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Ecommerce Web Scraping in 2026: What Generic Guides Get Wrong

Product pages are not blog posts. Ecommerce scraping has its own problems, from variant extraction to seller fragmentation, and most scraping guides ignore all of them. Here is what actually works.

Apr 3, 2026_12 min read

Competitor Price Monitoring in 2026: The Complete Guide

Every pricing tool shows you a dashboard. None of them give you the data. How to set up competitor price monitoring that you actually own, from SaaS dashboards to building your own extraction pipeline.

Apr 1, 2026_11 min read

How AI agents shop: the discovery problem OpenAI just made visible

ChatGPT now shows products from merchants who submit feeds. But agents need to see the entire web. Here's what the agentic commerce stack is missing.

Mar 25, 2026_10 min read

MAP Price Monitoring: How to Track Minimum Advertised Prices Across the Web

One MAP violation cascades to a dozen sellers in 48 hours. How to set up minimum advertised price monitoring that catches violations before they spread.

Mar 24, 2026_8 min read

Web Scraping in 2026: How AI Scrapers Are Replacing Manual Code

The web scraping market hit $1B but 20% of engineering time goes to maintenance. AI scrapers that generate extraction code at build time are changing the economics of ecommerce data.

Feb 3, 2026_7 min read

Introducing Extralt: The Market Intelligence Layer for Ecommerce

Traditional scrapers break. AI scrapers are too slow. Extralt generates crawlers with AI, compiles them as Rust binaries, and extracts entire product catalogs in minutes. Here's how it works and what you can build with it.

Feb 1, 2026_4 min read