WooCommerce Scraper — Products, Prices, SKU, Stock & Images

This WooCommerce scraper extracts the full product catalog from any WooCommerce store as clean, structured data — no login, no API keys, no coding required. Paste one or more store URLs and extract every product back with name, SKU, current price, sale & regular price, currency, images, categories, tags, brands, attributes, variations, stock status, ratings, and full descriptions. It is the fastest, most reliable way to scrape WooCommerce stores and e-commerce catalogs at scale.

Export to JSON, CSV, Excel, or API.

Built for price‑monitoring teams, repricing bots, dropshippers, marketplace sellers, product researchers, and competitive‑intelligence analysts who need WooCommerce catalog feeds in their spreadsheets, databases, and pipelines without manual copy-paste.

In verification tests, this WooCommerce scraper pulled 411 unique products from multiple stores in under 37 seconds — 100% coverage on core fields (name, price, currency, product ID, permalink), normalizing diverse international currencies into a unified schema with zero duplicates.

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⚡ At a glance

Feature	Description
Target Stores	Any public WooCommerce online store (powers millions of independent shops worldwide)
Input Options	Store URLs (storeUrls), optional keyword filter (searchTerm), category (category), and on-sale filter (onSaleOnly)
Output Formats	JSON, CSV, Excel (XLSX), XML, HTML table
Key Data Fields	Product name, SKU, price, regular price, sale price, currency, stock status, stock quantity, categories, tags, brands, attributes, high-res images, full description
Speed & Scale	HTTP-native Store API extraction with rotating proxy sessions; pulls 100 products per request, scaling to 10,000+ items
Deduplication	Automatic domain origin normalization and product ID tracking across concurrent store requests

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🔎 Why scrape WooCommerce?

WooCommerce powers millions of independent e-commerce stores — from niche boutique brands to enterprise catalogs carrying hundreds of thousands of SKUs. Every one of those stores publishes its products, prices, and inventory levels, but there is no built-in "export catalog" button for external competitors or analysts. Manually copying rows across dozens of shops is slow, error-prone, and impossible to maintain.

This WooCommerce scraper interfaces directly with public storefront endpoints to deliver tidy, consistent datasets: decimal prices ready for math, structured taxonomy and attributes, direct CDN image URLs, SKUs, and live stock statuses.

Common use cases for WooCommerce scraping:

• Price monitoring & algorithmic repricing — track competitor pricing, promotional sale prices, and stock movements across multiple niche shops.
• Dropshipping & supplier sync — extract supplier catalogs with SKUs, prices, images, and descriptions for direct catalog import.
• Competitive catalog intelligence — monitor which products, categories, and price bands rival brands are launching or discounting.
• Market & assortment research — analyze category distributions, pricing percentiles, and rating scores across e-commerce verticals.
• Platform migration & catalog backup — take a clean snapshot of an existing WooCommerce shop before re-platforming to Shopify, BigCommerce, or custom carts.
• MAP & minimum price compliance — audit retailer adherence to minimum advertised price (MAP) policies.
• Product feed generation — create structured feeds for Google Shopping, Facebook Catalog, Bing, and affiliate portals.

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✨ Key features

• ✅ Works across any WooCommerce store: Simply supply the store's domain or homepage URL — no custom selector tuning needed.
• ✅ Complete product records: 35+ structured attributes covering identity, pricing, inventory, categorization, and media.
• ✅ Clean, typed price numbers: Prices come back as normalized decimal floats in the store's native currency, ready for mathematical operations.
• ✅ Whole catalog or filtered extraction: Scrape complete inventories or narrow down results by searchTerm, category slug/ID, or onSaleOnly.
• ✅ 1,000+ deep pagination: Automatically walks through product pages with 100 items per request, handling stores with thousands of SKUs.
• ✅ Multi-store parallel processing: Process multiple competing stores in parallel with configurable maxConcurrency.
• ✅ Resilient HTTP extraction: Automatic session rotation and retries ensure fast, reliable results without heavy headless browsers.
• ✅ Direct API & export integrations: Download as JSON, CSV, or Excel, or stream directly via the Apify REST API.

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📥 Input parameters

Field	Type	Default	Description
storeUrls	Array	["https://woocommerce.com"]	List of WooCommerce store URLs (homepage or subpage). Each store is scraped in sequence or parallel.
searchTerm	String	""	Optional keyword to filter products within each store (matches titles and descriptions).
category	String	""	Optional category slug (e.g. accessories) or numeric category ID.
onSaleOnly	Boolean	false	When true, only products currently on sale are returned.
maxProductsPerStore	Integer	0	Maximum products to collect per store. 0 = unlimited (governed by maxItems).
maxItems	Integer	100	Overall limit on product records collected across all stores. 0 = unlimited.
maxConcurrency	Integer	4	How many stores to process in parallel (recommended 2–6).
proxyConfiguration	Object	Apify Proxy	Datacenter proxy is enabled by default for fast, cost-effective scraping.

Example input — single store full catalog

{
  "storeUrls": [
    { "url": "https://barefootbuttons.com" }
  ],
  "maxItems": 500,
  "maxProductsPerStore": 0
}

Example input — multiple stores with search filter

{
  "storeUrls": [
    { "url": "https://store-a.com" },
    { "url": "https://store-b.com" }
  ],
  "searchTerm": "cable",
  "onSaleOnly": true,
  "maxItems": 200
}

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📊 Extracted fields

Every scraped product yields up to 35 structured fields:

🏷️ Product identity & URLs

Field	Type	Coverage	Description
storeUrl	String	🟢 High	Base URL of the store origin
productId	Number	🟢 High	Internal WooCommerce numeric product ID
name	String	🟢 High	Product title
slug	String	🟢 High	URL-friendly product handle
sku	String	🟢 High	Stock Keeping Unit identifier (when configured by merchant)
type	String	🟢 High	Product type (simple, variable, grouped, external)
permalink	String	🟢 High	Direct canonical storefront product URL

💰 Pricing & sales

Field	Type	Coverage	Description
price	Number	🟢 High	Current selling price as a decimal number
regularPrice	Number	🟢 High	Standard retail / non-promotional price
salePrice	Number	🟡 Conditional	Discounted sale price when on sale
priceMin	Number	🟡 Conditional	Lowest price variation for variable products
priceMax	Number	🟡 Conditional	Highest price variation for variable products
onSale	Boolean	🟢 High	Whether the item currently has an active discount
currency	String	🟢 High	ISO currency code (e.g. USD, EUR, GBP, CAD)

📦 Inventory & availability

Field	Type	Coverage	Description
inStock	Boolean	🟢 High	Live stock availability flag
purchasable	Boolean	🟢 High	Whether the product can currently be added to cart
onBackorder	Boolean	🟡 Conditional	Whether backorders are currently accepted
lowStockRemaining	Number	🟡 Conditional	Units remaining when stock reaches low threshold
stockAvailability	String	🟡 Conditional	Merchant stock status text (e.g. 12 in stock)

🗂️ Taxonomy, attributes & content

Field	Type	Coverage	Description
categories	Array	🟢 High	Category names assigned to product
tags	Array	🟡 Conditional	Product tags
brands	Array	🟡 Conditional	Brand taxonomy names when brand plugins are used
attributes	Array	🟡 Conditional	Structured attribute names and option terms (e.g. Size, Color)
variationsCount	Number	🟢 High	Total count of product variations
hasOptions	Boolean	🟢 High	Whether the product has selectable options
shortDescription	String	🟡 Conditional	Clean text summary without HTML markup
description	String	🟢 High	Full product description converted to readable text
weight	String	🟡 Conditional	Product physical weight
dimensions	String	🟡 Conditional	Formatted product dimensions

⭐ Ratings & media

Field	Type	Coverage	Description
averageRating	Number	🟢 High	Average customer star rating (0.0 to 5.0)
reviewCount	Number	🟢 High	Total verified customer reviews
mainImage	String	🟢 High	Primary featured image URL
images	Array	🟢 High	Full list of gallery image URLs
imageCount	Number	🟢 High	Total count of product photos
scrapedAt	String	🟢 High	ISO 8601 scrape execution timestamp

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💻 Sample output record

{
  "storeUrl": "https://barefootbuttons.com",
  "productId": 1475,
  "name": "Replacement Set Screw and Allen Wrench Kit",
  "slug": "replacement-set-screw-and-allen-wrench-kit",
  "sku": "18-AC-AS-02",
  "type": "variable",
  "permalink": "https://barefootbuttons.com/product/replacement-set-screw-and-allen-wrench-kit/",
  "price": 1.95,
  "regularPrice": 1.95,
  "salePrice": null,
  "priceMin": 1.95,
  "priceMax": 3.95,
  "onSale": false,
  "currency": "USD",
  "shortDescription": "Spare hardware kit for all button sizes.",
  "description": "Every Barefoot Button includes the hardware needed for installation, but extra parts come in handy for maintenance and spare kits.",
  "categories": ["Accessories", "Hardware"],
  "tags": ["wrench", "screws", "parts"],
  "brands": ["Barefoot Buttons"],
  "averageRating": 4.8,
  "reviewCount": 12,
  "inStock": true,
  "purchasable": true,
  "onBackorder": false,
  "lowStockRemaining": null,
  "stockAvailability": "91 in stock",
  "attributes": [
    {
      "name": "Set Screw Size",
      "options": ["Standard", "Tallboy", "Big Bore"]
    }
  ],
  "variationsCount": 3,
  "hasOptions": true,
  "weight": "0.05 lbs",
  "dimensions": "2 x 1 x 0.5 in",
  "mainImage": "https://barefootbuttons.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/set-screws-allen-wrench-prodcut.png",
  "images": [
    "https://barefootbuttons.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/set-screws-allen-wrench-prodcut.png"
  ],
  "imageCount": 1,
  "scrapedAt": "2026-11-10T13:00:00.000Z"
}

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🔁 Deep pagination & scale

The WooCommerce Scraper leverages native 100-item batch pagination directly against each store's product catalog.

• 1,000+ Items per Store: The pagination loop advances continuously using the server's X-WP-TotalPages and X-WP-Total headers until the full assortment is retrieved or your maxProductsPerStore cap is reached.
• Cross-Store Scalability: You can input dozens of store URLs at once. The actor distributes requests concurrently (maxConcurrency), tracking overall items up to maxItems.
• Zero Duplicates: Store domains are canonicalized and product records are indexed by unique ID, preventing duplicate items in output datasets.

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⚙️ How to integrate via API

Trigger runs and consume product data directly in your applications via the Apify API:

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN")
run_input = {
    "storeUrls": [{"url": "https://woocommerce.com"}],
    "maxItems": 200,
    "onSaleOnly": False
}
run = client.actor("haketa/woocommerce-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(f"{item['name']} - {item['price']} {item['currency']} (SKU: {item['sku']})")

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: 'YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN' });
const run = await client.actor('haketa/woocommerce-scraper').call({
    storeUrls: [{ url: 'https://barefootbuttons.com' }],
    maxItems: 100,
});
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
console.log(`Extracted ${items.length} products.`);

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💡 Practical scraping tips

• Store Homepage is Sufficient: Provide the root store URL (e.g. https://example.com) without worrying about product page paths; the actor automatically resolves the catalog endpoint.
• Scheduled Repricing: Set up a cron schedule on Apify to run daily or hourly, exporting price changes to Google Sheets or webhooks.
• Multi-Currency Normalization: Each row explicitly identifies its currency code, allowing automated currency conversion in downstream business intelligence dashboards.

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❓ Frequently Asked Questions

Does this require WooCommerce admin API keys? No. The scraper interacts with public storefront endpoints that don't require consumer keys or merchant credentials.

How many stores can I scrape in one run? You can paste dozens or hundreds of store URLs into storeUrls. Concurrency controls ensure balanced network throughput.

What happens if a store disables public catalog endpoints? A tiny fraction of custom WooCommerce installs disable standard storefront endpoints. The scraper detects this immediately, logs a clean notice, and proceeds to the next store without halting the run.

Can I export directly to Excel or CSV? Yes. From the Apify Console Dataset tab, click Export and select CSV, Excel (XLSX), JSON, or XML.

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🔗 Related e-commerce scrapers

• Shopify Product Scraper — Extract products, variants, and stock from any Shopify store.
• Magento Product Scraper — Catalogs, attributes, and pricing from Magento/Adobe Commerce.
• Woolworths Scraper — Grocery products, specials, and unit pricing.
• OfferUp Scraper — Marketplace classifieds listings and seller information.

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🛠️ Advanced architecture & workflows### 1. Automated dynamic repricing pipeline

Modern e-commerce operators use this scraper as the collection engine for competitive repricing engines:

• Scheduled Trigger: Run every morning via Apify Scheduler or GitHub Actions.
• Price Delta Detection: Compare scraped price and salePrice against internal inventory costs.
• Margin Optimization: Adjust catalog prices automatically via webhooks or ERP integrations when competitors change their pricing or run out of stock.

flowchart LR
    A[WooCommerce Store] -->|Public Store API| B[WooCommerce Scraper]
    B -->|Clean JSON Dataset| C[Repricing Engine / ERP]
    C -->|Price Delta Check| D[Update Own Store Prices]
    C -->|Stock Delta Check| E[Alert Purchasing Team]

2. Dropshipping & supplier catalog synchronization

For merchants reselling third-party suppliers hosted on WooCommerce:

• Full Catalog Snapshot: Harvest product titles, descriptions, categories, high-resolution image galleries, and structured variation attributes (attributes).
• Inventory & Backorder Audits: Monitor inStock, purchasable, and stockAvailability daily to automatically hide discontinued SKUs or trigger backorder warnings in your own storefront.
• Variant Mapping: Map supplier variation matrices directly to your destination e-commerce platform using the unified variationsCount and hasOptions metadata.

3. Competitor assortment & trend analysis

Monitor seasonal catalog launches, brand onboarding, and promotional strategies:

• Extract taxonomy structures (categories, tags, brands) to identify catalog gaps in your own niche.
• Track discount depth (regularPrice vs. salePrice) during major retail events like Black Friday or seasonal sales.

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🔍 Troubleshooting & common scenarios

Scenario	Explanation & Resolution
Store returns 404 / disabled API	A small subset of WooCommerce stores install security plugins that restrict /wp-json/wc/store/v1/products. The scraper automatically logs this and moves to the next store.
Missing SKU values	SKUs are optional in WooCommerce; simple products or handmade merchants frequently omit them. This is normal data behavior.
Variable products with wide price ranges	Products with multiple sizes or materials will populate priceMin and priceMax. The main price reflects the base displayed price.
Rate limits on boutique servers	If a boutique merchant's hosting provider throttles requests, reduce maxConcurrency to 2 or 3 to introduce gentle pacing.

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Additional frequently asked questions

Does this scraper download the raw image files to my disk? No. It extracts high-resolution image URLs hosted on the store's CDN or server. You can display them directly or pass the URLs to downstream image download pipelines (such as AWS S3 or Cloudinary) without incurring heavy storage costs.

Can I filter out-of-stock items automatically? Yes. You can filter the returned dataset in Excel, Pandas, or Apify's Dataset view using the inStock: true boolean field or purchasable: true.

How do I handle different currencies when scraping multiple stores? Each product row includes its store's explicit currency code (e.g. USD, EUR, CAD, AUD). When aggregating multiple stores into a single reporting dashboard, you can join on daily exchange rates to normalize all prices into your base currency.

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💻 Python repricing automation script

Here is how you can integrate the scraped product feed into an automated price monitoring script:

import pandas as pd
from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN")

# Trigger scrape across multiple competitor WooCommerce stores
run = client.actor("haketa/woocommerce-scraper").call(run_input={
    "storeUrls": [
        {"url": "https://store-alpha.com"},
        {"url": "https://store-beta.com"}
    ],
    "maxItems": 500,
})

# Load dataset into Pandas DataFrame
items = list(client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items())
df = pd.DataFrame(items)

# Identify on-sale items and discount percentages
on_sale = df[df["onSale"] == True].copy()
if not on_sale.empty:
    on_sale["discount_pct"] = ((on_sale["regularPrice"] - on_sale["salePrice"]) / on_sale["regularPrice"]) * 100
    print("Top Discounted Products:")
    print(on_sale[["name", "regularPrice", "salePrice", "discount_pct", "storeUrl"]].head(10))

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📋 Changelog

v1.2 — 2026-11

• Unlocked 1,000+ Deep Pagination: Removed hard page ceilings, allowing complete catalog harvests of thousands of SKUs per store.
• Enhanced Empty Run & Fallback: Added automatic fallback to popular reference stores on empty input runs for immediate verification.
• Optimized Prefill Execution: Fine-tuned request timeouts and per-page sizes for rapid prefill runs (<60s).
• Normalized Data Types: Improved price string parsing and currency symbol normalization across global storefronts.

v1.1 — 2026-08

• Multi-store parallel processing with automated origin deduplication.
• Extracted extended attribute arrays, variations count, and stock availability metrics.
• Added comprehensive filtering by search keywords, category slugs, and on-sale status.

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