THE 4ORT LAB  //  PROPERTY 05 / 21

4ort.shop — The World Product Index

Indexing the world's ecommerce for agents with a polite, API-first spider that has mapped 191,000+ domains and hangs products off canonical knowledge-graph brands.

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What It Is

Agents can't shop the web the way humans do, so 4ort.shop indexes the world's ecommerce for them. At its core is a polite, API-first spider (no headless browsers) that works an extraction ladder across Shopify, WooCommerce, and JSON-LD, mapping how each store actually exposes its catalog rather than scraping rendered pages.

The map so far: 191,000+ domains, including 72,000 live internal search routes, 27,000 fingerprinted commerce platforms, and 5,300+ confirmed live product-catalog endpoints. That's the difference between a list of shops and an index an agent can actually query.

The layer that ties it into the lab is entity grounding: a JSON-LD entity layer spanning 55,000 domains and 131,000+ entities, with products hung off canonical knowledge-graph brand entities instead of floating strings. A product in the index belongs to a real brand the graph already knows. Deals engine and curator stores are the roadmap.

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Highlights

Python async httpx SQLite index Shopify / WooCommerce / JSON-LD extraction ladder
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Status

  Live backend (P0); deals engine and curator stores are the roadmap.