Parsagon: Universal API for product data

✨ TL;DR

Hi YC! We’re excited to announce that Parsagon is offering an API with which you can collect product data from any e-commerce site with 1 API call.

🤯 The Problem

If you’re trying to get data on products from e-commerce sites like Amazon, Etsy, etc., you essentially have 2 options:

1. 1. Develop or purchase web scrapers for every site, which are time-consuming and expensive to build and maintain.
2. 2. Use a product data API, where you provide a URL to a product page, and the API tries to extract product data from the page via ML models. This is cheaper, but these APIs often return inaccurate data for 20+% of product pages. We’ve seen these APIs say the price of a $350 TV was $16 because the warranty was $16, we’ve seen them say a price was $3400 when it was really $34.00, we’ve seen them say products were in stock when they were out of stock—the list goes on and on.

As developers, we at Parsagon have spent countless hours building and maintaining such web scrapers and wishing that we could use a product data API without sacrificing the accuracy and reliability of custom scrapers.

💡 The Solution

Parsagon provides a product data API with near 100% reliability. We avoid the inaccuracies of previous product data APIs by using a novel AI to generate custom scrapers for every e-commerce website, ensuring that we consistently return accurate data for each site. Just give our API a URL for a product or list of products, and Parsagon will build a scraper for the site (if it hasn’t already) and return data for your product(s) with a standardized format.

For example, giving the API the URL for this page

yields:

{

"name": "Amazon eero 6 mesh Wi-Fi system | Supports speeds up to 500 mbps | Connect to Alexa | Coverage up to 4,500 sq. ft. | 3-pack, one router + two extenders, 2020 release",
"price": 179.99,
"regular_price": 199.99,
"currency": "$",
"sku": "B085WSCTS4",
"out_of_stock": false,
. . .

}

And giving the API the URL for this page

yields

[

{
    "name": "WICKER KURA BED- Pretty Stickers- Peel and Stick- Gifts- Adhesive Kura Bed Designs- Room Decor- Wicker Designs- Customizable Kura Beds", 
    "link": "https://www.etsy.com/listing/1141689620/wicker-kura-bed-pretty-stickers-peel-and?click_key=aa9bb9d8d3aaf77acefa1143c7d023c6631c1c59%3A1141689620&click_sum=5ea4b26e&ga_order=most_relevant&ga_search_type=all&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_search_query=beds&ref=search_grid-367299-1-1&pro=1&frs=1",  
    "price": 58.99,  
    "regular_price": 78.66,  
    "currency": "$",  
    "sku": "1141689620",  
    "out_of_stock": false,   
    . . . 
},
{
    "name": "Upholstered SOFT WALL PANELS for King or Queen size beds.",
    . . . 
},
. . . 
]

❓ Our Asks

If you want an easier way to collect product data, email us at founders@parsagon.io