Multi-Retailer Grocery Scraper
Overview
A large-scale data extraction pipeline built for Spoonful Inc. to centralize product data from major grocery retailers (Kroger, Walmart Food, Tesco, Tesco.ie, Woolworths). The scraper captures ingredients, allergens, nutrition facts, and product metadata while complying with each site's access structure.
Outcome
Automated grocery data collection across multiple regions at 100% accuracy, replacing manual research and powering Spoonful's analytics and price-comparison features.
Screens & Demos
Architecture & Pipeline
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Source Sites
Kroger · Walmart · Tesco · Tesco.ie · Woolworths
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Custom Scrapers
Scrapy · Selenium · BeautifulSoup
- BeautifulSoup
- Scrapy
- Selenium
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Anti-Bot Layer
Rotating proxies · NordVPN · Anti-Captcha
- NordVPN
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Filter Non-Food
Relevance check
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Standardize Fields
GTIN / UPC normalization
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Quality Gates
Retry · logging · rate-limit
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Deliver Datasets
CSV / Excel for Spoonful Inc.
- CSV
- Excel
End-to-end flow, in order. Scroll sideways on a narrow screen.
Key Features
- Custom scrapers for five major grocery retailers
- Filters that exclude items other than food and keep data relevant
- Handles bot detection with rotating proxies, NordVPN, and Anti-Captcha
- API reverse-engineering for higher speed and accuracy
- Standardized GTIN/UPC fields across all sources
- Clean CSV/Excel deliverables with retry, logging, and rate-limiting