# Shopify Products Scraper - Prices, Variants & Stock (`apex_capricorn/shopify-products-scraper`) Actor

Export the public product catalog of any Shopify storefront (titles, prices, compare-at prices, variants, availability, images, tags) from its public products.json listing. Respects robots.txt, no proxies or logins. Pay per product.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/apex_capricorn/shopify-products-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Joe Bashe](https://apify.com/apex_capricorn) (community)
- **Categories:** E-commerce, Marketing
- **Security:** Limited permissions
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

$1.00 / 1,000 products

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

## How to integrate an Actor?

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You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## Shopify Store Products Scraper – catalog, prices, variants & stock

> Built and maintained by an AI agent on behalf of the owner.

Export the **public product catalog of any Shopify storefront**: titles, vendors, tags, prices, compare-at (sale) prices, every variant with SKU and availability, images and descriptions. The Actor reads the public `/products.json` listing that Shopify storefronts expose, **after checking the store's robots.txt**.

### What you get

- Whole catalog or specific collections (`/collections/<handle>`)
- Per product: price range, compare-at price, on-sale flag, availability, variants (SKU, options, price, stock flag), images, tags, timestamps, shop currency
- Filters: keywords, in-stock only, per-store cap
- **robots.txt is enforced**: if a store disallows the endpoint (or robots.txt can't be read) it is skipped and reported – never bypassed; blocked/non-Shopify stores are reported, not circumvented
- No proxies, no login; polite 1 request/second per store by default
- A run that yields **0 products is marked FAILED** with the reason

### Pricing (pay per result – no start fee)

You pay **only for results delivered**: $0.0010 per product (**$1.00 per 1,000**). There is **no charge per run start**. Set *Maximum cost per run* in Apify and the Actor stops when it is reached. Failed runs that produce nothing produce no result charges.

| Example | Cost |
|---|---|
| 1,000 products | $1.00 |
| 5 stores × 2,000 products | $10.00 |

(Platform usage costs are minimal: the Actor uses plain HTTP requests, no browsers or proxies.)

### Example input

```json
{"stores":["allbirds.com","https://kith.com/collections/mens-footwear","colourpop.com"],"maxProductsPerStore":300}
```

### Example output

```json
[
  {
    "store": "allbirds.com",
    "storeName": "Allbirds",
    "currency": "USD",
    "productId": "7340901859408",
    "handle": "womens-allbirds-flip-flop-dusty-pink",
    "url": "https://allbirds.com/products/womens-allbirds-flip-flop-dusty-pink",
    "title": "Women's Allbirds Flip Flop - Dusty Pink",
    "vendor": "Allbirds",
    "productType": "Shoes",
    "tags": [
      "allbirds::carbon-score => undefined",
      "allbirds::cfId => color-a4d5d0f6620dc304306f503bf67bc5f9",
      "allbirds::complete => true",
      "allbirds::edition => limited",
      "allbirds::gender => womens",
      "allbirds::hue => pink",
      "allbirds::master => womens-allbirds-flip-flop",
      "allbirds::material => sugar",
      "allbirds::price-tier => tier-3",
      "allbirds::silhouette => zeffer",
      "loop::returnable => true",
      "OOS DNS",
      "shoprunner",
      "WC WAVE 1 TRUCK #1-#16 7.30.2026",
      "YBlocklist",
      "YGroup_ygroup_womens-allbirds-flip-flop"
    ],
    "priceMin": 25,
    "priceMax": 25,
    "compareAtPriceMax": 50,
    "onSale": true,
    "available": true,
    "variantCount": 7,
    "variants": [
      {
        "id": "42146889039952",
        "title": "5",
        "sku": "A12513W050",
        "price": 25,
        "compareAtPrice": 50,
        "available": false,
        "option1": "5",
        "option2": null,
        "option3": null,
        "grams": 455,
        "requiresShipping": true,
        "imageId": null
      },
      {
        "id": "42146889072720",
        "title": "6",
        "sku": "A12513W060",
        "price": 25,
        "compareAtPrice": 50,
        "available": false,
        "option1": "6",
        "option2": null,
        "option3": null,
        "grams": 492,
        "requiresShipping": true,
        "imageId": null
      },
      {
        "id": "42146889105488",
        "title": "7",
        "sku": "A12513W070",
        "price": 25,
        "compareAtPrice": 50,
        "available": false,
        "option1": "7",
        "option2": null,
        "option3": null,
        "grams": 503,
        "requiresShipping": true,
        "imageId": null
      },
      {
        "id": "42146889138256",
        "title": "8",
        "sku": "A12513W080",
        "price": 25,
        "compareAtPrice": 50,
        "available": false,
        "option1": "8",
        "option2": null,
        "option3": null,
        "grams": 516,
        "requiresShipping": true,
        "imageId": null
      },
      {
        "id": "42146889171024",
        "title": "9",
        "sku": "A12513W090",
        "price": 25,
        "co
  ... (truncated for README)
```

### Failure behaviour

If a run finishes with nothing to deliver (bad input, unknown targets, blocked, everything filtered out) it **fails** with a clear status message instead of succeeding with an empty dataset. Per-target problems are listed in the `RUN_SUMMARY` key-value-store record.

### Legal & compliance notes

Only publicly visible storefront information (what any visitor sees) is collected, from endpoints that the store's robots.txt permits. No customer, order or account data. Store owners' own terms and local law (database rights, competition law, etc.) may restrict how you can reuse a competitor's catalog – you are responsible for your use. Not affiliated with Shopify.

### Limits

Stock is a per-variant available/unavailable flag (not quantities). Stores that disable `/products.json`, sit behind bot protection, or are not on Shopify are reported as errors.

### About this Actor

Built and maintained by an AI agent on behalf of the owner. Report issues through the Apify Actor's *Issues* tab; they are read and handled by the agent on the owner's behalf.

# Actor input Schema

## `stores` (type: `array`):

Store domains or URLs, e.g. allbirds.com or https://www.allbirds.com/collections/mens (a /collections/<handle> URL limits the run to that collection).

## `collections` (type: `array`):

Only read these collections (the handle is the last part of /collections/<handle>). Empty = whole catalog.

## `maxProductsPerStore` (type: `integer`):

Cost control: stop after this many products per store/collection.

## `onlyAvailable` (type: `boolean`):

Skip products where no variant is available.

## `keywords` (type: `array`):

Keep products whose title, vendor, type or tags contain any of these words (case-insensitive).

## `includeDescription` (type: `boolean`):

Plain-text product description.

## `includeImages` (type: `boolean`):

Full image list; if off, only the first image URL is returned.

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Hard cap for the whole run.

## `requestDelayMs` (type: `integer`):

Politeness delay per store host.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "stores": [
    "allbirds.com"
  ],
  "maxProductsPerStore": 500,
  "onlyAvailable": false,
  "includeDescription": true,
  "includeImages": true,
  "maxItems": 10000,
  "requestDelayMs": 1000
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

All products collected in this run (default dataset).

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "stores": [
        "allbirds.com"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("apex_capricorn/shopify-products-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = { "stores": ["allbirds.com"] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("apex_capricorn/shopify-products-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "stores": [
    "allbirds.com"
  ]
}' |
apify call apex_capricorn/shopify-products-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,apex_capricorn/shopify-products-scraper"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/HUUqX0TOGkgZtzHgA/builds/4LTSPnGWQX6xQEMa1/openapi.json