01
Challenge
A D2C brand needed fresh product data in the CMS without manual imports, plus a simple way for the team to kick off scrapes from chat.
All work
7Span2024
Case Study
D2CGuru
Directus-powered catalogue with automated scraping and a Discord trigger bot.
- Role
- Backend engineer
- Team
- N/A
- Client
- 7Span
- Domain
- eCommerce · Data automation
Overview
Directus backend with automatic data scraping and a Discord bot to trigger scrape jobs on demand.
02
Approach
Built scraping pipelines into Directus collections and wired a Discord bot that triggers scrape runs. Content and automation share one admin surface.
03
Outcome
Editors get up-to-date catalogue data; ops trigger scrapes from Discord instead of cron guesswork.
What I built
The shipped surface.
03 features
- 01Scheduled and on-demand scrape pipelines
- 02Discord command interface for operators
- 03Directus as single source for published data
Stack
Node.jsDirectusDiscord API
- Automatic scraping into Directus
- Discord bot to trigger scrape jobs
- Live at d2c.guru