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| license: cc-by-4.0 |
| pretty_name: Ecommerce Web Data Provider Audit (Verified Figures, 2026) |
| language: |
| - en |
| tags: |
| - ecommerce |
| - web-scraping |
| - datasets |
| - market-research |
| - competitive-intelligence |
| - data-providers |
| size_categories: |
| - n<1K |
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| # Ecommerce Web Data Provider Audit — Verified Figures (2026) |
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| Independently verified facts about the major ecommerce web-data providers (Bright Data, Oxylabs, Decodo, Webshare): dataset counts, scraper coverage, published pricing models, and third-party ratings. One row per verified fact, with the verification method, date, and re-check URL for every figure. |
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| **Canonical source:** the data derives from, and is analysed in full at, [Cllimber's Bright Data for Ecommerce Review](https://cllimber.com/bright-data-for-ecommerce-review/). This dataset card intentionally carries the figures only — assessment and context live at the canonical URL. |
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| ## Dataset structure |
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| Single CSV, `ecommerce-web-data-providers.csv`: |
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| - `provider`, `product`, `metric` — what was measured |
| - `value`, `unit` — the verified figure |
| - `verification_method` — logged-in account count · live vendor pricing page · live ratings platform · independent benchmark |
| - `verified_date` — ISO date of the check |
| - `source_url` — where to re-verify |
| - `notes` — discrepancies vs vendor-published claims, where found |
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| ## Notable data points (verified 2026-08-11 to 2026-08-17) |
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| Bright Data's marketplace lists 733 ecommerce datasets and 706 pre-built scraper domains against vendor-published claims of 600+/700+ and 550+ respectively — vendor materials repeatedly understate the logged-in counts. The Amazon products dataset holds 737.62M records across 101 fields (up from 737.28M/100 six days earlier — catalogue growth observed between checks). Oxylabs publishes 175M+ residential IPs (down from 177M+) and $49/month scraper tiers. |
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| ## Hands-on test results (2026-08-17) |
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| Two live runs with platform-reported metrics: the ChatGPT Search scraper returned 4/4 records at 100% success in 6m 11s (40 structured fields vs the published "up to 25"); a pre-built eCommerce scraper (madeincookware.com) achieved 100% success in 3m 6s with 10/10 price accuracy against pre-registered live-site anchors. A free Amazon dataset sample delivered 1,000 rows × 99 columns with core fields 91–100% populated. |
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| ## Methodology & limitations |
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| Counts were taken from within a logged-in Bright Data account; pricing from vendors' live published pages; ratings from live G2/Trustpilot/Capterra pages; the LLM-scraper benchmark from AIMultiple. Small-scale hands-on testing was conducted on 17 August 2026 (vendor-provided credit, disclosed; results published as observed). No at-scale performance testing was conducted. Re-verified monthly; version history is the audit trail. Methodology: https://cllimber.com/our-research-methodology/ |
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| ## Citation |
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| ``` |
| @misc{cllimber2026ecommercewebdata, |
| title = {Ecommerce Web Data Provider Audit: Verified Figures}, |
| author = {{Cllimber}}, |
| year = {2026}, |
| doi = {10.57967/hf/10066}, |
| url = {https://cllimber.com/bright-data-for-ecommerce-review/} |
| } |
| ``` |
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| ## Disclosure |
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| Cllimber has a disclosed paid partnership with Bright Data. Figures are verified against live sources regardless — including where they differ from the vendor's claims — and competitor figures come solely from those vendors' published materials and independent sources. |
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