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RUN · 14 active pipelines · visualcomfort.com live

Visual Comfort data,
at warehouse scale.

We extract designer lighting catalogues, finish permutations, technical specifications, and tear sheets. Delivered as clean JSON, CSV, or Parquet to S3, BigQuery, or Snowflake on your cadence.

SKUs extracted
42.1K /run
Finish variants
128.4K /run
Tear sheets mapped
38.9K /run
Active pipelines
14
Uptime
99.94%
Data Dictionary

Every field we extract from visualcomfort.com

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

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

base_skutitledesignercategorysub_categorybase_pricecurrencydescriptioncollection_nameurl
product_base
● 200 OK
"base_sku": "KW5012",
"title": "Cleo Pendant",
"designer": "Kelly Wearstler",
"category": "Ceiling",
"sub_category": "Pendants",
"base_price": 849.0,
"currency": "USD",
"collection_name": "Cleo"
# base_skutitledesignercategorysub_categorybase_price
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Complete list of extractable fields for Technical Specs objects from visualcomfort.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

base_skuoverall_heightfixture_widthcanopy_dimensionswiring_typesocket_typebulb_qtymax_wattageul_listingweight
technical_specs
● 200 OK
"base_sku": "KW5012",
"overall_height": "42.5 inches",
"fixture_width": "18.0 inches",
"canopy_dimensions": "4.5 inches Round",
"wiring_type": "Hardwired",
"socket_type": "E26 Medium Base",
"bulb_qty": 1,
"max_wattage": "60W"
# base_skuoverall_heightfixture_widthcanopy_dimensionswiring_typesocket_type
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Complete list of extractable fields for Variants & Finishes objects from visualcomfort.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

base_skuvariant_skufinish_nameshade_materialvariant_pricein_stocklead_time_weeksstock_statusfinish_image_url
variants_& finishes
● 200 OK
"base_sku": "KW5012",
"variant_sku": "KW5012AB-WHT",
"finish_name": "Antique Brass",
"shade_material": "White Glass",
"variant_price": 849.0,
"in_stock": true,
"lead_time_weeks": 2,
"stock_status": "In Stock"
# base_skuvariant_skufinish_nameshade_materialvariant_pricein_stock
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Complete list of extractable fields for Media & Assets objects from visualcomfort.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

variant_skuprimary_image_urlgallery_image_urlstear_sheet_pdfassembly_instructions_pdflifestyle_image_urlscad_model_urlenergy_guide_url
media_& assets
● 200 OK
"variant_sku": "KW5012AB-WHT",
"primary_image_url": "https://visualcomfort.com/media/catalog/product/k/w/kw5012ab.jpg",
"gallery_image_urls": "['https://visualcomfort.com/media/catalog/product/k/w/kw5012ab_alt1.jpg']",
"tear_sheet_pdf": "https://visualcomfort.com/tear-sheet/KW5012AB-WHT.pdf",
"assembly_instructions_pdf": "https://visualcomfort.com/instructions/KW5012.pdf",
"cad_model_url": "None"
# variant_skuprimary_image_urlgallery_image_urlstear_sheet_pdfassembly_instructions_pdflifestyle_image_urls
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Complete list of extractable fields for Taxonomy objects from visualcomfort.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

base_skuurlbreadcrumbsroom_typestyledesigner_slugsort_orderrelated_skus
taxonomy
● 200 OK
"base_sku": "KW5012",
"url": "https://www.visualcomfort.com/cleo-pendant-kw5012",
"breadcrumbs": "Home > Ceiling > Pendants",
"room_type": "['Dining Room', 'Kitchen']",
"style": "Modern",
"designer_slug": "kelly-wearstler",
"related_skus": "['KW5013', 'KW5014']"
# base_skuurlbreadcrumbsroom_typestyledesigner_slug
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Capabilities

Everything you need from Visual Comfort — nothing you do not

Our Visual Comfort scraper extracts complex fixture data: finish permutations, technical dimensions, designer attributions, and tear sheet assets, using JavaScript execution to reveal hidden DOM elements.

Full SKU Extraction

Extract base SKUs, product titles, designer names, collection families, and base pricing across all lighting categories.

Finish Permutation Mapping

Iterate through JavaScript driven finish selectors to capture exact variant SKUs, finish names, and variant specific pricing.

Technical Specification Parsing

Capture overall height, fixture width, canopy dimensions, wiring type, socket type, bulb quantities, and UL listing statuses.

Tear Sheet Asset Capture

Extract direct URLs for PDF tear sheets, assembly instructions, and CAD models associated with each specific fixture.

Designer Collection Grouping

Map fixtures to specific designers like Kelly Wearstler, Thomas O'Brien, and Ralph Lauren Home for accurate taxonomy.

Stock & Lead Time Tracking

Monitor stock availability flags and estimated lead time weeks for specific finish variants.

Category & Breadcrumb Traversal

Reconstruct the exact site taxonomy, capturing breadcrumb trails, room type tags, and style classifications.

High Resolution Imagery

Extract primary product images, gallery shots, and lifestyle context images at maximum resolution.

Scheduled Catalogue Syncs

Run continuous pipelines to detect new collection launches, discontinued SKUs, and retail price adjustments.

// engagement pipeline

From lighting catalogue to warehouse record

Brief in. Clean data out.

Define Scope
d 0

Provide categories, designer names, or specific collections. We design the extraction schema together.

Pipeline Build
d 2–4

We configure Playwright crawlers, proxy rotation, and interaction logic to iterate through finish variants.

Validation & QA
d 4–6

Schema validation, null-rate checks on technical specs, and tear sheet URL verification before full launch.

Delivery
ongoing

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

Under the hood

How our Visual Comfort pipeline handles the hard parts

Extracting designer lighting data requires handling JavaScript heavy product pages and complex variant structures. Here is how we maintain data integrity.

pipeline-monitor · visualcomfort.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
Dynamic finish loading
JavaScript rendering for variant SKUs

Visual Comfort loads finish variants and their specific SKUs dynamically. We use Playwright to simulate clicks on every finish and shade combination, capturing the resulting variant SKU, price change, and updated image URL.

Asset extraction
PDF tear sheet generation

Tear sheets and assembly instructions are often buried in dynamic accordions or generated on the fly. Our crawlers trigger the necessary DOM events to expose and capture the static PDF URLs for every product.

Anti-bot layer
Residential proxies to avoid IP bans

High volume scraping of image heavy catalogues triggers standard bot protections. We route requests through US residential proxies with realistic browser headers to maintain uninterrupted access.

Complex dimension parsing
Normalising mixed fractional strings

Technical specifications often mix fractions, decimals, and text descriptions. We extract the raw strings and apply parsing logic to normalise dimensions into queryable numeric fields where required.

Catalogue change detection
Only re-scrape what changes

We maintain a hash index of last seen values for the entire catalogue. Subsequent runs only push diffs, highlighting new designer collections, price updates, or discontinued fixtures.

Applications

Who uses Visual Comfort data — and how

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

01
Interior Design Procurement

Design firms ingest complete catalogues to build internal specification tools, filtering by exact dimensions, designer, and finish.

02
Competitor Price Monitoring

Lighting retailers monitor Visual Comfort retail pricing and variant upcharges to benchmark their own premium collections.

03
eCommerce Catalogue Syndication

Authorised dealers sync product data, high resolution images, and tear sheets directly into their Shopify or Magento stores.

04
Architectural Spec Sheets

Architecture firms aggregate technical data, including canopy dimensions and UL listings, to ensure compliance in commercial builds.

05
Trend & Designer Analysis

Market analysts track new collection launches and category expansion by top designers like Kelly Wearstler and AERIN.

06
Supply Chain Forecasting

Procurement teams monitor lead time shifts across different material finishes to anticipate supply chain bottlenecks.

Why DataFlirt

"Visual Comfort holds the definitive catalogue for high-end decorative lighting, but extracting exact technical dimensions and variant SKUs requires rendering every finish permutation."

Scraping designer lighting sites involves more than pulling titles and prices. Visual Comfort relies heavily on JavaScript for finish selection, tear sheet generation, and technical specification reveals. DataFlirt handles the browser automation and proxy rotation required to extract complete, normalised fixture data without triggering bot mitigation blocks.

Technical Spec

Visual Comfort scraper — technical capabilities

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

JavaScript rendering
Full Playwright sessions required for dynamic finish switching and price updates
Supported
Variant finish iteration
Simulates clicks on all finish swatches to capture variant SKUs
Supported
Tear sheet URL extraction
Captures direct links to product specification PDFs
Supported
Fractional dimension normalisation
Extracts raw specification strings for height, width, and canopy
Supported
Residential proxy rotation
ISP proxies from US pools rotated to prevent request blocking
Supported
High-res image extraction
Captures primary and gallery images at maximum available resolution
Supported
Change detection (diffs)
Hash based diffing emits only changed records since the last run
Supported
Trade pricing
Requires authenticated trade account credentials to view wholesale pricing
Partial
B2B inventory portal
Live warehouse stock levels require authenticated B2B portal access
Partial
Infrastructure

Infrastructure powering the lighting 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 deduplication. Playwright handles JavaScript rendering and finish variant iteration. Combined via scrapy-playwright middleware.

Residential Proxy Infrastructure

We maintain pools of residential ISP proxies across US regions. Rotation happens per request with sticky sessions required for iterating through complex product pages.

Cloud-Native Orchestration

Pipelines run on AWS Lambda and ECS. 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 arrays for variants
CSV
Flat file with typed columns for easy spreadsheet import
Parquet
Columnar format optimised for BigQuery and Snowflake
S3
Direct bucket delivery compatible with any data lake
Webhook
HTTP POST per record for real-time downstream processing
BigQuery
Streamed directly into your dataset with schema auto-detect
Postgres
Upsert into your existing schema with conflict resolution
Snowflake
Stage and COPY INTO workflow for incremental updates
API
REST endpoints to query extracted catalogue data on demand
// faq

Common questions.

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

Ask us directly →
Is scraping Visual Comfort legal?

Scraping publicly available information from Visual Comfort is generally permissible under applicable law. DataFlirt targets only public, non-authenticated product, pricing, and specification data. We do not extract personal data or circumvent authentication walls for trade accounts. Clients should review applicable ToS and consult legal counsel.

How do you handle finish variants?

Visual Comfort uses JavaScript to load specific SKUs and prices when a finish swatch is clicked. We use Playwright to simulate these interactions, capturing the exact variant SKU, updated price, and finish name for every permutation on a product page.

Can you extract PDF tear sheets?

Yes. We capture the direct URLs for PDF tear sheets and assembly instructions associated with each fixture. You receive the URLs in the structured data output, which your systems can then download as needed.

Do you provide trade pricing data?

No. Trade pricing on Visual Comfort requires an authenticated trade account. We only extract the publicly visible retail pricing data available to unauthenticated users.

How fresh is the data?

Full catalogue refreshes typically run on a weekly or bi-weekly cadence to capture new collections and price adjustments. We can configure daily runs for specific high priority categories if required.

Do you normalise dimension strings?

We extract the raw text provided in the technical specifications tab (e.g., '42.5 inches'). While we provide the raw string, we can apply custom parsing logic to split these into numeric fields during the pipeline build if your schema requires it.

$ dataflirt scope --new-project --source=visualcomfort.com 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 extraction or continuous tracking of new designer collections, we build and operate the pipeline. Tell us your requirements.

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