Case Study: Product & Design Data Scraping from Phillip Jeffries
The Challenge
Our client, a luxury wallcovering distributor, needed to collect product details, patterns, materials, pricing, and imagery from the Phillip Jeffries website. With thousands of SKUs, each having variations by color, texture, and finish, manual data collection was inefficient and error-prone.
Hurdles We Faced
- Dynamic Product Loading: Many product pages loaded asynchronously through JavaScript.
- High-Resolution Image Handling: Large media files required optimized scraping to avoid timeouts.
- Variation Management: Products included multiple material and color variants per listing.
- Rate Limiting & Access Control: The site implemented throttling against rapid automated access.
Our Step-by-Step Approach
1. Requirement Analysis
Outlined all required data points – product name, SKU, description, dimensions, material, finish, price, and image URLs.
2. Custom Scraper Development
Built a Python-based scraper using Selenium and Requests-HTML to handle both static and dynamic page elements.
3. Proxy Rotation & Access Control
Integrated rotating proxies and adaptive request delays to maintain uninterrupted access and avoid IP blocks.
4. Data Structuring & Standardization
Cleaned and formatted scraped data into a consistent structure suitable for database import or eCommerce catalog integration.
5. Automated Scheduling
Set up periodic scraping jobs to keep the dataset updated as new products and finishes were added.
Results & Impact
- Successfully extracted complete catalog data from Phillip Jeffries, including product variants and high-quality images.
- Reduced manual data entry time by over 90%.
- Provided the client with ready-to-import structured data for their design and retail platforms.
Our Services & Expertise
At Ascendance Solutions, we specialize in:
- Interior Design & Luxury Product Data Scraping
- eCommerce Catalog Automation
- Proxy-Managed Crawling for Secure, Scalable Extraction
- Data Standardization for Product Integration
📧 Connect with us at connect@ascendancesolutions.com to automate product data extraction from Phillip Jeffries or other design and decor platforms.
