We extract IT hardware specifications, software licensing tiers, MPNs, stock availability, and baseline pricing from SHI.com. Delivered as clean JSON, CSV, or Parquet to S3, BigQuery, or Snowflake on your cadence.
Structured, schema-consistent data across all major object types — delivered clean, typed, and ready to query.
Complete list of extractable fields for Hardware Products objects from shi.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.
"sku": "41938202", "mpn": "20W400KEUS", "manufacturer": "Lenovo", "title": "ThinkPad T14 Gen 2", "price": 1245.99, "availability": "In Stock", "lead_time": "Ships today"
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Complete list of extractable fields for Software Licensing objects from shi.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.
"sku": "3928192", "publisher": "Microsoft", "title": "Microsoft 365 E3", "license_type": "Subscription", "user_tier": "1 User", "price": 33.0, "platform": "Cloud"
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Complete list of extractable fields for Detailed Specifications objects from shi.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.
"sku": "41938202", "processor": "Intel Core i5-1145G7", "ram": "16 GB DDR4", "storage": "512 GB NVMe SSD", "display_size": "14 in", "os": "Windows 10 Pro 64-bit", "weight": "3.23 lbs"
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Complete list of extractable fields for Search Results objects from shi.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.
"keyword": "enterprise firewall", "position": 1, "sku": "3819203", "mpn": "FG-60F", "manufacturer": "Fortinet", "price": 895.0, "stock_status": "Ships in 1-3 days"
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Complete list of extractable fields for Categories & Taxonomies objects from shi.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.
"category_id": "cat_1029", "category_name": "Network Switches", "parent_category": "Networking", "level": 2, "active_sku_count": 3412, "top_brands": "['Cisco', 'HPE', 'Juniper']"
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Our SHI.com scraper normalises complex IT hardware specifications, software licensing tiers, and baseline B2B pricing across thousands of manufacturer catalogues.
Extract deep technical specifications for servers, networking gear, and endpoints. We normalise processor, RAM, and storage fields across different vendor formats.
Capture subscription tiers, perpetual license details, user counts, and renewal MPNs for enterprise software catalogues.
Track Manufacturer Part Numbers (MPNs) alongside SHI internal SKUs to ensure exact cross-referencing with your internal procurement databases.
Extract standard corporate pricing and MSRP data to establish cost baselines before account-specific contract discounts are applied.
Monitor stock availability signals, warehouse shipping estimates, and backorder lead times for critical infrastructure components.
Crawl complete category trees from top-level hardware down to specific component sub-categories, maintaining hierarchical relationships.
Extract compatible accessories, required cables, and recommended support contracts linked to primary hardware SKUs.
Aggregate product counts, baseline pricing, and availability metrics by manufacturer to analyse vendor market presence.
Run scheduled pipelines that only emit records when pricing, availability, or specifications change from the previous run.
Brief in. Clean data out.
Provide target categories, manufacturer lists, or specific MPNs. We design the extraction schema together.
We configure Scrapy crawlers, proxy rotation, and DOM parsing logic specific to SHI.com catalogue structures.
Schema validation, null-rate checks, and MPN accuracy verification before full launch.
JSON, CSV, or Parquet pushed to your S3 bucket, BigQuery dataset, or Snowflake stage on agreed cadence.
Extracting data from SHI.com requires handling highly variable specification formats and dynamic inventory rendering. We manage the infrastructure so you get clean data.
SHI.com relies on JavaScript to load real-time pricing and stock availability. We use Playwright to execute page scripts and capture the final DOM state, ensuring accurate inventory data.
Different manufacturers present technical specifications in varied formats. Our parsing logic normalises these disparate tables into structured, consistent JSON fields for processors, memory, and dimensions.
B2B catalogues contain thousands of pages per category. Our crawlers manage complex pagination states and infinite scrolls to ensure complete extraction without dropping records.
We route requests through US-based residential proxies with realistic browser fingerprints to avoid rate limiting and maintain high throughput during large catalogue dumps.
We compute hashes for every SKU record. Subsequent runs only deliver changed data, minimising your storage costs and simplifying downstream database upserts.
Enterprise procurement teams extract baseline pricing across hardware categories to evaluate vendor quotes and negotiate better contracts.
Value-Added Resellers (VARs) and Managed Service Providers (MSPs) track SHI pricing to adjust their own margins and stay competitive.
B2B distributors scrape technical specifications and MPNs to enrich their own product databases with accurate, standardised hardware data.
IT planners monitor lead times and stock availability for critical networking and server components to mitigate supply chain risks.
Market analysts track the volume of active SKUs per manufacturer to determine vendor prominence within specific IT categories.
Asset managers extract software licensing tiers and renewal MPNs to map available products against internal compliance requirements.
"SHI.com holds a critical map of enterprise IT procurement, but extracting normalised MPNs and B2B pricing requires navigating complex, manufacturer-specific catalogue structures."
Scraping B2B IT catalogues demands more than simple HTTP requests. Navigating SHI's extensive taxonomy, parsing highly variable specification tables across thousands of manufacturers, and capturing dynamic inventory signals requires purpose-built infrastructure. We manage the complexity of rendering pipelines and schema normalisation so you receive clean, queryable procurement data.
Everything supported by our shi.com scraper — rendered SPA elements, auth walls, rate-limit evasion and beyond.
Open-source tooling on proven cloud infra — no vendor lock-in, full observability.
Scrapy handles crawl orchestration and deduplication. Playwright handles JavaScript rendering for dynamic inventory signals. Combined via custom middleware.
We route traffic through US-based residential ISP proxies to avoid rate limiting and maintain high throughput during large catalogue extractions.
Pipelines run on AWS Lambda and Kubernetes. Airflow handles scheduling and dependency management. All state is stored in managed PostgreSQL.
Data delivered to where your team already works — no new tooling required.
About shi.com scraping, legality, and pipeline operations.
Ask us directly →Scraping publicly available pricing, specifications, and availability data is generally permissible under applicable law. DataFlirt extracts only public, non-authenticated catalogue data. We do not circumvent authentication walls or extract proprietary contract pricing. Clients should review terms of service and consult legal counsel for specific use cases.
No. We extract baseline B2B pricing and MSRP visible to unauthenticated users. Contract-specific pricing requires authentication credentials, which falls outside our standard managed pipeline service for public data.
Our parsing logic maps manufacturer-specific table structures to a unified schema. For example, 'Memory', 'RAM', and 'Standard Memory' are all normalised to a single 'ram' field in the output JSON.
We can configure pipelines to run daily or at custom intervals. The data reflects the exact stock status rendered by SHI.com at the moment of extraction.
Yes. MPNs are critical for cross-referencing IT hardware. We extract the MPN alongside the SHI internal SKU for every product record.
Our packages start at defined category or manufacturer lists (typically 5,000-50,000 SKUs) with weekly delivery. We price based on volume and delivery frequency. Contact us for a scoped quote.
20-minute scoping call. Pilot dataset within the week. Production within two. Whether you need a one-off hardware specification dump or a continuous price-monitoring feed across 100K SKUs - we scope, build, and operate the pipeline. Tell us what you need.
