🐾 PetFlow Scraper

🚀 Pull every pet supply listing from petflow.com in seconds. Filter by category, capture price changes, and ship clean rows to your downstream tools. No API key, no registration, no manual CSV wrangling.

🕒 Last updated: 2026-05-08 · 📊 16 fields per record · 24+ products per category page · Cloudflare bypass via residential proxies · Live pricing in USD

PetFlow runs a large catalogue of dog and cat supplies behind Cloudflare's challenge layer, which means a casual curl returns a verification page instead of a product list. This Actor sits in front of that wall: it boots a stealth-tuned Firefox session, clears the challenge with a residential IP, and harvests the JSON the storefront streams to its own React UI. The result is a clean dataset with brand, SKU, image URL, current price, original price, percent discount, stock status, category, rating, review count, description, and a timestamp for every product.

You feed in a category URL like https://www.petflow.com/dog/food and a maxItems cap. The Actor scrolls through the page, captures each batch of catalog responses, deduplicates by SKU, and pushes records to your dataset. Free runs preview 10 items so you can verify the shape; paid runs go up to 1,000,000. Schedule it daily for price tracking, run it ad-hoc for competitive snapshots, or wire it into Make / Zapier for pet-supply price alerts. Every record is freshly scraped at the moment of execution.

🎯 Target audience	💡 Primary use cases
📊 E-commerce analysts tracking pet category prices	Build weekly price snapshots across dog and cat food brands
💼 Marketplace sellers benchmarking against PetFlow	Compare your SKUs against PetFlow's prices, ratings, and stock
📣 Affiliate marketers and content creators	Populate review pages with live prices, brand metadata, and images
🧠 Data engineers building product data pipelines	Stream PetFlow records into BigQuery, S3, or a feature store

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📋 What the PetFlow Scraper does

• 🐕 Category coverage. Point the Actor at any PetFlow category URL (dog, cat, food, toys, treats, supplements) and it grabs the full listing surface, not just the top of the page.
• 💰 Live pricing. Capture current price, original price, percent discount, and currency on every record, so you can detect markdowns the moment they go live.
• 📦 Stock and SKU. Each row carries the canonical SKU plus an inStock flag, so you know which items are sellable right now.
• ⭐ Ratings and reviews. When PetFlow exposes them, customer rating and review count are pulled in alongside the product, with promotional copy when available.
• 🖼️ Images and product URL. A direct imageUrl for visual catalogues plus a clickable url for affiliate links or audit trails.

Each record bundles the imageUrl, name, brand, url, sku, price, originalPrice, discount, currency, rating, reviewCount, description, category, inStock, promoText, and scrapedAt timestamp. The dataset is downloadable in CSV, Excel, JSON, JSONL, RSS, HTML, and XML formats out of the box.

💡 Why it matters: retail pricing is one of the fastest moving signals in pet commerce. A dataset that you can refresh on a schedule lets you see promotions, brand shelf changes, and stock rotations within hours, not at the end of the quarter when your spreadsheet is stale.

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🎬 Full Demo

🚧 Coming soon: a 3-minute walkthrough showing input setup, a live run, and how to wire the dataset into a downstream tool. The Actor is fully operational while the video is in production.

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⚙️ Input

Field	Type	Required	Description
startUrl	string	yes	A PetFlow category or search URL, for example https://www.petflow.com/dog/food or https://www.petflow.com/search?q=treats.
maxItems	integer	no	Cap on the number of products to push. Free plan caps at 10. Paid plans can go up to 1,000,000.
proxyConfiguration	object	no	Defaults to Apify Residential proxies in the US. You can override the group or supply your own proxy URLs.

Example: dog food category, 100 items, default proxy.

{
  "startUrl": "https://www.petflow.com/dog/food",
  "maxItems": 100,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"]
  }
}

Example: cat treats search, free preview run.

{
  "startUrl": "https://www.petflow.com/search?q=cat+treats",
  "maxItems": 10
}

⚠️ Good to Know: PetFlow sits behind Cloudflare's bot challenge, so a residential proxy is required. The Actor cycles up to 15 fresh sessions per run to find one that clears the challenge cleanly. Runs that cannot clear after every retry return a single error record rather than partial data.

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📊 Output

Every record is a flat JSON object with 16 fields. Download the dataset as JSON, JSONL, CSV, Excel, RSS, HTML, or XML.

🧾 Schema

Field	Type	Example
🖼️ imageUrl	string	//www.petflow.com/media/catalog/product/g/o/gold_dog_dry_adult_30lb_072705115211_0acb.jpg
📝 name	string	Fromm Gold Adult Dog Food
👤 brand	string	Fromm
🔗 url	string	https://www.petflow.com/product/c300431
📦 sku	string	C300431
💰 price	number	15.5
💵 originalPrice	number | null	19.99
🏷️ discount	number | null	22
💱 currency	string	USD
⭐ rating	number | null	4.7
📊 reviewCount	number | null	132
📝 description	string	Trimmed marketing description
📂 category	string	Dog > Food
✅ inStock	boolean	true
🎁 promoText	string | null	Promotional banner text when present
📅 scrapedAt	string (ISO 8601)	2026-05-08T00:39:05.597Z
🚨 error	string	Only present on failure rows

📦 Sample records

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✨ Why choose this Actor

	Capability
🛡️	**Cloudflare-aware. **Stealth Firefox session with up to 15 retries to clear the challenge before any record is scraped.
💸	**Pay only for results. **Errored runs that produce zero items are not billed beyond the platform minimum.
📊	**16 fields per row. **Image, brand, SKU, price, original price, discount, rating, review count, description, category, stock, currency, URL, promo text, and timestamp.
🔄	**Live data. **Every run hits the catalog API at the moment of execution. No cache, no stale snapshots.
📂	**Any export format. **CSV, JSON, JSONL, Excel, HTML, XML, or stream via the Apify API.
⏱️	**Schedule-friendly. **Drop the Actor into the Apify scheduler and let it refresh nightly, hourly, or on a custom cron.
🔌	**Workflow ready. **Dataset webhooks, Make / Zapier templates, Google Sheets, Slack notifications, and Airbyte connectors all work out of the box.

📊 A full PetFlow category page returns 24 products per scroll batch, captured in a single API response we intercept directly.

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📈 How it compares to alternatives

Approach	Cost	Coverage	Refresh	Filters	Setup
Manual copy and paste	Free, but expensive in time	Low	Stale within hours	None	Browser plus spreadsheet
Generic browser automation scripts	High maintenance	Medium	Brittle	Limited	Custom code, proxy hosting, monitoring
Paid live retail APIs	$$$ subscription	Variable	Real-time	Vendor-defined	Account, API keys, rate-limit handling
⭐ PetFlow Scraper (this Actor)	Pay-per-run on Apify	Full category surface	On every run	URL-based filters	Paste a URL, click Start

For analysts and small teams, the trade-off is simple: a maintained Apify Actor with built-in proxies and dataset exports beats hand-rolling a Cloudflare bypass.

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🚀 How to use

1. 🔐 Sign up. Create a free Apify account with $5 in monthly credit. No credit card required at sign up.
2. 🔍 Open the Actor. Search for "PetFlow Scraper" in the Apify Store and click "Try for free".
3. ⚙️ Configure inputs. Paste a PetFlow category or search URL into startUrl, choose your maxItems, and confirm the residential proxy is enabled.
4. ▶️ Start the run. Click "Start" and watch the live log. A first batch of products appears within roughly a minute on a clean Cloudflare clearance.
5. 📥 Export the dataset. Download CSV, Excel, JSON, or pipe the dataset to BigQuery, Google Sheets, Slack, or your own webhook from the Storage tab.

⏱️ Total time: roughly 2 minutes from signup to first dataset on a paid run; longer if Cloudflare needs multiple session retries.

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💼 Business use cases

📊 E-commerce analyst Track price changes across dog and cat food brands week over week Detect when PetFlow runs promotions ahead of seasonal events Map SKUs to your internal catalog to spot pricing gaps Build dashboards showing brand share by stock and pricing tier	💼 Marketplace seller Benchmark your product prices against PetFlow's listed prices Watch competitor stock levels to time your own restocks Identify category leaders by review count and rating Surface new product launches the moment PetFlow lists them
📣 Affiliate or content creator Generate buyer guides backed by live prices and images Refresh comparison pages automatically on a schedule Mine product descriptions for keyword research Surface deeply discounted items for deal newsletters	🧠 Data engineer Feed pet category data into a feature store for forecasting Train recommendation models with real product metadata Prototype price-elasticity studies on a known vertical Wire the dataset into a Slack alert for stock or price drops

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🌟 Beyond business use cases

Data like this powers more than commercial workflows. The same structured records support research, education, civic projects, and personal initiatives.

🎓 Research and academia Empirical datasets for papers, thesis work, and coursework Longitudinal studies tracking changes across snapshots Reproducible research with cited, versioned data pulls Classroom exercises on data analysis and ethical scraping	🎨 Personal and creative Side projects, portfolio demos, and indie app launches Data visualizations, dashboards, and infographics Content research for bloggers, YouTubers, and podcasters Hobbyist collections and personal trackers
🤝 Non-profit and civic Transparency reporting and accountability projects Advocacy campaigns backed by public-interest data Community-run databases for local issues Investigative journalism on public records	🧪 Experimentation Prototype AI and machine-learning pipelines with real data Validate product-market hypotheses before engineering spend Train small domain-specific models on niche corpora Test dashboard concepts with live input

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🔌 Automating PetFlow Scraper

Run the Actor from your own code or workflow tooling. Every run is exposed as a REST endpoint, with first-class SDKs for Node.js and Python.

• 📦 Node.js SDK - start runs, stream the dataset, and react to webhooks.
• 🐍 Python SDK - the same primitives in idiomatic Python for analysts.
• 📚 Apify API reference - call the Actor directly with HTTP, perfect for cron and serverless functions.

Schedules: open the Actor in your console and create a Schedule. Pick a cadence (hourly, daily, weekly), supply the same input you would pass manually, and Apify will run the Actor on the clock and post results to the dataset of your choice.

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💰 How much does it cost?

Apify gives you $5 in free monthly credits on the Apify Free plan, enough to test PetFlow Scraper and pull a real sample dataset. For ongoing usage:

• Starter plan ($49/month) — Recommended for individuals running PetFlow Scraper regularly. Includes higher concurrency and larger datasets.
• Scale plan ($499/month) — Recommended for teams running PetFlow Scraper at production scale.

Pay-Per-Event pricing means you only pay for what you actually use. Failed runs are never charged. See the Pricing tab on this Actor's page for exact event prices.

💡 Tips for using PetFlow Scraper

• Start with a small maxItems (3-10) to validate output format before running larger jobs.
• Use Apify Schedules to run PetFlow Scraper on a recurring basis and keep your dataset fresh.
• Export via Integrations: Apify connects to Google Sheets, Airbyte, Make, Zapier, and direct webhooks — pipe your data anywhere.
• Monitor with webhooks: trigger downstream workflows the moment a run finishes.
• Re-run failed items: if any individual records error out, re-run with their inputs only. Failed events are not charged.

⚖️ Is it legal to use PetFlow Scraper?

Yes. PetFlow Scraper only collects publicly available data. Web scraping public data has been confirmed as legal by US courts (see hiQ Labs v. LinkedIn) and is widely used for research, market analysis, and business intelligence.

However, you are responsible for:

• Respecting the source website's Terms of Service.
• Complying with GDPR, CCPA, and other applicable data-protection laws when personal data is involved.
• Not republishing copyrighted content without permission.

If you have specific compliance concerns, consult your legal team. See the Apify legal docs for more.

❓ Frequently Asked Questions

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🔌 Integrate with any app

• Make - automate multi-step workflows on a visual canvas
• Zapier - connect to 5,000+ apps with no code
• GitHub - sync runs and datasets with version control
• Slack - get notifications when a run finishes
• Airbyte - move data into your warehouse on a schedule
• Google Drive - drop CSVs directly into shared drives

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⚠️ Disclaimer: This Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by PetFlow.com or any of its subsidiaries. All trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners.