DSW Scraper

What is DSW Scraper?

The DSW Scraper is a web scraping tool that collects publicly available product data from DSW (Designer Shoe Warehouse) — one of the largest footwear retailers in the United States.

It automatically retrieves product information including names, brands, prices, sale prices, available colors, sizes, widths, availability, and images. The scraper navigates category pages, processes product listings, and extracts structured data from individual product detail pages.

It is designed for competitive intelligence, footwear catalog building, price monitoring, and e-commerce analysis.

Why scrape DSW?

DSW carries thousands of footwear styles across women's, men's, and kids' categories from top brands like Nike, Adidas, New Balance, UGG, and more.

Scraping DSW allows you to:

• Build normalized footwear product catalogs
• Monitor price changes and sale events over time
• Track product availability and variant stock levels
• Analyze brand and category pricing strategies
• Perform competitive research in the footwear retail space
• Enrich datasets with color, size, and width variant data

This is especially useful for e-commerce businesses, market analysts, pricing tools, and data scientists focused on the fashion and footwear industry.

Input

{
  "startUrls": [
    {
      "url": "https://www.dsw.com/category/mens/shoes/athletic-sneakers/running"
    }
  ],
  "maxItems": 5,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": false
  }
}

Input fields

Field	Type	Description
startUrls	array	Category or product detail URLs to scrape
maxItems	integer	Maximum number of products to scrape per start URL (default: 5)
proxyConfiguration	object	Proxy settings; default is no proxy

Supported URL formats

• Category pages: https://www.dsw.com/category/mens/shoes/athletic-sneakers/running
• Product detail pages: https://www.dsw.com/product/nike-air-force-1-07-sneaker/000000

Output

[
  {
    "url": "https://www.dsw.com/product/nike-air-force-1-07-sneaker/590584050",
    "productId": "590584050",
    "name": "Nike Air Force 1 '07 Sneaker",
    "brand": "Nike",
    "price": 90.00,
    "salePrice": null,
    "currency": "USD",
    "description": "A timeless classic elevated with premium materials...",
    "images": [
      "https://assets.designerbrands.com/match/Site_Name/590584050_100_ss_01/"
    ],
    "colors": ["White", "Black"],
    "sizes": ["6", "6.5", "7", "7.5", "8", "8.5", "9", "9.5", "10", "11"],
    "widths": ["Medium", "Wide"],
    "availability": "InStock"
  }
]

Output fields

Field	Type	Description
url	string	Product detail page URL
productId	string	DSW product identifier
name	string	Product display name
brand	string	Brand name
price	number	Regular price in USD
salePrice	number	Sale price in USD (null if not on sale)
currency	string	Always "USD"
description	string	Product description
images	array	List of product image URLs
colors	array	Available color options
sizes	array	Available sizes
widths	array	Available widths (e.g. "Medium", "Wide")
availability	string	Stock status

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Image Credit

Image credit: dsw.com