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Sawday's property data,
normalised at scale.

We extract curated accommodation listings, availability calendars, pricing tiers, and host profiles from Sawday's. Delivered as clean JSON, CSV, or Parquet to S3, BigQuery, or Snowflake on your cadence.

Properties extracted
5.2K /run
Availability dates
142K /24h
Price updates
18.4K /day
Active pipelines
18
Uptime
99.98%
Data Dictionary

Every field we extract from sawdays.co.uk

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

Complete list of extractable fields for Property Listings objects from sawdays.co.uk. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

property_idnameproperty_typelocationregioncapacitybedroomsbathroomsdescriptionsawdays_reviewurl
property_listings
● 200 OK
"property_id": "SD-8492",
"name": "The Old Rectory",
"property_type": "Bed & Breakfast",
"region": "Cornwall",
"capacity": 4,
"bedrooms": 2,
"bathrooms": 2
# property_idnameproperty_typelocationregioncapacity
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2
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Complete list of extractable fields for Pricing & Availability objects from sawdays.co.uk. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

property_iddatestatuspricecurrencymin_staycheck_in_dayseasonal_ratediscount_applied
pricing_& availability
● 200 OK
"property_id": "SD-8492",
"date": "2026-07-14",
"status": "available",
"price": 185.0,
"currency": "GBP",
"min_stay": 2,
"seasonal_rate": "high_season"
# property_iddatestatuspricecurrencymin_stay
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2
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Complete list of extractable fields for Amenities & Features objects from sawdays.co.uk. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

property_idwifiparkingpets_allowedpoolev_chargingaccessiblesustainability_ratingkitchen_typegarden
amenities_& features
● 200 OK
"property_id": "SD-8492",
"wifi": true,
"parking": true,
"pets_allowed": false,
"ev_charging": true,
"sustainability_rating": "Gold",
"accessible": false
# property_idwifiparkingpets_allowedpoolev_charging
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Complete list of extractable fields for Host Data objects from sawdays.co.uk. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

property_idhost_namehost_sincehost_descriptionresponse_ratelanguages_spokencontact_infosuper_host_status
host_data
● 200 OK
"property_id": "SD-8492",
"host_name": "Eleanor & Richard",
"host_since": "2018",
"languages_spoken": "['English', 'French']",
"response_rate": 98.5,
"super_host_status": true,
"host_description": "We moved to Cornwall in 2015 to restore this beautiful rectory."
# property_idhost_namehost_sincehost_descriptionresponse_ratelanguages_spoken
1
2
3

Complete list of extractable fields for Location & POI objects from sawdays.co.uk. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

property_idlatitudelongitudeaddresspostcodenearest_stationnearest_airportdistance_to_publocal_attractions
location_& poi
● 200 OK
"property_id": "SD-8492",
"latitude": 50.266,
"longitude": -5.052,
"postcode": "TR1 2AB",
"nearest_station": "Truro",
"nearest_airport": "Newquay",
"distance_to_pub": "0.5 miles"
# property_idlatitudelongitudeaddresspostcodenearest_station
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Capabilities

Everything you need from Sawday's - nothing you don't

Our Sawday's scraper handles every layer of the platform: property listings, dynamic pricing calendars, host intelligence, and curated reviews - with JavaScript rendering and session management built in.

Full Property Profiles

Extract curated descriptions, capacity, room configurations, and property types directly from the listing page.

Dynamic Pricing Calendars

Capture seasonal rates, minimum stays, and weekend premiums across a rolling 12-month window.

Availability Tracking

Monitor booked versus available dates to calculate occupancy rates and booking velocity.

Amenity & Policy Extraction

Parse pet rules, EV charging availability, and accessibility features for every property.

Host Intelligence

Extract host biographies, tenure, response rates, and contact metadata where publicly available.

Location & Geographic Data

Capture coordinates, postcodes, and proximity to local pubs, transit, and attractions.

Sustainability Metrics

Extract eco-friendly features and green ratings highlighted by Sawday's inspection team.

High-Resolution Imagery

Extract CDN URLs for property galleries, exterior shots, and room-specific photos.

Scheduled Syncs

Run daily availability syncs or weekly full-catalogue refreshes to maintain an accurate database.

// engagement pipeline

From target region to warehouse record

Brief in. Clean data out.

Define Scope
d 0

Provide target regions, property types, or specific URLs. We design the extraction schema together.

Pipeline Build
d 2–4

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

Validation & QA
d 4–6

Schema validation, null-rate checks, price-outlier detection, and sample reviews 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 Sawday's pipeline handles the hard parts

Extracting calendar data requires persistent sessions and dynamic rendering. Here is how we stay resilient.

pipeline-monitor · sawdays.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

We use UK-based residential ISP proxies with realistic browser fingerprints and randomised request timing to bypass rate limits during extensive calendar scans.

JavaScript rendering
Full Playwright execution for dynamic calendars

Sawday's availability calendars require JavaScript execution to hydrate pricing data. We run full Playwright browser sessions to capture data that headless HTTP clients miss entirely.

Schema stability
Resilient selectors with fallback chains

Our selector strategy uses multiple fallback chains per field - CSS selectors, XPath, and text-pattern matching - so a layout change does not break your data pipeline overnight.

Change detection
Only re-scrape what has changed

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

Monitoring & alerting
24/7 pipeline health

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

Applications

Who uses Sawday's data - and how

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

01
Market Pricing Analysis

Compare boutique accommodation rates across UK regions to optimise pricing strategies.

02
Investment Due Diligence

Identify high-yield properties and occupancy trends for hospitality investments.

03
OTA Aggregation

Enrich meta-search engines with curated boutique inventory and unique property attributes.

04
Competitor Benchmarking

Track availability and pricing strategies of similar properties to maintain competitive edge.

05
Travel Trend Forecasting

Correlate booking velocities with regional events to predict demand spikes.

06
Sustainability Research

Analyse the adoption of eco-features and green certifications in UK hospitality.

Why DataFlirt

"Sawday's curates the finest boutique stays, but accessing their availability and pricing at scale requires a dedicated extraction pipeline."

Most teams underestimate the complexity of scraping dynamic calendar widgets. Reliable extraction requires JavaScript rendering, session management, and resilient proxy rotation to handle rate limits. DataFlirt absorbs that complexity so your engineers can focus on analysis, not infrastructure maintenance.

Technical Spec

Sawday's scraper - technical capabilities

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

JavaScript rendering
Full Playwright sessions required for calendar hydration and availability checks
Supported
CAPTCHA bypass
Automated 2Captcha + CapSolver integration
Supported
Residential proxy rotation
ISP-grade residential IPs from UK pools rotated per request
Supported
Availability calendar parsing
Extract rolling 12-month availability status per property
Supported
Pricing tier extraction
Capture seasonal rates, minimum stays, and weekend pricing
Supported
Image URL extraction
Extract high-resolution CDN links for property galleries
Supported
Change detection (diffs)
Hash-based diff: only emit records with changed fields since last run
Supported
Webhook delivery
HTTP POST per record or batch
Supported
User booking history
Gated data requires authenticated user sessions
Partial
Direct host messaging
Private communication channels are not accessible
Partial
Infrastructure

Infrastructure powering the Sawday's 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 dynamic calendar interactions.

Residential Proxy Infrastructure

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

Cloud-Native Orchestration

Pipelines run on AWS Lambda and ECS. Airflow handles scheduling and dependency management. All state stored in 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
Parquet
Columnar format optimised for analytical queries
AWS S3
Direct bucket delivery compatible with any data lake
Webhook
HTTP POST payloads for real-time downstream processing
API
REST endpoint to query latest extracted records
BigQuery
Streamed directly into your dataset
Snowflake
Stage and load workflow for incremental updates
PostgreSQL
Direct database upserts with conflict resolution
S3
Direct bucket delivery — compatible with any data lake
// faq

Common questions.

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

Ask us directly →
Is scraping Sawday's legal?

Scraping publicly available information from Sawday's is generally permissible. DataFlirt targets only public, non-authenticated property, pricing, and review data. We do not extract personal user data or circumvent authentication walls.

How do you handle rate limits when checking calendars?

We use UK residential ISP proxies, full Playwright browser sessions with realistic fingerprints, and request timing modelled on human behaviour to distribute load and avoid IP bans.

How far ahead can you extract availability?

We typically extract a rolling 12-month window for availability and pricing, matching the maximum visibility provided by the platform's calendar widget.

How fresh is the data?

Full catalogue refreshes run at a daily cadence, completing within a 4-hour window. Pricing and availability diffs are calculated immediately post-run.

Which regions do you support?

We support all regions listed on sawdays.co.uk, including the UK, France, Italy, Spain, and Portugal.

What is the minimum viable engagement?

Our packages start at a defined property list or specific target regions with weekly delivery. Contact us with your use case for a scoped quote.

Can I request a sample dataset?

Yes. We provide a sample run of up to 100 properties as part of the pre-engagement scoping process, allowing you to validate schema fit and data quality.

$ dataflirt scope --new-project --source=sawdays.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 property dump or continuous availability tracking across the UK - we scope, build, and operate the pipeline. Tell us what you need.

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