Extract a Competitor's Product Catalogue
Pull structured product data from a competitor's catalogue — names, prices, descriptions, and images — for competitive analysis.
Build a Product Database from Multiple Suppliers
Extract product data from multiple supplier catalogues and consolidate it into a single normalized database.
Tool
Retailers and marketplace operators source products from dozens of suppliers, each with their own website format, naming conventions, and data structure. Maintaining an up-to-date product database means constantly visiting supplier sites, copying data manually, and normalizing inconsistent formats — work that takes days and is already out of date by the time it's done.
Catalogue Scraper extracts product data from each supplier's catalogue in a consistent structured format: name, price, description, images, and category. Once normalized, the data from multiple suppliers can be merged into a single database without the formatting inconsistencies that manual collection introduces.
Retailers, marketplace operators, and procurement teams use this to build product databases from supplier catalogues, populate a PIM system with current supplier data, and keep listings current as supplier inventories change.
Agent Guides
Claude
- Connect ToolRouter in Claude: claude mcp add toolrouter -- npx -y toolrouter-mcp
- List the supplier catalogue URLs and your target product schema.
- Ask Claude to use `catalogue-scraper` with `scrape_catalogue` on each supplier URL.
ChatGPT
- Connect ToolRouter in ChatGPT: {"mcpServers":{"toolrouter":{"command":"npx","args":["-y","toolrouter-mcp"]}}}
- Provide the supplier URLs and your target data schema.
- Ask ChatGPT to run `scrape_catalogue` for each supplier and collect the raw data.
Copilot
- Connect ToolRouter in Copilot: {"mcpServers":{"toolrouter":{"command":"npx","args":["-y","toolrouter-mcp"]}}}
- Define your target database schema and the supplier URLs to scrape.
- Ask Copilot to run `scrape_catalogue` for each supplier via `catalogue-scraper`.
OpenClaw
- Connect ToolRouter in OpenClaw: openclaw mcp add toolrouter -- npx -y toolrouter-mcp
- Define the supplier URLs, target schema, and normalization rules for category names and price formats.
- Run `catalogue-scraper` with `scrape_catalogue` for all suppliers and normalize results to the shared schema.
Related Use Cases
Monitor Product Price Changes
Track price changes across a product catalogue over time and alert when prices drop, increase, or products go out of stock.