We extract server specifications, PC component listings, pricing signals, stock availability, and review metrics from Ebuyer. Delivered as clean JSON, CSV, or Parquet to S3, BigQuery, or Snowflake.
Structured, schema-consistent data across all major object types — delivered clean, typed, and ready to query.
Complete list of extractable fields for IT Components objects from ebuyer.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.
"qf_code": "1140231", "mpn": "BX8071513900K", "title": "Intel Core i9 13900K 24 Core Processor", "brand": "Intel", "price_inc_vat": 549.98, "stock_status": "In Stock", "rating": 4.8
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Complete list of extractable fields for Pricing & Stock objects from ebuyer.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.
"qf_code": "1140231", "price_inc_vat": 549.98, "price_ex_vat": 458.32, "discount_pct": 12, "stock_status": "In Stock", "next_day_delivery_cutoff": "2023-11-01T20:00:00Z"
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Complete list of extractable fields for Specifications objects from ebuyer.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.
"qf_code": "1140231", "socket_type": "LGA 1700", "core_count": 24, "thread_count": 32, "base_clock": "3.0GHz", "tdp": "125W"
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Complete list of extractable fields for Reviews objects from ebuyer.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.
"review_id": "REV-99231", "qf_code": "1140231", "rating": 5, "title": "Absolute beast of a CPU", "verified_buyer": true, "helpful_votes": 14
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Complete list of extractable fields for Search Results objects from ebuyer.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.
"keyword": "rtx 4090", "position": 1, "qf_code": "1284912", "sponsored": false, "price_inc_vat": 1699.99, "scraped_at": "2023-10-25T14:30:00Z"
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Our Ebuyer scraper handles the complexities of hardware retail: deep specification tables, inc-VAT and ex-VAT pricing, stock availability timers, and category taxonomies.
Capture MPNs, Ebuyer QF codes, titles, and deep technical specifications across all IT categories.
Extract both ex-VAT and inc-VAT pricing, tracking daily fluctuations and clearance discounts.
Monitor inventory availability, out-of-stock flags, and next-day delivery cutoff times.
Parse complex HTML tables for CPU sockets, RAM timings, server chassis dimensions, and port configurations.
Extract verified buyer reviews, star ratings, and helpful vote counts to gauge hardware reliability.
Monitor the Ebuyer clearance section for refurbished hardware and ex-display bargains.
Track organic ranking for specific hardware queries and monitor competitor visibility.
Compare standard retail pricing against public business-tier discounts where visible.
Run daily pipelines that only output changed prices or stock statuses, saving compute and storage.
Brief in. Clean data out.
Provide QF codes, category URLs, or keyword sets. We design the extraction schema together.
We configure Scrapy / Playwright crawlers, proxy rotation, and session management for ebuyer.com.
Schema validation, null-rate checks, price-outlier detection, and sample data review before full launch.
JSON / CSV / Parquet pushed to your S3 bucket, BigQuery dataset, or Snowflake stage on agreed cadence.
Hardware retail sites present unique scraping challenges. Here is how we maintain data integrity across thousands of complex component listings.
Ebuyer categorises hardware down to specific socket types and form factors. We traverse these complex taxonomy trees without missing nested sub-categories.
Hardware specs are presented in inconsistent HTML tables. Our pipeline parses and normalises these into strict JSON key-value pairs.
Stock levels and delivery countdowns rely on client-side scripts. We use Playwright to execute these scripts and capture the true inventory state.
Ebuyer uses standard bot protection heuristics. We deploy residential IP rotation and TLS fingerprint spoofing to maintain uninterrupted access.
We index products by Ebuyer's internal QF codes alongside manufacturer part numbers (MPNs) to ensure exact matching with your internal hardware databases.
IT retailers track Ebuyer's pricing on CPUs, GPUs, and servers to adjust their own margins dynamically.
Enterprise IT buyers monitor server and networking component availability to time bulk purchases.
Hardware manufacturers track category visibility, review volumes, and stock availability for their own SKUs versus competitors.
System integrators monitor the clearance and ex-display sections for discounted components to build high-margin rigs.
Analysts correlate review velocity and out-of-stock frequency to estimate sales volume for specific hardware lines.
New IT vendors scrape technical specifications to populate their own eCommerce databases with accurate MPNs and hardware details.
"Ebuyer holds one of the most comprehensive IT hardware catalogues in the UK. Accessing that specification and pricing data programmatically is critical for competitive intelligence."
Building a reliable scraper for hardware retailers requires parsing deeply nested specification tables, managing residential proxy rotation to avoid blocks, and tracking both inc-VAT and ex-VAT pricing. DataFlirt manages this infrastructure entirely, delivering structured component data directly to your warehouse.
Everything supported by our ebuyer.com scraper — rendered SPA elements, auth walls, rate-limit evasion and beyond.
Open-source tooling on proven cloud infra — no vendor lock-in, full observability.
Scrapy handles crawl orchestration, deduplication, and retry logic. Playwright handles JavaScript rendering, cookie sessions, and interaction flows. Combined via scrapy-playwright middleware.
We maintain pools of residential ISP proxies across UK regions. Rotation happens per-request with sticky sessions where required. IP score monitoring prevents blacklisted pool contamination.
Pipelines run on AWS Lambda (burst) and ECS (sustained). Airflow handles scheduling, dependency management, and SLA alerting. All state stored in managed Postgres.
Data delivered to where your team already works — no new tooling required.
About ebuyer.com scraping, legality, and pipeline operations.
Ask us directly →Scraping public product listings, specifications, and pricing from Ebuyer is generally permissible. We do not scrape behind authentication walls or extract personal user data.
Yes. Our pipeline captures both pricing structures, along with RRP and current discount percentages.
Hardware specifications vary wildly between CPUs and monitors. We parse the raw HTML tables and normalise the outputs into structured JSON key-value pairs.
Yes. Every record is indexed by Ebuyer's proprietary QF code as well as the universal Manufacturer Part Number (MPN).
Yes. We can configure specific pipelines to monitor ex-display, open-box, and refurbished items for rapid price drops.
We can run inventory checks at hourly cadences for specific high-value SKUs, ensuring you have accurate out-of-stock and delivery cutoff signals.
20-minute scoping call. Pilot dataset within the week. Production within two. Whether you need a one-off component catalogue dump or a continuous price-monitoring feed across 50,000 SKUs — we scope, build, and operate the pipeline. Tell us what you need.
