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Sports nutrition data,
delivered at scale.

We extract product listings, macro profiles, flavour variants, ingredient lists, and pricing tiers from The Protein Works. Delivered as clean JSON, CSV, or Parquet to S3, BigQuery, or Snowflake.

Products extracted
2.1K /day
Variants mapped
14.8K /run
Review records
84K /week
Price updates
12.4K /24h
Uptime
99.98%
Data Dictionary

Every field we extract from theproteinworks.com

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

Complete list of extractable fields for Product Metadata objects from theproteinworks.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

skutitlecategorysub_categorybase_pricecurrencyratingreview_countdescriptionprimary_image_url
product_metadata
● 200 OK
"sku": "TPW-WHEY-80",
"title": "Whey Protein 80 (Concentrate)",
"category": "Protein Powders",
"sub_category": "Whey Protein",
"base_price": 24.99,
"rating": 4.8,
"review_count": 14205
# skutitlecategorysub_categorybase_pricecurrency
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Complete list of extractable fields for Variants & Flavours objects from theproteinworks.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

variant_skuparent_skuflavour_namesize_weightpricediscount_pricestock_statusbarcodeimage_url
variants_& flavours
● 200 OK
"variant_sku": "TPW-WHEY-80-CHOC-500",
"parent_sku": "TPW-WHEY-80",
"flavour_name": "Choc Mint Brownie",
"size_weight": "500g",
"price": 24.99,
"discount_price": 19.99,
"stock_status": "IN_STOCK"
# variant_skuparent_skuflavour_namesize_weightpricediscount_price
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Complete list of extractable fields for Nutritional Info objects from theproteinworks.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

skuserving_sizeenergy_kcalenergy_kjprotein_gcarbs_gsugars_gfat_gsaturates_gsalt_g
nutritional_info
● 200 OK
"sku": "TPW-WHEY-80-CHOC-500",
"serving_size": "25g",
"energy_kcal": 101,
"protein_g": 20.6,
"carbs_g": 1.5,
"sugars_g": 1.5,
"fat_g": 1.8,
"salt_g": 0.12
# skuserving_sizeenergy_kcalenergy_kjprotein_gcarbs_g
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Complete list of extractable fields for Ingredients & Allergens objects from theproteinworks.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

skuingredient_listallergens_presentallergens_may_containvegan_friendlyvegetariangluten_freedairy_freeartificial_sweeteners
ingredients_& allergens
● 200 OK
"sku": "TPW-WHEY-80-CHOC-500",
"ingredient_list": "Whey Protein Concentrate (Milk), Fat Reduced Cocoa Powder, Flavouring, Sweetener (Sucralose)",
"allergens_present": "['Milk']",
"allergens_may_contain": "['Egg', 'Soy', 'Gluten']",
"vegan_friendly": false,
"vegetarian": true,
"gluten_free": false
# skuingredient_listallergens_presentallergens_may_containvegan_friendlyvegetarian
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Complete list of extractable fields for Reviews objects from theproteinworks.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

review_idskureviewer_nameratingtitlebodydateverified_buyerhelpful_votes
reviews
● 200 OK
"review_id": "REV-992817",
"sku": "TPW-WHEY-80",
"reviewer_name": "James T.",
"rating": 5,
"title": "Mixes perfectly",
"body": "Great taste and mixes well in a shaker without lumps. Highly recommend the Choc Mint.",
"verified_buyer": true
# review_idskureviewer_nameratingtitlebody
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Capabilities

Complete sports nutrition catalogue extraction

Our pipeline handles the deeply nested variant structures of The Protein Works, capturing every flavour, size, nutritional macro, and pricing tier without missing data points.

Product Catalogue Sync

Extract base titles, descriptions, categories, and primary imagery across the entire site architecture.

Multi-Dimensional Variants

Map parent products to every combination of flavour and pouch size, capturing specific SKUs and stock states.

Nutritional Macros

Parse serving sizes, protein content, carbohydrates, fats, and caloric values into structured numerical fields.

Ingredients & Allergens

Capture full ingredient lists and categorise allergen warnings, vegan status, and gluten-free indicators.

Dynamic Pricing & Promos

Track RRP, current sale prices, multi-buy discounts, and promotional banner text per SKU.

Subscription Tiers

Extract recurring order discount percentages and subscribe-and-save pricing models.

Customer Reviews

Scrape paginated review data including star ratings, text bodies, dates, and verified buyer badges.

Stock Monitoring

Track out-of-stock indicators at the variant level to monitor inventory velocity and restock patterns.

Scheduled Delivery

Run pipelines daily or weekly to ensure your database reflects the latest flavour drops and price changes.

// engagement pipeline

From catalogue URL to structured macros

Brief in. Clean data out.

Define Scope
d 0

Select target categories, specific product lines, or the entire site catalogue for extraction.

Pipeline Build
d 2–4

We configure Playwright spiders to handle variant dropdowns and parse dynamic nutritional tables.

Validation & QA
d 4–6

Data engineers verify macro field normalisation, ensuring 25g protein is parsed as a clean float.

Delivery
ongoing

Structured records pushed to your warehouse or S3 bucket on a defined schedule.

Under the hood

Handling nested variants and dynamic pricing

Sports nutrition sites rely heavily on complex product matrices. Here is how we extract accurate data across thousands of SKU combinations.

pipeline-monitor · theproteinworks.com · 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
Variant expansion
Iterating through flavour and size matrices

A single protein powder page can host 40 different flavour and size combinations. We automate the selection of each dropdown permutation to expose the specific price, SKU, and stock status for every variant.

Macro normalisation
Structuring nutritional tables

Nutritional information is often presented in dynamic HTML tables that change based on the selected flavour. We parse these tables and normalise the data into standard per-serving and per-100g numeric fields.

Localised routing
UK residential proxies

To ensure accurate pricing, tax, and shipping data for the primary market, we route requests through UK-based residential IP addresses, avoiding geo-redirects and currency conversions.

Review pagination
Deep extraction of customer feedback

We traverse review pagination widgets to collect historical feedback, providing a complete dataset for sentiment analysis on specific flavours and formulations.

Schema stability
Resilient DOM selectors

E-commerce platforms update their frontend frameworks frequently. We use multiple fallback selectors for critical elements like price and ingredients to maintain pipeline integrity during site updates.

Applications

Who uses sports nutrition data

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

01
Competitor Pricing Analysis

Brands monitor The Protein Works pricing, promotional cycles, and bundle discounts to adjust their own retail strategies.

02
Product Development

R&D teams analyse flavour variants and ingredient profiles to identify market gaps and trending formulations.

03
Market Trend Forecasting

Analysts track the introduction of vegan, plant-based, and specialised diet ranges to map industry shifts.

04
AI Nutrition Models

Health tech platforms ingest structured macro data to train meal planning and dietary recommendation algorithms.

05
Sentiment Analysis

Marketing teams process review text to understand consumer preferences regarding taste, mixability, and digestion.

06
Inventory Intelligence

Retailers monitor out-of-stock patterns across specific sizes and flavours to gauge demand velocity.

Why DataFlirt

"The sports nutrition market moves fast. Accessing structured macro profiles, flavour trends, and pricing tiers dictates who wins the category."

Extracting data from The Protein Works requires parsing complex multi-dimensional variants and normalising nutritional tables. DataFlirt handles this infrastructure so your data science teams receive clean, queryable records ready for analysis without maintaining crawler code.

Technical Spec

The Protein Works scraper — technical specifications

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

Variant iteration
Automated selection of all flavour and size dropdowns
Supported
Macro parsing
Extraction of nutritional tables into float values
Supported
Review extraction
Full historical review scraping via pagination
Supported
Promo tracking
Capture of active discount codes and sale banners
Supported
UK Proxy routing
Requests routed via UK IPs for accurate domestic pricing
Supported
Subscription pricing
Extraction of recurring order discount tiers
Supported
Tribe Rewards points balance
Requires authenticated user session
Partial
Checkout cart pricing
Final pricing including dynamic shipping calculations
Partial
Infrastructure

Infrastructure powering the extraction

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

ScrapyPlaywrightPython 3.12RedisPostgreSQLApache AirflowAWS LambdaS3CloudWatch2CaptchaCapSolverResidential ProxiesDockerKubernetesGrafanaPrometheus
Playwright Integration

We use headless browsers to interact with complex product configuration menus, ensuring all variant data is exposed before extraction.

Data Normalisation

Raw HTML tables are parsed and cleaned via Python pipelines, converting string representations of macros into typed numeric fields.

Cloud Orchestration

Scheduled runs are managed via Apache Airflow on Kubernetes, providing reliable execution and automated retries on failure.

Output & Delivery

Your data, your destination

Data delivered to where your team already works — no new tooling required.

JSON
Nested structures ideal for variant and macro data
CSV
Flat files for easy ingestion into spreadsheet tools
XLS
Excel format for immediate business analyst use
Parquet
Columnar storage for efficient data warehouse queries
AWS S3
Direct upload to your cloud storage buckets
Webhook
HTTP POST delivery upon pipeline completion
API
REST endpoints to query your extracted datasets
PostgreSQL
Direct database insertion with upsert logic
S3
Direct bucket delivery — compatible with any data lake
// faq

Common questions.

About theproteinworks.com scraping, legality, and pipeline operations.

Ask us directly →
Can you extract every flavour and size combination?

Yes. Our crawlers iterate through every available option in the product configuration menus, capturing the specific price, SKU, nutritional profile, and stock status for each variant.

How do you handle nutritional information?

We parse the on-page nutritional tables and normalise the data. Values like '25g' are cleaned and stored as numeric floats in specific fields (e.g., protein_g: 25.0), making the data immediately queryable.

Do you capture ingredient lists and allergens?

Yes. We extract the full ingredient text and parse out specific allergen warnings, as well as flags for vegan, vegetarian, and gluten-free suitability.

Can I get historical pricing data?

We provide current pricing at the time of the scrape. By scheduling regular runs (e.g., daily or weekly), you build a comprehensive time-series dataset of price changes and promotional cycles.

Are customer reviews included?

Yes. We can scrape the full review history for products, including star ratings, text bodies, helpful votes, and verified buyer status.

How is the data delivered?

We support multiple formats including JSON, CSV, and Parquet, delivered directly to your AWS S3 bucket, data warehouse, or via Webhook.

$ dataflirt scope --new-project --source=theproteinworks.com ready

Tell us what
to extract.
We do the rest.

20-minute scoping call. Pilot dataset within the week. Production within two. Stop manually checking competitor pricing and flavour drops. We build and manage the pipeline to deliver clean, structured data directly to your systems.

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