Johnny's Selected Seeds Catalog Scraper

Scrape the complete product catalog from Johnny's Selected Seeds — the most-searched specialty seed brand in the US. Extracts structured agronomic data for every seed variety across vegetables, herbs, flowers, fruits, cover crops, and farm seed.

What it does

The actor walks the product sitemap (~2,000+ master product pages) and extracts:

• Variety identity — product ID, SKU, name, botanical (Latin) name, category/subcategory
• Grower data — days-to-maturity, life cycle (annual/biennial/perennial), hybrid or open-pollinated status, disease resistance, plant habit, plant spacing, sun requirement, USDA hardiness zone
• Status flags — organic, untreated, pelleted, heirloom, and other attribute designations
• Tiered pricing — all pack-size options (Packet / 1,000 Seeds / 5,000 Seeds / 25,000 Seeds) with per-option prices and availability, plus the lowest available price
• Ratings — aggregate star rating and review count
• Awards — AAS Winner, All-America Selections, and other designations
• Media — product image URLs
• Full description and growing information text

Use cases

• Market-garden planning tools — import days-to-maturity, spacing, and disease resistance for succession planting calculators
• Ag-commerce price intelligence — track tiered seed pricing by variety and pack size over time
• Competitive seed-catalog analysis — compare Johnny's assortment against other seed companies
• Garden-planner integrations — enrich planting databases with botanical names, life cycle, and USDA zone data
• Procurement and inventory — bulk in-stock checks across the full SKU range

Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
maxItems	integer	0 (all)	Maximum number of products to scrape. Set to 0 to scrape the full catalog.

Output

Each record represents one master product (all pack sizes are consolidated in price_options):

{
  "product_id": "22",
  "sku": "22.11",
  "name": "Maxibel",
  "botanical_name": "Phaseolus vulgaris",
  "category": "Vegetables",
  "subcategory": "Beans > Bush Beans",
  "variety": "Maxibel",
  "days_to_maturity": "50 days",
  "life_cycle": "Annual",
  "organic": false,
  "hybrid_or_open_pollinated": "Open Pollinated",
  "disease_resistance": null,
  "plant_spacing": null,
  "sun_requirement": null,
  "description": "Long and elegant. High yields of slender, 7\" green pods...",
  "price_options": "[{\"pack_size\":\"Packet\",\"variant_sku\":\"22.11\",\"price\":6.20,\"in_stock\":true},{\"pack_size\":\"1,000 Seeds\",\"variant_sku\":\"22.53\",\"price\":19.25,\"in_stock\":true}]",
  "lowest_price": 6.20,
  "currency": "USD",
  "rating": 4.8,
  "review_count": 142,
  "awards": null,
  "attributes": null,
  "image_urls": "https://www.johnnyseeds.com/...",
  "product_url": "https://www.johnnyseeds.com/vegetables/beans/bush-beans/maxibel-bean-seed-22.html"
}

Technical notes

• Source: Salesforce Commerce Cloud SSR storefront — no JavaScript rendering required
• Discovery: Product XML sitemap (sitemap_0-product.xml), filtered to master product pages
• Anti-bot: No Cloudflare or bot challenge observed — standard HTTP crawl, no proxy required
• Rate limiting: Conservative concurrency (8 max) with automatic rate-limit handling
• Catalog size: ~2,000 master product pages; full run completes in under 30 minutes

Coverage

Covers all major catalog sections: vegetables, herbs, flowers, fruit, cover crops, farm seed, and tools/supplies where applicable.