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Guides

Why scrapers rot: build vs buy when you scrape hundreds of shops

A scraper that works is a script. A scraper that keeps working, across hundreds of shops, every day, is an operations problem. The gap between those two sentences is where most data projects die.

Guides

Product matching without EAN or GTIN: why it's the hard part

With barcodes, matching products across e-shops is a database join. Without them, it's the hardest problem in e-commerce data, and the reason most “price monitoring” quietly stops at the shops that make it easy.

Industry Reports

The scratched coffee machine that broke your price comparison

One damaged unit, listed for two days, read by a rule that could not tell it apart from a boxed one. The retailer who repriced off it lost about 133,000 Kč in six days. And no two e-shops mark their non-new goods the same way.

Case Studies

How Alza.cz automated price monitoring and product matching across three markets

Alza.cz tracks competitor prices across three markets and its product matching runs automatically. Until then, that meant manual lookups that were expensive, slow and didn't scale. A case study on how the project started, what had to be solved and what it delivered for Alza.

Case Studies

Pricing, assortment and strategy in the Czech online pet segment

A comparative analysis of seven pet supply e-shops on the Czech market over the 2025/26 turn of the year

Case Studies

KTS-AME: Maintaining market position after losing key supplier

KTS-AME, a consumer electronics specialist, sought a way to streamline competitor monitoring and obtain reliable data for strategic decision-making. The company needed a solution to replace tedious manual searching and provide a solid foundation for pricing strategies.

News

DeepScout founder Jan Mittner on Cinkátko Podcast

Our founder, Honza Mittner, was a guest on the Cinkátko podcast. In the interview, he pulled back the curtain on e-commerce pricing strategies and discussed why many online stores still rely on "gut feeling" rather than hard data.

News

🚀 We were at Reshoper 2025

We attended the Reshoper trade fair for the very first time and it was an amazing experience. From the morning warm-up to the evening networking, we met many interesting companies and had countless inspiring conversations about what truly challenges e-shops and what matters most to them.

Changelog

New function: Manual matching

Based on your feedback we have added a new feature - manual product matching. In a simple interface you can now add product pairs in two ways.

Changelog

Improved Extraction of Product Codes

We’ve enhanced our ability to extract hidden product codes from websites.

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