30k IKEA items in flat text
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OP here.I took the unofficial IKEA US dataset (originally scraped by jeffreyszhou) and converted all 30,511 products into a flat, markdown-like protocol called CommerceTXT.The goal: See if a flatter structure is more efficient for LLM context windows.The results: - Size: 30k products across 632 categories. - Efficiency: The text version uses ~24% fewer tokens (3.6M saved total) compared to the equivalent minified JSON. - Structure: Files are organized in folders (e.g. /products/category/), which helps with testing hierarchical retrieval routers.The link goes to the dataset on Hugging Face which has the full benchmarks.Parser code is here: https://github.com/commercetxt/commercetxtHappy to answer questions about the conversion logic!
HN · launched Jan 7, 2026 · 55 upvotes (top 18%) · 0 views
Niche: multichannel catalog and feed management software · 29 launches, 3 in the last 7 days · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Retail & commerce
- Data infrastructure
- Developer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
Yes This is simply an ETL script that converts an existing open dataset into formatted plain text/markdown and publishes it to Hugging Face.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: JSON-LD, UCP (Unified Commerce Platform), TaskRabbit
Concerns raised: Unclear use case - why less-technical people need to access machine-readable format, Requires parsing full DOM for metadata extraction vs. efficient discovery, GET requests with body not standard practice; POST more conventional
Feature requests: Support for encrypted parameters by default, Better handling of arrays in query strings
Competitors
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Launched 54 days after the earliest competitor.
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