Fnac Product Scraper

Extract Fnac.com (French electronics, books & entertainment retailer) product data at scale — price, stock, GTIN/SKU, and full per-seller marketplace offers — by keyword search or direct product URL. Returns clean, structured JSON ready for spreadsheets, dashboards, or your pricing system.

Unlike other Fnac scrapers, this actor is self-contained: no external paid unblocking subscription (e.g. scrape.do) is required to get real results — the actor solves Fnac's anti-bot challenge itself.

Who it's for

• Price/repricing & competitive intelligence teams — track Fnac's own price and every marketplace seller's competing offer (price, condition, seller) on the same product, from a simple keyword search.
• Marketplace sellers on Fnac — monitor buy-box position and rival offers on your own listings.
• E-commerce / brand & merchandising teams — catalog, ratings, assortment, and category structure.
• Researchers — French retail market structure and pricing studies.

What you get (output fields)

Field	Type	Description
prid	string	Fnac product id
title / brand	string	Product title and brand
price / base_price	number	Current and base tax-included price
gtin / sku / mpn	string	Barcode and part identifiers
condition / availability	string	Offer condition and stock availability
seller / seller_type	string	Current offer's seller and type (fnac/professional)
rating / reviews_count	number	Average rating and review count
num_offers / offers	int/arr	Marketplace offer count and full per-seller breakdown
characteristics	object	Parametric specifications
images	array	Product image URLs
url	string	Product page URL

High-value use cases

• Competitive price monitoring — schedule daily runs on key products or keywords and diff prices, availability, and marketplace offers over time.
• Buy-box / seller competition tracking — see every seller's price and condition for a product in one row, no need to already know product IDs.
• Catalog & assortment tracking — pull a keyword's full result set to see what's listed, rated, and in stock.
• Product enrichment — turn a list of product URLs into full structured records with specs and images for your PIM/CRM.

Input parameters

Field	Type	Default	Description
searchQueries	array	[]	Keywords to search
productUrls	array	[]	Direct Fnac product URLs to fetch
maxPagesPerQuery	int	3	Search pages per query (20 results/page)
maxItems	int	200	Global cap across all queries and URLs
fetchOffers	boolean	true	Include the full per-seller offers array
proxyConfiguration	object	Residential	Apify Residential proxy (used by default — Fnac's anti-bot flags datacenter IPs)

Example input

{
    "searchQueries": ["iphone"],
    "maxPagesPerQuery": 2,
    "fetchOffers": true
}

Example output

{
    "prid": "21960880",
    "title": "Apple iPhone Air 6,5\" 5G e-SIM 256 Go Or clair",
    "brand": "Apple",
    "price": 1229.0,
    "currency": "EUR",
    "gtin": "0195950622911",
    "sku": "9321643",
    "condition": "new",
    "seller": "FNAC.COM",
    "availability": "En Stock",
    "num_offers": 15,
    "offers": [
        { "seller": "FNAC.COM", "seller_type": "fnac", "condition": "new", "price": 1229.0 },
        { "seller": "BlueSky EU", "seller_type": "professional", "condition": "like-new", "price": 749.0 }
    ],
    "url": "https://www.fnac.com/a21960880/..."
}

Scheduling & integrations

Run on a schedule (hourly/daily) and push results to Google Sheets, Make, Zapier, S3, or your webhook using Apify's built-in integrations — ideal for continuous price and marketplace-offer monitoring.

Use with AI assistants (MCP)

Prefer to query Fnac live from Claude, Cursor, or your own agent? Use the companion Fnac MCP Server actor, which exposes product search, detail (with offers), autocomplete, and recommendations as Model Context Protocol tools.

FAQ

Do I need my own proxy or API key? No — the actor solves Fnac's DataDome/Akamai challenge itself with a built-in stealth browser, using Apify Residential proxies by default.

Is the data fresh? Every run pulls live pricing, stock, and marketplace offers directly from Fnac at run time.

Is the keyword search 100% reliable? Fnac's search page sits behind its strictest anti-bot tier and can occasionally return zero results on a given attempt even with automatic retries — the actor retries with a fresh browser session when this happens. Product detail lookups by URL or product ID (and BOM-style batches of them) use a separate, consistently reliable channel and are not affected.

Why is this more reliable than other Fnac scrapers? It doesn't depend on a third-party paid unblocking subscription to function beyond a crippled free tier, and it exposes the full per-seller marketplace offers array from a simple keyword search — most rivals require already knowing the product ID.

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

Support? Issues and requests are typically answered within a couple of business days.