Method, medium, and system for automatic data extraction from web pages and analysis thereof

A method, comprising:

• accessing a plurality of web pages of a plurality of entities;
• determining that a subset of the web pages belong in a particular category;
• electronically scanning the subset of the web pages in the particular category;
• analyzing a Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) style of each of the electronically scanned web pages;
• extracting, based on the analyzing the CSS style of each of the electronically scanned web pages, a specified type of information from each of the electronically scanned web pages;
• and
• automatically generating an output that contains the extracted specified type of information.

A system, comprising:

• a non-transitory memory;
• and
• one or more hardware processors coupled to the non-transitory memory and configured to read instructions from the non-transitory memory to cause the system to perform operations that comprise:
• accessing a plurality of web pages of a plurality of merchants;
• designating one or more of the web pages in the plurality of web pages as one or more inventory pages containing information regarding products or services offered by the plurality of merchants;
• analyzing, at least in part via a scan of the one or more inventory pages, one or more visual appearance characteristics of the one or more inventory pages;
• determining, based on the analyzing, that a subset of the one or more inventory pages contain one or more discounts of the products or services;
• and
• generating an output pertaining to the one or more discounts.

A non-transitory machine-readable medium having instructions stored thereon, the instructions executable to cause performance of operations comprising:

• accessing a plurality of web pages of a plurality of merchants;
• detecting a presence of one or more recurring elements in the plurality of web pages;
• labeling a subset of the plurality of web pages that contain the presence of the one or more recurring elements as inventory pages that contain information regarding products or services offered by the plurality of merchants;
• analyzing a Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) style of the inventory pages;
• determining, based on the analyzing, that a subset of the inventory pages contain one or more discounts of the products or services;
• and
• generating an output that is associated with the one or more discounts.