Shopify and WooCommerce power millions of stores, and both expose product data in fairly structured ways. Apex Automation Team builds store extractors for competitor research, catalogue migrations and price monitoring. Here is how they work.
Shopify stores
Most Shopify storefronts publish a public products feed that lists every product with variants, prices, SKUs, images, tags, vendor and availability. A well-built extractor pages through it, normalises variants into rows and downloads images in parallel. Collections, metafields shown on the page and reviews from apps need a page-level pass.
WooCommerce stores
WooCommerce exposes product listings through its storefront pages and, on many stores, a public REST endpoint. Our extractor reads categories, then products, then variations, capturing regular/sale prices, stock status, attributes and gallery images.
What clients use it for
- Competitor research: full catalogue with prices, refreshed weekly, with change detection.
- Migrations: moving a store between platforms with all images and variants intact.
- Marketplace prep: converting a catalogue into Amazon, eBay or Google Shopping feed formats.
- Lead generation: directories of active Shopify/WooCommerce merchants by niche for B2B outreach.
Pricing and delivery
A single-store export starts from $50; multi-store monitoring with alerts is quoted after a free feasibility test. Delivered as Excel/CSV/JSON, with images zipped or uploaded to your storage.
Only public storefront data is collected. Related reading: Web scraping vs API extraction. Request a store export.
Quick checklist
- List the fields you need: variants, SKUs, prices, images, tags
- Decide one-time export vs weekly monitoring
- Ask for images zipped or uploaded to your storage
- Request a marketplace feed format if you plan to list elsewhere
- Confirm the store is public and the use is permitted
Frequently asked
Can you export product reviews too?
Where reviews are shown publicly on product pages (via review apps), yes — as a separate sheet.
Can the export run automatically every week?
Yes. Scheduled runs with change detection are quoted after the free feasibility test.