This case study covers a pricing intelligence project where we at Ficstar, a fully managed web data collection and web scraping services  partner for enterprises, collected electronic component prices across top Distributor, Aggregator and Manufacturer websites to capture the tiered pricing and lead time for each part number. In this project, the client provided a massive input list of 700,000+ electronic parts , and our job was to capture price by quantity (tiered price brea

Through this project, we helped a leading U.S. tire retailer monitor nationwide pricing and shipping data from 20 major competitors, covering over 50,000 SKUs and generating roughly one million pricing rows per weekly crawl. The challenges included add-to-cart pricing, login-required sites, captchas, and multi-seller listings, all of which required adaptive algorithms, caching, and contextual parsing to ensure 99% accuracy. Our QA framework, built around cached validation and

Baker & Taylor, a distributor of books and entertainment, has been in business for over 180 years. It is based in Charlotte, North...