Bic Camera Scraper - prices, points, specs and reviews

Scrape Bic Camera (biccamera.com), Japan's largest consumer-electronics chain, into clean structured JSON, CSV or Excel. Search by keyword or category, or paste product, search and category links, and get back the yen price, the Bic Point reward, stock and delivery, the full specification table, the image gallery, colour and capacity variants, and full review text.

No code and nothing to configure: the connection Bic Camera requires is set up for you out of the box.

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What you get

Every product row carries the whole overview record. Fetch full product detail and Fetch reviews add the rest.

Identity

Field	What it is
itemId	Bic Camera's own item code (商品コード), the stable id for a product
title	Product name as listed
brand	Manufacturer as the site writes it, e.g. Apple｜アップル
modelNumber	Manufacturer model code (型番), from the product page
janCode	JAN barcode, when the product page publishes one
color	Colour of this specific item
url	Canonical product URL, always rebuilt from the item code
breadcrumbs	Category path, e.g. ["カメラ・カメラレンズ・メモリーカード", "デジタル一眼"]
rank	Position of the product in the result grid
isSponsored	true for a PR / sponsored placement

Price and points

Field	What it is
price	Current selling price in yen, tax included
currency	Always JPY
originalPrice	Manufacturer list price as a number, when the site publishes one
originalPriceText	The list price exactly as printed, including オープン価格
discountPercent	Discount off the list price, when both prices are numbers
pointAmount	Bic Points awarded on this purchase
pointRate	Those points as a percentage of the price
effectivePrice	price minus pointAmount: what the purchase really costs you
pointText	The point line exactly as printed
usedPrice / usedOfferCount	Cheapest second-hand offer and how many the site lists

About list prices on this site. Japanese electronics are overwhelmingly sold at オープン価格 ("open price"), meaning the manufacturer publishes no list price at all. Across live checks on cameras, phones, appliances and clearance stock, that is what the product page prints. So originalPriceText always tells you exactly what the site said, while originalPrice and discountPercent are filled in only when there is a real number to compare against, and are left empty rather than invented when there is not.

Availability and delivery

Field	What it is
inStock	true / false, or empty when the page says nothing about stock
availabilityText	The site's own wording, e.g. 在庫あり, 予定数の販売を終了しました
freeShipping	true when the listing shows 送料無料
arrivalDate	Quoted delivery date, e.g. 8月28日（金）
deliveryText	The full delivery line as printed
warranty	Manufacturer warranty (メーカー保証年数), when published
releaseDate / releaseDateText	Release date, ISO and as printed

Media, specs and variants (with Fetch full product detail)

Field	What it is
thumbnail	Main image
images	Full-size gallery for this product, transform parameters stripped
specifications	The whole spec table as a key/value object
description	Product description
variants	Colour and capacity siblings: optionType (色 / 容量), title, price, availabilityText, inStock, url, image, selected

Reviews (with Fetch reviews)

reviews is an object:

Field	What it is
averageRating	Overall star rating
totalReviewCount	How many reviews the product has in total
ratingDistribution	1-5 star histogram of the reviews this run fetched
items[]	One entry per review

Each review carries reviewId, author, date (ISO) and dateText, rating, title, body, helpfulCount, variant (the colour or capacity the reviewer actually bought), purchaseChannel and images.

A product with no reviews returns items: [] with totalReviewCount: 0, never a made-up value.

ratingDistribution is computed from the reviews returned in this run, because Bic Camera does not publish a histogram of its own. If you cap Max reviews per product, the histogram describes that sample, not the product's whole lifetime.

Incremental mode fields

changeType (NEW / UPDATED / UNCHANGED / REAPPEARED / EXPIRED), changedFields, firstSeenAt, lastSeenAt.

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Modes

Search

Give one or more keywords, a category, or both. Japanese keywords work exactly as typed - the actor encodes them the way Bic Camera's own search box does, which is not UTF-8 and is the single most common reason a hand-built Bic Camera scraper returns zero results.

Narrow with the site's own facets:

• Category - a Bic Camera category code as it appears in a category URL, e.g. 001120 or 001/120/001. Use a sub-category: the top level of the tree is a landing page with no product list.
• Brand - the site's brand facet, written exactly as the site shows it, e.g. ソニー｜SONY.
• Sort order - all eight of the site's own orders: recommended, price low to high, price high to low, highest rated, most reviewed, fastest delivery, release date, newest.
• Include discontinued products and Group colour and capacity variations - the site's own two result switches.

URL

Paste any mix of:

• product pages: https://www.biccamera.com/bc/item/14949907/
• search results: https://www.biccamera.com/bc/category/?q=...
• category listings: https://www.biccamera.com/bc/category/001/120/001/
• review listings: https://www.biccamera.com/bc/disp/SfrGoodsPageReview.jsp?GOODS_NO=...

Pagination continues forward from whatever page number the URL already names.

Price and stock filters (both modes)

Minimum price, Maximum price and In-stock products only apply in search and URL mode alike. Bic Camera has no price-range or in-stock filter of its own, so these narrow the products the run returns rather than the pages it fetches. Products whose price could not be read are excluded while a price bound is set.

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Country scope: Japan only

Bic Camera trades only in Japan. Its storefront quotes one currency (JPY) and ships domestically, and the "English / 中文" entry in its own header leads to machine translations of the same Japanese catalogue served through a third-party translation proxy, not to separate country storefronts. There is no other Bic Camera country site to scrape, so this actor deliberately has no country input: a country selector with a single working value would be misleading. Everything you see here is the Japanese catalogue.

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Resume and recurring updates

• Resume from a previous run - paste a run or dataset id to continue one interrupted crawl. Products already collected there are skipped and not charged again.
• Incremental mode - for daily or weekly monitoring. The first run returns everything as NEW; later runs return only what changed. Emit unchanged and Emit expired are off by default because they return, and bill for, extra rows.

State is kept per search: the keywords, category, brand, filters and detail/review settings all feed the state key, so two different monitoring campaigns never mix. Name a campaign with State key when you want to control that yourself.

Expired detection only runs after a run has scanned the whole tracked search. A capped run, a resumed run, or a run that could not finish the walk keeps the previous state instead of wrongly marking products as gone.

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Connection

Bic Camera only answers connections it recognises as a real browser inside Japan. The default proxy setting routes the run through a Japan-based connection built for sites that are strict about this, which is what makes the actor work with nothing to set up on your side. Change it only if you have your own Japanese proxies to use: other connection settings are refused by the site.

Result pages resolve in roughly 5 to 65 seconds each, which is a property of getting through that protection rather than of the amount of data. A page that does not come back is retried on a fresh connection, up to five times; if a run really cannot read anything, it fails with a connection message rather than reporting an empty search, so you are never handed a silent zero.

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What you are charged for

• Product result - once per product returned.
• Detail and review enrichment - once per product when Fetch full product detail and/or Fetch reviews fetched extra pages for it. Charged once per product even when both toggles are on, never per review page.
• Actor start - the platform's standard start event.

Both enrichment toggles are off by default, so a plain search only ever pays the per-product rate.

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Example output

{
  "itemId": "14949907",
  "title": "【SIMフリー】iPhone 17e A19チップ搭載 6.1型 ストレージ：256GB eSIMのみ対応 MHRP4J/A ホワイト",
  "brand": "Apple｜アップル",
  "modelNumber": "MHRP4JA",
  "color": "ホワイト",
  "url": "https://www.biccamera.com/bc/item/14949907/",
  "price": 107800,
  "currency": "JPY",
  "originalPriceText": "オープン価格",
  "pointAmount": 1078,
  "pointRate": 1,
  "effectivePrice": 106722,
  "inStock": false,
  "availabilityText": "OutOfStock",
  "releaseDate": "2026-03-11",
  "breadcrumbs": ["スマートフォン・スマホアクセサリー", "SIMフリー iPhone"],
  "specifications": {
    "ストレージ": "256GB",
    "CPU": "A19チップ",
    "重量": "169g",
    "防水": "有"
  },
  "variants": [
    {"optionType": "色", "title": "ブラック", "price": 107800, "inStock": false,
     "url": "https://www.biccamera.com/bc/item/14949906/"},
    {"optionType": "容量", "title": "512GB", "price": 142800, "inStock": false,
     "url": "https://www.biccamera.com/bc/item/14949910/"}
  ],
  "images": ["https://image.biccamera.com/img/00000014949907_A01.jpg"],
  "rating": 4.7,
  "reviewCount": 210,
  "reviews": {
    "averageRating": 4.7,
    "totalReviewCount": 210,
    "ratingDistribution": {"1": 0, "2": 0, "3": 1, "4": 3, "5": 8},
    "items": [
      {
        "reviewId": "0000000",
        "author": "サンプルユーザー",
        "date": "2026-08-20",
        "rating": 5,
        "title": "レビュータイトルのサンプル",
        "body": "レビュー本文のサンプルです。実際の投稿ではありません。",
        "helpfulCount": 1,
        "variant": "色：ソフトピンク",
        "purchaseChannel": "ビックカメラグループで購入",
        "images": []
      }
    ]
  },
  "source": "detail",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-08-27T07:19:29Z"
}

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Notes and limits

• Reviews are written by shoppers and are personal opinions. Reviewer names are the display aliases the site publishes (often 匿名, "anonymous"); no contact details, account ids or other personal data are collected.
• Store-by-store shelf stock is not published on the product page, so it is not returned. Online availability, delivery date and free-shipping status are.
• Result pages occasionally render fewer products than their own banner announces. The run keeps what it got, says so in the log, and carries on rather than mistaking a short page for the end of the catalogue.
• Bic Camera is a trademark of its owner. This actor collects publicly visible catalogue data and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Bic Camera.