We extract energy tariffs, broadband packages, mobile contracts, and insurance quotes from Uswitch. 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 Energy Tariffs objects from uswitch.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.
"provider": "Octopus Energy", "tariff_name": "Flexible Octopus", "tariff_type": "Variable", "unit_rate_elec": 24.5, "standing_charge_elec": 45.0, "exit_fee": 0.0, "estimated_annual_cost": 1850.5
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Complete list of extractable fields for Broadband Packages objects from uswitch.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.
"provider": "Virgin Media", "package_name": "M250 Fibre Broadband", "download_speed_mbps": 264, "monthly_cost": 29.99, "setup_cost": 0.0, "contract_length_months": 18, "technology_type": "Fibre to the premises"
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Complete list of extractable fields for Mobile Contracts objects from uswitch.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.
"network": "O2", "handset_model": "iPhone 15 Pro", "storage_gb": 256, "monthly_cost": 54.99, "upfront_cost": 30.0, "data_allowance_gb": 100, "contract_length_months": 24
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Complete list of extractable fields for Car Insurance Quotes objects from uswitch.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.
"provider": "Admiral", "policy_type": "Comprehensive", "annual_premium": 450.0, "voluntary_excess": 250, "compulsory_excess": 150, "courtesy_car": true, "breakdown_cover": false
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Complete list of extractable fields for Provider Reviews objects from uswitch.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.
"provider_name": "Plusnet", "service_category": "Broadband", "overall_rating": 4.2, "review_count": 14520, "customer_service_rating": 4.5, "recommendation_pct": 88
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Our Uswitch scraper automates complex multi-step quote forms, handles postcode-dependent dynamic pricing, and normalises tariff structures across energy, broadband, and insurance verticals.
Gas and electricity unit rates, standing charges, green energy percentages, and exit fees extracted across all available UK regions.
Download speeds, contract lengths, setup fees, and bundled TV channel data captured for all major UK ISPs.
Multi-step form completion using synthetic driver or homeowner profiles to generate comparative premium data.
Handset costs, upfront fees, data allowances, and network perks extracted for SIM-only and device contracts.
Regional pricing variations mapped by cycling through representative UK postal districts during extraction.
Cashback deals, retail vouchers, and fixed-price periods captured to calculate true first-year costs.
Contract termination costs and penalty clauses extracted to model switching barriers.
Customer satisfaction scores, value ratings, and recommendation percentages scraped from Uswitch provider directories.
Run one-off bulk exports or configure continuous pipelines at hourly, daily, or weekly cadences.
Standardised output formats across 50+ energy providers and ISPs, simplifying downstream analysis.
Brief in. Clean data out.
Provide postcodes, dummy insurance profiles, or specific utility categories. We design the extraction schema together.
We configure Playwright crawlers for multi-step forms, proxy rotation, session management, and CAPTCHA handling.
Schema validation, null-rate checks, premium-outlier detection, and sample verification before full launch.
JSON / CSV / Parquet pushed to your S3 bucket, BigQuery dataset, or Snowflake stage on agreed cadence.
Uswitch relies on complex session states, multi-step React forms, and strict bot mitigation. Here is how we extract data reliably.
Uswitch employs strict bot protection. Our crawlers use residential UK ISP proxies with realistic browser fingerprints and full cookie session management to maintain access during long quote processes.
Insurance and energy quotes require completing 10+ page forms. We run full Playwright browser sessions to execute JavaScript, trigger validations, and navigate stateful React applications.
Quote sessions expire quickly. We manage authentication tokens and session cookies dynamically, ensuring multi-step forms complete successfully without timeout errors.
Pricing varies by region. We cycle through a validated database of UK postcodes, handling address lookup APIs and regional form variations automatically.
Comparison sites frequently update their form flows. We alert on schema drift, validation failures, and coverage drops, adapting selectors before your data pipeline degrades.
Utility providers monitor rival tariffs, introductory offers, and regional pricing to adjust their own market positioning.
Analysts track provider visibility, top-ranked deals, and category saturation to evaluate market dynamics.
Telecoms use broadband and mobile contract data to design competitive packages and optimise contract lengths.
Insurance firms run synthetic profiles through comparison engines to compare baseline premiums against competitors.
Marketing teams track cashback, referral deals, and voucher inclusions to optimise acquisition spend.
Regulators and auditors verify advertised rates against actual quote outputs to ensure fair pricing practices.
"Uswitch aggregates the UK's most competitive utility and insurance markets, but extracting that pricing requires navigating complex, stateful quote forms."
Most teams fail at scraping comparison sites because they treat them like static catalogues. Reliable Uswitch extraction requires executing multi-step JavaScript forms, managing session tokens, and cycling UK residential proxies. DataFlirt maintains the automation layer so you just query the resulting pricing tables.
Everything supported by our uswitch.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.
Playwright handles complex JavaScript rendering, cookie sessions, and multi-step form interactions required to generate accurate quotes.
We maintain pools of residential ISP proxies across the UK. Rotation happens per-session to ensure quote processes complete without IP bans.
Pipelines run on AWS Lambda and ECS. Airflow handles scheduling, dependency management, and SLA alerting. All state stored in managed Postgres.
Data delivered to where your team already works — no new tooling required.
About uswitch.com scraping, legality, and pipeline operations.
Ask us directly →Scraping publicly available pricing information from Uswitch is generally permissible under applicable UK law. DataFlirt targets only public, non-authenticated tariff and quote data using synthetic profiles. We do not extract personal data or circumvent authentication walls. Clients should review Uswitch's ToS and consult legal counsel for specific use cases.
We use Playwright to automate browser sessions, injecting synthetic profiles (e.g., dummy vehicle details or usage estimates) to navigate the forms exactly as a user would, capturing the final pricing output.
Yes. We can cycle through a comprehensive list of UK postal districts to capture regional variations in energy standing charges and broadband availability.
We capture point-in-time pricing. By running pipelines on a scheduled cadence (e.g., daily), we build a historical time-series dataset for you from the day the pipeline is commissioned.
Clients provide the parameters (e.g., age brackets, vehicle models, property types). We translate these into synthetic profiles that our automation layer uses to populate the Uswitch forms.
Our minimum engagement typically covers a single vertical (e.g., broadband packages or energy tariffs) updated weekly. For complex multi-step insurance quotes across numerous profiles, pricing scales with compute requirements.
Yes. We provide a sample run covering a limited set of postcodes or synthetic profiles during the scoping phase, allowing you to validate schema fit and data quality before signing a contract.
20-minute scoping call. Pilot dataset within the week. Production within two. Whether you need daily energy tariff tracking or comprehensive insurance premium modelling, we scope, build, and operate the pipeline. Tell us what you need.
