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RUN | 41 active pipelines | beautybay.com live

Beauty Bay data,
at warehouse scale.

We extract cosmetics listings, shade matrices, ingredient profiles, pricing signals, and customer reviews from Beauty Bay. Delivered as clean JSON, CSV, or Parquet to S3, BigQuery, or Snowflake on your cadence.

Products extracted
48K /day
Shade variations
142K /run
Review records
1.2M /month
Active pipelines
41
Uptime
99.98%
Data Dictionary

Every field we extract from beautybay.com

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 beautybay.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

skubrandtitlecategorysub_categorypricecurrencystock_statusvegan_flagcruelty_free_flagdescriptiondirectionsingredients_rawimage_urlspage_url
product_listings
● 200 OK
"sku": "BYBA0012",
"brand": "By BEAUTY BAY",
"title": "Bright 42 Colour Palette",
"price": 25.0,
"currency": "GBP",
"stock_status": "in_stock",
"vegan_flag": true,
"cruelty_free_flag": true
# skubrandtitlecategorysub_categoryprice
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Complete list of extractable fields for Shade & Colour Matrices objects from beautybay.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

variant_skuparent_skushade_namehex_codecolour_familypricestock_statusswatch_image_urlproduct_image_url
shade_& colour matrices
● 200 OK
"variant_sku": "FLOR0034-SH02",
"parent_sku": "FLOR0034",
"shade_name": "Warm Peach",
"hex_code": "#F4C2A6",
"price": 12.5,
"stock_status": "out_of_stock",
"colour_family": "Peach",
"swatch_image_url": "https://beautybay.com/images/swatch/FLOR0034-SH02.jpg"
# variant_skuparent_skushade_namehex_codecolour_familyprice
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Complete list of extractable fields for Pricing & Promos objects from beautybay.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

skubase_pricesale_pricediscount_pcttribe_pricecurrencypromo_tagsis_clearancescrape_timestamp
pricing_& promos
● 200 OK
"sku": "BYBA0012",
"base_price": 25.0,
"sale_price": 17.5,
"discount_pct": 30,
"tribe_price": 15.0,
"currency": "GBP",
"promo_tags": "['Black Friday', 'Haul']",
"scrape_timestamp": "2026-11-24T10:05:00Z"
# skubase_pricesale_pricediscount_pcttribe_pricecurrency
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Complete list of extractable fields for Reviews & Ratings objects from beautybay.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

review_idskuratingauthorreview_datereview_titlereview_bodyhelpful_votesverified_buyershade_purchased
reviews_& ratings
● 200 OK
"review_id": "REV-992817",
"sku": "BYBA0012",
"rating": 5,
"author": "Sarah J.",
"review_date": "2026-10-12",
"review_title": "Incredible pigment",
"verified_buyer": true,
"shade_purchased": "N/A"
# review_idskuratingauthorreview_datereview_title
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Complete list of extractable fields for Brand & Category Data objects from beautybay.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

brand_namebrand_urlcategory_pathproduct_countbanner_image_urlbrand_descriptionis_trendingactive_promotions
brand_& category data
● 200 OK
"brand_name": "The Ordinary",
"brand_url": "https://www.beautybay.com/l/theordinary/",
"category_path": "Skincare > Serums",
"product_count": 45,
"is_trending": true,
"active_promotions": "['3 for 2 on Skincare']",
"brand_description": "Clinical formulations with integrity."
# brand_namebrand_urlcategory_pathproduct_countbanner_image_urlbrand_description
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Capabilities

Everything you need from Beauty Bay

Our Beauty Bay scraper handles the complexities of cosmetic retail data: dynamic shade selectors, messy ingredient lists, promotional pricing, and deeply paginated brand catalogues.

Full Product Data Extraction

Title, brand, description, usage directions, and every metadata field Beauty Bay surfaces, scraped at the SKU level.

Shade & Swatch Mapping

Handle complex UI matrices for foundations and concealers. We map parent SKUs to child variants, capturing hex codes, shade names, and specific swatch images.

Ingredient List Parsing

Extract raw ingredient text for chemical analysis, formulation comparisons, and allergen detection.

Real-Time Price Tracking

Capture base price, sale price, discount percentages, and Tribe loyalty pricing flags, timestamped per crawl.

Review & Rating Mining

Full review text, star ratings, helpful vote counts, and verified buyer flags, paginated across all review pages.

Stock & Inventory Signals

Detect out-of-stock statuses at the individual shade and variant level to monitor demand and supply chain gaps.

Tag & Badge Extraction

Capture product tags including Vegan, Cruelty-Free, Trending, Exclusive, and New In.

Brand Catalogue Scraping

Navigate the complete A-Z brand list to extract entire brand portfolios and monitor new product launches.

Scheduled Pipeline Modes

Run one-off bulk exports or configure continuous pipelines at daily cadences with change-detection diffing.

// engagement pipeline

From brand list to warehouse record

Brief in. Clean data out.

Define Scope
d 0

Provide brand URLs, category paths, or specific SKUs. We design the extraction schema together.

Pipeline Build
d 2–4

We configure Scrapy and Playwright crawlers, proxy rotation, and session management for beautybay.com.

Validation & QA
d 4–6

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

Delivery
ongoing

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

Under the hood

How our Beauty Bay pipeline handles the hard parts

Cosmetics retail sites rely on heavy JavaScript for variant selection and bot mitigation. Here is how we stay resilient.

pipeline-monitor · beautybay.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
JavaScript rendering
Full Playwright execution for SPA content

Beauty Bay product pages use dynamic JavaScript for shade selection and price updates. We run full Playwright browser sessions to trigger these DOM changes and capture data that headless HTTP clients miss entirely.

Anti-bot layer
Residential proxy rotation

We use UK and US residential ISP proxies with realistic browser fingerprints and full cookie session management to bypass rate limits and bot challenges.

Variant mapping
Complex parent-child SKU relationships

A single foundation can have 50+ shades. Our scrapers map these complex matrices, ensuring every child SKU is correctly associated with its parent product, price, and stock status.

Change detection
Only re-scrape what changes

For large brand catalogues, we maintain a hash index of last-seen values per field. Subsequent runs only push diffs, reducing downstream processing load.

Monitoring & alerting
24/7 pipeline health

Every run emits structured logs to our observability stack. We alert on null-rate spikes, missing ingredient lists, and schema drift.

Applications

Who uses Beauty Bay data and how

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

01
Competitor Price Monitoring

Retailers and brands monitor pricing, discount events, and clearance sales to optimise their own pricing strategies.

02
Ingredient & Formulation Analysis

R&D teams extract ingredient lists to track formulation trends, identify common active ingredients, and monitor allergen compliance.

03
Market Trend & Brand Demand

Analysts track new product launches, out-of-stock velocity, and review volume to identify trending indie beauty brands.

04
Assortment & Gap Analysis

Merchandising teams analyse category depth and shade ranges to identify whitespace in their own product offerings.

05
Sentiment Analysis

Brands mine review text and star ratings to understand customer feedback on specific formulations, packaging, or shade matches.

06
Grey Market & MAP Monitoring

Brands audit retail listings for Minimum Advertised Price violations and unauthorised discounting.

Why DataFlirt

"Beauty Bay aggregates the most volatile indie beauty brands and fast-moving trends. Extracting this catalogue requires mapping thousands of complex shade matrices and ingredient lists."

Cosmetics scraping is notoriously difficult due to complex parent-child SKU relationships, dynamic shade selectors, and highly unstructured ingredient text. DataFlirt handles the JavaScript rendering and normalisation so your data science teams receive clean, structured tables ready for immediate analysis.

Technical Spec

Beauty Bay scraper technical capabilities

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

JavaScript rendering
Full Playwright sessions required for dynamic shade selectors and stock updates
Supported
Residential proxy rotation
ISP-grade residential IPs rotated per request to prevent blocking
Supported
Shade variant mapping
Parent to child SKU relationships capturing hex codes and specific swatch images
Supported
Ingredient list extraction
Raw text extraction of the ingredients tab for chemical analysis
Supported
Review pagination
Full review corpus extraction across all paginated results
Supported
Change detection (diffs)
Hash-based diff to only emit records with changed fields since last run
Supported
Out-of-stock tracking
Availability status captured at the individual shade variant level
Supported
Webhook delivery
HTTP POST per record or batch for real-time pricing alerts
Supported
Tribe loyalty points balance
Gated data requires user authentication and account access
Partial
User order history
Private customer purchase data is strictly inaccessible
Partial
Infrastructure

Infrastructure powering the Beauty Bay 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, shade selection, and interaction flows.

Residential Proxy Infrastructure

We maintain pools of residential ISP proxies across UK and US regions. Rotation happens per-request with sticky sessions where required.

Cloud-Native Orchestration

Pipelines run on AWS Lambda and ECS. 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 arrays for complex variants
CSV
Flat file with typed columns for spreadsheet analysis
XLS
Excel format for direct business user consumption
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 historical scrape data
BigQuery
Streamed directly into your dataset
PostgreSQL
Upsert into your existing schema
Snowflake
Stage and COPY INTO workflow
S3
Direct bucket delivery — compatible with any data lake
// faq

Common questions.

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

Ask us directly →
Is scraping Beauty Bay legal?

Scraping publicly available information from retail sites is generally permissible. DataFlirt targets only public, non-authenticated product, pricing, and review data. We do not extract personal data or circumvent authentication walls.

How do you handle Beauty Bay's anti-bot protection?

We use residential ISP proxies, full Playwright browser sessions with realistic fingerprints, and request timing modelled on human behaviour. We monitor for rate spikes in real time.

Can you extract all shades for a foundation or palette?

Yes. Our scrapers map the complex parent-child SKU relationships, iterating through every available shade to capture specific hex codes, swatch images, and stock statuses.

Do you parse ingredient lists?

Yes. We extract the raw ingredient text block from the product details tab, providing it as a clean string for your formulation analysis.

How fresh is the pricing data?

Pipelines can be configured for daily or weekly refreshes depending on your requirements. Real-time streaming is available for specific monitored SKUs.

What is the minimum viable engagement?

Our smallest packages start at a defined brand list or category subset with weekly delivery. We price based on volume and delivery frequency.

Can I request a sample dataset?

Absolutely. We provide a sample run of up to 500 SKUs as part of the pre-engagement scoping process so you can validate schema fit and data quality.

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

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