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RUN · 21 active pipelines · medpets.nl live

Medpets data,
at warehouse scale.

We extract product listings, pricing signals, veterinary prescription flags, stock status, and reviews from medpets.nl. Delivered as clean JSON, CSV, or Parquet to S3, BigQuery, or Snowflake on your cadence.

Products extracted
14.2K /day
Price updates
42.1K /24h
Review records
18.4K /run
Active pipelines
21
Uptime
99.94%
Data Dictionary

Every field we extract from medpets.nl

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 medpets.nl. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

product_ideantitlebrandcategoryanimal_typepricestock_statusprescription_requireddescriptioningredientsimage_urlsurl
product_listings
● 200 OK
"product_id": "MP-8492",
"ean": "8711231123456",
"title": "Royal Canin Veterinary Diet Gastrointestinal Dog",
"brand": "Royal Canin",
"animal_type": "Dog",
"price": 64.95,
"stock_status": "In Stock",
"prescription_required": false
# product_ideantitlebrandcategoryanimal_type
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Complete list of extractable fields for Pricing & Offers objects from medpets.nl. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

product_idvariant_idweight_volumecurrent_priceoriginal_pricediscount_pctvolume_discount_tiersprice_per_kgprice_timestampcurrency
pricing_& offers
● 200 OK
"product_id": "MP-8492",
"variant_id": "V-15KG",
"weight_volume": "15 kg",
"current_price": 64.95,
"original_price": 72.5,
"discount_pct": 10,
"price_per_kg": 4.33,
"price_timestamp": "2026-05-12T09:14:00Z",
"currency": "EUR"
# product_idvariant_idweight_volumecurrent_priceoriginal_pricediscount_pct
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Complete list of extractable fields for Reviews & Ratings objects from medpets.nl. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

review_idproduct_idratingauthorreview_datereview_texthelpful_votesverified_purchaseanimal_ageanimal_breed
reviews_& ratings
● 200 OK
"review_id": "REV-99231",
"product_id": "MP-8492",
"rating": 5,
"author": "Jan de Vries",
"review_date": "2026-04-18",
"review_text": "Perfect for my Labrador's sensitive stomach.",
"helpful_votes": 12,
"verified_purchase": true
# review_idproduct_idratingauthorreview_datereview_text
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Complete list of extractable fields for Medical & Dosage objects from medpets.nl. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

product_idactive_substancedosage_instructionscontraindicationsside_effectsstorage_conditionstarget_speciesadministration_routeleaflet_url
medical_& dosage
● 200 OK
"product_id": "MP-4122",
"active_substance": "Fipronil 134 mg",
"dosage_instructions": "1 pipette per dog weighing 10-20 kg",
"target_species": "Dog",
"administration_route": "Spot-on use",
"storage_conditions": "Store below 30 degrees Celsius",
"prescription_required": false
# product_idactive_substancedosage_instructionscontraindicationsside_effectsstorage_conditions
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Complete list of extractable fields for Categories & Taxonomy objects from medpets.nl. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

category_idparent_categorycategory_nameurlproduct_countanimal_typehealth_conditiondiet_typescraped_at
categories_& taxonomy
● 200 OK
"category_id": "CAT-204",
"parent_category": "Dogs > Medical Diets",
"category_name": "Stomach & Intestines",
"url": "/honden/medische-voeding/maag-darmen/",
"animal_type": "Dog",
"health_condition": "Digestion",
"product_count": 142,
"scraped_at": "2026-05-12T09:14:33Z"
# category_idparent_categorycategory_nameurlproduct_countanimal_type
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Capabilities

Extracting veterinary data with precision

Our Medpets scraper handles the complexities of veterinary eCommerce: dynamic volume discounts, complex variant mapping, prescription flags, and medical leaflet extraction.

Full Product Extraction

Title, brand, descriptions, EAN codes, and every metadata field Medpets surfaces, scraped at the variant level.

Pricing & Volume Discounts

Capture base price, promotional discounts, and complex multi-buy tiers (e.g., buy 3 for 5% off) timestamped per crawl.

Medical & Prescription Flags

Identify products requiring veterinary prescriptions (receptplichtig) alongside active substance and dosage information.

Review Mining

Full review text, star ratings, helpful vote counts, and verified purchase flags paginated across all product reviews.

Stock & Availability

Monitor precise stock indicators and estimated delivery timelines for every product variant.

Nutritional Information

Extract structured analytical constituents, composition, and nutritional additives from pet food listings.

Price Per Unit Calculation

Normalised price-per-kg or price-per-litre metrics to enable direct competitor benchmarking.

Scheduled Change Detection

Run pipelines at daily cadences with hash-based diffing to emit only changed prices or stock statuses.

Multi-Region Support

Adaptable for medpets.nl, medpets.be, medpets.de, and medpets.fr to track cross-border pricing strategies.

// engagement pipeline

From product URLs to warehouse records

Brief in. Clean data out.

Define Scope
d 0

Provide target categories, brands, or search terms. We design the extraction schema tailored to your analytical needs.

Pipeline Build
d 2–4

We configure Scrapy and Playwright crawlers, proxy rotation, and session management specific to Medpets infrastructure.

Validation & QA
d 4–6

Schema validation, null-rate checks, and price anomaly detection before full pipeline activation.

Delivery
ongoing

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

Under the hood

Navigating Medpets technical architecture

Extracting clean data from veterinary platforms requires handling dynamic variant state and strict bot mitigation. Here is how we build resilience.

pipeline-monitor · medpets.nl · 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
Variant mapping
Handling complex weight and volume options

Medpets product pages often contain multiple variants (e.g., 2kg, 7kg, 12kg bags) that dynamically alter the DOM, price, and stock status via JavaScript. We execute full browser sessions to trigger these state changes and capture accurate variant-level data.

Anti-bot layer
Residential proxies and fingerprinting

To bypass rate limits and WAF protections, our crawlers utilise residential ISP proxies located in the Netherlands and Belgium, mimicking legitimate user traffic patterns and browser fingerprints.

Schema normalisation
Standardising medical vs non-medical layouts

Veterinary medicines have different page structures compared to standard pet food or toys. Our extraction logic uses conditional fallback chains to ensure structured output regardless of the product category.

Change detection
Optimising for price and stock updates

We maintain a state index of the Medpets catalogue. Subsequent runs only export records where price, stock, or promotions have changed, minimising downstream processing costs.

Data quality
Automated anomaly detection

Every pipeline run is monitored for null-rate spikes in critical fields like price and EAN. If a site layout change breaks a selector, our alerting system halts delivery and flags our engineering team.

Applications

Who uses Medpets data and how

Teams across industries use medpets.nl data to build competitive products and smarter operations.

01
Competitor Price Monitoring

Pet supply retailers track Medpets pricing strategies, volume discounts, and promotional periods to optimise their own margins.

02
Assortment Benchmarking

Brands and distributors monitor category depth, new product introductions, and out-of-stock rates across the Benelux market.

03
Veterinary Market Research

Analysts track the availability and pricing of specific active substances and prescription medicines in the digital pharmacy space.

04
Brand Protection

Manufacturers audit product listings to ensure correct imagery, accurate nutritional information, and MAP compliance.

05
Demand Forecasting

Supply chain teams correlate review velocity and stock indicators to estimate sales volume for specific pet care categories.

06
AI Training Data

Machine learning teams use the structured corpus of symptoms, diets, and product descriptions to train pet-care recommendation models.

Why DataFlirt

"Medpets.nl holds the most structured corpus of veterinary and pet supply pricing in the Benelux region, but extracting it requires navigating complex product hierarchies and medical flags."

Most teams underestimate the nuances of veterinary eCommerce scraping. Handling dynamic volume discounts, identifying prescription-only medicine flags, and mapping complex weight-based variants requires specialised logic. DataFlirt absorbs that complexity so your engineers can focus on the analysis, not the infrastructure.

Technical Spec

Medpets scraper technical specifications

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

JavaScript rendering
Full Playwright sessions required for dynamic variant pricing and stock calculation
Supported
CAPTCHA bypass
Automated solver integration for WAF challenges
Supported
Residential proxy rotation
ISP-grade residential IPs from NL/BE pools
Supported
Prescription flag detection
Identifies products marked as requiring veterinary approval
Supported
Volume discount mapping
Extracts tiered pricing structures (e.g., Buy 2 get 5% off)
Supported
Nutritional table extraction
Parses HTML tables into structured JSON key-value pairs
Supported
Change detection (diffs)
Only emit records with changed fields since the last run
Supported
Webhook delivery
HTTP POST per record for immediate downstream processing
Supported
User account order history
Requires authenticated user sessions and violates privacy policies
Partial
Veterinarian consultation records
Private medical communications are strictly gated
Partial
Infrastructure

Infrastructure powering the Medpets 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 variant state changes.

Residential Proxy Infrastructure

We maintain pools of residential ISP proxies across European regions to ensure high success rates and avoid IP bans.

Cloud-Native Orchestration

Pipelines run on AWS infrastructure managed by Airflow, ensuring strict SLA adherence and reliable data delivery.

Output & Delivery

Your data, your destination

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

JSON
Newline-delimited or nested arrays
CSV
Flat file with typed columns
XLS
Excel compatible format for business analysts
Parquet
Columnar format for data warehouses
AWS S3
Direct bucket delivery
Webhook
HTTP POST per record
API
REST endpoints for on-demand querying
BigQuery
Streamed directly into your dataset
Snowflake
Stage and COPY INTO workflow
Postgres
Upsert into your existing schema
S3
Direct bucket delivery — compatible with any data lake
// faq

Common questions.

About medpets.nl scraping, legality, and pipeline operations.

Ask us directly →
Is scraping medpets.nl legal?

Scraping publicly available product, pricing, and stock information is generally permissible. DataFlirt targets only public, non-authenticated data. We do not extract personal user data or private veterinary consultations.

How do you handle bot protection on Medpets?

We use residential ISP proxies from the Netherlands and Belgium, combined with Playwright browser sessions that simulate human request timing and realistic TLS fingerprints.

Can you extract dosage and active ingredients?

Yes. We specifically target the medical information tabs to extract active substances, dosage instructions, contraindications, and target species for veterinary products.

Do you capture bulk or volume discounts?

Yes. Medpets frequently uses tiered pricing based on quantity. Our scraper captures these tiers as structured arrays within the pricing payload.

How fresh is the data?

We can configure pipelines to run daily, capturing the entire catalogue within a few hours to ensure your pricing intelligence is ready for morning analysis.

What is the minimum viable engagement?

Our minimum engagement typically starts with a defined category set or full catalogue extraction delivered weekly. Contact us for a specific volume-based quote.

Can I request a sample dataset?

Yes. We provide a sample run of up to 500 products so you can validate the schema, field completeness, and data accuracy before committing to a contract.

$ dataflirt scope --new-project --source=medpets.nl 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 product catalogue dump or a continuous price-monitoring feed, we scope, build, and operate the pipeline. Tell us what you need.

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