I briefly consulted for a ecommerce search company. It stunned me how many online stores selling millions of dollars of goods per month online are essentially

I briefly consulted for a ecommerce search company. It stunned me how many online stores selling millions of dollars of goods per month online are essentially incapable of giving you a csv with product id, quantity in stock, and price. Somewhere in the shit-mass of code that is their site there must be some way to determine precisely what items are in stock and what the retailer would charge for them right now, but it's apparently incredibly difficult to export that : rolleyes : Our solution was a combination of a semi-busted daily/hourly catalog export, a site scraper, some machine learning, and some human intervention. It was an enormous pain. ps -- there are definitely ecommerce sites out there where the price you pay depends on your navigation path through the store. I remain unsure if this was intentional or accidental.