
"nfa_vps": false,
"avm_gsl": false,
"dispensing_rules": "Requires valid veterinary prescription prior to dispatch.",
"manufacturer": "MSD Animal Health"
# skulegal_categorypom_vnfa_vpsavm_gsldispensing_rules
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Complete list of extractable fields for Reviews objects from animed.co.uk. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

review_idskuratingauthordatetitlebodyverified_purchase
reviews
● 200 OK
"review_id": "REV-993821",
"sku": "ANI-10492",
"rating": 5.0,
"author": "Sarah Jenkins",
"date": "2026-07-21",
"title": "Highly effective",
"verified_purchase": true,
"body": "Cleared up the flea issue within 24 hours. Very satisfied."
# review_idskuratingauthordatetitle
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Complete list of extractable fields for Search Results objects from animed.co.uk. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

keywordrankskutitlepricein_stocksponsoredscraped_at
search_results
● 200 OK
"keyword": "joint supplement dog",
"rank": 3,
"sku": "ANI-88321",
"title": "Yumove Adult Dog Joint Supplement",
"price": 32.99,
"in_stock": true,
"sponsored": false,
"scraped_at": "2026-08-14T10:25:11Z"
# keywordrankskutitlepricein_stock
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Capabilities

Veterinary data extraction - precision engineered

Our Animed scraper handles the specific complexities of veterinary eCommerce: prescription classifications, active ingredient matrices, dynamic pricing, and stock availability tracking.

Prescription Classification

Extract legal categories including POM-V, NFA-VPS, and AVM-GSL accurately for compliance and competitor tracking.

Active Ingredient Parsing

Isolate active pharmacological ingredients from product descriptions to map generics against branded medications.

Dynamic Price Tracking

Capture base price, RRP, percentage discounts, and multi-buy tier pricing timestamped per crawl.

Stock Depth Monitoring

Track in-stock status and exact inventory counts where exposed, providing supply chain visibility.

Species & Breed Filtering

Map products to target animal types, weight classes, and specific breed requirements as defined in the catalogue.

Nutritional Analysis Extraction

Parse structured analytical constituents from pet food listings including protein, fat, fibre, and ash percentages.

Review Aggregation

Scrape customer feedback, star ratings, and verified purchase flags across the entire product catalogue.

Search Rank Intelligence

Monitor organic positioning for high-value symptoms and product keywords across the Animed search engine.

Change Detection

Run continuous pipelines with hash-based diffing. Only receive records when price, stock, or classification changes.

// engagement pipeline

From veterinary catalogue to data warehouse

Brief in. Clean data out.

Define Scope
d 0

Provide categories, brands, or target SKUs. We map the required fields and extraction logic.

Pipeline Build
d 2–4

We configure Scrapy crawlers, implement proxy rotation, and handle Animed's specific DOM structure.

Validation & QA
d 4–6

Schema validation, null-rate checks, and price-outlier detection before full production launch.

Delivery
ongoing

JSON, CSV, or Parquet pushed to your S3 bucket or warehouse on your defined cadence.

Under the hood

Handling veterinary eCommerce infrastructure

Extracting structured data from Animed requires handling dynamic stock widgets and complex product variations. Here is our approach.

pipeline-monitor · animed.co.uk · 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
DOM Parsing
Resilient selectors for complex variants

Veterinary products often have multiple variations based on animal weight or pack size. We use targeted XPath and CSS selectors to extract variant-specific pricing and SKUs without mixing parent-child data.

Legal Categories
Strict POM-V extraction

Prescription status dictates market dynamics. Our parsers specifically target the legal category badges and dispensing rules to ensure every SKU is accurately flagged as POM-V, NFA-VPS, or AVM-GSL.

Anti-bot Layer
UK Residential Proxies

To prevent IP bans and rate limiting during full-catalogue sweeps, we route requests through UK-based residential proxies, mimicking legitimate user traffic patterns and maintaining session integrity.

Dynamic Content
Playwright for stock hydration

Stock levels and dynamic pricing tiers are often injected via client-side JavaScript. We utilize Playwright to render the DOM fully, capturing data that standard HTTP requests miss.

Data Normalisation
Standardised active ingredients

Ingredient strings vary wildly. Our pipeline cleans and normalises active ingredient lists, allowing you to map Animed's catalogue against standard pharmacological databases.

Applications

Who uses Animed data

Teams across industries use animed.co.uk data to build competitive products and smarter operations.

01
Price Intelligence

Veterinary pharmacies and pet retailers monitor Animed's pricing to adjust their own margins and remain competitive.

02
Brand MAP Monitoring

Pharmaceutical manufacturers track retail prices to ensure compliance with Minimum Advertised Price policies.

03
Market Research

Analysts track product availability, review velocity, and category expansion to measure market trends in pet health.

04
Supply Chain Analytics

Distributors monitor out-of-stock indicators to forecast demand and optimise inventory distribution.

05
Competitor Benchmarking

Rival online dispensaries analyse Animed's product range, bundle offers, and delivery thresholds to refine their own offerings.

06
Generic Substitution Models

Data teams use active ingredient mappings to identify market opportunities for generic veterinary medications.

Why DataFlirt

"Animed holds the critical pricing baseline for the UK veterinary market, but extracting POM-V classifications and dynamic stock requires dedicated infrastructure."

Most teams underestimate the complexity of veterinary eCommerce scraping. Capturing accurate legal classifications, dynamic pricing tiers, and active ingredient matrices requires resilient selectors and proxy rotation. DataFlirt absorbs this complexity so your engineers can focus on analysis.

Technical Spec

Animed scraper - technical specifications

Everything supported by our animed.co.uk scraper — rendered SPA elements, auth walls, rate-limit evasion and beyond.

JavaScript rendering
Playwright integration for dynamic stock and price hydration
Supported
UK Proxy rotation
Localised residential IPs to bypass regional blocks and rate limits
Supported
POM-V flag extraction
Accurate parsing of prescription requirements per SKU
Supported
Variant mapping
Parent-child relationship tracking for pack sizes and weight bands
Supported
Nutritional parsing
Extraction of analytical constituents for pet food listings
Supported
Change detection
Hash-based diffing to emit only updated records
Supported
User prescription history
Extraction of past prescription uploads and veterinary approvals
Partial
Gated vet consultation data
Access to private messages or consultation notes behind login
Partial
Infrastructure

Infrastructure powering the Animed pipeline

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

ScrapyPlaywrightPython 3.12RedisPostgreSQLApache AirflowAWS LambdaS3CloudWatch2CaptchaCapSolverResidential ProxiesDockerKubernetesGrafanaPrometheus
Scrapy + Playwright Stack

Scrapy handles crawl orchestration and deduplication. Playwright handles JavaScript rendering for dynamic stock widgets and interaction flows.

Residential Proxy Infrastructure

We maintain pools of UK residential ISP proxies. Rotation happens per-request to prevent rate limiting from Animed's anti-bot systems.

Cloud-Native Orchestration

Pipelines run on AWS Lambda and ECS. Airflow handles scheduling, dependency management, and SLA alerting. State is stored in 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
Spreadsheet format for immediate 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 for on-demand record retrieval
PostgreSQL
Upsert into your existing schema with conflict resolution
S3
Direct bucket delivery — compatible with any data lake
// faq

Common questions.

About animed.co.uk scraping, legality, and pipeline operations.

Ask us directly →
Is scraping Animed legal?

Scraping publicly available pricing, stock, and product information is generally permissible. DataFlirt targets only public, non-authenticated catalogue data. We do not extract personal user data or circumvent authentication walls to access private prescription records. Clients should consult legal counsel for their specific use cases.

How do you handle Animed's site structure changes?

Our selector strategy uses multiple fallback chains per field. We monitor for schema drift and null-rate spikes in real time. If Animed updates its DOM, our engineers adjust the parsers before it impacts your downstream systems.

Can you extract POM-V and NFA-VPS classifications accurately?

Yes. We specifically target the legal category badges and dispensing rule text on the product pages to ensure every SKU is accurately flagged according to UK veterinary medicine regulations.

How fresh is the pricing and stock data?

Pipelines can be configured for daily full-catalogue sweeps or intra-day checks on high-priority SKUs. Stock and price changes are captured and delivered within minutes of the crawl completing.

Do you support historical price tracking?

Yes. Every pipeline run produces timestamped snapshots. You can build a time-series database of Animed's pricing and stock depth from the date your pipeline is commissioned.

What is the minimum viable engagement?

Our smallest packages start at a defined SKU list (typically 1,000-5,000 items) with weekly delivery. For full catalogue extraction, we price based on volume and delivery frequency.

$ dataflirt scope --new-project --source=animed.co.uk 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 price monitoring across thousands of veterinary SKUs - we scope, build, and operate the pipeline. Tell us what you need.

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