BigBasket Scraper - Extract Price and Stock Data

BigBasket product data: what a listing card and an item page actually carry

The unit of work is one item id resolved against one service area. Category listings return forty eight cards a page, brand listings forty, and each card is a full record, not a stub. What we lift from it:

• Identity: numeric item id, description, brand with its slug and brand URL, the pack string as printed (1 kg, 500 g, 6 pcs), the pack type (Bag, Pouch, Carton, Bottle) and a normalised magnitude plus unit.
• Money: selling price, regular selling price, MRP, the rupees-off line, the discount campaign block with its ids and percentage, a subscription price where the item allows one, and the per-unit price with its base unit, for example Rs 7.32 per 100 g. Loose produce carries decimals, so a cucumber pack reads Rs 19.5.
• Availability: a status code with its button text - the in-stock state reads Add, the 010 state reads Notify Me under the label We are currently not delivering this - plus an express flag and, where the express shelf answers, a short eta reading 5 mins.
• Signals: average rating, ratings count, review count, the sku id the rating belongs to, and a sold-in-the-last-month counter running from a few thousand units on a staple rice to over a million on onions.
• Context: top, middle and leaf category names with numeric ids, the veg or non-veg food mark, a best-value flag, a variable-weight note saying loose items are billed on actual weight, images in five sizes on the bbassets CDN, and an EAN field - on a mixed set of listings a little under half carried a real thirteen digit barcode, the rest repeated the internal id.

The item page adds the regulated block Indian food retail requires. Tabs run About the Product, Ingredients, Nutritional Facts, Storage, Sourcing and Composition, and an Other Product Info tab prints the EAN code, the marketer line, the FSSAI licence number, country of origin and shelf life - a fresho onion says use within four days of delivery. On own-label staples that tab lists a separate packer per city, each with its own FSSAI licence, so one id carries Bangalore, Kolkata, Chennai and Mumbai manufacturers at once. The page carries the pack ladder as child items too: one rice line resolves to 1 kg, 5 kg, 10 kg, 25 kg and a 26 kg bag, each a separate id with its own price per 100 g.

Facets, review histograms and own labels: the fields most grocery feeds drop

Facets carry the platform's own vocabulary and are cut per category, not site-wide. A single brand listing exposes dozens of facet groups: Age of the Rice, Dal Type, Banana Varieties (Nendran, Poovan, Hill, Raw), Mango Varieties (Alphonso, Badami, Banganapalli, Chausa, Dasheri), Fish Cut Type, Meat Cut Type, Bone Type, Allergen Info, Serving Size and a Pack Size list of hundreds of printed values such as Approx 70 - 100 g or 900 g Vacuum Packed 10-14 pcs. Every facet value is also a shelf under /ts/, so the taxonomy can be crawled rather than guessed at.

Calendar and wellness rails sit beside the permanent tree: Ganesh Chaturthi, Krishna Janmashtami, Varamahalakshmi store and Ugadi pachadi on one side, Diabetic Friendly, Elderly Care, Gut and Digestive Health, Low Carb, Preservative Free and Women's Wellness on the other. They come and go with the season, so they need a date stamp, not a fixed tree.

Ratings run deeper than the star on the card. A review page keyed to the parent sku publishes the one to five histogram, ratings and review totals, per-category feature scores - a rice line is scored on Fluffiness, Appearance and Packaging - and a recommendation percentage. Each review record carries a city id, so sentiment cuts by area exactly like price.

Own labels are the other half of the story: fresho! covers the fresh shelf end to end, while bb Royal, bb Popular and bb Home cover premium staples, value staples and homeware. Inside one service area the fresho listing runs several times longer than Amul's, so a brand-share report built on national brands alone reads the market wrong.