Falabella Colombia Scraper

What does the Falabella Colombia Scraper do?

Falabella Colombia Scraper extracts public product listings from falabella.com.co, the largest e-commerce marketplace in Colombia. Give it a search keyword (for example celular) or any public category/search URL, and it walks the public listing pages and saves structured product data into a dataset — ideal as a Falabella price-monitoring, market-research and e-commerce analytics tool.

• 🧾 Structured rows — every product is saved with title, price, currency, URL, image, rating, reviews, seller and product ID.
• 🔗 Public pages only — search results and category pages, exactly what an anonymous visitor sees. No logins, no private data.
• 📄 Built-in pagination — it keeps requesting the next page of a listing until your maxItems limit is reached.
• 💸 Pay per event — you are charged only for products actually delivered to you.

Why use it?

• 💡 Competitor intelligence: track prices, sellers and assortment in Colombian retail.
• 📊 Market monitoring: export to CSV/JSON and feed BI, repricing or alerting tools.
• ⏱️ Scheduled runs: run it hourly/daily and diff the price history over time.
• 🔒 Ethical scraping: the Actor runs its own real Chromium browser against public pages, obeys the site's robots.txt (which welcomes robots and lists public sitemaps), uses low concurrency and delays, backs off on HTTP 429/5xx errors, and never solves CAPTCHAs or bypasses anti-bot systems.

What data can the Falabella Colombia Scraper extract?

Field	Type	Description
title	string	Product title as shown on the public listing page
price	number	Current selling price (best available price, e.g. the CMR/event price when shown)
currency	string	Currency of the site (e.g. COP)
url	string	Public product page URL
imageUrl	string	Public product image URL
rating	number	Average customer rating shown on the listing (null when not yet rated)
reviewCount	number	Number of customer reviews shown on the listing
seller	string	Marketplace seller shown for the listing row
productId	string	Falabella product identifier

How to scrape Falabella Colombia

1. Add the Actor to your Apify account (or run it locally with apify run).
2. In the Input tab choose either:
   • Search keyword — e.g. celular, or
   • Start URLs — any public falabella.com.co search or category page, e.g. https://www.falabella.com.co/falabella-co/category/cat1660941/Celulares-y-Telefonos
3. Set Max items (the crawl stops politely once it is reached).
4. Run the Actor. Results appear in the dataset, which you can download as JSON, CSV, Excel or HTML.
5. Large runs: the Actor paginates automatically (?page=2, ?page=3, ...), staying polite (default 2 concurrent pages, a pause after each page, retries with back-off on 429/5xx).

How much will it cost to scrape Falabella Colombia?

This Actor uses Apify's pay-per-event model:

• results event: you are charged once per product saved to the dataset, so 100 results = 100 charged events.
• Apify also offers a free tier with usage credits — small keywords/categories usually fit in it.
• For larger crawls, the total cost is simply maxItems × event price (each event is one result row), plus the platform compute-time cost of the run itself. The results event price is shown on the Actor page; pricing is configured in Apify Console and can be adjusted there.

To limit compute-time cost, keep maxItems as small as your use case needs. Every run stops automatically the moment your limit is reached.

Input

See the input tab for the full list of options:

• search (string, default celular) — keyword for the public search results page.
• startUrls (array) — public category/search URLs; takes priority over search.
• maxItems (integer, default 100) — hard stop for the run.
• maxConcurrency (default 2), requestDelaySecs (default 2) — politeness knobs.
• headless (default true), navigationTimeoutSecs, challengeWaitSecs — browser behaviour (see disclaimer below).
• maxRetries (default 4) — retries with increasing back-off for HTTP 429/5xx.
• proxyConfiguration — optional Apify Proxy settings (billed separately on the platform).

Output

Each dataset item is one public product listing:

{
  "title": "MOTO E13 64GB NEGRO",
  "price": 245900,
  "currency": "COP",
  "url": "https://www.falabella.com.co/falabella-co/product/12345678/example-product",
  "imageUrl": "https://media.falabella.com.co/falabellaCO/12345679_01/public",
  "rating": 4.7,
  "reviewCount": 231,
  "seller": "Falabella",
  "productId": "12345678"
}

Fields are null when the public page does not show them. You can download the dataset in JSON, CSV, Excel or HTML.

Important limitations and ethics

• The Actor only visits public, non-authenticated pages. It does not log in, does not read private/price-zone-specific data, and never harvests personal data of sellers or reviewers.
• falabella.com.co is serviced by a bot-protection (Cloudflare) browser check. THIS ACTOR DOES NOT BYPASS IT. It launches a real Chromium browser and, when the site shows its check, waits passively for the check to clear the same way a regular visitor's browser would. It never clicks, crawls around, or solves CAPTCHAs, and does not use stealth/fingerprint-spoofing tricks. If the site hard-blocks automated access or shows an interactive CAPTCHA, the run stops WITHOUT fabricating results and reports it in the logs.
• Because the site's own anti-bot systems decide who gets served, successful scrape availability can vary by region/IP, and platform bonuses such as Apify Proxy may improve it (paid feature — your choice).
• Respect robots.txt and terms of service; scrape only what you need. Falabella's robots.txt currently welcomes robots (User-agent: * / Disallow:) and publishes public sitemaps at https://www.falabella.com.co/static/site/sitemaps/....

Legal disclaimer

Our Actors are ethical and do not extract any private user data, such as email addresses, gender, or location. They only extract what the user has chosen to share publicly. We therefore believe that our Actors, when used for ethical purposes by Apify users, are safe. However, you should be aware that your results could contain personal data. Personal data is protected by the GDPR in the European Union and by other regulations around the world. You should not scrape personal data unless you have a legitimate reason to do so. If you're unsure whether your reason is legitimate, consult your lawyers.

FAQ

Why do some rows have no price/rating? — Not every public listing row shows a price (bundle types, out-of-stock items) or a star rating. The Actor keeps the field but leaves it null.

Why does the same product list twice? — Row-level listings repeat across pages as the store re-ranks its listings. The Actor de-duplicates by product ID within a single run.

Can I scrape Falabella Chile (falabella.com) or Peru (falabella.com.pe)? — Pass their public category or search URLs in startUrls. The search keyword input currently starts on the Colombia site.

Feedback and support

Open an issue in the Issues tab of the Actor page, or contact the publisher. Programmatic access is available through the API tab.