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Chewy Scraper

Chewy Scraper is a powerful tool for extracting detailed product data directly from Chewy.com. It helps you gather structured information such as pricing, reviews, availability, and media assets at scale. Ideal for researchers, analysts, and businesses that rely on accurate pet-product data.

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Introduction

Chewy Scraper efficiently crawls product listings and category pages to collect product attributes, reviews, Q&A data, and availability information. It solves the challenge of gathering comprehensive pet-supply market data quickly and accurately. This project is designed for analysts, eCommerce professionals, data engineers, and developers who need a reliable Chewy data source.

Why Collect Chewy Product Data?

  • Provides granular product insights for competitive analysis.
  • Helps track pricing trends, discounts, and product availability.
  • Useful for review mining, sentiment analysis, and customer-behavior studies.
  • Supports market research and product catalog enrichment.
  • Enables automated monitoring of category-level product changes.

Features

Feature Description
Multi-URL Scraping Supports both category URLs and product detail URLs.
Deep Product Extraction Captures images, prices, descriptions, specifications, reviews, Q&A, and stock status.
Structured Output Produces clean JSON suitable for ETL pipelines and dashboards.
High-Volume Capability Handles thousands of products efficiently with stable performance.
Review & QA Capture Extracts detailed review text, ratings, timestamps, and answered questions.

What Data This Scraper Extracts

Field Name Field Description
id Unique product identifier.
partNumber Internal Chewy part number for the product.
name Full product name/title.
manufacturer Brand or manufacturer.
href Direct URL to the product page.
image Main product image URL.
rating Average customer rating.
ratingCount Number of total ratings.
price Current product price.
strikePrice Original price before discounts.
inStock Whether the item is currently available.
reviews Array of customer reviews with rating, text, author, date, etc.
qa List of customer questions and official or user answers.

Example Output

{
  "id": "104397",
  "partNumber": "104397",
  "name": "As Seen on TV Wobble Wag Giggle Ball Dog Toy",
  "manufacturer": "As Seen on TV",
  "href": "https://www.chewy.com/as-seen-on-tv-wobble-wag-giggle-ball/dp/131878",
  "image": "//image.chewy.com/is/image/catalog/104397_MAIN,1639680390",
  "rating": 3.703,
  "ratingCount": 3421,
  "price": "14.08",
  "strikePrice": "14.99",
  "inStock": true,
  "reviews": [
    {
      "id": 4381123,
      "rating": 5,
      "reviewText": "So we’ve had this toy for about 6 weeks...",
      "userNickname": "Puff",
      "createIsoDateTime": "2023-06-01T05:16:55.095773Z"
    }
  ],
  "qa": [
    {
      "id": 289750,
      "questionDetails": "Is this chew-proof? I have a strong & powerful chewer!",
      "answers": {
        "content": [
          {
            "answerText": "This Dog Toy is suitable for tough chewers...",
            "userNickname": "IyanzaC"
          }
        ]
      }
    }
  ]
}

Directory Structure Tree

Chewy Scraper/
├── src/
│   ├── main.js
│   ├── extractors/
│   │   ├── product_parser.js
│   │   ├── review_parser.js
│   │   └── qa_parser.js
│   ├── utils/
│   │   ├── request.js
│   │   └── html_tools.js
│   └── config/
│       └── settings.example.json
├── data/
│   ├── sample_input.json
│   └── sample_output.json
├── package.json
├── LICENSE
└── README.md

Use Cases

  • Market analysts use it to track pricing and stock patterns so they can understand competitive dynamics in the pet-supply sector.
  • eCommerce teams use it to benchmark products and enhance their catalogs with cleaner, more complete data.
  • Data scientists use it to collect large datasets for sentiment analysis of pet-owner reviews.
  • Retail brands use it to monitor competitor offerings to optimize product positioning.
  • Researchers use it to study trends in customer behavior and product performance over time.

FAQs

Q: Does the scraper support category pages with pagination? Yes, it can automatically follow pagination and extract all items across multi-page categories.

Q: What output format does the tool produce? The scraper outputs JSON by default, which is ideal for pipelines, dashboards, and analytical workflows.

Q: Can it extract both reviews and Q&A content? Yes, the scraper gathers detailed review data and customer questions along with staff or community answers.

Q: Does it work with product URLs and category URLs? It supports both, enabling flexible data collection workflows.


Performance Benchmarks and Results

Primary Metric: Processes an average of 80–120 product pages per minute under stable network conditions.

Reliability Metric: Typical success rate exceeds 98% across large category crawls.

Efficiency Metric: Uses lightweight HTML parsing and batching strategies to keep resource usage low even during long runs.

Quality Metric: Captures over 95% of visible product attributes, reviews, and Q&A content with minimal missing fields.


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