UPS Scraper: Rate Guides, Zone Charts and Surcharge Data

UPS Fields Worth Collecting: Services, Zones, Weight Ladders and Fees

A UPS scraper does not harvest product cards - it rebuilds a pricing model. The service grid is the spine. Domestic rows are sorted across Same Day, 1 Day, 2 Days, 3 Days and Day-Definite columns, with a parallel block for Alaska and Hawaii, and Day-Definite carries its own footnote: within five days. The rows are UPS Express Critical, UPS Next Day Air Early, UPS Next Day Air, UPS Next Day Air Saver, UPS 2nd Day Air A.M., UPS 2nd Day Air, UPS 3 Day Select, UPS Simple Rate, UPS Ground and the Intra-Alaska and Intra-Oahu Ground variants. Export and import run on their own column set - Best Available Flight, 1-3 Days, 2-5 Days, Within 3 Days, 3-5 Days and Day-Definite - over Worldwide Express Plus, Worldwide Express NA1, Worldwide Express, Worldwide Express Freight Midday, Worldwide Express Freight, Worldwide Saver, Worldwide Expedited, Standard to and from Canada and Mexico, and three Air Freight tiers.

Zones are the field most projects get wrong. There is no single domestic zone table to extract. UPS keys the chart to the shipper, not to the lane: you hand it an origin postal code, it matches the first three digits against an index of 902 prefixes and returns one workbook for that prefix alone. Inside sits a single sheet that names the origin range it covers and lists destination ZIP prefix against six service columns - Ground, 3 Day Select, 2nd Day Air, 2nd Day Air A.M., Next Day Air Saver and Next Day Air - with a dash wherever the service is not offered. The zone values are service-prefixed, so one lane reads 002 for Ground, 102 for Next Day Air and 242 for 2nd Day Air A.M. International zones work differently again: the Worldwide Zone Chart keys each destination by country name and ISO code, gives a zone per service, leaves the cell empty where the service is not sold, and hands Canada and Mexico charts of their own. Worldwide Expedited even splits its zone by whether the origin state counts as West or East.

The rate itself is a weight ladder. Each page carries four side-by-side blocks stepping from one pound to 150 pounds against zone columns, then closes with a price per pound for anything heavier. Building a usable UPS price table means reconstructing that ladder per service, per origin group and per zone, then keeping the three of them aligned when the guide is reissued.

Access Point Attributes, Fuel Indexes and the UPS Developer Portal

Three data sets sit beside the rate tables, and they are usually the reason a UPS project grows past its first sprint.

• Access Points. The network is described by type - national retail partners, independently owned local businesses and The UPS Store - and each carries attributes worth modelling: drop-off of pre-paid parcels, pickup where available, hours that vary by site, and a photo ID required to collect. Shipping to one is open to any shipper with a valid account and can be locked down with Deliver to Addressee Only or a numeric Package Release Code. The limits are explicit too: under 44 pounds, 38 inches on the longest side, 130 inches of length plus girth.
• Fuel indexes. Five separate tracks run in parallel: US ground domestic including Ground Saver, domestic air, international air export, international air import, and international ground export and import. Ground follows the EIA national average on-highway diesel price and the air tracks follow the Gulf Coast kerosene-type jet fuel price, both rounded to the cent, lagged by a week and effective each Monday. A rolling 90-day history table is refreshed weekly, and the bracket geometry differs per track. Simple Rate shipments are exempt.
• The Developer Portal. developer.ups.com lists its products in four groups - Authorization, Prepare Shipments, Create Shipments and Manage Shipments - covering Rating, Time In Transit, Locator, Address Validation, Shipping, Tracking, Pickup, Paperless Documents, Quantum View and more, with a priced premium tier on top.