GLS publishes a different price list, surcharge table and pickup network in every country. We turn its 22 country sites into one GLS data feed you can query.
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We run the whole pipeline. The German site puts a browser check in front of automated visitors, the locator loads points by map area, and several price lists are PDFs. Our answer is anti-bot handling, proxy rotation and CAPTCHA solving, per-country parsers and PDF table extraction; then we extract GLS data into one schema for size classes, zones and currencies. For tracking, you send your own parcel numbers to our GLS tracking API and get status events on schedule. Every run is compared with the last one, so a changed surcharge, a new price list or a closed ParcelShop arrives as a change record.
The GLS Points locator is the richest structured source on the group site. It covers three location types - Parcel Shop, Parcel Locker and Parcel Neighbour - and filters them by service and opening hours. For each point we collect:
Price rows come from each published price list: size class, the dimension rule behind it, maximum weight, destination country or zone, and separate prices for delivery to a GLS ParcelShop and to a home address. Surcharge rows add the percentage, the index it follows and the month or week it applies to. For your own shipments, tracking returns the parcel number or Track ID and each status step with date, time and location, including the ParcelShop where a parcel waits. Tracking forms differ by country: Germany and the Netherlands ask for a postcode next to the parcel number, Italy searches by national or international reference, parcel ID or delivery note, France by parcel or notice-card number. Parcel Neighbour points are private people, so we keep them as counts per postcode, not names.
Each national company prices in its own format:
Whether GLS will ship on weekends depends on the country: GLS US serves Monday to Friday with Saturday delivery in selected areas, while German national prices assume Monday to Friday transit. We also collect the GLS holiday schedule and the GLS international shipping prices each site quotes by zone.
A GLS scraper has to start from the map, because General Logistics Systems is a group of national parcel companies rather than one website. The holding, General Logistics Systems B.V., is registered in Amsterdam and belongs to International Distribution Services, the owner of Royal Mail. Its country selector leads to 22 own-country sites and to partner pages for the rest of the network.
Most country sites sit on gls-group.com under a country and language path such as /PL/pl/, /IT/it/, /FR/fr/ or /US/en/. GLS Germany is the exception and runs gls-pakete.de, with its own shop for parcel labels. Monaco is served by GLS France, San Marino and Vatican City by GLS Italy, Andorra by GLS Spain. Where GLS has no subsidiary, the partner page names the carrier that delivers: Parcelforce Worldwide in the United Kingdom, Swiss Post GLS in Switzerland, Posten Norge in Norway, DSV Road in Sweden, SmartPosti in Latvia and Lithuania.
The group reports 977 million parcels in fiscal year 2025/26, 63% of them B2C. International parcels go up to 40 kg, domestic delivery usually takes under 24 hours and delivery across Europe 24 to 96 hours. Each country site has its own tracking form, GLS Points search, service pages and prices, so every market needs its own parser.
Delivery: CSV, JSON or XLSX files, our API or a JSON feed. MCP server on request.
Full plan detailsPrices, pickup coverage and surcharges differ from one GLS company to the next, and that gap is why GLS data scraping pays off.
Retailers, marketplaces, logistics analysts and consultancies reuse the same GLS dataset for tenders and network planning.
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Data scraping is the wide term that includes documents, scans and old screens; web scraping is the part that works on websites. We compare sources, daily work, output and cost drivers, give a briefing checklist and walk through two of our projects.
Leveraging advances in technology, the AI-powered web scraper has skyrocketed in demand and is helping to expand capabilities by automating tedious daily tasks and speeding up data collection from thousands of websites several times over.
Web scraping is a method of obtaining web data by extracting it from pages of web resources with the help of a program, that is, in automatic mode. It is used to syntactically convert web pages into more usable forms.
ScrapeIt is a managed web scraping agency. You tell us which GLS countries, which records and how often; we build the crawlers, keep them running when a country site changes and deliver clean files or a live feed as JSON, CSV, XLSX, Google Sheets or a push to your database or storage bucket. A sample comes first, so you check the fields on real GLS records before committing to a schedule.
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Yes. The ScrapeIt GLS API returns ParcelShop, Parcel Locker and depot records with hours and services, price-list rows by country and size class, current surcharge percentages and, for parcel numbers you send us, tracking events. Responses are JSON on the schedule you choose - hourly for tracking, daily or weekly for locations and prices - and the same data ships as CSV and XLSX files.
We collect only publicly available data - everything a visitor can see on GLS - and we collect it legally. That covers price lists, surcharge tables, service pages, the GLS Points locator and tracking results for parcel numbers you own. No logins, no paywalls. Under GDPR we leave personal data out: recipient names, addresses and signatures from tracking, and the names of private Parcel Neighbours.
Yes. We map every country's size classes, dimension rules, weight limits, zones and currencies onto one schema, keep the original label next to the normalised value and store the effective date of each list. Germany's XS by longest plus shortest side, Poland's XS by box size and Italy's XS with its 3 kg cap then sit side by side, with surcharges in separate columns, so you compare GLS prices like for like.
Weekly suits most network studies; daily suits checkout pickers that must hide closed points. Each run records new, moved and removed points, changes to opening hours and services, holiday closures and maintenance notices, so you get a history rather than a snapshot. Country pages round their network counts differently, and a full crawl gives the real number of GLS Points per country, city and postcode.
Yes, for parcel numbers or Track IDs that belong to your shipments. GLS tracking shows each step - data entered, in transit, at the destination parcel centre, out for delivery, delivered, or delivered to a ParcelShop - and we return it as timestamped events with the location and the pickup point. We do not look up parcels that are not yours, and recipient details stay out of the feed.
You share your needs, expectations, and desired timeframe. We'll suggest the best solution based on your request and budget.
Our specialists configure the crawlers and extract a sample dataset for your review before proceeding with the full-scale extraction.
Once you approve the sample, we launch the project and start full data collection. We gather, filter, and structure the data for easy use, delivering it on time in your preferred format.
Our team manages ongoing processes, monitors website changes, and supports all data extraction cycles. We can also help integrate data into your systems or create dashboards to simplify analysis.
Tell us which sites, which fields and how often. A couple of lines is enough to start.
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