Integration
Magento / Adobe Commerce competitor monitoring
Track Magento competitors across complex variant catalogues.
Powers a meaningful share of mid-market and enterprise B2C catalogues.
Magento storefronts vary more than any other platform we cover. Some expose GraphQL, some only render HTML, almost all use complex SKU + configurable-product structures. RivalScraper handles Magento via Tier 3 platform-aware CSS extraction with JSON-LD as a primary signal. Configurable products with size/colour are flattened so variant-level price changes still surface as alerts.
Extraction: Tier 3 platform-aware CSS extraction, with JSON-LD primary signal.
How it works on Magento / Adobe Commerce
- 1
Paste the competitor's URL
We detect Magento via the X-Magento-* headers, the /static/version pattern, common body classes (.cms-index-index, .catalog-product-view), and Magento-flavoured JSON-LD.
- 2
Catalogue walk via category and PLP pages
Magento doesn't ship a public products list endpoint by default, so we walk paginated category pages. We respect rel=next/prev and stop at sensible depth.
- 3
Configurable products flattened to SKU rows
A configurable product on Magento has child simples for each size/colour. We track the parent and the children, so a size-XL price increase doesn't get hidden inside a parent average.
- 4
Sale detection via special_price visibility
When special_price is rendered (and lower than regular price), we record the discount. Disappearance of special_price marks sale end.
- 5
Daily brief consolidates the changes
Magento catalogues can be wide — the AI brief surfaces only the price moves that matter (top sellers, deepest discounts, most-viewed categories) instead of dumping every diff.
Magento / Adobe Commerce support matrix
| Capability | RivalScraper on Magento / Adobe Commerce |
|---|---|
JSON-LD extraction | |
Configurable-product variant tracking | |
Special_price sale detection | |
Multi-store view detection We track per-store-view URL separately | |
Inventory tracking Rarely exposed publicly | |
Price-change alerts | ≥2% threshold |
GraphQL Magento 2 endpoint Most stores firewall it; CSS path more reliable |
Frequently asked questions
Magento storefronts vary so much — does this actually work?+
Yes, because we lead with JSON-LD which is consistent across themes (Google requires it for rich results) and only fall back to CSS extraction for sites that strip it. The variability bites theme-only scrapers; tier-cascading covers the spread.
How do you handle configurable products with many child SKUs?+
We flatten configurable parents into their child SKU rows for diffing. Each variant is tracked independently, so a price hike on the XL size shows up in the daily brief even if the parent's displayed price didn't change.
Does this work for Adobe Commerce (Magento Cloud)?+
Yes. Adobe Commerce shares the same storefront markup as open-source Magento. Detection and extraction are identical.
What about multi-store-view setups (one Magento, many regions)?+
We treat each store-view URL as a separate competitor entity. That keeps EUR vs USD vs GBP pricing cleanly separated and avoids false-alert noise from currency switches.
How long does the first full catalogue walk take?+
Depends on catalogue depth. A 5,000-SKU Magento store typically takes 30-60 minutes for the baseline scan, with daily diffs measured in minutes.
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