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RUN | 14 active pipelines | herschel.com live

Herschel catalogue data,
at warehouse scale.

We extract product listings, pricing signals, colourway variants, dimensions, and collection mapping from Herschel. Delivered as clean JSON, CSV, or Parquet to S3, BigQuery, or Snowflake on your schedule.

SKUs extracted
4,218 /run
Price updates
12.4K /week
Image assets
18.9K /run
Active pipelines
14
Uptime
99.98%
Data Dictionary

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

skutitlecategorycollectionpricecurrencydescriptionurlprimary_imagein_stock
product_listings
● 200 OK
"sku": "10014-00001-OS",
"title": "Little America Backpack",
"category": "Backpacks",
"collection": "Little America",
"price": 109.0,
"currency": "USD",
"in_stock": true,
"url": "https://herschel.com/shop/backpacks/little-america-backpack"
# skutitlecategorycollectionpricecurrency
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Complete list of extractable fields for Variants & Colourways objects from herschel.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

parent_skuvariant_skucolour_namecolour_hexsizepricein_stockimage_urlsvariant_url
variants_& colourways
● 200 OK
"parent_sku": "10014",
"variant_sku": "10014-00007-OS",
"colour_name": "Navy",
"size": "OS",
"price": 109.0,
"in_stock": true,
"variant_url": "https://herschel.com/shop/backpacks/little-america-backpack?v=10014-00007-OS"
# parent_skuvariant_skucolour_namecolour_hexsizeprice
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Complete list of extractable fields for Pricing & Inventory objects from herschel.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

skuregionpricecompare_at_pricediscount_pctcurrencyin_stockstock_statusscraped_at
pricing_& inventory
● 200 OK
"sku": "10014-00001-OS",
"region": "US",
"price": 109.0,
"compare_at_price": 109.0,
"currency": "USD",
"in_stock": true,
"scraped_at": "2023-10-24T08:12:00Z"
# skuregionpricecompare_at_pricediscount_pctcurrency
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Complete list of extractable fields for Technical Specs objects from herschel.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

skuvolume_litresheight_cmwidth_cmdepth_cmmateriallaptop_sleeve_sizewater_resistantwarranty_typeweight_kg
technical_specs
● 200 OK
"sku": "10014-00001-OS",
"volume_litres": 25.0,
"height_cm": 48.9,
"width_cm": 28.6,
"depth_cm": 17.8,
"material": "EcoSystem 600D Fabric",
"laptop_sleeve_size": "15-inch",
"water_resistant": true
# skuvolume_litresheight_cmwidth_cmdepth_cmmaterial
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Complete list of extractable fields for Category Structure objects from herschel.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

breadcrumb_1breadcrumb_2breadcrumb_3collection_namecategory_urlproduct_countsort_orderscraped_at
category_structure
● 200 OK
"breadcrumb_1": "Home",
"breadcrumb_2": "Shop",
"collection_name": "Heritage",
"category_url": "https://herschel.com/shop/collections/heritage",
"product_count": 42,
"scraped_at": "2023-10-24T08:15:00Z"
# breadcrumb_1breadcrumb_2breadcrumb_3collection_namecategory_urlproduct_count
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Capabilities

Everything you need from Herschel

Our Herschel scraper handles dynamic inventory states, variant hydration, regional pricing, and anti-bot circumvention to deliver clean retail intelligence.

Full Product Metadata

Title, description, category, and collection mapping for every bag, luggage piece, and accessory.

Regional Price Tracking

Capture pricing across different geographical regions to monitor global parity and regional discounts.

Colourway Mapping

Extract every colour variant linked to a parent SKU, including limited edition patterns and collaborations.

Dimension & Volume Parsing

Structure physical specifications including height, width, depth, and volume in litres for accurate comparison.

Inventory Status

Monitor in-stock and out-of-stock indicators at the variant level across the entire catalogue.

High-Resolution Imagery

Extract URLs for all product images, lifestyle shots, and detail views for visual intelligence.

Collection Tracking

Map products to specific collections like Little America, Heritage, or Novel to analyse merchandising strategy.

Cross-Sell Extraction

Capture 'Frequently Bought Together' and recommended product algorithms directly from the product page.

Scheduled Pipeline Modes

Run daily or weekly extraction pipelines to track catalogue changes and stockout velocities.

// engagement pipeline

From target URL to warehouse record

Brief in. Clean data out.

Define Scope
d 0

Provide target categories, collections, or specific regions. We design the extraction schema together.

Pipeline Build
d 2–4

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

Validation & QA
d 4–6

Schema validation, null-rate checks, and variant mapping verification before full launch.

Delivery
ongoing

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

Under the hood

How our Herschel pipeline handles the hard parts

Modern headless commerce sites invest in bot mitigation. Here is how we maintain reliable access.

pipeline-monitor · herschel.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
Anti-bot layer
Residential proxy rotation and fingerprint spoofing

Commerce platforms utilise edge protection to block automated traffic. Our crawlers use residential ISP proxies with realistic browser fingerprints and full cookie session management to bypass these filters.

JavaScript rendering
Hydrating headless commerce variants

Herschel relies on frontend frameworks to load pricing and inventory state dynamically. We run full Playwright browser sessions to execute JavaScript and capture data that headless HTTP clients miss entirely.

Schema stability
Resilient selectors for dynamic themes

Frontend structures change during promotional events. Our selector strategy uses fallback chains including CSS, XPath, and JSON state extraction to ensure a layout change does not break your data pipeline.

Change detection
Only re-scrape what has changed

For daily catalogue tracking, 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 and coverage drops, responding before you notice.

Applications

Who uses Herschel data and how

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

01
Competitor Price Tracking

Retailers monitor Herschel pricing and discount strategies across different regions to inform their own pricing models.

02
Assortment Planning

Merchandising teams analyse colourway breadth, collection depth, and product lifecycle to optimise their own inventory.

03
Visual AI Training

Computer vision models ingest high-resolution bag imagery and lifestyle shots to train product recognition algorithms.

04
MAP Compliance

Distributors verify regional pricing against Minimum Advertised Price agreements to enforce brand guidelines.

05
Market Research

Analysts track new product launches, material changes, and category expansion to measure market trends.

06
Inventory Intelligence

Supply chain teams monitor stockout patterns on high-velocity SKUs to estimate production volumes and demand.

Why DataFlirt

"Herschel manages a complex matrix of collections, volumes, and colourways. Extracting this requires a pipeline that understands variant structures, not just flat HTML."

Most teams underestimate the complexity of modern headless commerce builds. Reliable Herschel scraping requires residential proxies, full JavaScript execution to hydrate variant prices, and daily selector maintenance. DataFlirt absorbs that complexity so your engineers can focus on analysis.

Technical Spec

Herschel scraper technical capabilities

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

JavaScript rendering
Full Playwright sessions required for dynamic pricing and inventory hydration
Supported
CAPTCHA bypass
Automated CapSolver integration for edge protection challenges
Supported
Residential proxy rotation
ISP-grade residential IPs rotated per request to avoid rate limits
Supported
Variant mapping
Links every colour and size variant back to the parent product SKU
Supported
Regional pricing
Extraction across different geographic subdirectories and currencies
Supported
High-resolution image extraction
Captures maximum resolution asset URLs from the media gallery
Supported
Exact stock quantity via cart manipulation
Adding 999 items to cart to determine precise warehouse unit counts
Partial
Customer account order history
Extraction of private purchase data behind user authentication
Partial
Infrastructure

Infrastructure powering the Herschel 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 and interaction flows.

Residential Proxy Infrastructure

We maintain pools of residential ISP proxies. 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.

Output & Delivery

Your data, your destination

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

JSON
Newline-delimited or nested schema
CSV
Flat file with typed columns
XLS
Excel compatible format for manual review
Parquet
Columnar format for data warehouses
AWS S3
Direct bucket delivery
Webhook
HTTP POST per record
API
REST endpoint for on-demand queries
BigQuery
Streamed directly into your dataset
S3
Direct bucket delivery — compatible with any data lake
// faq

Common questions.

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

Ask us directly →
Is scraping Herschel legal?

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

How do you handle bot protection on commerce sites?

We use residential ISP proxies, full Playwright browser sessions, and request timing modelled on human behaviour. We monitor for rate limits in real time and trigger pool rotation automatically.

Can you extract data across different regions?

Yes. We can configure the pipeline to target specific geographic regions to capture localised pricing, currency, and availability.

How fresh is the data?

Full catalogue refreshes can be scheduled daily or weekly. The time required depends on the total SKU count and target regions.

Do you map all colourways to the parent product?

Yes. Our schema captures the parent-child relationship, ensuring every colour and size variant is linked correctly to the main product record.

Can I request a sample dataset before committing?

Yes. We provide a sample run during the scoping process so you can validate schema fit, field completeness, and data quality before signing any contract.

$ dataflirt scope --new-project --source=herschel.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 export or a continuous pricing feed across multiple regions. Tell us what you need.

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