Do you support my ecommerce site?
Yes. Octogen’s “Vasco” agent can be auto-trained to understand a new ecommerce domain. Under the hood, Vosco creates a per-site program to read, parse and convert that sites product data to Octogen’s format. More in “Add an ecommerce domain”.Do you support this other — non Shopify site?
Yes. Vasco is agnostic to ecommerce platforms. Sign up as aDeveloper and give it a spin.
Are there sites you don’t support?
Yes. For now: Amazon.com, Walmart.com, Target.com, Ebay.com and Etsy.com. They already provide their own structured access APIs.Where do you get your product data from?
In many cases, brands work with us to provide a “live view” of their catalog. Many retailers provide “catalog feeds” to ChatGPT, Google, affiliate networks and other ecommerce SaaS barnacles. From our experience, those feeds come upstream from what is actually on their site, as to be wooefully inaccurate. In other cases, we efficiently crawl the sites ourselves. See more information about Octogen’s bot. While crawling ecommerce sites is a known hard problem, parsing catalog data semantically is an even harder problem: each site has its own unique layout, structure and APIs. Even Shopify sites vibe-structure their own product schema-mapping.How fresh is Octogen’s data?
In many cases, our data is a “live view” of some catalogs. In others, we refresh periodically. All API calls return anupdated_at timestamp for each product. If you need a newer view, you can use the refresh API to force a refresh.