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RUN · 31 active pipelines · hy-vee.com live

Hy-Vee grocery data,
at warehouse scale.

We extract Aisles Online product listings, store-level pricing, inventory status, nutritional data, and Fuel Saver promotions. Delivered as clean JSON, CSV, or Parquet to S3 or BigQuery on your cadence.

Products extracted
482K /day
Price updates
1.2M /24h
Store locations
285 /run
Active pipelines
31
Uptime
99.94%
Data Dictionary

Every field we extract from hy-vee.com

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

Complete list of extractable fields for Grocery Products objects from hy-vee.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

upcskutitlebranddepartmentcategorysub_categoryweight_volumedietitian_choicehealth_marketimage_urldescription
grocery_products
● 200 OK
"upc": "0000000004011",
"sku": "1234567",
"title": "Fresh Bananas",
"department": "Produce",
"dietitian_choice": true,
"health_market": false,
"weight_volume": "1 lb"
# upcskutitlebranddepartmentcategory
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Complete list of extractable fields for Store Pricing & Inventory objects from hy-vee.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

store_idstore_nameskupriceregular_priceunit_pricefuel_saver_eligiblefuel_saver_centsin_stockstock_levelaisle_numbershelf_location
store_pricing & inventory
● 200 OK
"store_id": "1042",
"store_name": "West Des Moines Hy-Vee",
"sku": "1234567",
"price": 0.59,
"regular_price": 0.59,
"fuel_saver_eligible": false,
"in_stock": true,
"aisle_number": "Produce 1"
# store_idstore_nameskupriceregular_priceunit_price
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Complete list of extractable fields for Nutritional Data objects from hy-vee.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

skuserving_sizecaloriestotal_fat_gcholesterol_mgsodium_mgtotal_carbohydrate_gdietary_fiber_gsugars_gprotein_gingredientsallergens
nutritional_data
● 200 OK
"sku": "8901234",
"serving_size": "1 cup (240ml)",
"calories": 150,
"total_fat_g": 8,
"protein_g": 8,
"ingredients": "['Milk', 'Vitamin D3']",
"allergens": "['Contains Milk']"
# skuserving_sizecaloriestotal_fat_gcholesterol_mgsodium_mg
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Complete list of extractable fields for Store Locations objects from hy-vee.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

store_idnameaddresscitystatezip_codephonepharmacy_phonehoursfeatureslatitudelongitude
store_locations
● 200 OK
"store_id": "1042",
"name": "West Des Moines Hy-Vee",
"address": "1990 Grand Avenue",
"city": "West Des Moines",
"state": "IA",
"zip_code": "50265",
"latitude": 41.5678,
"features": "['Aisles Online', 'Pharmacy', 'Market Grille']"
# store_idnameaddresscitystatezip_code
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Complete list of extractable fields for Weekly Ads & Coupons objects from hy-vee.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

promotion_idtitledescriptionvalid_fromvalid_todiscount_typediscount_valueapplicable_skuscoupon_codedigital_onlystore_idsimage_url
weekly_ads & coupons
● 200 OK
"promotion_id": "WKD_9921",
"title": "Buy 1 Get 1 Free - Hy-Vee Pasta",
"valid_from": "2026-10-01",
"valid_to": "2026-10-07",
"discount_type": "BOGO",
"digital_only": false,
"applicable_skus": "['34512', '34513']"
# promotion_idtitledescriptionvalid_fromvalid_todiscount_type
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Capabilities

Everything you need from Hy-Vee — nothing you don't

Our Hy-Vee scraper handles the complexity of localised grocery data: store-specific sessions, Aisles Online pagination, Fuel Saver tracking, and nutritional table parsing.

Aisles Online Extraction

Full grocery catalogue mapping across all departments. Extract titles, descriptions, imagery, and UPC/SKU identifiers.

Store-Specific Pricing

Grocery prices vary by location. We manage ZIP code and store ID session state to extract accurate local pricing and unit costs.

Fuel Saver + Perks Tracking

Capture promotional discounts, cents-off-per-gallon incentives, and loyalty pricing applied to specific SKUs.

Nutritional & Allergen Parsing

Extract structured macro breakdowns, ingredient lists, and allergen warnings directly from product detail pages.

HealthMarket & Dietitian Picks

Identify specialty items with HealthMarket flags and Hy-Vee Dietitian Choice tags for health-focused category analysis.

Inventory & Stock Status

Track out-of-stock rates and availability at the store level to monitor supply chain consistency.

Weekly Ad & Digital Coupons

Monitor active promotions, BOGO deals, and digital-only coupons with validity windows mapped to applicable products.

UPC/EAN Granularity

Exact product matching capabilities using standard retail identifiers to normalise Hy-Vee data against competitor catalogues.

Scheduled Change Detection

Run continuous pipelines that only emit records when prices, promotions, or stock statuses change.

// engagement pipeline

From store list to warehouse record

Brief in. Clean data out.

Define Scope
d 0

Provide target store IDs, ZIP codes, or specific grocery departments. We design the extraction schema together.

Pipeline Build
d 2–4

We configure Scrapy / Playwright crawlers, manage store-level cookie state, and handle bot protection.

Validation & QA
d 4–6

Schema validation, null-rate checks, price-outlier detection, and UPC verification before full launch.

Delivery
ongoing

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

Under the hood

How our Hy-Vee pipeline handles the hard parts

Grocery extraction requires precise session handling to retrieve accurate local data. Here is how we maintain stable pipelines.

pipeline-monitor · hy-vee.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
Localised session management
Handling store-specific cookies and ZIP codes

Hy-Vee's pricing and availability depend entirely on the selected store. Our pipeline injects specific store IDs and ZIP codes into the session state, isolating cookies per request to ensure data reflects the exact target location.

JavaScript rendering
Aisles Online SPA hydration

The Aisles Online interface relies heavily on client-side rendering. We execute full Playwright browser sessions to hydrate product grids, trigger lazy-loaded images, and expand nutritional accordions that static HTTP clients miss.

Anti-bot layer
Residential proxies and fingerprinting

Retailers protect their pricing data. We route requests through US-based residential ISP proxies with realistic browser fingerprints and randomised timing to avoid perimeter bot detection.

Change detection
Only re-scrape price and stock changes

Grocery catalogues are massive, but prices only change periodically. We maintain a hash index of last-seen values per SKU per store, emitting only diffs to reduce your downstream processing load.

Monitoring & alerting
Detecting schema drift in grocery categories

Hy-Vee updates its site structure for seasonal events. We monitor for null-rate spikes in critical fields like price and UPC, alerting our engineers to adapt selectors before your data feed is impacted.

Applications

Who uses Hy-Vee data — and how

Teams across industries use hy-vee.com data to build competitive products and smarter operations.

01
Grocery Price Intelligence

Regional supermarkets track Hy-Vee's store-level pricing and Fuel Saver promotions to adjust their own competitive pricing strategies.

02
CPG Brand Monitoring

Consumer packaged goods brands monitor share of shelf, category placement, and compliance with minimum advertised pricing (MAP).

03
Inflation & CPI Tracking

Economic analysts track the cost of standard grocery baskets across different Midwest zip codes to measure regional inflation trends.

04
Nutritional App Databases

Health and fitness platforms ingest macro breakdowns and ingredient lists to maintain accurate food logging databases.

05
Supply Chain Forecasting

Distributors monitor store-level out-of-stock rates for specific SKUs to optimise delivery routes and warehouse allocation.

06
Promotion Analysis

Marketing agencies analyse the frequency and depth of weekly ad discounts to evaluate promotional effectiveness in the grocery sector.

Why DataFlirt

"Hy-Vee's Aisles Online holds critical localised pricing and inventory signals across the Midwest — but extracting it requires precise store-level session management."

Most teams fail at grocery scraping because they ignore localised session state. Reliable Hy-Vee extraction requires managing zip-code specific cookies, handling JavaScript-heavy Aisles Online interfaces, and bypassing perimeter bot protection. DataFlirt manages this infrastructure so you receive normalised, store-level pricing without writing a single selector.

Technical Spec

Hy-Vee scraper — technical capabilities

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

JavaScript rendering
Full Playwright sessions required for Aisles Online product grids
Supported
Store-level localisation
Session state management via ZIP code or specific Store ID
Supported
Residential proxy rotation
US-based ISP-grade residential IPs rotated per request
Supported
UPC/EAN mapping
Extraction of standard retail barcodes for cross-retailer matching
Supported
Nutritional table parsing
Structured extraction of macros, ingredients, and allergens
Supported
Change detection (diffs)
Hash-based diff: only emit records with changed prices or stock
Supported
Aisles Online catalogue
Full department and sub-category traversal
Supported
Weekly Ad PDF OCR
Image-based PDF parsing of print ads is not natively structured
Partial
User purchase history
Gated data requiring individual customer authentication
Partial
Pharmacy prescriptions
HIPAA-protected patient data behind authentication walls
Partial
Infrastructure

Infrastructure powering the Hy-Vee 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. Combined via scrapy-playwright middleware.

Residential Proxy Infrastructure

We maintain pools of residential ISP proxies across US regions. Rotation happens per-request with sticky sessions where required. IP score monitoring prevents blacklisted pool contamination.

Cloud-Native Orchestration

Pipelines run on AWS Lambda (burst) and ECS (sustained). 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 — Excel/Sheets compatible
XLS
Legacy spreadsheet format for business analysts
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 extracted snapshots
BigQuery
Streamed directly into your dataset with schema auto-detect
Snowflake
Stage + COPY INTO workflow — incremental or full-replace
S3
Direct bucket delivery — compatible with any data lake
// faq

Common questions.

About hy-vee.com scraping, legality, and pipeline operations.

Ask us directly →
Is scraping Hy-Vee legal?

Scraping publicly available pricing and product information from Hy-Vee is generally permissible. DataFlirt targets only public, non-authenticated grocery data. We do not extract personal data, circumvent authentication walls, or access gated pharmacy records.

How do you handle store-specific pricing?

We manage the session state by injecting exact Store IDs and ZIP codes into the HTTP cookies and headers. This ensures the Aisles Online pricing and inventory data returned reflects that specific physical location.

Can you bypass Datadome or Cloudflare?

Yes. We use US-based residential ISP proxies, realistic browser fingerprints, and automated solver integrations (CapSolver/2Captcha) to navigate perimeter bot protection without interrupting the pipeline.

How fresh is the inventory data?

We can configure pipelines to run at daily or intra-day frequencies depending on your SLA requirements. Change-detection diffs ensure you only process updates when stock status or price actually shifts.

Do you extract nutritional tables and ingredients?

Yes. We parse the structured nutritional fact panels, ingredient lists, and allergen warnings directly from the product detail pages and map them to consistent numerical fields.

What is the minimum viable engagement?

Our minimum engagements typically start at tracking a specific category or a defined list of 5,000+ SKUs across multiple store locations. Contact us with your target volume for a precise quote.

Can I request a sample dataset?

Yes. We provide sample exports of up to 500 SKUs from a target Hy-Vee location during the scoping phase, allowing you to validate our schema and data accuracy before committing.

$ dataflirt scope --new-project --source=hy-vee.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 grocery catalogue dump or a continuous price-monitoring feed across 200 store locations — we scope, build, and operate the pipeline. Tell us what you need.

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