As e-commerce is continuously gaining in importance, it needs to be considered appropriately in calculating the inflation rate. Measuring representative prices has become more difficult because the prices of certain product groups or those specified by online retailers have become increasingly volatile (dynamic pricing), and a manual measurement of volatile prices is hardly feasible. For this reason, web scraping has been increasingly used to collect data for price statistics in recent years. A generic web-based application has been developed to facilitate the use of this automated data collection technique.