Extract a Competitor's Product Catalogue
Pull structured product data from a competitor's catalogue — names, prices, descriptions, and images — for competitive analysis.
Extract Product Specifications for Comparison
Pull structured technical specifications from product catalogues to power comparison engines, feature matrices, and buying guides.
ToolProduct comparison pages, buying guides, and recommendation engines all depend on consistent structured specifications — dimensions, materials, compatibility, performance metrics — across every product. Collecting this by hand across a real catalogue is impossible, and the resulting data goes stale the moment manufacturers refresh their range.
Catalogue Scraper extracts the full set of structured fields exposed on each product page: spec tables, feature lists, compatibility notes, and description-embedded attributes. The output is a consistent dataset you can feed into a comparison engine, a feature-filter search index, or a buying guide page.
Publishers, affiliate sites, and retailers use this to power product comparison pages, populate feature-filter search, generate category buying guides, and keep spec databases current as manufacturers release new models.
Agent Guides
Claude
- Connect ToolRouter in Claude: claude mcp add toolrouter -- npx -y toolrouter-mcp
- Provide the catalogue URL and the product category you are building comparisons for.
- Ask Claude to use `catalogue-scraper` with `scrape_catalogue` to extract the products and their specification fields.
ChatGPT
- Connect ToolRouter in ChatGPT: {"mcpServers":{"toolrouter":{"command":"npx","args":["-y","toolrouter-mcp"]}}}
- Provide the catalogue URL and the editorial format you need — comparison table, buying guide, or feature matrix.
- Ask ChatGPT to run `scrape_catalogue` to pull the full product set with specifications.
Copilot
- Connect ToolRouter in Copilot: {"mcpServers":{"toolrouter":{"command":"npx","args":["-y","toolrouter-mcp"]}}}
- Define the canonical spec schema for your category (which attributes, which types, which units).
- Ask Copilot to run `scrape_catalogue` and map each product's raw spec data to the canonical schema.
OpenClaw
- Connect ToolRouter in OpenClaw: openclaw mcp add toolrouter -- npx -y toolrouter-mcp
- Define the catalogue URLs, the canonical spec schema, and the normalization rules.
- Run `catalogue-scraper` with `scrape_catalogue` against each catalogue on a monthly schedule.
Related Use Cases
Build a Product Database from Multiple Suppliers
Extract product data from multiple supplier catalogues and consolidate it into a single normalized database.
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.
Migrate a Product Catalogue to a New Platform
Extract your existing product catalogue and re-import it into a new e-commerce platform without manual copying.