Thalia Books & Media Scraper

Pull rich product data from Thalia (thalia.de), Germany's largest books & media retailer — books, eBooks, audiobooks, toys and stationery. Search by keyword and/or category with real site filters, browse Thalia's own Schnäppchen (sale) collection, or paste product, category, search, and sale links directly. Every record includes current price, the strike-through original price with computed discount when an item is on sale, ISBN/EAN, author/publisher/format, and a full customer review history with rating breakdown.

Why This Scraper?

• Was-price and discount, structured from the real Schnäppchen facet. When a product is on sale, both the current price and the strike-through original price come back, plus the computed discount amount and percentage — never fabricated.
• A dedicated Specials mode. specialsOnly maps to Thalia's own price-reduction facet, store-wide or scoped to a keyword/category, mirroring thalia.de/themenwelten/sale/.
• Rich bibliographic identity. ISBN and EAN/GTIN, full author list, publisher, and format/binding (Taschenbuch, gebundene Ausgabe, ePUB, MP3, Hörbuch-Download, ...) — every high-value field a basic scrape drops.
• Full technical specifications, not a wall of text. Each product's "Produktdetails" table (pages, language, release date, dimensions, weight, colour — varies per category) comes back as clean key/value pairs, plus the full breadcrumb category path.
• Format-variant matrix. Siblings of the same title in other formats (e.g. the Hardcover and eBook editions of one novel) come back as a linked matrix.
• Complete review history. Overall rating, review count, a full 1-to-5 star rating breakdown, and every individual review with author, date, rating, format, title, and body text — Thalia's own native reviews, no third-party vendor.
• Two ways in. Keyword search with real filters (format, price range, availability, specials, sort), or paste any product/category/search/sale URL and let pagination continue automatically.
• Optional export to your apps. Send results into Notion, Linear, Airtable, or any Apify MCP connector alongside the dataset.

Data You Get

Field	Example value
productId	A1000000001
title	Sample Novel Title
authors	["Sample Author"]
url	https://www.thalia.de/shop/home/artikeldetails/A1000000001
price / currency	12.99, EUR
originalPrice	19.99
discountAmount / discountPercent	7.0, 35.0
isOnSpecial	true
promoLabel	- 35%
format	Buch (Taschenbuch)
categoryPath	["Buch (dtsch)", "Bücher", "Romane & Erzählungen"]
availabilityText / availabilityStatus	Sofort lieferbar, gruen
rating / reviewCount	4.6, 215
image	https://images.thalia.media/-/BF2000-2000/.../sample-cover.jpeg
isbn / ean	978-1-000-00000-0, 9781000000000
specifications (fetchDetails)	{"Verlag": "Sample Verlag", "Seitenzahl": "320", "Erscheinungsdatum": "16.07.2024", "Maße (L/B/H)": "21,1/13,7/3,2 cm"}
variants (fetchDetails)	[{"format": "Hardcover", "url": "https://..."}, {"format": "Taschenbuch", "url": "https://..."}]
images (fetchDetails)	["https://images.thalia.media/-/BF2000-2000/.../sample-1.jpeg", "..."]
description (fetchDetails)	Sample blurb text describing the book.
reviews.averageRating / reviews.totalReviewCount	4.6, 215
reviews.ratingDistribution	[{"rating": 5, "count": 155}, {"rating": 4, "count": 47}, {"rating": 3, "count": 10}]
reviews.items[]	[{"reviewId": "2546014", "author": "Sample User", "authorLocation": "aus Bern", "rating": 5, "date": "21.07.2025", "format": "eBook (ePUB 3)", "title": "Sample title", "body": "Sample review text."}]

Sample shape: values above are illustrative placeholders, not from a live product.

Specials, was-price & discount

Thalia's sale surface is a single real facet — Schnäppchen (price-reduced) — not a multi-tier promo taxonomy. specialsOnly: true scrapes that facet directly (store-wide, or scoped to a keyword/category); pasting the /themenwelten/sale/ URL in url mode reaches the same collection. On any item that is actually reduced, originalPrice/discountAmount/discountPercent/promoLabel are populated straight from the site's own strike-through price and badge; on a full-price item they are null — never fabricated.

How to Use

Basic keyword search

{
  "mode": "search",
  "searchTerm": "krimi",
  "maxItems": 20
}

Search narrowed by category, format and price, with specials

{
  "mode": "search",
  "searchTerm": "krimi",
  "category": "3",
  "einband": ["Taschenbuch"],
  "minPrice": 5,
  "maxPrice": 20,
  "specialsOnly": true,
  "sortBy": "sfpa",
  "maxItems": 30
}

Category browse with full detail and review enrichment

{
  "mode": "search",
  "category": "3",
  "fetchDetails": true,
  "fetchReviews": true,
  "maxReviewsPerProduct": 0,
  "maxItems": 50
}

Paste product, category, search, or sale links

{
  "mode": "url",
  "urls": [
    "https://www.thalia.de/shop/home/artikeldetails/A1000000001",
    "https://www.thalia.de/kategorie/romane-erzaehlungen-3/",
    "https://www.thalia.de/themenwelten/sale/"
  ],
  "maxItems": 40
}

Input Parameters

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
mode	string	search	search (keyword/category with filters) or url (paste links).
searchTerm	string	-	Free-text keyword, title, author, or ISBN for search mode.
category	string	-	A category id, e.g. 3. Narrows a keyword search or browses a whole category alone.
specialsOnly	boolean	false	Only Schnäppchen (sale) items — real strike-through price + discount.
einband	array	[]	Only these exact binding/format values, e.g. Taschenbuch, ePUB 3.
minPrice / maxPrice	integer	-	Price range in EUR.
availability	string	`` (any)	GL (lieferbar), SL (sofort lieferbar), or VB (vorbestellbar).
sortBy	string	sfmd	sfmd (best match), sfpa/sfpd (price asc/desc), sfea/sfed (release date asc/desc), sfsd (top rated).
urls	array	sample URL	Product, category, search, or sale links for URL mode.
fetchDetails	boolean	false	Adds ISBN/EAN, full author list, publisher, description, flattened specifications, breadcrumb path, media gallery, and the format-variant matrix.
fetchReviews	boolean	true	Fetches each product's full review history.
maxReviewsPerProduct	integer	20	Cap on reviews per product; 0 = all.
maxPages	integer	unlimited	Cap on result pages per search/URL entry.
maxItems	integer	20	Cap on total products; 0 = unlimited.
proxy	object	Apify default	Connection configuration.
mcpConnectors	array	[]	Optional MCP connectors to also receive results.
notionParentPageUrl	string	-	Required only when a Notion connector is selected.
maxNotifyListings	integer	50	Cap on items sent to each connector.

Output Example

{
  "productId": "A1000000001",
  "title": "Sample Novel Title",
  "authors": ["Sample Author"],
  "url": "https://www.thalia.de/shop/home/artikeldetails/A1000000001",
  "price": 4.99,
  "currency": "EUR",
  "originalPrice": 9.99,
  "discountAmount": 5.0,
  "discountPercent": 50.0,
  "isOnSpecial": true,
  "promoLabel": "- 50%",
  "format": "eBook (ePUB 3)",
  "categoryPath": ["Ebooks", "eBooks", "Krimis & Thriller"],
  "availabilityText": "Sofort per Download lieferbar",
  "availabilityStatus": "gruen",
  "rating": 4.6,
  "reviewCount": 215,
  "isbn": "978-1-000-00000-0",
  "specifications": {
    "Format": "ePUB 3",
    "Verlag": "Sample Verlag",
    "Seitenzahl": "320 (Printausgabe)",
    "Erscheinungsdatum": "16.07.2024"
  },
  "variants": [
    { "format": "Hardcover", "url": "https://www.thalia.de/shop/home/artikeldetails/A1000000002" },
    { "format": "Taschenbuch", "url": "https://www.thalia.de/shop/home/artikeldetails/A1000000003" }
  ],
  "images": ["https://images.thalia.media/-/BF2000-2000/sample/sample-cover.jpeg"],
  "reviews": {
    "averageRating": 4.6,
    "totalReviewCount": 215,
    "ratingDistribution": [
      { "rating": 5, "count": 155 },
      { "rating": 4, "count": 47 },
      { "rating": 3, "count": 10 }
    ],
    "items": [
      {
        "reviewId": "2546014",
        "author": "Sample User",
        "authorLocation": "aus Bern",
        "rating": 5,
        "date": "21.07.2025",
        "format": "eBook (ePUB 3)",
        "title": "Sample review title",
        "body": "Sample review text describing the reading experience."
      }
    ]
  }
}

Send results into your apps (MCP connectors)

Optionally pipe results into an app you already use through a Model Context Protocol connector. Authorize a connector once under your account's Integrations settings, then select it in the input; for Notion, also set the parent page. Each connector receives a condensed, human-readable summary per item (a title plus key fields), not the full JSON record; the complete data always stays in the dataset.

A Note on Access

Running this actor requires an active account with default proxy access, which is included on every plan. A residential connection is optional and only recommended for very large or sustained runs on the free tier.