ProdSift
ProdSift is a browser-based tool that pulls complete product catalogues from any public Shopify or WooCommerce store and exports them as import-ready CSV files, with no API key, plugin or admin access required.
What is ProdSift?
ProdSift is a web tool that copies the product catalogue of any publicly accessible Shopify or WooCommerce store and hands it back as a spreadsheet. It reads the public storefront only, the same pages any visitor can browse, so it needs no API key, no plugin and no admin credentials for the shop being read. That is the whole point of it: it works on stores you do not own.
The workflow has four steps. You paste the store URL, start the extraction, pick the products or collections you want, then choose an output format and download the file. ProdSift writes Shopify CSV, WooCommerce CSV and Excel files, UTF-8 encoded, so the result goes straight into the Products then Import screen of either platform without reformatting. The export covers product title and handle, short and full descriptions, regular and compare-at prices, SKU and barcode, product and image URLs, variants and their options, categories, tags and collections, stock status and metadata.
Three free utilities sit around the extractor. The Store Platform Checker says whether a shop runs on Shopify or WooCommerce and estimates its product count. The Competitor Analyzer takes two ProdSift exports and returns price ranges, average and median prices, category distribution and product counts, either for one store at two dates or for two different stores. The WordPress Detector reports the active theme, the installed plugins with their version numbers and the WordPress version. All three work without an account; extracting products requires one.
The stated audience is dropshippers, merchants moving between the two platforms, agencies building client stores and anyone studying a competitor's range. On legality, ProdSift argues that collecting publicly visible product data is generally lawful, says it never touches password-protected areas or customer records, and tells users to respect robots.txt and the source store's terms.
Some claims deserve a second look. Speed figures differ from page to page, and the site says both that there is no limit on products and that a session handles up to 10,000 of them. The service is young, its domain having been registered in November 2025, and its publisher is named nowhere beyond a footer copyright.
What it does
- Extract a full product catalogue from any public Shopify or WooCommerce store
- Export it as a Shopify CSV, a WooCommerce CSV or an Excel file
- Select individual products or entire collections before exporting
- Migrate a catalogue from WooCommerce to Shopify, or the other way round
- Compare two exports to track price, stock and catalogue changes
- Detect whether a store runs on Shopify or WooCommerce and estimate its size
- Identify the theme, plugins and version behind any WordPress site
When to use ProdSift / When not to
A quick filter to help you decide if ProdSift is the right fit.
When to use ProdSift
- Dropshippers building a first catalogue from stores that already sell well
- Merchants migrating a shop between WooCommerce and Shopify
- Agencies and freelancers assembling client storefronts without manual data entry
- Analysts researching a competitor's range, pricing and catalogue size
- Buyers and merchandisers pulling supplier catalogues into a spreadsheet
When not to use ProdSift
- Anyone targeting a private, password-protected or offline store
- Merchants on Magento, BigCommerce or any platform other than Shopify and WooCommerce
- Teams that need orders, customers, coupons or subscriptions rather than products
- Operations requiring scheduled, automated or API-driven exports
- Stores whose value sits in custom fields and metafields an export plugin would preserve
How to use ProdSift
A typical end-to-end flow, from setup to results.
- Create an account, which is required for product extraction even though the free tools are open to everyone
- Paste the public URL of the Shopify or WooCommerce store you want to read
- Start the extraction and follow the progress as the catalogue is read
- Review the results and select the products or collections you want to keep
- Narrow the export down to the items and data that actually matter to you
- Choose an output format: Shopify CSV, WooCommerce CSV or Excel
- Download the file, which opens directly in a spreadsheet application
- Import it into the target store through its own Products then Import screen
- Keep the source store reachable during the import, since images are fetched from their original URLs
- Re-export the same store later and compare both files in the Competitor Analyzer to spot price and stock changes
Pros & Cons
Pros
- Works on stores you do not own: no API key, no admin access, nothing to install
- Exports go straight into Shopify or WooCommerce without reformatting
- Variants, images, stock levels and categories are all carried into the file
- A permanent free plan and three no-account tools make it easy to test properly
- One readable price: a single paid tier at USD 25.99 per month
- Product data is processed in real time and not kept on the servers
- Fourteen-day refund window and cancellation at any time
Cons
- The publisher is anonymous: no legal entity, no postal address, no named team
- No API, no mobile application and no extension, so everything is manual and browser-bound
- The pricing page shows nothing without an account; the price is only stated in the FAQ
- Published figures contradict each other on extraction speed and on the per-session product limit
- GDPR provisions are thin: one mention, no DPA, no subprocessor list, no hosting disclosure
- Support is a single email address plus weekday chat, with two different response times advertised
- Refunds disappear once a meaningful volume has been extracted and downloaded
Pricing & Plans
A permanent free plan is available, covering up to three stores per day and a maximum of five exported products; an account is required to use it. The lowest paid entry point is the Pro plan at USD 25.99 per month, which removes the daily and volume limits and adds faster processing and priority support. No annual or enterprise tier is published, and the pricing page displays no amount to visitors who are not signed in.
- no charge
- up to three stores per day
- five exported products maximum
- account required
- free tools included
- USD 25.99 per month
- unlimited store extractions
- unlimited product exports
- no daily cap
- faster processing and priority support
Data, GDPR & hosting
A consolidated view of how ProdSift handles your data.
GDPR overview
GDPR coverage is minimal and mostly implicit. The privacy policy, last updated on 14 August 2026, mentions the regulation exactly once, stating that access, correction and deletion requests are handled in accordance with applicable data protection laws, including the GDPR where relevant. Such requests go to support@prodsift.com. Nowhere does the site claim compliance in explicit terms. There is no data protection officer, no Article 27 representative for the European Union, no data processing agreement offered, no subprocessor list and no statement of where data is hosted, sharing being described only by category: payment processors and hosting providers. Both the privacy policy and the terms place the agreement under the laws of England and Wales, with disputes heard in the courts of England and Wales.
Who owns the data?
ProdSift's privacy policy states that the product information handled during an extraction, such as titles, prices and image URLs, stays yours. The service describes itself as stateless: that data is processed in real time to build the CSV or Excel file, is never permanently stored on its servers and is discarded immediately afterwards. Nothing in the terms claims a licence over the catalogues you export. Personal account data is a separate matter: it is neither sold, traded nor rented, but may be shared with payment and hosting providers bound by contract, and disclosed where the law requires it or to protect the publisher's rights.
Reuse rights
The publisher sets no restriction of its own on what you do with an export: the files are yours to open, edit and import, and no permission request or attribution requirement appears anywhere on the site. The limits come from elsewhere. ProdSift states that it only collects publicly visible information, and it asks users to respect the source store's robots.txt and terms of service and to check local law before any commercial use of extracted data. Its own terms forbid using the service to breach third-party conditions and allow suspension without refund if you do, while disclaiming liability for account bans, lost business or lost data. Responsibility for reuse therefore sits entirely with the user.
Data retention & training
Hosting summary
ProdSift publishes nothing about where its data is hosted. The privacy policy mentions hosting providers only as a category of trusted third party, with no country, no region and no named supplier; there is no trust or security page, no certification such as SOC 2 or ISO 27001, and no data residency option. What the policy does say is that product data handled during an extraction is processed in real time and never permanently stored, which narrows the question to account data: name, email, contact details and usage information such as browser type and IP address. Connections are stated to run over HTTPS, and the free calculators are described as running entirely in the browser. An external DNS and IP lookup places the website's server in the United States, on Hostinger infrastructure, but that is an observation about the site rather than a statement by the publisher about where customer data lives. The only jurisdictional anchor the site offers is legal rather than technical: both the privacy policy and the terms place the agreement under the laws of England and Wales. Anyone with a data residency requirement should ask before subscribing.
Things to keep in mind
Risks and trade-offs to weigh before adopting ProdSift.
- Legal exposure sits with you: the tool reads other people's storefronts, and its terms disclaim all liability if a source store's conditions are breached
- Copying a competitor's catalogue wholesale can raise copyright and unfair-competition questions over descriptions and images, whatever the extraction itself is worth
- Images are referenced by URL rather than copied, so a source store that moves or deletes them can break your catalogue after import
- An anonymous publisher with no address and a fourteen-day refund window leaves little recourse if the service degrades or disappears
- Speed and volume claims contradict each other across the site, so a migration planned on the optimistic figure may take far longer
- Filling a shop by extraction can quietly replace genuine product and merchandising work, leaving a catalogue nobody has actually curated
- Extracted prices and stock levels age fast, and acting on an old snapshot as if it were live leads to poor pricing decisions
Setup & Integrations
Technical difficulty
Very low. There is nothing to install: ProdSift runs in the browser, needs no plugin on either store and no API key or admin access to the shop being read. An account is the only prerequisite for extracting products, while the store checker, competitor analyser and WordPress detector work without one. The four-step flow, paste a URL then extract, select and download, assumes no coding. The one genuinely technical moment comes afterwards, in the target platform's own import screen, where CSV mapping is the usual source of trouble. A desktop is recommended for large exports.
Deployment
Integrations
Behind ProdSift
Resources
All the official URLs gathered for verification and reference.
Alternatives
Tools that compete with or complement ProdSift.
Frequently asked questions
Do I need API keys or admin access to the store I want to extract?
Which e-commerce platforms are supported?
What does the exported file actually contain?
Is there a free plan, and what does the paid one cost?
Can I migrate a store from WooCommerce to Shopify?
Is it legal to extract product data this way?
Does ProdSift keep the products I extract?
How large a catalogue can a single session handle?
How do I get support, and can I be refunded?
Should you pick ProdSift?
ProdSift does one thing and does it plainly: it turns a public Shopify or WooCommerce catalogue into a CSV file you can import somewhere else. No plugin, no API key, no admin access to the shop being read, which is exactly why it fits competitor research, supplier catalogues and platform migrations, situations where an export plugin is out of reach because you do not control the store. The free tier is generous enough to test properly, with five exported products, three stores a day, plus a platform checker, a competitor analyser and a WordPress detector that need no account at all. A single paid plan, Pro at USD 25.99 per month, lifts every limit.
The reservations concern the publisher more than the product. Nobody is named: there is no company entity, no postal address and no team page, only a footer copyright and a governing-law clause pointing to England and Wales. The privacy policy is short, mentions the GDPR exactly once, and offers no data processing agreement, no subprocessor list and no hosting information, though it does commit to handling product data in real time and discarding it immediately. Published figures also contradict each other from one page to the next, on extraction speed and on whether the per-session limit is ten thousand products or none at all, and the pricing page itself shows nothing until you sign in.
Judged as a young, single-purpose utility priced at roughly what two hours of manual copy-paste would cost, ProdSift is a reasonable bet. Judged as a data supplier to put at the centre of a business process, it is thin: no API, no automation, no scheduling, and a legal footprint that leaves the user carrying responsibility for how extracted data is used.
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