Half the web already hands you clean product data. You just have to ask.

Short summary

A developer explains how many e-commerce pages already embed clean, structured product data in JSON-LD script blocks — published for Google rich results but equally useful for scraping. The post provides a Node.js function using cheerio to parse JSON-LD Product objects, extracting name, SKU, price, currency, and availability without fragile CSS selectors. The author advocates a preference order: JSON-LD first, OpenGraph and microdata second, hand-written selectors last.

• •Many e-commerce pages embed structured product data in JSON-LD blocks meant for Google rich results
• •A cheerio-based function extracts product fields (name, price, availability) from these blocks in one parse
• •Preference order: JSON-LD first, OpenGraph/microdata second, CSS selectors last — higher up the stack means longer scraper lifespan

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