Glossary
Scraping (menu)
Automated collection of competitor menus from Weedmaps, Leafly, Dutchie or similar. Prohibited by those sites' terms and by BudAlly's data-use rule DU-SCR-01; uploads with scraper provenance are rejected.
For a store watching competitor prices, a scraped dataset is the tempting shortcut. BudAlly will not use one from a connector or an upload: a scraped upload is not stored, and the price-intelligence screen shows "Scraped menus · off".
Competitor pricing comes from three other sources instead: licensed market data, the store's own in-store price checks, and an anonymised network median with at least 8 contributors. An in-store check can be as simple as a budtender visiting competitors and recording prices with the tax basis. In the free audit, market figures come from licensed data or aren't shown.
The rule binds customers too. BudAlly's acceptable-use rules bar uploading data obtained by scraping third-party menus or in breach of a vendor's terms, and data the store does not have the right to use. Under rule DU-SCR-01, the check runs on the provenance of any price upload or connector.
Where this comes up on budally.com
Related terms
- Price intelligence
Comparing your shelf prices, out-the-door, against licensed market data, your own in-store checks and the k ≥ 8 network median — never scraped menus — and drafting repricing above the floor.