ShipStation data scraping: four storefronts, one public layer
A ShipStation scraper has to start with the fact that shipstation.com is four storefronts, not one. ShipStation is US shipping software for online sellers: it pulls orders from stores and marketplaces, compares carrier rates, buys and prints labels, and runs returns, inventory and warehouse work in one place. The site points visitors from the UK and Ireland to the en-gb edition, Australia and New Zealand to en-au and Canada to en-ca, while everyone else stays on the US site, and each edition keeps its own price grid, carrier line-up and discount claims. ShipStation now sits inside ShipStation Global, the group formed when its owner Auctane merged with WWEX Group, which also runs Worldwide Express and Unishippers; the US plans let users bring their own Worldwide Express or Unishippers LTL account.
The public layer is unusually complete. Plan pages list the shipment tiers with their prices, the integrations directory has a card for each carrier, marketplace, cart, ERP and app, carrier pages quote discounts off retail rates, rate calculators carry "starting from" tables, and blog posts follow carrier rate changes with their effective dates. The account itself - orders, labels, postage balance, negotiated contract rates, reports - sits behind a sign-in and stays out of scope, so ShipStation data scraping here means what any prospect can read before starting a trial.
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