README.md

---
license: cc-by-nc-4.0
language:
- en
task_categories:
- tabular-classification
- text-classification
tags:
- b2b-data
- enterprise-data
- web-scraping
- octoparse-data-service
- production-ready
- ecommerce
- competitor-price-monitoring
- pricing-intelligence
- data-engineering
pretty_name: Temu E-commerce Pricing and SKU Variant Dataset
configs:
- config_name: products
  data_files:
  - split: train
    path: products.parquet
- config_name: skus
  data_files:
  - split: train
    path: skus.parquet
---

# Temu E-commerce Pricing & SKU Variant Dataset

**85 products · 382 SKUs · $2.14–$219.72 price range · avg 29.5% discount where measurable**

A real, production-quality sample of Temu product listings and SKU-level pricing data, captured by **[Octoparse Managed Data Service](https://www.octoparse.com/data-service/competitor-price-monitoring)** via a managed anti-bot pipeline. Every row is real market data — no synthetic expansion, no mock prices.

Built for teams working on **competitor price monitoring**, **dynamic pricing models**, **product matching**, and **e-commerce AI pipelines**.

### Enterprise Data Pipelines & Production-Grade Delivery

> This dataset is a curated, static sample provided by **[Octoparse Managed Data Service](https://www.octoparse.com/data-service)**.
> If your organization requires:
> - **Real-time automated updates**: Daily/Hourly feeds via API, Snowflake, AWS S3, or BigQuery
> - **Custom schema alignment** and production-grade anti-bot operations with 99.9% SLA-backed delivery
> - **Compliance-aware data delivery workflows** for public or properly authorized data, with support for GDPR/CCPA-aligned requirements
>
> **[Request a Custom Data Pipeline Workshop on Octoparse Data Service](https://www.octoparse.com/data-service)**

> **v2.0.0** — Complete rebuild. Previous version contained synthetic data; this release contains 100% real scraped data normalized into a clean two-table schema.

---

## Why This Dataset

Most public e-commerce datasets are:
- **Stale** — from Kaggle uploads years old, prices meaningless
- **Synthetic** — generated to look like pricing data, not real market signals
- **Flat and noisy** — video metadata and SKU variants collapsed into one bloated table

This dataset is different:
- **100% real** market data from Temu's live catalogue
- **Normalized schema**: `products.parquet` (SPU-level) + `skus.parquet` (variant-level), joined on `spu_id`
- **Anti-bot provenance**: captured through Akamai Bot Manager bypass and TLS fingerprint randomization — the hard infrastructure problem solved for you
- **Pricing signal transparency**: `discount_pct` computed where Temu surfaces both prices; sparsity documented, not hidden

---

## Dataset Structure

```
temu-ecommerce-pricing-workflow-sample/
├── products.parquet        ← 85 rows, 5 columns (SPU-level)
├── skus.parquet            ← 382 rows, 14 columns (SKU-level)
├── schema.json             ← Machine-readable field definitions
├── data_dictionary.md      ← Business context for every field
├── workflow_stats.json     ← Pipeline provenance and anti-bot metadata
└── LICENSE                 ← CC BY-NC 4.0
```

### `products.parquet` — SPU Level

| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| `spu_id` | string | Product ID (join key) |
| `product_url` | string | Temu product URL |
| `is_on_sale` | boolean | Currently purchasable |
| `not_on_sale_reason` | string | Reason if inactive (null for all active) |
| `goods_property_summary` | string | Semicolon-delimited property bag |

### `skus.parquet` — SKU Level

| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| `sku_id` | string | Variant ID |
| `spu_id` | string | FK → `products.spu_id` |
| `sku_main_pic` | string | CDN image URL |
| `sku_original_price` | float64 | List price USD (null if Temu not showing strikethrough) |
| `sku_discounted_price` | float64 | Current selling price USD |
| `discount_pct` | float64 | `(original - discounted) / original` |
| `sale_attr_color` | string | Color variant |
| `sale_attr_size` | string | Size variant |
| `sale_attr_quantity` | string | Bundle/quantity variant |
| `sale_property_summary` | string | Pipe-delimited summary of all variant attrs |

---

## Quick Start

```python
import pandas as pd

products = pd.read_parquet("hf://datasets/Octoparse/temu-ecommerce-pricing-workflow-sample/products.parquet")
skus     = pd.read_parquet("hf://datasets/Octoparse/temu-ecommerce-pricing-workflow-sample/skus.parquet")

# Join: full product + SKU view
df = skus.merge(products[["spu_id", "product_url", "goods_property_summary"]], on="spu_id")

# Products with highest discount (where data available)
top_discounts = (
    skus[skus["discount_pct"].notna()]
    .groupby("spu_id")["discount_pct"]
    .max()
    .sort_values(ascending=False)
    .head(10)
)

# Price spread per product (variant pricing range)
price_spread = (
    skus.groupby("spu_id")["sku_discounted_price"]
    .agg(["min", "max"])
    .assign(spread=lambda x: x["max"] - x["min"])
    .sort_values("spread", ascending=False)
)

# SKUs with strikethrough pricing (visible discount signal)
has_strikethrough = skus[skus["sku_original_price"].notna()].copy()
print(f"{len(has_strikethrough)} SKUs with measurable discount — avg {has_strikethrough['discount_pct'].mean():.1%}")
```

---

## Dataset Stats

| Metric | Value |
|---|---|
| Products (SPUs) | 85 |
| SKUs (variants) | 382 |
| Avg SKUs per product | 4.5 |
| SKUs with strikethrough price | 120 (31.4%) |
| Avg discount (where measurable) | 29.5% |
| Max discount | 81.9% |
| Price range | $2.14 – $219.72 |
| All products on sale | Yes (100%) |

---

## The Hard Problem: Why Temu Data is Difficult to Scrape

Temu runs one of the most aggressive anti-bot stacks in consumer e-commerce:

- **Akamai Bot Manager** with TLS/JA3 fingerprinting — blocks standard HTTP clients instantly
- **Device fingerprinting** — canvas, WebGL, and font enumeration checks
- **Dynamic price rendering** — prices are injected via JavaScript after page load; HTML-only scrapers return empty price fields
- **Signed CDN URLs** — image URLs rotate signatures; naive URL caching breaks within hours
- **Algorithmic discount visibility** — Temu controls when strikethrough prices appear; the same SKU may show or hide the original price depending on session context, geo, and time

This dataset was captured through Octoparse's managed pipeline that handles all of the above. The `sku_original_price` sparsity you see (69% null) is a **real market signal**, not a data quality failure — it accurately reflects which SKUs Temu was displaying comparison pricing for at scrape time.

---

## Pricing Signal Notes

**Why is `sku_original_price` 69% null?**

Temu uses algorithmic price display — the strikethrough "was" price is only rendered when Temu's system determines it increases conversion for that session. This means:
- Null `sku_original_price` ≠ no discount
- Null `sku_original_price` = Temu chose not to show the comparison at this moment
- For true discount rate measurement, you need **repeated captures** at different times and sessions

For production-cadence pricing (hourly snapshots, session rotation), see our managed pipeline service.

---

## Use Cases

### 1. Competitor Price Monitoring Pipeline Design
Use `sku_discounted_price` + `discount_pct` as features in a price alert system. The `sale_attr_*` columns let you track price moves at variant granularity (not just product level).

### 2. Product Matching & Deduplication
`spu_id` + `sku_id` + `sku_main_pic` give you the triplet needed for visual and text-based product matching across platforms.

### 3. Dynamic Pricing Model Training
The `discount_pct` distribution (mean 29.5%, max 81.9%) and the presence/absence of `sku_original_price` are themselves signals for modeling Temu's promotional logic.

### 4. E-commerce Schema Design
Use `goods_property_summary` to build a product taxonomy. The ~178 unique property keys across 85 products show the schema complexity of a live multi-category catalogue.

### 5. Anti-Bot Research
`workflow_stats.json` documents the specific bot-management systems encountered during collection, useful for anti-scraping research and pipeline architecture planning.

---

## Data Limitations

| Limitation | Detail |
|---|---|
| Price is a snapshot | No time-series in this sample. Temu prices change multiple times daily. |
| `sku_original_price` sparsity | 69% null — intentional (see Pricing Signal Notes above) |
| `sale_attr_*` sparsity | Each SKU uses at most 1–2 of 7 attribute columns |
| Property key inconsistency | `goods_property_summary` has ~178 keys with typos/case variations |
| Sample size | 85 products — sufficient for schema/pipeline design, not for statistical price benchmarking |

---

## Related Resources

- **Service page:** [Competitor Price Monitoring Service](https://www.octoparse.com/data-service/competitor-price-monitoring)
- **Case study:** [Temu Pricing Data Pipeline Case Study](https://www.octoparse.com/data-service/competitor-price-monitoring/temu-pricing-data-pipeline-case-study)
- **Data Service hub + sample library:** [Octoparse Data Service](https://www.octoparse.com/data-service#sample-library)
- **Paired Kaggle dataset:** [temu-ecommerce-pricing-workflow-sample on Kaggle](https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/octoparsedataservice/temu-ecommerce-pricing-workflow-sample)

---

## Want Production-Scale Temu Data?

This is a **sample dataset**. If you need:
- **Hourly price capture** across thousands of SKUs
- **Multi-category coverage** (apparel, electronics, home, beauty)
- **Session-rotated scraping** to expose hidden discount pricing
- **Delivery to Snowflake, BigQuery, or S3** in Parquet or JSONL

→ **[Talk to Octoparse Managed Data Service](https://www.octoparse.com/data-service/competitor-price-monitoring)**

We operate the anti-bot infrastructure so your team doesn't have to.

---

## Citation

```bibtex
@dataset{octoparse_temu_pricing_2025,
  title        = {Temu E-commerce Pricing and SKU Variant Dataset},
  author       = {{Octoparse Managed Data Service}},
  year         = {2025},
  publisher    = {Hugging Face},
  url          = {https://huggingface.co/datasets/Octoparse/temu-ecommerce-pricing-workflow-sample},
  license      = {CC BY-NC 4.0},
  note         = {Real scraped Temu product and SKU pricing data, anti-bot pipeline provenance documented}
}
```

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