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RUN · 14 active pipelines · bulbs.com live

Lighting data,
at warehouse scale.

We extract commercial lighting SKUs, technical specifications, volume pricing tiers, and inventory availability from Bulbs.com. Delivered as clean JSON, CSV, or Parquet to S3, BigQuery, or Snowflake on your cadence.

SKUs extracted
48,219 /run
Price updates
112K /24h
Specification rows
1.4M /run
Active pipelines
14
Uptime
99.98%
Data Dictionary

Every field we extract from bulbs.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 bulbs.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

skutitlebrandcategorysub_categorypricewattagelumensbase_typevoltagelife_hoursimage_urlproduct_url
product_listings
● 200 OK
"sku": "LED12A19-27K",
"title": "12W LED A19 2700K Dimmable",
"brand": "Philips",
"price": 4.95,
"wattage": 12.0,
"lumens": 1100,
"base_type": "Medium (E26)",
"voltage": 120
# skutitlebrandcategorysub_categoryprice
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Complete list of extractable fields for Pricing & Availability objects from bulbs.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

skubase_pricecase_pricecase_quantitytier_1_qtytier_1_pricetier_2_qtytier_2_pricein_stockstock_messagelead_time_days
pricing_& availability
● 200 OK
"sku": "LED12A19-27K",
"base_price": 4.95,
"case_price": 4.5,
"case_quantity": 24,
"tier_1_qty": 50,
"tier_1_price": 4.25,
"in_stock": true,
"stock_message": "In Stock - Ships Today"
# skubase_pricecase_pricecase_quantitytier_1_qtytier_1_price
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Complete list of extractable fields for Technical Specifications objects from bulbs.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

skucricolor_temp_kdimmableenergy_star_certifieddlc_qualifiedbulb_shapelength_inchesdiameter_incheswarranty_yearsspec_sheet_url
technical_specifications
● 200 OK
"sku": "LED12A19-27K",
"cri": 90,
"color_temp_k": 2700,
"dimmable": true,
"energy_star_certified": true,
"bulb_shape": "A19",
"warranty_years": 5,
"spec_sheet_url": "https://www.bulbs.com/spec/LED12A19.pdf"
# skucricolor_temp_kdimmableenergy_star_certifieddlc_qualified
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Complete list of extractable fields for Categories & Taxonomy objects from bulbs.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

category_idcategory_namecategory_urlparent_categorybreadcrumb_pathtotal_productstop_brandsfeatured_products
categories_& taxonomy
● 200 OK
"category_id": "cat_led_bulbs",
"category_name": "LED Bulbs",
"parent_category": "Light Bulbs",
"breadcrumb_path": "Home > Light Bulbs > LED Bulbs",
"total_products": 4582,
"top_brands": "['Philips', 'Sylvania', 'TCP', 'Satco']"
# category_idcategory_namecategory_urlparent_categorybreadcrumb_pathtotal_products
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Complete list of extractable fields for Reviews & Ratings objects from bulbs.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

review_idskuratingreviewer_namereview_datereview_titlereview_bodyverified_buyerhelpful_votes
reviews_& ratings
● 200 OK
"review_id": "REV-99281",
"sku": "LED12A19-27K",
"rating": 5,
"reviewer_name": "Facility Manager Dave",
"review_date": "2025-11-04",
"review_title": "Great retrofit option",
"verified_buyer": true,
"helpful_votes": 12
# review_idskuratingreviewer_namereview_datereview_title
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Capabilities

Everything you need from Bulbs.com

Our Bulbs.com scraper handles every layer of the platform: product listings, complex specification tables, dynamic volume pricing, and inventory status, with JavaScript rendering and anti-bot circumvention built in.

Full SKU Extraction

Title, brand, category, images, and every metadata field Bulbs.com surfaces, scraped at the individual product level.

Volume Pricing Tiers

Capture base price, case quantities, and dynamic multi-tier volume discounts timestamped per crawl.

Deep Technical Specs

Extract wattage, lumens, base types, CRI, colour temperature, and dimensions from unstructured HTML tables.

Inventory Tracking

Monitor stock availability, backorder status, and estimated lead times across the entire catalogue.

Ballast Cross-Reference

Extract compatibility tables and recommended replacement parts for legacy lighting systems.

PDF Spec Sheet Links

Capture direct URLs to manufacturer specification sheets and installation guides for offline processing.

Multi-Brand Catalogues

Filter and extract specific manufacturer lines like Philips, Sylvania, or TCP across all sub-categories.

Category Taxonomy

Map the entire site hierarchy, capturing breadcrumbs and category-level product counts.

Scheduled + Streaming Modes

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

// engagement pipeline

From category URL to warehouse record

Brief in. Clean data out.

Define Scope
d 0

Provide category URLs, brand names, or specific SKU lists. We design the extraction schema together.

Pipeline Build
d 2–4

We configure Scrapy and Playwright crawlers, proxy rotation, session management, and parsing logic for Bulbs.com.

Validation & QA
d 4–6

Schema validation, null-rate checks, price-outlier detection, and specification normalisation 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 Bulbs.com pipeline handles the hard parts

Commercial lighting catalogues present unique data extraction challenges. Here is how we maintain data integrity.

pipeline-monitor · bulbs.com · live ● active
// fingerprinting
Identity rotation
TLS fingerprintrandomised
User-agentrotated
IP poolresidential
Challenges blocked0
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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

B2B suppliers monitor automated traffic. Our crawlers use residential ISP proxies with realistic browser fingerprints, randomised request timing, and full cookie session management.

JavaScript rendering
Playwright for dynamic pricing

Volume pricing and inventory statuses on Bulbs.com often load asynchronously. We run full Playwright browser sessions to ensure all client-side data is fully hydrated before extraction.

Schema stability
Resilient selectors for spec tables

Technical specifications vary wildly between bulbs and fixtures. Our parsers use dynamic key-value extraction to normalise tables regardless of row order or missing fields.

Change detection
Only re-scrape what changed

For large 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
Pipeline health with anomaly detection

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

Applications

Who uses Bulbs.com data

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

01
Competitor Price Monitoring

Lighting distributors monitor retail and volume pricing tiers to adjust their own B2B pricing strategies.

02
Distributor Catalogue Enrichment

Wholesalers extract clean technical specifications to backfill missing data in their own PIM systems.

03
Procurement & BOM Costing

Construction firms and facility managers scrape pricing to estimate lighting costs for large-scale retrofits.

04
Energy Audit Estimations

Energy consultants extract wattage and lumen data to model ROI for LED upgrade projects.

05
Market Gap Analysis

Manufacturers track category saturation and competitor SKU counts to identify new product opportunities.

06
Supply Chain Forecasting

Analysts track backorder statuses and lead times to gauge macro supply chain health in the lighting sector.

Why DataFlirt

"Bulbs.com holds a highly comprehensive commercial lighting catalogue, but extracting uniform specifications across 50,000 SKUs requires purpose-built infrastructure."

Lighting distributors underestimate the complexity of scraping technical specifications. Wattage, lumens, and base types are often buried in unstructured tables or dynamic JavaScript modules. DataFlirt normalises this data into clean schemas, handling proxy rotation and DOM changes automatically so your engineers do not have to.

Technical Spec

Bulbs.com scraper technical capabilities

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

JavaScript rendering
Full Playwright sessions required for dynamic volume pricing and stock status
Supported
CAPTCHA bypass
Automated 2Captcha + CapSolver integration
Supported
Residential proxy rotation
ISP-grade residential IPs from US pools rotated per request
Supported
Volume pricing extraction
Captures all quantity-based discount tiers per SKU
Supported
PDF spec sheet URL extraction
Captures direct links to manufacturer cut sheets
Supported
Cross-reference mapping
Extracts recommended replacement parts for discontinued items
Supported
Change detection (diffs)
Hash-based diff to only emit records with changed fields since last run
Supported
B2B Trade Pricing
Gated data requires a logged-in commercial account
Partial
Saved Project Lists
User-specific saved carts and project BOMs require authentication
Partial
Infrastructure

Infrastructure powering the 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, deduplication, and retry logic. Playwright handles JavaScript rendering, cookie sessions, and interaction flows for dynamic pricing.

Residential Proxy Infrastructure

We maintain pools of residential ISP proxies. Rotation happens per-request with sticky sessions where required to avoid IP bans.

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 schema versioned per run
CSV
Flat file with typed columns for PIM imports
XLS
Excel compatible export for procurement teams
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 endpoint to query latest scraped state
BigQuery
Streamed directly into your dataset with schema auto-detect
PostgreSQL
Upsert into your existing schema with conflict resolution
Snowflake
Stage and COPY INTO workflow for incremental updates
S3
Direct bucket delivery — compatible with any data lake
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Common questions.

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

Ask us directly →
Is scraping Bulbs.com legal?

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

How do you handle dynamic volume pricing?

We use Playwright to execute JavaScript on product pages, ensuring that all client-side logic responsible for rendering multi-tier volume discounts is fully hydrated before we extract the data.

Can you extract technical specifications like CRI and lumens?

Yes. We parse the unstructured HTML specification tables on each product page and normalise the keys, ensuring that metrics like CRI, colour temperature, wattage, and base type map to a clean, predictable JSON schema.

How fresh is the inventory data?

Full catalogue refreshes at a daily cadence complete within a 4-8 hour window. For critical SKUs, we can configure higher-frequency polling to capture stock status changes more rapidly.

Do you download PDF spec sheets?

We extract the direct URLs to the PDF specification sheets and installation guides provided by the manufacturer. We deliver these URLs in the dataset so your systems can download the documents directly.

What is the minimum viable engagement?

Our smallest packages start at a defined category or brand list with weekly delivery. For full-catalogue daily refreshes, we price based on compute volume and delivery frequency. Contact us with your use case for a scoped quote.

$ dataflirt scope --new-project --source=bulbs.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 a continuous price-monitoring feed across 50,000 SKUs, we scope, build, and operate the pipeline. Tell us what you need.

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