# Shopify Store Products Catalog Scraper (products.json) (`arthursbuisness/shopify-store-products-catalog-scraper`) Actor

- **URL**: https://apify.com/arthursbuisness/shopify-store-products-catalog-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Arthur](https://apify.com/arthursbuisness) (community)
- **Categories:** E-commerce, Developer tools
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
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## Pricing

$0.50 / 1,000 product rows

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?

Actors are web data automations that power AI and operations. They run on the Apify platform to scrape websites, process data, connect APIs, and automate workflows.
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.
Actors are written with capital "A".

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- **Any other language** — the [REST API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2.md).

For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## Shopify Store Products Catalog Scraper (products.json)

Export the **complete product catalog of any Shopify store** — titles, handles, vendors, product types, tags, plain-text descriptions, images and **every variant** with price, compare-at price, SKU and availability. Uses the store's public `products.json` endpoint: no login, no browser, no proxies, fast and cheap. Works for competitor price monitoring, catalog migrations, feed building, dropshipping research and market analysis. Bonus: WooCommerce sites that expose the public Store API are exported too.

### What you get

One dataset row per product (or per variant with `variantsAsRows`):

| field | description |
|---|---|
| `store`, `platform` | store base URL; `shopify` or `woocommerce` |
| `id`, `title`, `handle`, `url` | product identity and canonical product URL |
| `vendor`, `product_type`, `tags` | merchandising metadata |
| `created_at`, `updated_at`, `published_at` | timestamps from the store |
| `price_min`, `price_max`, `compare_at_price_max`, `currency` | price range across variants (currency only when the store exposes it) |
| `available` | true if any variant is purchasable |
| `variants_count`, `images_count`, `image`, `images` | media |
| `options` | option names and values (Size, Color …) |
| `description` | body HTML converted to plain text (truncated to `descriptionMaxChars`) |
| `variants[]` | id, title, sku, price, compare\_at\_price, available, option1–3, grams, requires\_shipping, taxable, image |
| `collection` | present when you filter by collections |
| `error` | set on rows for stores that are not Shopify/WooCommerce or returned nothing — **never billed** |

With `variantsAsRows: true` each row additionally has `variant_id`, `variant_title`, `sku`, `price`, `compare_at_price`, `variant_available`.

### Input

| field | default | meaning |
|---|---|---|
| `stores` | — | domains or URLs of the stores |
| `collections` | `[]` | restrict to collection handles (Shopify) |
| `maxProductsPerStore` | 1000 | cost cap per store |
| `variantsAsRows` | false | one row per variant |
| `descriptionMaxChars` | 2000 | truncate descriptions |
| `tryWooCommerce` | true | fall back to the WooCommerce Store API |

### Pricing

Pay per event: **$0.0005 per stored product row** (or variant row). Error rows (not a Shopify store, empty catalog) are stored for transparency but **not charged**.

### Limitations (honest)

- Stores that disable the public `products.json` (rare; usually via a bot-protection layer such as Cloudflare in front of the store, e.g. some very large brands) return an error row.
- `products.json` exposes what the storefront exposes: no cost prices, no exact inventory counts (only `available`), no customer data.
- Currency is only present if the store includes it; otherwise prices are in the store's default currency.
- WooCommerce support requires the site to expose `/wp-json/wc/store/v1/products` publicly.

# Actor input Schema

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

Shopify store domains or URLs (e.g. allbirds.com, https://shop.example.com). WooCommerce sites with the public Store API are also supported.

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

Only export products from these collection handles (e.g. mens, sale, new-arrivals). Empty = the whole catalog. Shopify only.

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

Stop after this many products per store (cost control).

## `variantsAsRows` (type: `boolean`):

Output one dataset row per variant (size/colour) instead of one row per product with a nested variants array. Each row is one billable event.

## `descriptionMaxChars` (type: `integer`):

Truncate the plain-text description to this many characters.

## `tryWooCommerce` (type: `boolean`):

If a store is not Shopify, try the public WooCommerce Store API (/wp-json/wc/store/v1/products).

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "stores": [
    "allbirds.com"
  ],
  "collections": [],
  "maxProductsPerStore": 200,
  "variantsAsRows": false,
  "descriptionMaxChars": 2000,
  "tryWooCommerce": true
}
```

# Actor output Schema

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

All items as JSON

## `resultsCsv` (type: `string`):

Same dataset as CSV — open in Excel/Sheets

# 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"
    ],
    "maxProductsPerStore": 200
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("arthursbuisness/shopify-store-products-catalog-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"],
    "maxProductsPerStore": 200,
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("arthursbuisness/shopify-store-products-catalog-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"
  ],
  "maxProductsPerStore": 200
}' |
apify call arthursbuisness/shopify-store-products-catalog-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,arthursbuisness/shopify-store-products-catalog-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/8UtaIS8etIf1YqfXj/builds/KVtgmnnHC7NaIzDeN/openapi.json