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RUN: 14 active pipelines: ships-ltd.co.jp live

SHIPS Japan data,
at warehouse scale.

We extract apparel listings, staff styling coordinates, sizing tables, and store inventory from ships-ltd.co.jp. Delivered as clean JSON, CSV, or Parquet to S3, BigQuery, or Snowflake on your cadence.

Products extracted
42.1K /day
Stock updates
184K /24h
Styling looks
12.4K /run
Active pipelines
14
Uptime
99.94%
Data Dictionary

Every field we extract from ships-ltd.co.jp

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 ships-ltd.co.jp. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

product_idnamebrandcategoryprice_jpysale_price_jpycolourssizesmaterialdescriptionimage_urlsurl
product_listings
● 200 OK
"product_id": "110130245",
"name": "SHIPS: Super140's Wool Chester Coat",
"brand": "SHIPS",
"price_jpy": 39600,
"colours": "['Navy', 'Charcoal Gray', 'Camel']",
"sizes": "['S', 'M', 'L', 'XL']",
"material": "Wool 100%"
# product_idnamebrandcategoryprice_jpysale_price_jpy
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Complete list of extractable fields for Inventory & Stock objects from ships-ltd.co.jp. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

skuproduct_idcolour_codesize_codeonline_stock_statusonline_stock_quantitystore_stock_availablerestock_scheduledpre_order_flagdelivery_windowscraped_at
inventory_& stock
● 200 OK
"sku": "110130245-78-93",
"colour_code": "78",
"size_code": "93",
"online_stock_status": "in_stock",
"online_stock_quantity": 14,
"store_stock_available": true,
"pre_order_flag": false
# skuproduct_idcolour_codesize_codeonline_stock_statusonline_stock_quantity
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Complete list of extractable fields for Staff Styling objects from ships-ltd.co.jp. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

coordinate_idstaff_namestaff_height_cmshop_nameimage_urlsitems_worn_skuslikes_countdescriptiondate_posted
staff_styling
● 200 OK
"coordinate_id": "c_284910",
"staff_name": "Y. Tanaka",
"staff_height_cm": 175,
"shop_name": "SHIPS Ginza",
"likes_count": 142,
"items_worn_skus": "['110130245', '112040188']",
"date_posted": "2026-10-14"
# coordinate_idstaff_namestaff_height_cmshop_nameimage_urlsitems_worn_skus
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Complete list of extractable fields for Sizing Tables objects from ships-ltd.co.jp. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

product_idsize_labellength_cmshoulder_width_cmchest_cmsleeve_length_cmwaist_cmhip_cminseam_cm
sizing_tables
● 200 OK
"product_id": "110130245",
"size_label": "M",
"length_cm": 92.0,
"shoulder_width_cm": 44.5,
"chest_cm": 106.0,
"sleeve_length_cm": 62.0
# product_idsize_labellength_cmshoulder_width_cmchest_cmsleeve_length_cm
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Complete list of extractable fields for Categories & Brands objects from ships-ltd.co.jp. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

brand_namebrand_slugcategory_pathgenderitem_countnew_arrivals_countsale_items_counturl
categories_& brands
● 200 OK
"brand_name": "Barbour",
"brand_slug": "barbour",
"category_path": "Men > Outerwear > Jackets",
"gender": "Men",
"item_count": 48,
"sale_items_count": 12,
"url": "https://www.ships-ltd.co.jp/brand/barbour/"
# brand_namebrand_slugcategory_pathgenderitem_countnew_arrivals_count
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Capabilities

Apparel intelligence from SHIPS Japan

Our scraper navigates the complexities of Japanese apparel retail: multi-dimensional variant matrices, staff styling content, and physical store inventory lookups.

Full Product Extraction

Title, pricing, descriptions, materials, and care instructions extracted across Men, Women, and Kids categories.

Staff Styling Coordinates

Extract 'Staff Styling' posts linking specific outfits to SKUs, including staff height and store location.

Granular Sizing Data

Japanese size measurements mapped to structured fields: length, shoulder width, chest, and sleeve length per size variant.

Omnichannel Inventory

Track online warehouse stock status alongside physical store availability across SHIPS retail locations.

Brand Intelligence

Monitor third-party brands sold via SHIPS, tracking assortment size and category placement.

Pre-Order Monitoring

Track delivery windows and reservation limits for upcoming seasonal collections.

Sale & Markdown Tracking

Capture discount percentages, sale event pricing, and historical price drops.

High-Res Image Scraping

Extract uncompressed product and coordinate images for visual AI training or catalogue matching.

Scheduled Modes

Run daily catalogue dumps or configure hourly checks for fast-moving inventory and flash sales.

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From category URLs to structured data

Brief in. Clean data out.

Define Scope
d 0

Provide categories, brands, or specific search terms. We design the extraction schema together.

Pipeline Build
d 2–4

We configure Scrapy and Playwright crawlers for ships-ltd.co.jp, handling dynamic loading and bot protection.

Validation & QA
d 4–6

Schema validation, Japanese text encoding checks, and variant mapping verification before launch.

Delivery
ongoing

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

Under the hood

Handling Japanese apparel sites at scale

Apparel scraping involves complex data structures. Here is how we manage the ships-ltd.co.jp pipeline.

pipeline-monitor · ships-ltd.co.jp · live ● active
// fingerprinting
Identity rotation
TLS fingerprintrandomised
User-agentrotated
IP poolresidential
Challenges blocked0
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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
Japan residential IPs

Retailers often block foreign datacentre traffic. We route requests through Japanese residential ISP proxies to ensure consistent access and avoid geographic blocking.

JavaScript rendering
Playwright for dynamic stock

Inventory levels and store availability are loaded asynchronously. We use Playwright to execute JavaScript and intercept the underlying API responses for accurate stock data.

Text normalisation
Japanese encoding handling

We handle character encoding transformations, normalising full-width and half-width alphanumeric characters in Japanese text to ensure clean downstream analytics.

Variant mapping
Complex colour-size matrices

Apparel SKUs exist in multi-dimensional matrices. Our pipeline flattens colour and size combinations into distinct records, linking each to specific stock levels and identifiers.

Change detection
Only re-scrape what changes

For daily tracking, we maintain a hash index of last-seen values. Subsequent runs only push diffs for price changes or stock depletion, reducing processing load.

Applications

Who uses SHIPS data

Teams across industries use ships-ltd.co.jp data to build competitive products and smarter operations.

01
Competitor Price Monitoring

Retailers track SHIPS markdowns, sale events, and initial pricing strategies to adjust their own positioning.

02
Trend Analysis

Fashion analysts process staff styling coordinates to identify emerging silhouettes, colour palettes, and styling trends.

03
Inventory Forecasting

Supply chain teams monitor stock depletion rates across specific sizes and colours to optimise their own procurement.

04
Brand Performance

Brands track their representation on SHIPS, monitoring SKU count, category placement, and sell-through indicators.

05
Assortment Planning

Merchandisers analyse the distribution of Men, Women, and Kids SKUs to understand category weighting.

06
AI Styling Models

Machine learning teams use staff coordinate images and associated SKU metadata to train outfit recommendation engines.

Why DataFlirt

"SHIPS holds critical signals for the Japanese apparel market, but extracting multi-variant stock and styling data requires dedicated infrastructure."

Most teams underestimate the investment required: reliable apparel scraping requires handling complex size matrices, physical store inventory APIs, Japanese text normalisation, and daily selector maintenance. DataFlirt absorbs that complexity so your engineers focus on analysis.

Technical Spec

SHIPS scraper: technical capabilities

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

JavaScript rendering
Full Playwright sessions required for dynamic inventory and store lookups
Supported
CAPTCHA bypass
Automated solver integration for bot-protection challenges
Supported
Japan Residential Proxies
ISP-grade IPs located in Japan to prevent geo-blocking
Supported
Staff Styling extraction
Pulls coordinate images, staff details, and linked SKUs
Supported
Store inventory lookup
Extracts physical store stock status per SKU
Supported
Variant matrix mapping
Flattens colour and size combinations into distinct rows
Supported
Change detection
Hash-based diff logic for tracking price and stock changes
Supported
Webhook delivery
HTTP POST per record for real-time inventory alerts
Supported
Member-only pricing
Gated discount tiers requiring SHIPS Member authentication
Partial
User purchase history
Private account data requiring user credentials
Partial
Infrastructure

Infrastructure powering the SHIPS 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 retry logic. Playwright executes JavaScript to load dynamic stock data and store inventory APIs.

Residential Proxy Infrastructure

We maintain pools of Japanese residential ISP proxies. Rotation happens per request to bypass datacentre IP blocks.

Cloud-Native Orchestration

Pipelines run on AWS Lambda and ECS. Airflow handles scheduling and dependency management. State is 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 schema
CSV
Flat file with flattened variant matrices
XLS
Excel compatible format for merchandising teams
Parquet
Columnar format for data warehouses
AWS S3
Direct bucket delivery
Webhook
HTTP POST for real-time stock alerts
API
REST endpoint for querying extracted records
Snowflake
Stage and COPY INTO workflow
S3
Direct bucket delivery — compatible with any data lake
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Common questions.

About ships-ltd.co.jp scraping, legality, and pipeline operations.

Ask us directly →
Is scraping SHIPS legal?

Scraping publicly available product and pricing information is generally permissible. DataFlirt targets only public, non-authenticated data. We do not bypass login walls or extract personal customer data.

How do you handle Japanese text encoding?

Our pipeline normalises Japanese text, converting full-width alphanumeric characters to half-width where appropriate, and ensures UTF-8 encoding across all delivered datasets.

Can you extract staff styling coordinates?

Yes. We scrape the Staff Styling section, extracting the main coordinate image, staff height, store location, and the specific product SKUs linked to the outfit.

Do you track physical store inventory?

Yes. We intercept the store inventory API calls to extract stock availability across SHIPS physical retail locations for specific SKUs.

How fresh is the stock data?

We can configure hourly pipelines for specific high-priority SKUs, or daily catalogue refreshes for the entire site depending on your requirements.

How do you map complex size variations?

We extract the sizing tables and map them to specific SKUs, ensuring that metrics like shoulder width or inseam are accurately tied to the correct size variant.

Can I request a sample dataset?

Yes. We provide a sample run of up to 500 products as part of the scoping process to validate schema fit and data quality.

$ dataflirt scope --new-project --source=ships-ltd.co.jp 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 stock-monitoring feed across 40,000 SKUs, we scope, build, and operate the pipeline. Tell us what you need.

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