Scraping 1,000 BigCommerce Products for a Successful Store Migration
Client Snapshot A US specialty retailer moving off BigCommerce onto a headless stack. The Challenge The platform's native export produced a flat product list, but the client's catalog depended on variants — size, colour and configuration combinations, each with its own SKU , price and stock level. The export flattened these, and a flattened variant structure is not a catalog, it's a mess. 1,000 products expanded to ~4,300 variants. Category hierarchy and SEO metadata (which the client did not want to lose rankings over) were also absent from the export. Objectives Extract all products with their full variant matrices intact Preserve category hierarchy and SEO metadata (URLs, meta titles, meta descriptions) Deliver in the new platform's import schema The Actowiz Approach We extracted at the variant level rather than the product level, reconstructing the parent-child relationship explicitly so that the new platform received a proper product-with-variants structure rathe...