Case Study: Blind Rivet Supply improves inventory tracking with Octoparse

Web Scraping Manages Inventory Tracking for Retail Business

Blind Rivet Supply, a retail business in the United States, needed a better way to manage inventory across about 30,000 online products. Their biggest challenge was keeping supplier stock data updated daily so they would only place orders when items were actually available. They turned to Octoparse, using its web scraping and data extraction tools to pull inventory information from suppliers’ websites.

Octoparse helped Blind Rivet Supply automate the process by scraping visible supplier data and exporting it directly into CSV files for upload to their site, reducing manual work and improving freshness of inventory updates. The company also planned to use Octoparse for competitive pricing research across other vendors. According to the customer, Octoparse’s pre-built tools saved time, and its responsive support made implementation easier.

Blind Rivet Supply

Peter Erickson

Chief Executive Officer