SYSTEM all green source gocompare.com queue 12,482 profiles p99 latency 1,842ms dataflirt.com · scraper/gocompare-com
RUN : 42 active pipelines : gocompare.com live

Insurance market data,
at warehouse scale.

We extract premium quotes, Defaqto ratings, policy limits, and provider tiering from Gocompare. Delivered as clean JSON, CSV, or Parquet to S3, BigQuery, or Snowflake on your cadence.

Quotes extracted
1.2M /day
Profile permutations
45,190 /24h
Policy variants
312K /run
Active pipelines
42
Uptime
99.94%
Data Dictionary

Every field we extract from gocompare.com

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

Complete list of extractable fields for Car Insurance Quotes objects from gocompare.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

quote_idprovider_namepremium_annualpremium_monthlyaprvoluntary_excesscompulsory_excesstotal_excessdefaqto_ratingcourtesy_carwindscreen_coverbreakdown_coverlegal_coverprofile_hash
car_insurance quotes
● 200 OK
"provider_name": "Admiral",
"premium_annual": 452.5,
"total_excess": 250,
"defaqto_rating": 5,
"courtesy_car": true,
"windscreen_cover": true,
"profile_hash": "a8f9c2e4"
# quote_idprovider_namepremium_annualpremium_monthlyaprvoluntary_excess
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Complete list of extractable fields for Home Insurance Quotes objects from gocompare.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

quote_idprovider_namepremium_annualbuildings_cover_limitcontents_cover_limitaccidental_damagehome_emergencylegal_expensestotal_excesstrace_and_accessdefaqto_rating
home_insurance quotes
● 200 OK
"provider_name": "Churchill",
"premium_annual": 184.2,
"buildings_cover_limit": 1000000,
"contents_cover_limit": 50000,
"total_excess": 200,
"defaqto_rating": 5
# quote_idprovider_namepremium_annualbuildings_cover_limitcontents_cover_limitaccidental_damage
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Complete list of extractable fields for Pet Insurance Quotes objects from gocompare.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

quote_idprovider_namepremium_annualpremium_monthlycover_typevet_fee_limitexcess_amountco_payment_pctdeath_from_illnessthird_party_liabilitydefaqto_rating
pet_insurance quotes
● 200 OK
"provider_name": "Petplan",
"cover_type": "Lifetime",
"premium_monthly": 32.4,
"vet_fee_limit": 4000,
"excess_amount": 95,
"defaqto_rating": 5
# quote_idprovider_namepremium_annualpremium_monthlycover_typevet_fee_limit
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Complete list of extractable fields for Provider Details objects from gocompare.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

provider_idbrand_nameunderwriter_namefca_numbercontact_phoneclaims_phonewebsite_urlcustomer_ratingreview_countdefaqto_rating
provider_details
● 200 OK
"brand_name": "Hastings Direct",
"underwriter_name": "Advantage Insurance Company Ltd",
"fca_number": "311492",
"defaqto_rating": 5,
"customer_rating": 4.2,
"review_count": 1420
# provider_idbrand_nameunderwriter_namefca_numbercontact_phoneclaims_phone
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Complete list of extractable fields for Risk Profile Mapping objects from gocompare.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

profile_hashageoccupationmarital_statusvehicle_regvehicle_makevehicle_modelannual_mileageparking_locationno_claims_yearspostcode_sector
risk_profile mapping
● 200 OK
"profile_hash": "a8f9c2e4",
"age": 34,
"vehicle_make": "Ford",
"vehicle_model": "Fiesta",
"annual_mileage": 8000,
"no_claims_years": 5,
"postcode_sector": "M1 1"
# profile_hashageoccupationmarital_statusvehicle_regvehicle_make
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Capabilities

Everything you need from Gocompare, nothing you do not

Our Gocompare scraper handles the entire quote journey: form submission, session management, dynamic pricing capture, and policy feature extraction.

Multi-Product Extraction

Extract premium data across car, home, pet, travel, van, and bike insurance categories using unified schemas.

Risk Profile Automation

Feed us CSVs of demographic and vehicle permutations. We iterate through them to generate comprehensive market pricing.

Add-on Pricing Capture

Capture the granular costs for legal cover, breakdown assistance, key cover, and protected no claims discounts.

Excess Tier Mapping

Separate voluntary and compulsory excess amounts to calculate the true total excess required per policy.

Defaqto Rating Extraction

Capture the official 1 to 5 star Defaqto ratings assigned to each policy to benchmark product quality.

Dynamic Form Submission

Playwright scripts handle complex multi-step React forms, preserving state and bypassing validation errors.

Historical Premium Tracking

Maintain time-series datasets to track premium inflation and pricing changes per provider over time.

Competitor Benchmarking

Analyse rank position per provider across thousands of profiles to determine market competitiveness.

Geographic Pricing Analysis

Map premiums across UK postcode sectors to identify regional risk pricing models.

Scheduled Pipeline Runs

Configure daily or weekly market snapshots to feed your internal actuarial models.

// engagement pipeline

From profile list to warehouse record

Brief in. Clean data out.

Define Scope
d 0

Provide risk profiles, postcodes, and vehicle types. We design the extraction schema together.

Pipeline Build
d 2–4

We configure Playwright form submissions, UK proxy rotation, and session management for gocompare.com.

Validation & QA
d 4–6

Null-rate checks, premium outlier detection, and schema validation before full launch.

Delivery
ongoing

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

Under the hood

Navigating Gocompare's quote engine infrastructure

Insurance aggregators use complex multi-page forms, session tokens, and strict rate limits. Here is how we maintain pipeline stability.

pipeline-monitor · gocompare.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
Multi-step form execution
Handling dynamic React forms with state preservation

Gocompare requires completing extensive forms to generate quotes. We run full Playwright browser sessions to navigate these steps, handle conditional fields, and submit payloads accurately.

UK Residential Proxies
Bypassing aggregator bot protection

Aggregators aggressively block datacentre IPs. We route all traffic through clean UK ISP residential proxies, ensuring requests appear as legitimate local consumer traffic.

Session token management
Preserving state across the quote journey

The platform relies on anti-CSRF tokens and session cookies. Our middleware extracts and passes these tokens seamlessly between form steps to prevent session invalidation.

Profile permutation engine
Automating demographic variations

We iterate through provided matrices of age, vehicle type, and postcode data, systematically submitting unique profiles to map comprehensive market pricing.

Rate limit circumvention
Distributed execution

To avoid triggering velocity blocks, we randomise request timing and distribute form submissions across hundreds of concurrent IP addresses.

Applications

Who uses Gocompare data and how

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

01
Competitor Price Benchmarking

Underwriters monitor market position and rank across specific demographic profiles to adjust pricing models.

02
Pricing Strategy Optimisation

Actuaries analyse premium elasticity and competitor responses to changing risk factors.

03
Geographic Risk Mapping

Track postcode level premium variations to understand how competitors view regional risk.

04
Product Feature Gap Analysis

Compare Defaqto limits and add-on inclusions to ensure product competitiveness.

05
Inflation Tracking

Monitor macro trends in insurance costs across the entire market on a weekly basis.

06
Market Share Estimation

Proxy quote volumes and rank positions to estimate competitor market share growth.

Why DataFlirt

"Insurance pricing is highly dynamic and hyper-localised. Extracting it requires executing thousands of specific user journeys, not just crawling static pages."

Most teams fail at scraping aggregators because they underestimate the complexity of multi-step form state and session validation. DataFlirt handles the Playwright orchestration, UK proxy rotation, and form automation so your actuaries get clean premium tables without managing infrastructure.

Technical Spec

Gocompare scraper technical capabilities

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

Multi-step form automation
Playwright orchestration for complete quote generation journeys
Supported
UK Residential IPs
Required for bypassing Cloudflare and PerimeterX blocks
Supported
Profile permutation
Iterating through CSVs of risk profiles to map the market
Supported
Add-on pricing extraction
Capturing breakdown, legal, and courtesy car costs
Supported
Defaqto rating capture
Extracting 1 to 5 star ratings per policy
Supported
Historical premium diffs
Tracking price changes per profile over time
Supported
Webhook delivery
HTTP POST for real-time pricing alerts
Supported
Purchased policy documents
Requires actual payment and user authentication
Partial
User account history
Previous quotes saved under a specific user login
Partial
Infrastructure

Infrastructure powering the Gocompare pipeline

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

ScrapyPlaywrightPython 3.12RedisPostgreSQLApache AirflowAWS LambdaS3CloudWatch2CaptchaCapSolverResidential ProxiesDockerKubernetesGrafanaPrometheus
Playwright Form Automation

We utilise full browser automation to handle React state, conditional form fields, and session tokens required to reach the quote results page.

UK Residential Proxy Pools

Aggregators instantly block datacentre traffic. We route all requests through verified UK ISP residential proxies to maintain high success rates.

Cloud-Native Orchestration

Pipelines run on AWS Lambda and ECS. Airflow handles scheduling, dependency management, and SLA alerting to ensure data arrives on time.

Output & Delivery

Your data, your destination

Data delivered to where your team already works — no new tooling required.

JSON
Newline-delimited or nested structure
CSV
Flat file with typed columns
XLS
Excel compatible format for analysts
Parquet
Columnar format for BigQuery and Snowflake
AWS S3
Direct bucket delivery
Webhook
HTTP POST per record
API
REST endpoints for data retrieval
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 gocompare.com scraping, legality, and pipeline operations.

Ask us directly →
Is scraping Gocompare legal?

Scraping publicly available quote data is generally permissible under UK law provided it does not extract personal data or breach terms of service in a damaging way. DataFlirt targets only market pricing data using synthetic profiles. Clients should consult legal counsel for specific use cases.

How do you handle the multi-page quote forms?

We use Playwright to automate the browser, executing the exact steps a human would take. This ensures all required session tokens and conditional fields are handled correctly before reaching the results page.

Can you run specific risk profiles?

Yes. Clients provide us with CSV files containing the demographic and vehicle permutations they want to test. Our system iterates through these profiles automatically.

How do you avoid IP bans?

We route all traffic through UK residential ISP proxies and implement strict rate limiting per IP to mimic natural human behaviour and avoid triggering Cloudflare blocks.

Which insurance products can you scrape?

We support car, home, pet, travel, van, and bike insurance. Each product has a tailored extraction schema to capture relevant features and limits.

How fresh is the data?

Quotes are generated in real-time during the pipeline run, ensuring the premiums reflect the exact market state at that moment.

Do you extract add-on costs?

Yes. We extract the base premium as well as the granular costs for breakdown cover, legal assistance, key cover, and protected no claims discounts.

$ dataflirt scope --new-project --source=gocompare.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 daily competitor benchmarking or a one-off geographic pricing analysis, we scope, build, and operate the pipeline. Tell us your requirements.

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