How to migrate an online store's product catalog in minutes (not weeks)

Description and use

Automated catalog migration from one e‑commerce platform to another in minutes using an AI API, eliminating manual re‑typing and complex CSV handling.

Problem

Migrating a product catalog from an old e‑commerce platform to a new one is usually slow and error‑prone, taking weeks of manual work or complex scripts.

Outcome

Extracted 126 product candidates from 160 pages in 72 seconds, yielding 50 clean products with no duplicates or category leaks, a process that would otherwise take 35 hours of manual work.

Workflow

• 1. Subscribe to the AI Product Catalog Extractor on RapidAPI (free tier).
• 2. Submit the old store URL via a POST request to the /v1/extract endpoint, optionally setting limits and a custom schema.
• 3. Receive a job_id and poll the /v1/jobs/{job_id} endpoint until status is "done".
• 4. Retrieve the extracted items from the result payload, which includes title, price, SKU, description, image URL, and product URL.
• 5. Map the returned keys to the target platform’s schema (e.g., Shopify or WooCommerce) and import the data.
• 6. Verify that no category pages were included and that images are reachable; if needed, adjust the schema or use the owner‑authorization flag to bypass robots.txt.

Evidence

160 pages crawled → 126 candidates → 50 clean products in 72 seconds.

Source

The engine was born inside a Brazilian ERP, so the default preset ships nome, preco, foto, descricao.

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