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RUN · 142 active pipelines · shopify stores live

Shopify store data,
at warehouse scale.

We extract product listings, variant pricing, inventory signals, and collections from any Shopify storefront. Delivered as clean JSON, CSV, or Parquet to S3, BigQuery, or Snowflake on your cadence.

Products extracted
1.8M /day
Stores tracked
4,192
Variant updates
8.4M /24h
Active pipelines
142
Uptime
99.98%
Data Dictionary

Every field we extract from Shopify

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 Shopify. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

product_idtitlehandlevendorproduct_typetagspublished_atvariants_countimagesbody_html
product_listings
● 200 OK
"product_id": "7849201847",
"title": "Minimalist Ceramic Vase",
"handle": "minimalist-ceramic-vase",
"vendor": "Studio Design",
"product_type": "Home Decor",
"tags": "['ceramic', 'vase', 'minimalist', 'new arrival']"
# product_idtitlehandlevendorproduct_typetags
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Complete list of extractable fields for Variant Data objects from Shopify. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

variant_idproduct_idtitlepricecompare_at_priceskubarcoderequires_shippingtaxableavailableweight
variant_data
● 200 OK
"variant_id": "4291837492",
"product_id": "7849201847",
"title": "Large / Matte Black",
"price": 89.0,
"compare_at_price": 110.0,
"sku": "VSE-BLK-LRG",
"available": true,
"weight": 1.2
# variant_idproduct_idtitlepricecompare_at_pricesku
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Complete list of extractable fields for Collections objects from Shopify. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

collection_idhandletitledescriptionpublished_atsort_ordertemplate_suffixproducts_count
collections
● 200 OK
"collection_id": "293847192",
"handle": "summer-collection",
"title": "Summer 2026 Collection",
"sort_order": "best-selling",
"products_count": 42,
"published_at": "2026-05-01T10:00:00Z"
# collection_idhandletitledescriptionpublished_atsort_order
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Complete list of extractable fields for Store Metadata objects from Shopify. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

store_domaintheme_nametheme_idcurrencytimezoneshop_nameprimary_localemyshopify_domain
store_metadata
● 200 OK
"store_domain": "studiodesign.com",
"theme_name": "Dawn",
"theme_id": "129384719",
"currency": "USD",
"shop_name": "Studio Design Official",
"myshopify_domain": "studio-design-store.myshopify.com"
# store_domaintheme_nametheme_idcurrencytimezoneshop_name
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Complete list of extractable fields for Inventory Signals objects from Shopify. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

variant_idskuavailableinventory_quantityinventory_policyinventory_managementbackorderableupdated_at
inventory_signals
● 200 OK
"variant_id": "4291837492",
"sku": "VSE-BLK-LRG",
"available": true,
"inventory_policy": "deny",
"inventory_management": "shopify",
"updated_at": "2026-05-12T14:30:00Z"
# variant_idskuavailableinventory_quantityinventory_policyinventory_management
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Capabilities

Everything you need from Shopify stores - nothing you don't

Our Shopify scraper handles storefront parsing, hidden JSON endpoints, pagination, and multi-currency formatting across thousands of independent merchant sites.

Full Catalogue Extraction

Extract titles, descriptions, vendors, tags, and product types across entire storefronts.

Variant-Level Pricing

Capture price, compare-at price, and SKU data for every product variant.

Hidden API Parsing

Target Shopify's products.json and collections.json endpoints for structured data extraction.

Inventory Tracking

Monitor stock availability, inventory policies, and out-of-stock flags per variant.

Collection Mapping

Map products to their respective collections, including smart collections and manual sorts.

Theme & App Metadata

Identify active themes, tracking pixels, and installed frontend apps via DOM analysis.

Multi-Currency Extraction

Capture localised pricing data using Shopify's native currency formatting parameters.

Store Discovery

Identify and validate myshopify.com domains and custom domains for target merchants.

Scheduled + Streaming Modes

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

// engagement pipeline

From store list to warehouse record

Brief in. Clean data out.

Define Scope
d 0

Provide target store URLs, myshopify domains, or category criteria. We design the extraction schema together.

Pipeline Build
d 2–4

We configure crawlers, proxy rotation, and endpoint parsing for the target Shopify storefronts.

Validation & QA
d 4–6

Schema validation, null-rate checks, and variant mapping verification 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 Shopify pipeline handles the hard parts

Shopify employs aggressive rate limiting and Cloudflare protection. Here is how we maintain resilient extraction pipelines.

pipeline-monitor · Shopify · 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
Cloudflare Bypass
TLS fingerprinting and session management

Shopify heavily utilises Cloudflare bot management. We deploy TLS fingerprinting and residential proxies to bypass JS challenges and CAPTCHAs, ensuring consistent access to storefront endpoints.

Rate Limit Evasion
Distributed request architecture

Shopify's public endpoints enforce strict IP-based rate limits. Our distributed crawl architecture spreads requests across thousands of distinct IPs to maintain high throughput without triggering blocks.

Hidden Endpoint Extraction
Direct JSON querying

We bypass HTML parsing where possible, directly querying Shopify's undocumented products.json and search.js endpoints for clean JSON responses, reducing payload size and extraction errors.

Pagination Handling
Cursor-based state management

Shopify limits JSON endpoint responses to 250 items. We manage cursor-based pagination and parameter manipulation to extract catalogues of any size without missing records.

Change Detection
Hash-based diffing

For large merchant networks, we maintain a hash index of last-seen values per variant. Subsequent runs only push diffs, reducing compute and storage costs for your data warehouse.

Applications

Who uses Shopify data - and how

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

01
Competitor Price Monitoring

DTC brands track competitor pricing, discount strategies, and variant-level price changes.

02
Market Research

Aggregators analyse emerging trends, popular product tags, and vendor distributions across specific niches.

03
Lead Generation

B2B SaaS companies identify stores using specific themes or frontend apps to build targeted sales lists.

04
Inventory Intelligence

Retailers monitor competitor stockouts and inventory policies to optimise their own supply chain and marketing spend.

05
Brand Protection

Brands audit independent Shopify stores for MAP violations, counterfeit goods, and unauthorised reselling.

06
Investment Analysis

PE firms track store catalogue growth, pricing power, and product launch velocity to evaluate merchant health.

Why DataFlirt

"Shopify powers millions of independent storefronts, creating a highly fragmented but structurally uniform dataset that requires dedicated infrastructure to query at scale."

Extracting data from a single Shopify store is trivial. Extracting data from 5,000 stores daily requires bypassing Cloudflare, managing cursor pagination across millions of variants, and normalising multi-currency pricing. DataFlirt handles the extraction complexity so your data engineering team can focus on downstream analytics.

Technical Spec

Shopify scraper - technical capabilities

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

products.json extraction
Direct querying of Shopify's public JSON endpoints for structured data
Supported
Cloudflare bypass
TLS fingerprinting and residential proxies to solve JS challenges
Supported
Variant mapping
Complete extraction of all product variants, SKUs, and pricing tiers
Supported
Theme detection
Identification of active Shopify themes and installed frontend applications
Supported
Multi-currency support
Extraction of localised pricing using Shopify currency parameters
Supported
Cursor pagination
Handling of page_info parameters for catalogues exceeding 250 items
Supported
Change detection (diffs)
Hash-based diffing to only emit records with changed fields since last run
Supported
Checkout & Cart data
Access to active cart sessions, shipping rates, and checkout flows
Partial
Customer PII
Extraction of customer accounts, order history, and personal identifiable information
Partial
Admin API access
Querying internal GraphQL admin APIs requiring merchant access tokens
Partial
Infrastructure

Infrastructure powering the Shopify 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 endpoint querying and cursor pagination. Playwright manages Cloudflare JS challenges and token generation. Combined for maximum throughput.

Distributed Proxy Infrastructure

We rotate requests across vast IP pools to bypass Shopify's aggressive rate limiting. Fingerprint spoofing ensures high success rates against WAF rules.

Cloud-Native Orchestration

Pipelines run on AWS Lambda (burst) and ECS (sustained). Airflow handles scheduling, dependency management, and SLA alerting. All state 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 - schema versioned per run
CSV
Flat file with typed columns - Excel/Sheets compatible
Parquet
Columnar format for BigQuery, Snowflake, 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 extracted catalogue data on demand
XLS
Excel format for business analysts and non-technical teams
BigQuery
Streamed directly into your dataset with schema auto-detect
Snowflake
Stage + COPY INTO workflow - incremental or full-replace
S3
Direct bucket delivery — compatible with any data lake
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Common questions.

About Shopify scraping, legality, and pipeline operations.

Ask us directly →
Is scraping Shopify stores legal?

Scraping publicly available catalogue and pricing data from Shopify storefronts is generally permissible. DataFlirt targets only public endpoints and HTML. We do not attempt to bypass authentication to access admin APIs, checkout flows, or customer PII. Clients should consult legal counsel for specific use cases.

How do you handle Cloudflare bot protection on Shopify?

Shopify uses Cloudflare to block automated traffic. We utilise residential proxies, TLS fingerprint spoofing, and headless browsers to solve JavaScript challenges and maintain valid session tokens without triggering blocks.

Can you extract data from the products.json endpoint?

Yes. Where available and not disabled by the merchant, we query the products.json and collections.json endpoints directly. This provides cleaner data and reduces server load compared to parsing HTML.

What happens if a store disables the products.json endpoint?

Many high-volume merchants disable public JSON endpoints. Our pipelines automatically fall back to HTML parsing and DOM extraction using Playwright to ensure continuous data delivery regardless of endpoint status.

Can you extract all variants for a product?

Yes. We extract the complete variant matrix, including distinct SKUs, prices, compare-at prices, weights, and availability status for every size, colour, or custom option combination.

How do you handle multi-currency stores?

We can append specific currency parameters to request URLs to extract localised pricing data, ensuring you receive the exact price displayed to users in your target region.

Do you track inventory levels?

We capture the 'available' boolean flag and, where exposed by the theme or API, the exact inventory quantity. Note that exact stock counts are often hidden by merchants, in which case we track in-stock vs out-of-stock states.

$ dataflirt scope --new-project --source=Shopify 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 to monitor 50 competitor stores or index 50,000 merchants for market research, we scope, build, and operate the pipeline. Tell us what you need.

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