Fnac MCP Server

Give your AI assistant live access to Fnac.com (French electronics, books & entertainment retailer). This actor runs as a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server so Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, n8n and other agents can search products, pull full detail with marketplace offers, get autocomplete suggestions, and fetch recommendations — in real time. It also runs as a classic scraper when you just want a dataset.

Powered by a self-contained hybrid client: no external paid unblocking subscription required.

Who it's for

• AI-assistant / agent builders — add live Fnac product and price lookup to a shopping or price-comparison agent.
• Analysts using Claude/Cursor — ad-hoc price/availability/marketplace checks in chat without building a scraper.
• Automation (n8n/Make) builders — MCP tool nodes for price-monitoring or repricing workflows.

MCP tools

Tool	What it does
search_fnac_products	Keyword search → normalized rows, optionally enriched with full detail
get_fnac_product	Full detail for one product, including per-seller marketplace offers
fnac_autocomplete	Search-box autocomplete suggestions
get_fnac_recommendations	"Customers also bought" / related products for a given product

Output fields (per product)

prid, title, brand, price, base_price, currency, gtin, sku, mpn, condition, seller, seller_type, availability, category, rating, reviews_count, num_offers, offers (full per-seller breakdown), characteristics, images, url.

Connect it

1. Start the actor in Standby mode on Apify.
2. Point your MCP client at https://<your-actor-standby-url>/mcp (Streamable HTTP).
3. The tools above appear automatically in your AI assistant.

Example (Claude Desktop / Cursor MCP config):

{
    "mcpServers": {
        "fnac": {
            "url": "https://<your-actor-standby-url>/mcp"
        }
    }
}

Classic scraper mode

Prefer a plain dataset? Run the actor normally with an input like:

{
    "searchQueries": ["iphone"],
    "maxPagesPerQuery": 1,
    "fetchOffers": true
}

It pushes normalized product rows to the dataset — identical fields to the tools.

High-value use cases

• Conversational price checks — "what's the cheapest marketplace offer for this PlayStation 5?" answered live by your assistant.
• Competitive intelligence agents — an agent pulls every seller's offer for a product before recommending where to buy.
• Procurement/monitoring automation — an n8n/Make workflow polls prices and marketplace offers for tracked products.

FAQ

Do I need proxies or an API key? No — the actor solves Fnac's anti-bot challenge itself with a built-in stealth browser.

How fresh is the data? Live on every tool call.

Is search_fnac_products 100% reliable? Fnac's search page sits behind its strictest anti-bot tier and can occasionally return zero results on a given call even with automatic retries. get_fnac_product (by product ID or URL) uses a separate, consistently reliable channel and is not affected.

Can it return a dataset too? Yes — run it in normal mode for a classic scrape, using the same fields as the tools.

Is scraping legal? The actor collects only publicly available product data. You are responsible for complying with Fnac's terms and applicable laws.