Launching WooScraper v2

WooScraper started in 2023 as a WordPress plugin: install it on your destination store, paste a source URL, click a button. It worked for small catalogs and failed for almost everything else. Image hot-link breakage, half-imported variants, manual deduping by SKU — and a one-star review from anyone with more than a few hundred SKUs.

We rebuilt it from scratch this year. Same name, different architecture.

What changed

The new WooScraper is a Chrome and Edge extension plus a hosted backend. The extension rides shotgun in your browser session — Cloudflare sees a real visitor — and discovers product URLs. Then the cloud takes over: parses the catalog, downloads every image, optimizes to WebP, and ships you a ready-to-import CSV. You can close the tab. You can come back tomorrow. You can migrate a ten-thousand-product catalog without your browser heating up.

A few specifics that took real work and we're proud of:

• Variants done right. WooCommerce stores expose every variant's attributes in the data-product_variations JSON attached to the form.variations_form element. Most scrapers ignore it. We parse the full matrix — a 1,000-product Allbirds catalog produced 10,480 correct variants in our launch test.
• Reviews bundled, not upsold. Native Woo, Judge.me, Loox, Yotpo, Stamped — auto-discovered from the storefront HTML, captured during the same scrape, exported in the right format for whichever review app your destination uses. No separate $39.99/mo subscription.
• Images that don't break. Every source image is downloaded server-side, optimized to WebP, and rehosted on Vercel Blob. The CSV's Images column points at our CDN, so the destination Woo importer auto-fetches and attaches them. No manual upload, no broken hot-links six months later.
• Pay once. $19 for up to 100 products, $39 for 1,000, $79 for 10,000, $149 unlimited. No subscription. One purchase covers unlimited retries on the same source URL within the retention window. Full refund if the migration isn't complete.

What's actually different vs other tools

The closest competitor, woocommerce-scraper.com, last shipped a release in January 2023. Their extension is 169 KB of client-only JavaScript — fast for a 50-product test, painful for a real migration. We replaced their entire delivery model with a hybrid: tiny extension (~210 KB), real backend doing the heavy lifting, and a public REST API for agencies who want to script the whole thing.

Honest comparisons live at /vs/woocommerce-scraper-com, /vs/wooexporter, and /vs/shopify-spy.

What's next

v2.1 is queued: AI-powered description rewriting (for dropshipping uniqueness), UI translations for the existing customer base in the EU, and a Firefox build. Bigger feature: scheduled-watch insights — when a watched competitor adds a product, drops a price, or removes a SKU, we tell you in a weekly digest. That's the spy-tool layer we want to grow into.

If you used the old plugin

Your account on the old WordPress plugin doesn't auto-migrate (different stack, different accounts table). We're emailing every customer with a 40%-off code valid against any paid tier. Look for LEGACY40 in your inbox over the next few days.

Try it

The fastest way is the live demo — paste any storefront URL, we'll scan it server-side and tell you the platform, theme, plugins, and stats. No signup. The free tools work the same way for theme, plugin, and stats detection in isolation. When you're ready to migrate a real catalog, install the extension and pick a tier.