With the PriceSpy Statistics Report you can get an overview of how popular your shops products are on the market, and how you rank in price. The report is an extra feature that you pay for, if you are interested - contact us for price.
There are two ways to get the feed:
Under Downloads in our Business Center.
Through our API, if you want to automate the fetching of the report.
Generating the files might take a while depending on the system load at the moment of request.
What is the difference between the old and the new Statistics Report?
What | Old statistics feed | New Statistics Report |
API-guide | No | |
Code snippet | No | |
Format | Uses one product per row and each competitor has a number of columns. This ends up in most customers having 100s of columns, which is hard to scale with new columns and very hard to read for a human. Only contains the cheapest offers from each competitor. | Uses one offer per row with stable columns, making it easy for both machines and humans to read. The report contains all shop offers. |
Supports historical downloads | No | Yes, reports are saved for 90 days, and can also be viewed/downloaded from Business Center. -> Downloads |
Supports multiple shops/brands | No | Yes |
Support different report types | No | Yes, by changing the report type, other reports can be downloaded with the same API. |
1. Create a report through Business Center
When you click on the button "Create new report" your report is generated, when it's finished you can download it via the button. The file is a GZIP compressed CSV.
Reports are available to download for 90 days from the date they were created.
Note: If a report is very big, several files are created. These must be downloaded separately.
2. Create a report through our API
First you need an API key, contact us and we will help you with this.
Next we recommend you to take a look at our snippet guide. There you will find a code example that you can copy and test with to get started (just replace the Client key and Client ID with your own).
The report contains a number of fields with information, some of these are: ProductID, GlobalRank, CategoryRank, ShopID, IsClickable.
Below you will find a specification of all fields and what they mean.
Field name | Explanation |
Market | Which PriceSpy market the offer belongs to |
CategoryId | The number used to identify the category the product belongs to on PriceSpy |
CategoryName | The name of the leaf category the product belongs to on PriceSpy |
ProductId | The number used to identify the product on PriceSpy |
ProductName | The name PriceSpy uses for the product on its product page |
BrandId | The number PriceSpy uses to identify the brand for the product |
BrandName | The name of the brand |
ProductUrl | The link/URL to the product page on PriceSpy price comparison. |
RankOnPrisjakt | The popularity rank of the product compared to all products on PriceSpy, based on clicks over the last 30 days. The lower the rank number, the more clicks the product receives. |
RankInCategory | The popularity rank of the product compared to all other products in its leaf category on PriceSpy, based on clicks over the last 30 days. The lower the rank number, the more clicks the product receives. |
ShopId | The number PriceSpy uses to identify the shop |
ShopName | The name of the shop on PriceSpy |
ClickableLink | True means that the shop is a paid member on PriceSpy and has active links that allow users to click from PriceSpy to the shop’s product page. False means that PriceSpy displays the shop’s price but users are not able to click from PriceSpy to the shop’s website |
Currency | What currency the price is in. Always the local currency for the market |
Price | The shop’s price for the product |
OriginalPrice | Original price on the offer if there is a sale |
PriceIncShipping | The shop’s price for a product including shipping cost |
DifferenceToLowestPrice | On offers from your shop, this field will show how much you need to lower your price in order to have the lowest price on PriceSpy |
DifferenceToLowestClickablePrice | On offers from your shop, this field will show how much you need to lower your price in order to have the lowest price on PriceSpy among shops that have clickable listings |
StockStatus | Shows the shop's stock status for each offer |
ShopPosition | Indicates where the shop is ranked on the product’s price comparison page on PriceSpy. The lower the number the higher the rank. If a shop has multiple variants matched with a product, PriceSpy uses the shop’s lowest price for the rank. PriceSpy bases ranking between shops by the following criteria:
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ClickableShopPosition | Indicates where the shop is ranked on the product’s price comparison page on PriceSpy compared to shops that have clickable price listings. The lower the number the higher the rank. In this ranking, shops that are not “Featured Shops” on PriceSpy are excluded. |
UpdatedAt | The last time PriceSpy updated the offer/price. |
ShopProductNumber
| Any other code/number the shop has provided to PriceSpy in order to identify the product. May contain GTIN or SKU codes. |
Gtin | The GTIN code the shop has provided to PriceSpy in order to identify the product. |
Sku | The SKU code the shop has provided to PriceSpy in order to identify the product. |
ShopOfferUrl | The link/URL to the shop’s product page |
ProductCondition | New The product is new.
Used The product has been previously used.
Refurbished The product is reconditioned/renovated.
Demo The product has been used as an exhibition sample and is therefore not in intact packaging, or the product is completely without packaging.
Damaged Packaging The product is new but the packaging is damaged or missing. May be due to the packaging being damaged in transport.
Almost New The product is both technically and visually almost like new, condition has been verified by the company and has at least a 1-year warranty. |