| name | ecommerce-product-scraping |
| description | Use when you need to scrape e-commerce product data — titles, brands, prices, MRP/list price, discounts, ratings, variants/sizes, availability, images, and product URLs — from online storefronts and marketplaces. Covers Amazon, Flipkart, AliExpress, Myntra, Nykaa, Meesho, Snapdeal, Noon, AJIO, FirstCry, Tata Cliq, and any Shopify store. For price monitoring / MAP enforcement, catalog building, competitor price tracking, and dropshipping product research. Triggers on "scrape products", "price monitoring", "product catalog", "competitor prices", "MAP", "track prices", "build a product database", "compare prices across stores". |
| license | MIT |
E-commerce Product Scraping
Routes product-data tasks to the right scraper or build path. The goal is structured product rows — title, brand, price, MRP/list price, discount, rating, variants, image, URL — at the lowest cost per result.
How storefronts expose product data
Most e-commerce sites embed full product JSON in the page, so you rarely need to parse HTML:
- SSR / embedded JSON —
__NEXT_DATA__ (Next.js), __NUXT__, window.__INITIAL_STATE__, or site-specific blobs (Myntra's __myx). Full structured catalog with no DOM parsing.
- Internal search/PDP APIs — open DevTools → Network → XHR while browsing; listings and product pages almost always fetch JSON you can call directly. Find the endpoint the page calls for itself rather than parsing HTML.
- Stealth-browser-only — a few storefronts sit behind Akamai or DataDome (Nykaa, Meesho, Tata Cliq) and serve a skeleton to HTTP clients. These need a hardened browser; intercept the XHR or walk product anchors rather than fighting hashed CSS-module class names.
Key fields to capture: title, brand, price, mrp/list price, discount, rating, variants/sizes, availability, image, url. MRP + discount together are what make a row useful for price/MAP monitoring.
Ready-made scrapers
Skip the anti-bot fight — these are maintained and billed pay-per-result.
| Target | Scraper | From | Notes |
|---|
| Amazon | Amazon Products | $0.002/result | 18+ country domains, ASIN/price/rating |
| Flipkart | Flipkart Products | $0.003/result | India, price/rating/seller |
| AliExpress | AliExpress Products | $0.003/result | price/sales count/ratings |
| Myntra | Myntra | $0.002/result | India fashion, sizes + variants |
| Nykaa | Nykaa | $0.005/result | India beauty |
| Meesho | Meesho | $0.005/result | India social commerce |
| Snapdeal | Snapdeal | $0.002/result | India marketplace |
| Noon.com | Noon | $0.002/result | UAE/KSA/Egypt |
| AJIO | AJIO | $0.002/result | India fashion |
| FirstCry | FirstCry | $0.002/result | India baby/kids |
| Tata Cliq | Tata Cliq | $0.005/result | India marketplace |
| Shopify Store | Shopify Store Products | $0.001/result | any Shopify store, full variants/SKU/price |
| Shopify Reviews | Shopify Reviews | $0.002/result | review count + rating across widgets |
Run one
Each scraper takes a JSON input and returns product rows. Run synchronously from the CLI:
curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/thirdwatch~amazon-product-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"queries": ["wireless earbuds"],
"maxResults": 25
}'
Get a free token at console.apify.com. Exact input fields are on each actor's Store page — input keys differ per site (search term vs. category URL vs. product URL).
Build your own
No scraper for your target, or you need to own it? Start with the engineering skills in this collection:
web-scraping-playbook — the build-vs-buy decision and the cost-first technique ladder (HTTP → TLS spoof → stealth browser).anti-bot-scraping — concrete bypasses for Akamai, DataDome, Cloudflare, PerimeterX (the protections in front of Nykaa, Meesho, Tata Cliq).apify-actor-builder — package it as a deployable, monetizable Apify Actor.
Maintained by Thirdwatch. 70+ ready-made scrapers on the Apify Store.
