MercadoLibre Scraper - Products, Prices, Reviews, Q&A & Sellers

What does MercadoLibre Scraper do?

MercadoLibre Scraper extracts listings from MercadoLibre and Mercado Livre in all 18 countries and turns a search term, a category, a seller, an official store or a list of product links into one structured row per listing: title, price, previous price, discount, installments, shipping (free, FULL, next day, cross-border), rating, ratings count, units sold, seller and its position in the results. Turn on product details, reviews or buyer questions and the same run also returns full product pages, one row per review and one row per question with the seller's answer. Built for e-commerce sellers, brands, price-monitoring teams and market researchers who need MercadoLibre data without copying it by hand.

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• All 18 country sites: Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Peru, Uruguay, Ecuador, Venezuela, Bolivia, Paraguay, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama and El Salvador. Prices come in each site's own currency.
• Five modes in one actor: search listings, product details by link, reviews, buyer questions and seller or official-store catalogs.
• Up to about 2,000 results per search, the most MercadoLibre shows, page after page; Split by price goes past that by searching price bands and merging them without repeats.
• Organic results only, ranked as MercadoLibre ranks them (position); sponsored listings come back only when you ask for them, marked isSponsored.
• The site's own filters: price range, condition, free shipping, FULL, official stores, top sellers, interest-free installments, sort by price, category.
• Monitor mode: run on a schedule and get only listings that are new since the last run, plus listings whose price changed.
• No login, no cookies, no API key, no proxy setup. Export as JSON, CSV, Excel or XML, or use schedules, webhooks, Make, Zapier, n8n, the Apify API and MCP.

What data can you get from MercadoLibre?

🏷️ Title, listing id, product id, variation	💲 Price, previous price, discount %, currency	💳 Installments: count, amount, total, interest-free
🚚 Free shipping, FULL, next-day delivery	🌎 Cross-border flag and the country it ships from	🎟️ Coupons and promotions on the card
⭐ Rating and number of ratings	📦 Units sold (the site's bucket: +500, +5 mil…)	🏪 Seller name and official-store flag
🏷️ Brand, category id and path, domain	🔢 Organic position, page, search term, total results	🖼️ Thumbnail and listing link
📝 Description, all photos, specs, features (details)	🎨 Variations with their price and stock (details)	📊 Stock, star breakdown, review counts (details)
🧾 Seller id, reputation, MercadoLíder level, listings count (details)	🛡️ Warranty, return policy, shipping origin and times (details)	💰 Payment methods, listing type, listed-at date (details)
💬 Reviews: stars, text, date, country, likes, photos	❓ Questions: question, seller answer, answer date	🏬 Store profiles: followers, store and brand ids, logo, banner

On a 100-listing search run with product details on ("audifonos bluetooth" in Mexico), 99 rows carried the product page: 99% had photos, specs, stock, seller id and reputation, return policy and payment methods, 92% a description and 81% the seller's sales count. Rows from car and property searches also carry attributes (year, km, rooms, m²), location and headline.

How to scrape MercadoLibre with MercadoLibre Scraper

1. Create a free Apify account (it comes with monthly free credit).
2. Open MercadoLibre Scraper and pick a mode: Search listings is the default.
3. Type one or more search terms, pick the country site, or paste MercadoLibre links.
4. Optional: set filters, turn on product details, reviews or questions, and set Max results.
5. Click Start and watch the rows arrive.
6. Download the dataset as JSON, CSV, Excel or XML, or send it on with an integration.

⬇️ Input

Parameter	Type	Description
mode	select	search (default), products, reviews, questions or seller.
searchQueries	list	Search terms, one search each, e.g. celular samsung, tênis nike.
country	select	The site to search: MX (default), AR, BR, CL, CO, PE and 12 more.
countries	list	Run the same terms on more sites too, e.g. ["AR","BR"].
startUrls	links	Any MercadoLibre link: search or category pages, /ofertas, /tienda/…, _CustId_…, product pages.
productUrls	list	Products mode, reviews, questions: product links (/p/MLM…), listing links or ids such as MLM23138487.
sellerUrls	list	Seller mode: a store link (/tienda/sony, /loja/samsung), _CustId_ link, seller id or nickname.
categoryId	text	Limit a search to one category, e.g. MLM1055.
sortBy	select	Most relevant (default), lowest price, highest price.
condition	select	Any (default), new, used, refurbished.
minPrice / maxPrice	number	Price range in the site's currency.
freeShippingOnly, fullShippingOnly, officialStoresOnly, bestSellersOnly, interestFreeOnly	yes/no	The site's own filters. Default off.
includeSponsored	yes/no	Also deliver sponsored listings (marked). Default off.
minDiscount, minRating, minSoldQuantity, excludeKeywords	refine	Applied to each row before it is delivered.
includeDetails	yes/no	Product details on every row (paid add-on). Default off.
includeReviews, maxReviewsPerProduct (20), reviewRating, reviewSort, deepReviews	reviews	Review rows for each listing or product.
includeQuestions, maxQuestionsPerItem (50)	questions	Question rows for each listing.
includeSellerProfile	yes/no	Seller mode: one profile row per official store. Default on.
monitorMode, monitorPriceChanges, minPriceChangePercent, monitorStoreName	monitoring	Only new listings (and price changes) since the last run.
maxItems	number	Listing / product rows per run (reviews or questions in those modes). Default 100.
maxItemsPerSearch, splitByPrice, compact	output	Cap per search; go past the ~2,000 cap; core fields only.
maxConcurrency, proxyConfiguration	advanced	Parallel detail requests (6); proxy (residential in each site's country by default).

Input JSON

{
  "searchQueries": ["celular samsung"],
  "country": "MX",
  "condition": "new",
  "freeShippingOnly": true,
  "maxItems": 200,
  "includeDetails": true
}

Pick the mode before anything else

Search listings reads result pages (one row per listing). Product details reads product links you already have and returns one full row per product with no search. Reviews and Questions read those of the products you give. Seller reads a store's or seller's whole catalog. Reviews and questions can also be added to a search with includeReviews / includeQuestions.

Put only the product words in the search term

Write the term as a shopper would, zapatillas nike mujer, and use the filters for price, condition and shipping. Words like "barato" or "envío gratis" in the term change what MercadoLibre matches.

Ask for more than 2,000 with Split by price

MercadoLibre shows at most about 2,000 results for one search even when it reports 40,000. Turn on Split by price and the search is cut into price bands that each stay under the limit (a band still over it is halved again); listings are merged without repeats. A test run collected 2,100 listings of "zapatillas" in Mexico this way.

⬆️ Output

One row per listing (type: "listing"), product ("product"), review ("review"), question ("question") or store profile ("seller-profile"). A search row, from a real run:

{
  "type": "listing",
  "country": "MX",
  "itemId": "MLM6280573002",
  "catalogProductId": "MLM65114795",
  "title": "Samsung Galaxy A17 128GB",
  "url": "https://www.mercadolibre.com.mx/samsung-galaxy-a17-128gb/p/MLM65114795",
  "price": 2879,
  "originalPrice": 3999,
  "discountPercentage": 28,
  "currency": "MXN",
  "installments": { "quantity": 24, "amount": 173.99, "total": 4175.76, "interestFree": false },
  "freeShipping": true,
  "fullShipping": true,
  "rating": 4.9,
  "ratingCount": 1530,
  "soldQuantity": 10000,
  "brand": "Samsung",
  "sellerName": "Celmishop",
  "isOfficialStore": true,
  "categoryId": "MLM1055",
  "position": 4,
  "searchQuery": "celular",
  "totalResults": 40346
}

A review row:

{
  "type": "review",
  "productId": "MLM23138487",
  "reviewId": 975314257,
  "reviewRating": 5,
  "reviewText": "Amé el producto, lo recomiendo totalmente.",
  "reviewDate": "2024-02-01T23:59:55Z",
  "reviewCountry": "México",
  "reviewLikes": 948,
  "reviewMedia": [{ "type": "photo", "url": "https://http2.mlstatic.com/D_NQ_NP_836750-MLA74238681146_022024-F.jpg" }]
}

Fields

Field	Meaning	Filled on a real run
itemId, title, url, price, currency, thumbnail	the listing	100%
catalogProductId	MercadoLibre catalog product the listing belongs to	95-100% on catalog searches
originalPrice, discountPercentage	price before the discount	77-90% (only discounted listings)
installments	count, amount per payment, total, interest-free	28-99% (depends on the category)
freeShipping, fullShipping, nextDayDelivery, shippingText	delivery on the card	text on 93-100%
isInternational, shipsFrom	cross-border listing and its origin country	on every cross-border card
rating, ratingCount	stars and number of ratings	96-100% and 86-100%
soldQuantity	units sold, as the site's bucket (500, 5000…)	95-100%
brand, sellerName, isOfficialStore	brand and seller as printed	88-100%, 62-100% (many catalog cards print no seller)
position, page, searchQuery, totalResults	rank among organic results and the search	100%
attributes, location, headline	cars and property: year, km, rooms, m², place	100% on car and property searches
changeType, previousPrice, priceChangePercent	monitor mode: new / priceDrop / priceRise	on monitor rows
description, images, attributes, features, variations	product details	92-99% of detail rows
availableQuantity, stockText, ratingDistribution, topReviews	product details	99%
sellerId, sellerReputation, sellerPowerStatus, sellerProductsCount	product details	99%
returnPolicy, paymentMethods, shippingTexts, logisticType, listingType	product details	99%
listedAt, itemStatus, shipping (origin, handling and transit days)	product details of listing pages (articulo.…)	on listing pages
reviewRating, reviewText, reviewDate, reviewCountry, reviewLikes, reviewMedia	review rows	100%, 97%, 100%, 100%, 100%, 61%
questionText, answerText, answerDate	question rows	100%
totalFollowers, officialStoreId, shopType, brandRegistryId, logoUrl	store profile rows	100%

How can I use MercadoLibre data?

• 📈 Price monitoring: schedule a search with monitorMode and get every price drop and rise with the previous price.
• 🏷️ Competitor and brand tracking: see who sells your brand, at what price, discount and shipping, and where they rank.
• 🔎 Market research: compare categories, brands and sold counts across Mexico, Brazil, Argentina and the other sites.
• 🛒 Catalog building: photos, specs, descriptions and variations of the products you want to list.
• 💬 Voice of the customer: collect reviews by star rating and the questions buyers ask before buying.
• 🏬 Seller analysis: a store's whole catalog, its followers and its reputation.

How much does it cost to scrape MercadoLibre?

MercadoLibre Scraper is pay-per-result: $0.45 per 1,000 listings ($0.00045 per listing or product row), no start fee. You pay only for rows delivered.

Listings	Cost
100	$0.045
1,000	$0.45
10,000	$4.50

Add-ons: product details $0.0036 per row whose product page answered; reviews $0.0009 each; questions $0.0009 each; store profiles $0.0045 each. Sponsored listings you did not ask for, filtered rows, repeats and listings an earlier monitor run already delivered are not delivered and not billed. Set a maximum spend on the run and it stops at the limit; rows delivered so far are kept.

There is nothing else to pay: Apify platform usage is included in these prices. On the default 1,024 MB, on test runs, a 48-listing search took 9.5-27 seconds, a 1,000-listing search 73-119 seconds, 2,100 listings with Split by price 154-198 seconds, and 100 listings with product details 61-67 seconds.

Integrations, API, scheduling & MCP

• Schedules: run MercadoLibre Scraper daily or hourly from the Schedules tab; with monitorMode each run returns only new listings and price changes.
• Webhooks: call a URL when a run finishes to push rows to your system, Slack or a sheet.
• No-code: Make, Zapier, n8n, Google Sheets, Airtable and Slack via Apify integrations.
• API: start runs and read datasets from Node.js or Python with apify-client; code on the API tab.
• MCP / AI agents: connect Claude, Cursor or any MCP client through the MCP tab; compact keeps rows short.

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Limits & empty runs

• About 2,000 results per search: MercadoLibre shows 48 organic results a page and stops near 2,000 for one search; RUN_SUMMARY gives the total the site reports and its ceiling. Use Split by price for more.
• Questions: the questions page of a listing shows its recent questions (17 on our test listing); older ones are not on the page.
• Reviews: one review list stops below 500 reviews; Deep review sweep reads every star rating and both orders and merges them.
• Some runs stop early: now and then MercadoLibre answers a visitor with its sign-in page or a CAPTCHA (2 of 31 test runs: one on the first page, one after the first page). MercadoLibre Scraper does not sign in and does not answer CAPTCHAs; it tries one fresh connection when the very first page asks to sign in, and otherwise keeps the rows already delivered and ends with a status message. Run it again for the rest.
• Empty dataset: no matching listings, a filter that removed everything, or a monitor run with nothing new. RUN_SUMMARY says which.

FAQ

How many listings can MercadoLibre Scraper collect in one run?

Up to maxItems (100,000 at most). One search gives up to about 2,000 listings; more search terms, more countries or Split by price give more.

Can I run MercadoLibre Scraper on a schedule to track prices?

Yes. Save your input as a task, open Schedules, pick the cadence and turn on monitorMode. Each run watches the same top results and returns only listings not delivered before, plus listings whose price changed (changeType, previousPrice, priceChangePercent). A run with nothing new delivers nothing and charges nothing.

Does MercadoLibre Scraper work for Mercado Livre Brasil?

Yes. Pick BR: prices come in BRL and text in Portuguese. Store links are /loja/… and listing links produto.mercadolivre.com.br.

Can MercadoLibre Scraper get full product pages without a search?

Yes. Choose Product details and paste product links or ids. Each product comes back with its description, photos, specs, variations, stock, seller, warranty, returns and payment methods.

Can I get the reviews and questions of a product with MercadoLibre Scraper?

Yes. Choose Reviews or Questions and paste product links, or add them to a search with includeReviews / includeQuestions. Reviews come with their exact date, country, likes and photos.

Can I use MercadoLibre Scraper with the Apify API?

Yes. Use apify-client for Node.js or Python; the API tab has ready-to-paste code.

Can I use MercadoLibre Scraper through an MCP server?

Yes. Open the MCP tab, connect your MCP client and ask for MercadoLibre listings in plain language. Turn on compact for shorter rows.

Do I need a MercadoLibre account, cookies or an API key?

No. No login, no cookies, no API key and no proxy setup. You give search terms or links.

Why did my MercadoLibre Scraper run return no results?

No listing matched, a filter removed them, a monitor run found nothing new, or MercadoLibre showed its sign-in or CAPTCHA page to that connection. The status message and RUN_SUMMARY say which. Nothing is charged for rows that were not delivered.

Is it legal to scrape MercadoLibre?

MercadoLibre Scraper collects data MercadoLibre shows publicly to any visitor and does not log in. You are responsible for complying with MercadoLibre's terms and the rules that apply where you work.

Your feedback

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