Cdiscount Data Scraping Services

Two mandated fields nobody collects

French regulation requires certain product categories to display a repairability score and an environmental contribution amount. Both appear on the product page as structured values.

Repairability index

• It is a numeric score on a published scale, so it is directly comparable across products and retailers.
• It is a purchase factor in categories where French consumers are increasingly repair-conscious.
• It is a competitive signal for brands: your score against a rival's is a fact, not an opinion.
• It is a compliance field, so absence where it should be present is itself an observation.

Eco-participation fee

An environmental contribution amount, displayed separately from the headline price on applicable categories. It is part of what the customer pays and it varies by product weight and category.

We capture repairability_index, eco_participation_fee and regulatory_field_missing where a category should carry one and does not. We do not verify either figure — both are published by the seller under a regulatory scheme, and validating them would require the underlying assessment. We capture what was published, with a date.

For anyone selling electronics or furniture into France, the repairability score is the cheapest competitive intelligence available and it is sitting unused on every product page.

Retail and marketplace offers price independently

Cdiscount sells its own inventory alongside marketplace sellers, and both appear on the same product page.

• Cdiscount-sold offers are the retailer's pricing decision, which for a brand is a buying-relationship question.
• Marketplace offers come from third parties setting their own prices, which is a channel-control question.
• Regulatory fields can differ between offers on the same product, since they are seller-declared under the scheme.
• Grey stock concentrates on the marketplace side, as everywhere with a marketplace layer.

We capture offer_source plus seller identity, and the full offer set rather than only the shown price. Where two offers on one product declare different repairability scores, that discrepancy is worth surfacing rather than picking one — so we deliver it per offer with a regulatory_field_conflict flag.

Instalment payment is a French purchase mechanic

Paying in several instalments is common in French ecommerce, and availability differs by offer and by price band. As in Germany with invoice payment, this affects conversion independently of price.

• Instalment availability is a merchandising decision, so changes in it are competitive activity price monitoring cannot see.
• The number of instalments differs, and more instalments on the same price is a better offer to a cash-flow-sensitive buyer.
• It differs between retail and marketplace offers, compounding with the offer split.

We capture instalments_available and instalment_count as separate fields. As on Otto and Mercado Libre, we do not compute a single effective price from them: whether terms matter depends on your buyer, and that judgement is yours.

French sale periods are also regulated in timing, which makes promotional depth unusually clean to measure here — the base price is observable outside the window. We record sale_period as context so those windows stay separable.