ProWebScraper is a managed web scraping service for e-commerce teams who need competitor pricing, MAP monitoring, and product data — delivered as clean files, not dashboards. We've done this for 20+ years.
Below you'll find our best articles organized by topic: what breaks in competitive intelligence, how to fix it, and results from real customers.
If you're new to our site, start here:
Why Managed Service — The honest comparison: DIY vs SaaS dashboards vs managed service. When each makes sense. When each doesn't.
How teams use competitive intelligence data:
Competitor Price Monitoring — Track competitor prices across sites. Final price after coupons, cart discounts, shipping, and app-only offers.
MAP Monitoring — Price violations with proof — screenshot, URL, seller, timestamp, final price after discounts. Legal-ready violation reports.
Product Matching — Match products across sites using rules, AI, and human review. Confidence scores, reasons for each decision.
Buy Box Monitoring — Track Buy Box ownership, price changes, and seller switches on marketplaces.Match products across sites using rules, AI, and human review. Confidence scores, reasons for each decision.
Assortment Tracking — Identify gaps and overlaps across sites by brand, category, and product.
Price History — View and analyze past price changes. Understand competitor patterns and cycles.Identify gaps and overlaps across sites by brand, category, and product.
Regional Price Tracking — Monitor prices across countries, regions, and sales channels. Detect price leaks and unauthorized distribution.
Variant-Level Tracking — Track prices by SKU and variant — size, color, capacity — across competitors.
Real results from real teams:
Portwest — Safety Brand — How a safety brand moved from Zyte's 60% success rate to complete coverage and found 700+ unauthorized sellers across 400 sites.
Luxury Fashion Marketplace — How a luxury marketplace went from 50% to 98% assortment coverage. Their teams now negotiate with proof: "You have 29 Gucci. Average is 258."
Animates — Pet Retail — How NZ's leading pet retailer switched after Import.io failed on their key competitor — and stayed for five years.
Landmark — Furniture Retail — How a Middle East furniture retailer eliminated 6 hours of weekly scraper maintenance and went from 30-40% missing data to reliable coverage across ~56,000 products.
Asiatic — Rug Manufacturer — How a UK rug manufacturer identified chronic MAP violators across 8 retailers, gathered documented evidence, and took enforcement action.
CraigsIP — Equity Research — How an award-winning equity analyst replaced 4 hours of manual price checks with scheduled weekly data — seeing retail signals earlier than quarterly reports.
Partial Data — The problem isn't low coverage. It's not knowing what's missing — so every decision built on the data is a guess.
Match Failure — Product matching is where competitive intelligence breaks. One wrong match means a wrong decision. We show what good matching requires.
Untrusted Data — If your team verifies before acting, the dashboard isn't intelligence — it's a reference tool. We share what builds trust.
Scale Limits — DIY scraping works at small scope. Then blocks, bans, and maintenance pile up. We share the warning signs and your options.
Hidden Labor — The subscription is the visible cost. The weekly cleanup, exports, and firefighting is the real one.
Wasted Expertise — We've seen ecommerce leads spending hours on CSV exports instead of strategy. This shows how to fix ownership.
Trapped Data — Many tools make it easy to view data but hard to export it. We break down what to look for — and the hidden catches.
Unpredictable Costs — Usage-based pricing sounds flexible until month 2 costs double month 1. We break down pricing models and the questions to ask.
How It Works — The process from first call to ongoing delivery. What we do, what you do, what to expect.
Data Quality — Our 4-layer QA process. How we get to 95%+ accuracy.
Pricing — Per-site pricing that stays predictable as you scale. No per-SKU surprises.
Trust & Security — Legal position, compliance, security controls, available documents.
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