Universal Product Code Database

Context:

“The Universal Product Code (UPC) is a barcode symbology that is widely used in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, in Europe and other countries for tracking trade items in stores.

“UPC (technically refers to UPC-A) consists of 12 numeric digits, that are uniquely assigned to each trade item. Along with the related EAN barcode, the UPC is the barcode mainly used for scanning of trade items at the point of sale, per GS1 specifications.[1] UPC data structures are a component of GTINs and follow the global GS1 specification, which is based on international standards. But some retailers (clothing, furniture) do not use the GS1 system (rather other barcode symbologies or article number systems). On the other hand, some retailers use the EAN/UPC barcode symbology, but without using a GTIN (for products, brands, sold at such retailers only).”

-- Tate. (n.d.). In Wikipedia. Retrieved August 18, 2017, from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plagiarism. Text reproduced here under a CC-BY-SA 3.0 license.

Content:

This dataset contains just over 1 million UPC codes and the names of the products associated with them.

Acknowledgements:

While UPC’s themselves are not copyrightable, the brand names and trademarks in this dataset remain the property of their respective owners.

Inspiration:

• Can you use this dataset to generate new product names?
• Can you use this in conjunction with other datasets to disambiguate products?