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by billconan 2209 days ago
We really need a service like this.

We are a furniture e-commerce. Our vendors don't provided detailed product feeds. We have to rely on scraping.

The most difficult part of scraping the data is that we need to scrape all the product options (Material, Color, Size ...)

each option is a different SKU. see https://www.article.com/product/11833/sven-charme-tan-sofa

We also need to build nlp models to understand product dimensions and weight (useful when estimating shipping fee)

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Hey - if this is true my company already has a pretty good solution for getting product info in a standard format from 10s of thousands of websites. My company also has to gather, format, and estimate dimensions and weight because we do only international shipping. Try out a random product url on zipx.com for an example.

Should we talk? My email is in my profile. I think there might be several ways your company and mine can help eachother actually...

Thanks for getting in touch, I've just sent over an email
I've heard of the SKU problem that e-commerce stores have to face with their vendors. Would you mind if I contacted you to learn more about it?
No problem, you can send an email to me@buneme.com :)
That's really useful feedback, especially the part about NLP models, thanks!!