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Lightology data,
at warehouse scale.

We extract designer lighting catalogues, technical specifications, finish variants, and pricing signals from Lightology. Delivered as clean JSON, CSV, or Parquet to S3, BigQuery, or Snowflake on your cadence.

Products extracted
142K /run
Price updates
38K /24h
Finish variants
412K /run
Active pipelines
14
Uptime
99.98%
Data Dictionary

Every field we extract from lightology.com

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

Complete list of extractable fields for Fixture Specs objects from lightology.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

skutitlebranddesignercategorylumenscolour_temperaturecriwattagevoltagedimming_typeip_ratingmaterialdimensionsweight
fixture_specs
● 200 OK
"sku": "LGY-10492",
"title": "Melt Pendant",
"brand": "Tom Dixon",
"lumens": 800,
"colour_temperature": "2700K",
"wattage": 9.0,
"dimming_type": "ELV",
"ip_rating": "IP20"
# skutitlebranddesignercategorylumens
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Complete list of extractable fields for Pricing & Stock objects from lightology.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

skubase_pricesale_pricediscount_pctcurrencyin_stocklead_time_daysships_freequick_ship_eligiblestock_status_text
pricing_& stock
● 200 OK
"sku": "LGY-10492",
"base_price": 1250.0,
"sale_price": 1050.0,
"discount_pct": 16,
"in_stock": true,
"lead_time_days": 14,
"ships_free": true,
"stock_status_text": "Usually ships in 2 weeks"
# skubase_pricesale_pricediscount_pctcurrencyin_stock
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Complete list of extractable fields for Variants & Finishes objects from lightology.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

parent_skuvariant_skufinish_namefinish_familysize_nameprice_deltaimage_urlswatch_urlavailability
variants_& finishes
● 200 OK
"parent_sku": "LGY-10492",
"variant_sku": "LGY-10492-SMK",
"finish_name": "Smoke",
"finish_family": "Grey",
"price_delta": 0.0,
"swatch_url": "https://images.lightology.com/swatches/smoke.jpg",
"availability": "In Stock"
# parent_skuvariant_skufinish_namefinish_familysize_nameprice_delta
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Complete list of extractable fields for Brands & Collections objects from lightology.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

brand_idbrand_namecollection_namedesigner_namecountry_of_originbrand_descriptionwarranty_yearstotal_products
brands_& collections
● 200 OK
"brand_name": "Tom Dixon",
"collection_name": "Melt",
"designer_name": "Tom Dixon",
"country_of_origin": "United Kingdom",
"warranty_years": 1,
"total_products": 42
# brand_idbrand_namecollection_namedesigner_namecountry_of_originbrand_description
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Complete list of extractable fields for Reviews objects from lightology.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

review_idskuauthorratingtitlebody_textdate_postedverified_buyerhelpful_votes
reviews
● 200 OK
"review_id": "REV-99281",
"sku": "LGY-10492",
"author": "Sarah M.",
"rating": 5,
"title": "Stunning focal point",
"date_posted": "2023-11-14",
"verified_buyer": true,
"helpful_votes": 12
# review_idskuauthorratingtitlebody_text
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Capabilities

Extract the complete lighting catalogue

Our Lightology scraper handles product configurators, nested technical specifications, and dynamic lead times with JavaScript rendering and anti-bot circumvention built in.

Technical Specification Extraction

Lumens, colour temperature, CRI, wattage, voltage, and dimming compatibility scraped directly from product spec tables.

Finish & Variant Mapping

Capture every finish, shade colour, and size combination. We map parent-child SKUs to ensure variant-level accuracy.

Pricing & Discount Tracking

Monitor retail pricing, promotional sales, and clearance discounts across the entire catalogue.

Lead Time & Stock Intelligence

Track Quick Ship eligibility, specific lead time days, and out-of-stock statuses for supply chain forecasting.

Brand & Designer Taxonomy

Extract designer attributions, collection names, and brand hierarchies to categorise the lighting market.

Dimensional Data

Parse height, width, depth, and canopy dimensions into normalised numeric fields for spatial analysis.

Review & Rating Mining

Full review text, star ratings, and verified buyer flags paginated across all product review pages.

Image & Swatch Capture

High-resolution product image URLs, technical spec sheet PDFs, and finish swatch images linked to variants.

Scheduled Diffs

Run continuous pipelines at daily cadences with change-detection diffing to monitor new product launches and price shifts.

// engagement pipeline

From brand list to warehouse record

Brief in. Clean data out.

Define Scope
d 0

Provide brand names, category URLs, or specific SKUs. We design the extraction schema together.

Pipeline Build
d 2–4

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

Validation & QA
d 4–6

Schema validation, null-rate checks, and variant mapping 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 Lightology pipeline handles the hard parts

Extracting technical lighting data requires navigating dynamic product configurators and strict bot protection. Here is how we manage the infrastructure.

pipeline-monitor · lightology.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 product configurators

Lightology uses dynamic JavaScript to load pricing and lead times when a user selects a specific finish or size. We run full Playwright browser sessions to iterate through these configurators, capturing data that headless HTTP clients miss entirely.

Anti-bot layer
Residential proxy rotation

E-commerce platforms block data centre IPs rapidly. Our crawlers use residential ISP proxies with realistic browser fingerprints and randomised request timing to maintain access without triggering rate limits.

Schema stability
Resilient selectors for technical tables

Technical specifications are often formatted inconsistently across different brands. We use text-pattern matching and structured data extraction to ensure fields like 'Colour Temperature' and 'Lumens' map correctly regardless of DOM layout.

Change detection
Only re-scrape what changes

For large lighting catalogues, we maintain a hash index of last-seen values per field. Subsequent runs only push diffs, reducing compute cost and downstream processing load for price and stock updates.

Monitoring
24/7 pipeline health

Every run emits structured logs to our observability stack. We alert on null-rate spikes in critical fields like pricing or dimensions and respond before the data reaches your warehouse.

Applications

Who uses Lightology data — and how

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

01
Competitor Price Monitoring

Lighting retailers and distributors monitor Lightology pricing, promotional calendars, and brand restrictions to optimise their own pricing strategies.

02
Assortment Planning

Merchandising teams analyse brand coverage, category depth, and new designer launches to identify gaps in their own product catalogues.

03
Supply Chain Forecasting

Procurement teams track lead times and stock availability across major brands to anticipate supply chain bottlenecks in the lighting industry.

04
Interior Design Platforms

Proptech and interior design software companies ingest technical specifications and 3D-ready dimensions to populate their material libraries.

05
Brand Equity Monitoring

Lighting manufacturers audit how their products are presented, checking specification accuracy, image quality, and MAP compliance.

06
Market Research

Analysts track the adoption of LED technology, colour temperature trends, and smart-home integration across thousands of fixtures.

Why DataFlirt

"Lightology holds the most comprehensive technical specification dataset for designer lighting available online, but extracting variant level data requires deep DOM traversal."

Most teams underestimate the investment required: reliable Lightology scraping requires residential proxies, full JavaScript rendering for finish configurators, and daily selector maintenance. DataFlirt absorbs that complexity so your engineers can focus on the analysis, not the infrastructure.

Technical Spec

Lightology scraper — technical capabilities

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

JavaScript rendering
Full Playwright sessions required for finish configurators and dynamic pricing
Supported
Residential proxy rotation
ISP-grade residential IPs from US pools rotated per request
Supported
Variant mapping
Parent to child SKU relationships with all finish and size combinations
Supported
PDF Spec Sheet extraction
Capture URLs for technical spec sheets and installation guides
Supported
Change detection (diffs)
Hash-based diff: only emit records with changed fields since last run
Supported
Review pagination
Extract all historical reviews across paginated endpoints
Supported
Trade Account Pricing
Trade-specific discounts require authenticated trade accounts
Partial
User Wishlists
Private user saved items and project folders
Partial
Infrastructure

Infrastructure powering the Lightology 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 for dynamic product configurators.

Residential Proxy Infrastructure

We maintain pools of residential ISP proxies across US regions. Rotation happens per-request to prevent rate limiting.

Cloud-Native Orchestration

Pipelines run on AWS ECS. Airflow handles scheduling and dependency management. 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
Excel spreadsheet delivery for business users
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 for querying extracted catalogue data
BigQuery
Streamed directly into your dataset with schema auto-detect
S3
Direct bucket delivery — compatible with any data lake
// faq

Common questions.

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

Ask us directly →
Is scraping Lightology legal?

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

How do you handle product variants and finishes?

Lightology uses dynamic JavaScript configurators for finishes and sizes. We use Playwright to iterate through these options, capturing the specific price, SKU, and lead time for every variant combination.

Can you extract technical specifications like lumens and colour temperature?

Yes. We parse the technical specification tables on the product pages, mapping fields like wattage, voltage, lumens, CRI, and dimensions into structured, normalised numeric fields.

How fresh is the data?

Full catalogue refreshes at daily cadence complete within a 4-8 hour window depending on category size. We can configure specific high-priority brands for more frequent polling.

Do you extract PDF spec sheets?

We extract the direct URLs to the PDF specification sheets and installation instructions, delivering them as string fields in the final payload.

Can I request a sample dataset before committing?

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

$ dataflirt scope --new-project --source=lightology.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 dump or a continuous price-monitoring feed across designer lighting brands, we scope, build, and operate the pipeline. Tell us what you need.

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