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Crawl Frequency

Crawl frequency refers to how often a competitive intelligence platform re-visits and re-scrapes a competitor's website to capture fresh price, promotion, and catalog data.

Data freshness is one of the most critical dimensions of competitive intelligence quality. A tool that crawls once per day may miss a 6-hour flash sale entirely. A tool that crawls every hour may provide data fresh enough to respond to intraday promotions.

The right crawl frequency depends on your competitive environment. High-stakes categories (electronics, fashion during peak season) may require hourly or near-real-time crawling. Stable categories may be adequately served by daily updates.

GetStoreIntel offers configurable crawl frequencies from daily to multiple times per day for high-priority stores, with near real-time promotion detection as a separate fast-path pipeline.

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Related Terms

Web Scraping

Web scraping is the automated extraction of structured data from websites using software that simulates browser behavior to load pages and parse their content.

Promotion Detection

Promotion detection is the automated process of identifying when a competitor has launched a new promotional offer by scanning their website for discount banners, sale badges, coupon codes, and checkout discount applications.

SKU Diffing

SKU diffing is the process of comparing a competitor's current product catalog against a previously captured snapshot to identify what has been added, removed, or changed.

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