Scaling Marketplace Platform Onboarding through Product Catalog Scraping

• Initial Product Catalog Creation: The client wanted to extract data from Europe’s biggest e-commerce marketplaces to create a comprehensive product catalog. This was a basic requirement for creating the initial demand.
• Efficient Retailer Onboarding: The initial plan was to extract data from more than 500 retailer websites on a monthly basis. This would ensure that manual product entry was not required and retailers’ data was smoothly captured without any hassle.

Solution for Case 1: Customized and Technologically Advanced

• ProWebScraper employed sophisticated web scraping tools to extract data from a large number of e-commerce marketplaces and made the task easier for the client.
• We used a discreet way of scraping data using more than 100 different accounts so as to make it appear like normal browsing behavior.
• We ensured the scraping of approximately 500,000 products and 6,000+ brands for the client.

Solution for Case 2: Customer-Centric and Collaborative

• We harnessed our robust scraper tool to address the highly specific challenges that the client was facing.
• We created a dedicated Slack channel with the client to ensure seamless communication, periodic updates, feedback and interaction.
• We ensured the scraping of approximately 500,000 products and 6,000+ brands for the client.

• With our intervention, the client could accelerate the retail onboarding rate from 5-10 per month to 500.
• Quality support and regular updates proved critical as it made ProWebScraper their trusted and long-term web scraping partner.
• We could navigate all kinds of obstacles such as language barriers. We also worked out diverse strategies to serve them effectively in terms of managing vast quantities of data.