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RUN . 41 active pipelines . dsw.com live

DSW footwear data,
at warehouse scale.

We extract shoe variants, size availability, clearance pricing, store level inventory, and brand metrics from DSW. Delivered as clean JSON, CSV, or Parquet to S3, BigQuery, or Snowflake on your cadence.

SKUs extracted
342K /day
Price updates
1.2M /24h
Inventory checks
89K /run
Active pipelines
41
Uptime
99.94%
Data Dictionary

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

urlstyle_idbrandproduct_namepricecoloursizeswidthsmaterialdescription
product_listings
● 200 OK
"style_id": "512394",
"brand": "Nike",
"product_name": "Court Vision Low Sneaker",
"price": 74.99,
"colour": "White/Black",
"material": "Leather",
"sizes": "['7', '7.5', '8', '8.5', '9']",
"widths": "['Medium', 'Wide']"
# urlstyle_idbrandproduct_namepricecolour
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Complete list of extractable fields for Pricing & Offers objects from dsw.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

style_idbase_priceclearance_pricediscount_pctvip_points_multiplierpromo_eligiblepromo_codeprice_timestamp
pricing_& offers
● 200 OK
"style_id": "512394",
"base_price": 74.99,
"clearance_price": 59.98,
"discount_pct": 20,
"vip_points_multiplier": 2,
"promo_eligible": true,
"promo_code": "DEAL20",
"price_timestamp": "2026-05-12T09:14:00Z"
# style_idbase_priceclearance_pricediscount_pctvip_points_multiplierpromo_eligible
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Complete list of extractable fields for Inventory & Availability objects from dsw.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

style_idcolour_idsizewidthonline_stock_statusstock_quantitybopis_eligiblestore_idstore_stock_status
inventory_& availability
● 200 OK
"style_id": "512394",
"colour_id": "102",
"size": "8.5",
"width": "Medium",
"online_stock_status": "In Stock",
"bopis_eligible": true,
"store_id": "0812",
"store_stock_status": "Limited Stock"
# style_idcolour_idsizewidthonline_stock_statusstock_quantity
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Complete list of extractable fields for Reviews & Ratings objects from dsw.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

review_idstyle_idreviewer_nameratingfit_ratingcomfort_ratingquality_ratingreview_textdate
reviews_& ratings
● 200 OK
"review_id": "REV9823471",
"style_id": "512394",
"rating": 4.5,
"fit_rating": "True to size",
"comfort_rating": 5,
"quality_rating": 4,
"review_text": "Very comfortable for daily wear.",
"date": "2026-04-18"
# review_idstyle_idreviewer_nameratingfit_ratingcomfort_rating
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Complete list of extractable fields for Category & Search objects from dsw.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

keywordcategory_pathpositionstyle_idproduct_namebrandpriceratingtotal_reviews
category_& search
● 200 OK
"keyword": "mens running shoes",
"category_path": "Mens > Shoes > Sneakers",
"position": 3,
"style_id": "512394",
"brand": "Nike",
"price": 74.99,
"rating": 4.5,
"total_reviews": 1248
# keywordcategory_pathpositionstyle_idproduct_namebrand
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Capabilities

Everything you need from DSW, nothing you don't

Our DSW scraper handles every layer of the platform: footwear listings, dynamic VIP pricing, store inventory tracking, and the review corpus. JavaScript rendering and anti-bot circumvention come built in.

Full Footwear Extraction

Title, description, material, heel height, and every metadata field DSW surfaces, scraped at the style level.

Size & Width Matrix

Extract complete availability matrices across all sizes and widths for every colour variant.

VIP & Clearance Pricing

Capture base price, clearance markdowns, promotional eligibility, and VIP point multipliers.

Store-Level Inventory

Track Buy Online Pick Up In Store (BOPIS) availability across specific zip codes and store IDs.

Review & Fit Metrics

Extract overall ratings alongside specific fit, comfort, and quality scores submitted by customers.

Brand & Category Mapping

Map products to their exact category hierarchy and brand taxonomy for accurate catalogue matching.

Promotional Eligibility

Identify which SKUs qualify for sitewide promo codes and which are excluded by brand restrictions.

High-Frequency Updates

Run continuous pipelines at hourly or daily cadences to track fast moving clearance inventory.

Automated Change Detection

Maintain a hash index of last seen values to only push diffs, reducing downstream processing load.

// engagement pipeline

From style ID to warehouse record

Brief in. Clean data out.

Define Scope
d 0

Provide style IDs, category URLs, keyword sets, or store zip codes. We design the extraction schema together.

Pipeline Build
d 2–4

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

Validation & QA
d 4–6

Schema validation, null rate checks, price outlier detection, and sample data review 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 DSW pipeline handles the hard parts

DSW uses dynamic rendering and geo-fencing for store inventory. Here is how we stay resilient.

pipeline-monitor · dsw.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

DSW product pages and inventory checkers are heavily JavaScript rendered. We run full Playwright browser sessions with lazy load triggering and dynamic widget hydration.

Anti-bot layer
Residential proxy rotation

We route requests through US based residential proxies to bypass data centre IP blocks and maintain high success rates during intensive crawls.

Variant mapping
Complex size and width matrices

Footwear requires multi dimensional variant tracking. Our schema flattens the complex relationship between colour, size, width, and availability into queryable rows.

Store geolocation
Zip code spoofing for BOPIS data

To extract store level inventory, we inject specific zip codes and store IDs into the session state, allowing us to map local availability across the country.

Change detection
Only re-scrape what has changed

For large catalogues, we maintain a hash index of last seen values per field. Subsequent runs only push diffs, providing a clean changelog rather than full re-dumps.

Applications

Who uses DSW data, and how

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

01
Price Intelligence

Retailers monitor DSW clearance markdowns and promotional pricing to adjust their own competitive positioning.

02
Competitor Assortment

Merchandising teams analyse DSW brand mix and category depth to identify gaps in their own footwear offerings.

03
Inventory Forecasting

Supply chain analysts track size specific stockouts across DSW to predict broader market demand for specific styles.

04
Brand MAP Monitoring

Footwear brands audit DSW pricing to ensure compliance with Minimum Advertised Price policies.

05
Trend Analysis

Fashion researchers correlate review volume and rating velocity with specific colours and materials to forecast trends.

06
Retail Aggregation

Shopping aggregators ingest DSW catalogue data to provide unified search and price comparison for consumers.

Why DataFlirt

"DSW holds one of the largest structured footwear catalogues online, but capturing accurate size level inventory requires a dedicated extraction pipeline."

Footwear scraping presents unique challenges: complex size and width matrices, dynamic VIP pricing, and store specific inventory levels. DataFlirt manages the JavaScript rendering and proxy rotation required to extract this data reliably, letting your team focus on merchandising analysis.

Technical Spec

DSW scraper: technical capabilities

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

JavaScript rendering
Full Playwright sessions required for inventory widgets and dynamic content
Supported
CAPTCHA bypass
Automated CapSolver integration with fallback to manual queue
Supported
Residential proxy rotation
ISP grade residential IPs from US pools rotated per request
Supported
Size and Width variant mapping
Complex matrix mapping for all available shoe sizes and widths
Supported
Store inventory (BOPIS)
Local availability checks via zip code and store ID injection
Supported
Clearance tracking
Capture of original price versus marked down clearance price
Supported
Review pagination
Extraction of full review text and detailed fit ratings
Supported
VIP account purchase history
Gated data tied to individual user accounts is strictly prohibited
Partial
User cart checkout flows
Transactional flows and personal payment data are not extracted
Partial
Infrastructure

Infrastructure powering the DSW 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.

Residential Proxy Infrastructure

We maintain pools of residential ISP proxies across 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 schema versioned per run
CSV
Flat file with typed columns for Excel compatibility
XLS
Standard spreadsheet format for quick business review
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 data retrieval
BigQuery
Streamed directly into your dataset with schema auto detect
S3
Direct bucket delivery — compatible with any data lake
// faq

Common questions.

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

Ask us directly →
Is scraping DSW legal?

Scraping publicly available pricing and inventory information from DSW is generally permissible under applicable law. DataFlirt targets only public, non authenticated product data. We do not extract personal data or circumvent authentication walls.

How do you handle DSW anti-bot systems?

We use US 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 store-specific BOPIS inventory?

Yes. We can configure the pipeline to query specific zip codes or store IDs, allowing you to track local inventory levels for Buy Online Pick Up In Store availability.

How fresh is the clearance pricing data?

Pipelines can be configured to run at hourly or daily cadences. High frequency tracking ensures you capture clearance markdowns and promotional changes as they happen.

Do you extract VIP pricing data?

We extract the publicly advertised VIP tier pricing and points multipliers shown on product pages. We do not log into specific VIP accounts to extract personalised offers.

Can I request a sample dataset?

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

$ dataflirt scope --new-project --source=dsw.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 footwear catalogue dump or a continuous inventory feed across thousands of SKUs, we scope, build, and operate the pipeline. Tell us what you need.

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