True Leaf Market Scraper for Seed Catalog and Price Data

Seed attributes True Leaf Market publishes on every variety page

A seed row is not a clothing row with different labels. Each variety page carries two attribute tables, Basic product information and Growing information, and the field set changes with what the seed is for.

• Identity - variety name, Latin name in italics (Cucumis sativus, Capsicum chinense, Medicago sativa), other names the trade uses, house brand, SKU and the category path the page sits under.
• Garden seed growing block - days to maturity, days to germination, seeding depth, plant spacing, row spacing, plant height, plant width, plant spread, growth habit, growth speed, soil preference, temperature preference, germination temperature, light preference (Full Sun, Partial Shade, Shade), USDA hardiness zone list, life cycle, direct sow yes or no, start indoors with the weeks before transplant, easy or hard, deer resistance, pollination type, and the pests and diseases line.
• Microgreens and sprouting block - a different set on the same site: presoak hours, preferred growing medium, seeding rate per 10x20 tray, blackout time, germination time, estimated days to harvest, ideal harvest day, whether the salad stage is worth taking, plus color, flavor, texture and difficulty.
• Crop-specific extras - Scoville heat units and a heat band on peppers, slicing or pickling type on cucumbers, seeding rate per 1000 sq ft on cover crops.
• Pack sizes - every size is its own row with its own SKU, price, was-price, discount percentage, stock state and a published price per ounce. Stock sits on the size, not the variety: red clover is orderable as a 1 oz pouch and sold out as a 25 lb bag on the same page.
• Seed counts - approximate seeds per package for each size and a seeds per ounce figure, which is what turns weight into plants.
• Badges - Heirloom, Organic, Non-GMO, AAS Winner, Staff Favorite, Container, Vegetable, Annual, Sprout, plus a sale reason such as Low Germ on marked-down lots.
• Media and ratings - packshots and packet images at several widths, star rating, review count and review text.

All of it is on the public page. We extract True Leaf Market attributes into one flat table with a column per attribute, which is the shape a category manager can sort.

Seasonal stock, clearance lots and the germination question

Seed retail runs on a calendar and the catalogue shows it. There are 48 planting collections built as month crossed with zone band - seeds to plant in September for zones 7b to 9a, in October for zones 1 to 7a, and so on round the year - so a crawl in March and a crawl in October return different front rows, different promoted varieties and different stock. Availability moves with them: the vegetable filter currently counts about 305 items out of stock beside 2,013 in stock, and in the clearance collection more are gone than remain. A dataset built once in spring describes spring.

Clearance is its own signal. When a lot tests below the germination standard set by the USDA and the state of Utah, the company marks it down, labels it low germ and moves it to a clearance collection under a separate handle, with the tested rate written into the copy - a kale lot there reads 73 percent germination, non-refundable, and links back to the full-price page. Overstock deals sit in a second discount collection for high-germination surplus. Track those two and you are watching inventory pressure rather than marketing.

What the variety page does not carry: the germination result for the lot in your hand. That lives behind a lot-number lookup, and packing year and seed treatment are not published as fields at all. We do not invent them.