Petdirect NZ

Goal

Retrieve current public Petdirect NZ search, product, variant, and price data without login or browser automation.

Use this when

• Searching Petdirect products by keyword
• Comparing public prices and variants for a known product
• Capturing a current public price snapshot with source evidence

Do not use this for

• Cart, checkout, account, Pet Perks, payment, subscription, prescription, booking, order, stock reservation, or mutations
• Veterinary advice or product-suitability decisions
• Bulk scraping, historical-price claims, or redistribution as a dataset

Workflow

1. Use search for discovery. Results are capped at 24 and come from embedded public search state.
2. Use product for a Petdirect product URL, /p/ path, or slug. Variant member_price and rrp fields distinguish conditional Pet Perks pricing from ordinary prices.
3. Use price-snapshot for current ProductGroup variant prices and their member-price status.
4. Add --json for agent chaining. Every command reports source_url and UTC retrieved_at.
5. Treat member prices, promotions, and availability as live public observations that may change.

CLI

python3 skills/petdirect-nz/scripts/cli.py search "dog food" --limit 5 --json
python3 skills/petdirect-nz/scripts/cli.py product lamb-rice-adult-dry-dog-food --json
python3 skills/petdirect-nz/scripts/cli.py price-snapshot /p/lamb-rice-adult-dry-dog-food/ --json

The global --timeout N option goes before the command and defaults to 10 seconds.

Output and safety

• Uses Python standard library only and unauthenticated GET requests.
• Search parses the first bounded window.__SERVER_STATE__ object and never emits the raw multi-megabyte page.
• Detail commands join Product or ProductGroup JSON-LD to the public product state by SKU so RRP and member-price semantics are not lost.
• Responses are size-capped; missing or incomplete product data is an error rather than empty success.

Resources

• CLI: scripts/cli.py
• Live and fixture smoke tests: scripts/smoke_test.py
• Endpoint, parser, and safety notes: references/api-notes.md