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CommerceTXT

Open standard for AI shopping data extraction from product pages.

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Hi HN, author here. I built CommerceTXT because I got tired of the fragility of extracting pricing and inventory data from HTML. AI agents currently waste ~8k tokens just to parse a product page, only to hallucinate the price or miss the fact that it's "Out of Stock". CommerceTXT is a strict, read-only text protocol (CC0 Public Domain) designed to give agents deterministic ground truth. Think of it as `robots.txt` + `llms.txt` but structured specifically for transactions. Key technical decisions v1.0: 1. *Fractal Architecture:* Root -> Category -> Product files. Ag

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