Zalando Fashion Listings Scraper

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🎯 What this scrapes

Zalando.de is DE/EU's largest online fashion retailer, with no public product-listing API. This Actor scrapes any of Zalando's category pages — sneakers, boots, dresses, and every other category the site exposes as its own URL path — pulling the same structured product data the site itself renders per card: SKU, name, brand, price, silhouette (SNEAKER / BOOTS / etc.), gender, available sizes, and product images. Built on curl-cffi with browser TLS impersonation; no browser automation, no login required.

🔥 What we handle for you

• 🛡️ Browser fingerprint rotation — curl-cffi impersonates real Chrome / Firefox TLS handshakes so the target sees a browser, not Python.
• 🌐 Proxy rotation via Apify Proxy, pinned to Germany by default so a random exit can't silently swap in a different regional catalog.
• 🔁 Retries with exponential backoff on 408 / 429 / 5xx — up to 5 attempts per page, Retry-After honoured.
• 🧱 Per-category, per-page fault isolation — one bad category path or one failed page never crashes the whole run.
• 🧊 Clean, typed dataset rows — Pydantic-validated, ISO-8601 timestamps, stable SKUs, JSON / CSV / Excel export straight from the Apify Console.
• 💰 Pay-Per-Event pricing — you only pay for results that hit your dataset. No data, no charge.

💡 Use cases

• Price monitoring — track price moves on specific categories or brands over time.
• Assortment tracking — see what's newly listed, out of stock, or discontinued in a category.
• Trend research — pull silhouette and brand mix across a category to spot fast-moving fashion trends.
• Dropshipping sourcing — build a structured product feed with prices, sizes, and images ready to re-list.
• Competitive benchmarking — compare your own catalog's pricing and assortment against Zalando's.

⚙️ How to use it

1. Click Try for free at the top of the page.
2. Enter one or more category paths — copy the path segment from any Zalando.de category URL (e.g. herrenschuhe-sneaker from zalando.de/herrenschuhe-sneaker/).
3. Click Start. Output streams into the run's dataset.
4. Export from Storage → Dataset as JSON, CSV, or Excel — or fetch via the API.

📥 Input

Field	Type	Required	Default	Notes
categoryPaths	array	yes	["herrenschuhe-sneaker", "damenschuhe-stiefel"]	One or more Zalando.de category path segments. Not a keyword search — Zalando's own /catalog/?q= search endpoint returns a 404.
maxPagesPerCategory	integer	no	2	Pages to fetch per category (?p=1..N). Stops early once a page parses to zero products.
maxResultsPerCategory	integer	no	100	Hard cap on dataset rows emitted per category.
proxyConfiguration	object	no	{"useApifyProxy": true, "apifyProxyCountry": "DE"}	Apify Proxy spec, pinned to Germany by default.

Example input

{
  "categoryPaths": ["herrenschuhe-sneaker", "damenschuhe-stiefel"],
  "maxPagesPerCategory": 2,
  "maxResultsPerCategory": 100,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyCountry": "DE"
  }
}

📤 Output

Every row is one dataset item.

Field	Type	Notes
sku	string	Zalando article SKU (style + colour code).
name	string	Product name as listed.
brand	['string', 'null']	Brand name, e.g. Nike Sportswear.
silhouette	['string', 'null']	Product silhouette / type, e.g. SNEAKER, BOOTS, ANKLE_BOOTS.
gender	['string', 'null']	Target navigation group, e.g. MEN, WOMEN, KIDS.
price_amount	['number', 'null']	Original listed price as a decimal amount.
price_currency	['string', 'null']	ISO-4217 currency code, e.g. EUR.
condition	['string', 'null']	Item condition when the product is not new.
product_url	string	Absolute URL to the product detail page.
image_url	['string', 'null']	Primary product image URL (large packshot).
available_sizes	array	Size labels currently listed for this product.
product_flags	array	Merchandising flags shown on the card, e.g. 'Top bewertet'.
category_path	string	Which category path this row was scraped from.
page	integer	Which category page (?p=) this row was scraped from.
scraped_at	string	ISO timestamp when this row was recorded.

Example output

{
  "sku": "NI112P06V-M11",
  "name": "AIR FORCE 1 07 - Trainers - barely grey/city grey/bomber grey/speed yellow",
  "brand": "Nike Sportswear",
  "silhouette": "SNEAKER",
  "gender": "MEN",
  "price_amount": 119.95,
  "price_currency": "EUR",
  "condition": null,
  "product_url": "https://www.zalando.de/nike-sportswear-air-force-1-07-sneaker-low-....html",
  "image_url": "https://img01.ztat.net/article/.../....jpg?imwidth=500&filter=packshot",
  "available_sizes": ["38", "39", "40", "41", "42"],
  "product_flags": ["Top bewertet"],
  "category_path": "herrenschuhe-sneaker",
  "page": 1,
  "scraped_at": "2026-09-20T12:00:00+00:00"
}

💰 Pricing

Pay-Per-Event — you pay only when these events fire:

Event	USD	What it is
actor-start	$0.20	One-off warm-up charge per run
item-scraped	$0.006	Per product row written to your dataset

Example: 1 000 results at the rates above ≈ $6.20. No subscription, no minimum, no card to start — Apify gives every new account $5 of free credit.

🚧 Limitations

This Actor browses Zalando's category pages, not its keyword search — zalando.de/catalog/?q= returns a 404 on this site, so there is no free-text search input; supply the category path segments you want instead. v1 covers www.zalando.de only (Zalando runs ~20 separate country domains with distinct catalogs). Category pages surface the above-the-fold set of rendered product cards per page; very large categories should be paged with maxPagesPerCategory.

❓ FAQ

How do I find a category path?

Browse to any Zalando.de category (e.g. men's sneakers) and copy the path segment from the URL — zalando.de/herrenschuhe-sneaker/ becomes herrenschuhe-sneaker.

Why is there no keyword/search input?

Zalando's own /catalog/?q= search endpoint returns a 404 — it is not a working entry point on this site. Category-path browsing is the reliable way to reach listings, so that's what this Actor offers.

What currency are prices in?

Whatever Zalando's German storefront lists — almost always EUR, in price_currency. price_amount is a decimal value (already divided from cents).

Why did a category return fewer rows than maxResultsPerCategory?

Either the category itself has fewer products than the cap, or pagination stopped early because a page parsed to zero new products — both are normal, successful outcomes.

Is this a Zalando-sanctioned API?

No. Zalando publishes no public product-listings API. This Actor scrapes the public website politely with browser TLS impersonation and proxy rotation.

💬 Your feedback

Spotted a bug, hit a weird edge case, or need a new field? Open an issue on the Actor's Issues tab on Apify Console — we ship fixes weekly and we read every report.

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