Horticultural trade is the primary pathway for the introduction of invasive plant species. Increasingly, trade is conducted online via e-commerce platforms. We used automated web scraping to capture snapshots of the online plant trade in Australia across 11 e-commerce websites between 2020 and 2023, aiming to identify potentially invasive species for sale. We identified 3,822 species for sale, which we categorised based on the...

The unrivaled growth in e‐commerce of animals and plants presents an unprecedented opportunity to monitor wildlife trade to inform conservation, biosecurity, and law enforcement. Using the internet to quantify the scale of the wildlife trade (volume and frequency) is a relatively recent and rapidly developing approach that lacks an accessible framework for locating relevant websites and collecting data. We produced an accessib...