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RUN . 84 active pipelines . pricespy.co.uk live

PriceSpy data,
at warehouse scale.

We extract product specifications, daily price fluctuations, retailer offers, and store ratings from PriceSpy. Delivered as clean JSON, CSV, or Parquet to S3, BigQuery, or Snowflake on your cadence.

Products extracted
845K /day
Price updates
3.2M /24h
Retailer offers
6.7M /run
Active pipelines
84
Uptime
99.98%
Data Dictionary

Every field we extract from pricespy.co.uk

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

Complete list of extractable fields for Product Details objects from pricespy.co.uk. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

product_idnamebrandcategorysub_categorylowest_pricehighest_priceratingreview_countrelease_datespecifications
product_details
● 200 OK
"product_id": "5873912",
"name": "Apple iPhone 15 Pro 128GB",
"brand": "Apple",
"lowest_price": 899.0,
"highest_price": 1099.0,
"rating": 4.7,
"review_count": 312,
"release_date": "2023-09-12"
# product_idnamebrandcategorysub_categorylowest_price
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Complete list of extractable fields for Retailer Offers objects from pricespy.co.uk. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

product_idretailer_nameretailer_urlpriceshipping_costtotal_pricestock_statusdelivery_timestore_ratingoffer_condition
retailer_offers
● 200 OK
"product_id": "5873912",
"retailer_name": "Amazon UK",
"price": 899.0,
"shipping_cost": 0.0,
"total_price": 899.0,
"stock_status": "In stock",
"store_rating": 4.8,
"offer_condition": "New"
# product_idretailer_nameretailer_urlpriceshipping_costtotal_price
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Complete list of extractable fields for Price History objects from pricespy.co.uk. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

product_iddatelowest_priceaverage_priceprice_drop_pctretailer_countcurrencyhistorical_highhistorical_low
price_history
● 200 OK
"product_id": "5873912",
"date": "2026-05-12",
"lowest_price": 899.0,
"average_price": 945.5,
"price_drop_pct": 5.2,
"retailer_count": 24,
"historical_high": 1099.0
# product_iddatelowest_priceaverage_priceprice_drop_pctretailer_count
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Complete list of extractable fields for Store Intelligence objects from pricespy.co.uk. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

store_idstore_nameaverage_ratingreview_countpositive_pctneutral_pctnegative_pctactive_offersreturn_policypayment_methods
store_intelligence
● 200 OK
"store_id": "8492",
"store_name": "Currys",
"average_rating": 4.2,
"review_count": 15430,
"positive_pct": 82,
"active_offers": 4192,
"return_policy": "21 days"
# store_idstore_nameaverage_ratingreview_countpositive_pctneutral_pct
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Complete list of extractable fields for Search Results objects from pricespy.co.uk. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

keywordpositionproduct_idnamelowest_pricestore_countratingcategorythumbnail_urlscraped_at
search_results
● 200 OK
"keyword": "oled tv 65 inch",
"position": 1,
"product_id": "719384",
"name": "LG OLED65C3",
"lowest_price": 1499.0,
"store_count": 18,
"rating": 4.9,
"scraped_at": "2026-05-12T10:15:00Z"
# keywordpositionproduct_idnamelowest_pricestore_count
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Capabilities

Everything you need from PriceSpy, strictly structured

Our PriceSpy scraper handles every layer of the platform: product specifications, dynamic pricing tables, historical charts, and store ratings, with JavaScript rendering and anti-bot circumvention built in.

Full Product Data Extraction

Title, brand, category taxonomy, images, and deep technical specifications scraped at the product level.

Real-Time Offer Tracking

Capture price, shipping cost, total cost, stock status, and delivery estimates for every retailer listed on a product.

Price History Mining

Extract historical price curves to track discounting trends, lowest recorded prices, and seasonal fluctuations.

Store Rating Extraction

Aggregate store performance data including average ratings, review counts, and customer sentiment distribution.

Stock Status Monitoring

Monitor inventory indicators across multiple retailers to identify supply chain constraints and out-of-stock patterns.

Category and Search Scraping

Track product visibility and ranking positions for specific keywords and category filters.

Regional Support

Extract data across PriceSpy regional domains to compare international pricing strategies.

Shipping Cost Calculation

Parse complex delivery matrices to calculate true landed costs for consumer electronics.

Scheduled Modes

Run one-off bulk exports or configure continuous pipelines at daily or hourly cadences with change-detection.

// engagement pipeline

From product list to warehouse record

Brief in. Clean data out.

Define Scope
d 0

Provide product URLs, category links, or keyword sets. We design the extraction schema together.

Pipeline Build
d 2–4

We configure Scrapy / Playwright crawlers, proxy rotation, and session management for pricespy.co.uk.

Validation & QA
d 4–6

Schema validation, null-rate checks, and price-outlier detection 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 PriceSpy pipeline handles the hard parts

Price comparison sites rely on complex front-end rendering and aggressive rate limiting. Here is how we maintain stable extraction.

pipeline-monitor · pricespy.co.uk · 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

PriceSpy employs aggressive rate limiting and bot detection. Our crawlers use residential ISP proxies with realistic browser fingerprints and randomised request timing to maintain access.

JavaScript rendering
Full Playwright execution for dynamic content

Retailer offer tables and price history charts are heavily JavaScript-rendered. We run full Playwright browser sessions with JavaScript execution to capture data that headless HTTP clients miss entirely.

Schema stability
Resilient selectors with fallback chains

Front-end frameworks change frequently. Our selector strategy uses multiple fallback chains per field, including Next.js hydration state extraction, so a layout change does not break your data pipeline.

Change detection
Only re-scrape what has changed

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

Monitoring and alerting
24/7 pipeline health with anomaly detection

Every run emits structured logs to our observability stack. We alert on null-rate spikes, price outliers, and coverage drops, responding before you notice.

Applications

Who uses PriceSpy data and how

Teams across industries use pricespy.co.uk data to build competitive products and smarter operations.

01
Dynamic Repricing

Retailers monitor competitor pricing across the market to automatically adjust their own prices and maintain competitiveness.

02
Competitor Benchmarking

Brands track how their products are priced across different retail channels to identify MAP violations and unauthorised discounting.

03
Market Research

Analysts track category pricing trends, new product entries, and feature standardisation across consumer electronics.

04
Retailer Performance

Brands monitor store ratings and stock availability to evaluate the performance of their retail partners.

05
Product Assortment Planning

Category managers analyse market gaps and competitor assortments to optimise their own product offerings.

06
Promotional Strategy

Marketing teams track historical price drops to anticipate competitor sales events and optimise promotional calendars.

Why DataFlirt

"PriceSpy aggregates the entire retail market into a single view, but extracting that pricing matrix requires a dedicated infrastructure team."

Most engineering teams underestimate the complexity of scraping comparison engines. Reliable PriceSpy extraction requires residential proxies, full JavaScript rendering for dynamic offer lists, daily selector maintenance, and anomaly monitoring. DataFlirt absorbs that complexity so your developers can focus on pricing strategy.

Technical Spec

PriceSpy scraper technical capabilities

Everything supported by our pricespy.co.uk scraper — rendered SPA elements, auth walls, rate-limit evasion and beyond.

JavaScript rendering
Full Playwright sessions required for dynamic offer tables and price charts
Supported
CAPTCHA bypass
Automated 2Captcha and CapSolver integration
Supported
Residential proxy rotation
ISP-grade residential IPs from UK pools rotated per request
Supported
Price history extraction
Parsing historical price data points from chart rendering state
Supported
Store review scraping
Aggregation of store ratings and review distributions
Supported
Change detection (diffs)
Hash-based diff to only emit records with changed fields since last run
Supported
Webhook delivery
HTTP POST per record or batch for real-time repricing workflows
Supported
User wishlist data
Gated data requiring individual user authentication
Partial
Authenticated price alerts
User-specific alert configurations and push notifications
Partial
Infrastructure

Infrastructure powering the PriceSpy pipeline

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

ScrapyPlaywrightPython 3.12RedisPostgreSQLApache AirflowAWS LambdaS3CloudWatch2CaptchaCapSolverResidential ProxiesDockerKubernetesGrafanaPrometheus
Scrapy and Playwright Stack

Scrapy handles crawl orchestration and retry logic. Playwright handles JavaScript rendering and interaction flows for dynamic pricing tables.

Residential Proxy Infrastructure

We maintain pools of residential ISP proxies across UK regions. Rotation happens per-request to prevent IP bans and rate limiting.

Cloud-Native Orchestration

Pipelines run on AWS Lambda and ECS. Airflow handles scheduling and dependency management. All state is 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 array structures
CSV
Flat file with typed columns for spreadsheet analysis
XLS
Excel format for immediate business user consumption
Parquet
Columnar format for BigQuery, Snowflake, and 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 your extracted datasets
PostgreSQL
Direct upsert into your existing database schema
S3
Direct bucket delivery — compatible with any data lake
// faq

Common questions.

About pricespy.co.uk scraping, legality, and pipeline operations.

Ask us directly →
Is scraping PriceSpy legal?

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

How do you handle PriceSpy anti-bot systems?

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

Can you extract historical price data?

Yes. We extract the historical price data points used to render the price charts on product pages, giving you visibility into past discounting trends.

How fresh is the pricing data?

Real-time streaming pipelines achieve sub-60-minute latency for specific product sets. Full category refreshes at daily cadence complete within a 4-8 hour window depending on scale.

Do you capture shipping costs?

Yes. We extract the base price, the shipping cost, and the total landed cost for each retailer listed on a product page.

Can you track out-of-stock items?

Yes. We capture the exact stock status string provided by PriceSpy for each retailer offer, allowing you to monitor inventory availability.

What is the minimum viable engagement?

Our smallest packages start at a defined product list of 5,000 items with daily delivery. For larger catalogues, we price based on volume and delivery frequency.

Can I request a sample dataset?

Absolutely. 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=pricespy.co.uk 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 category dump or a continuous price-monitoring feed across 100K products, we scope, build, and operate the pipeline. Tell us what you need.

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