website stock check

[gmozzer]

Does anyone know of any software or script that can check an entire website for stock availability and put it into a spreadsheet?

So to explain, I have a supplier that has a wholesale website but does not have a regular product feed I can use. Basically my problem is keeping up with stock availability, what is in stock what is not, if it becomes out of stock, so on.....

So I was wandering if anybody knows of anything that say I can run, maybe daily or weekly, that can scan the entire product range of the website, where it says 'in stock' or 'out of stock' next to the product if that makes sense.

 

[Alan]

What you are looking for is a web scraper, you may find a ready made one that suits, but may need to ( get it ) custom code(d) ( normally in python ).

Check your suppliers terms and conditions as scraping is often against the T&C

 

[Cube Digital]

You can use simple tools like screaming frog, but you need to know a bit of code, regex, to pull the data. It is fairly easy to hire someone to do this.

 

[Darkterror]

Yes, you really need to custom coded that thing, otherwise it's just not fair at all. What your supplier are saying ? Maybe he can just give you lists of products in very good excel spreadsheet or google doc (which is free) or something live .csv, what do you say ?

 

[Mr D]

Some dropshipper companies supply stock lists daily or twice a week in a CSV format,