Noon Data Scraping Services

Arabic and English listings for one product

Noon serves bilingual markets, and the same product is frequently listed twice — once with Arabic title and attributes, once with English. Sometimes by the same seller, sometimes by different ones.

What happens if you do not deduplicate

• Category competition looks inflated. Two listings for one product doubles the apparent competitor count.
• Share of shelf looks worse than it is. Your single listing against a competitor's duplicated pair reads as being outnumbered.
• Price distributions distort. The same price counted twice skews the category median.
• Assortment counts inflate by a variable amount that differs by category and seller behaviour.

We match across scripts using transliteration, brand normalisation, model identifiers and attribute comparison, then deliver a canonical product identity with the duplicate listings linked to it. Match confidence is delivered per record, and uncertain matches are flagged rather than merged — a wrong merge hides a genuine second competitor.

VAT treatment differs by market and matters

Noon operates across markets with different VAT regimes and different display conventions. A price shown in one storefront may be VAT-inclusive where another is not, and cross-market comparison without recording which is invalid.

We capture the price exactly as displayed plus a vat_treatment field recording whether the displayed figure includes tax, where the platform indicates it. Where the treatment is not stated, the field records that rather than assuming.

This matters most for GCC clients running price comparisons across UAE and Saudi storefronts, where a few percentage points of tax treatment can flip a competitive conclusion on a thin-margin category.

Currency is equally per-market: AED, SAR and EGP with market on every record. As with our other multi-market services, local currency is authoritative and conversion is derived rather than baked in.

Express and marketplace fulfilment compete differently

Noon offers platform-fulfilled express delivery alongside marketplace sellers shipping themselves. A price comparison that ignores fulfilment compares listings competing on genuinely different terms.

• Express listings carry faster delivery promises and rank differently in results.
• Marketplace listings can be cheaper with longer lead times, which is a different purchase.
• Delivery promise is a competitive lever in GCC markets where same-day expectation is high.

We capture fulfilment type and displayed delivery promise per offer, so you can compare like with like. And where an item carries multiple offers, we collect the offer list with seller identity rather than only the default price — which is where unauthorised sellers show up for brand teams.

Noon also operates a quick commerce service with a separate, narrower catalogue. We treat it as its own catalogue rather than merging it, for the same reason we separate Whoosh at Tesco: merging makes a smaller assortment look like availability gaps.