# Shopify Store Leads Scraper (`clura/shopify-store-leads-scraper`) Actor

Discovers Shopify-powered stores by product niche and enriches each with owner email and social links. Uses search-engine discovery plus Shopify fingerprint detection — not a scraped third-party directory or a commercial-use-restricted shopping API.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/clura/shopify-store-leads-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Clura](https://apify.com/clura) (community)
- **Categories:** AI, Automation, Lead generation
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $15.00 / 1,000 results

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/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#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".

## 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.
The best way to integrate Actors is as follows.

- **AI agents and MCP clients** — the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/integrations/mcp.md) at `https://mcp.apify.com` (remote, streamable HTTP, OAuth on first use).
- **Agentic workflows and local Actor development** — [Agent Skills](https://apify.com/.well-known/agent-skills/index.json) with the [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md): `npm install -g apify-cli`, then `apify login`.
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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 Leads Scraper

Discovers Shopify-powered stores by product niche and enriches each with the store's owner email and social links.

### How it works

1. **Search** — for each product-niche query you provide (e.g. "handmade candles", "yoga mats"), the actor searches for stores selling that kind of product.
2. **Confirm Shopify** — each result is checked for Shopify's own technical fingerprints (CDN assets, storefront JS, generator tags) before being kept, so results genuinely are Shopify stores, not a guess based on the search query alone.
3. **Deduplicate** — the same store surfaced by more than one query is only recorded once, keyed on domain.
4. **Enrich** — the actor visits each confirmed store's homepage (and, if no email is found there, up to two Contact/About-style pages) and extracts the store name, an email address, and Facebook/Instagram/LinkedIn/Twitter links.

### Input

| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| `queries` | array (required) | Product-niche search terms, e.g. `["handmade candles", "yoga mats"]`. |
| `maxResultsPerQuery` | integer | How many search results to check per query. Default 30. |
| `proxyConfiguration` | object | Apify Proxy settings. |

### Output

Each record: `name`, `website`, `email`, `query`, `socialLinks` (object).

### What this actor does NOT do (please read before running)

- **Not every search result is a Shopify store.** Non-Shopify results (Etsy listings, blog posts, directories) are checked and discarded — expect fewer leads than search results.
- **No email verification.** Extracted emails are exactly what's published on the store's website — there's no DNS/SMTP deliverability check.
- **Discovery is search-based, not a complete directory.** There's no official "browse every Shopify store" source — this actor finds stores the same way a shopper would, by searching what they sell. Deliberately avoids both Shopify's own consumer shopping API (personal-use only, prohibits bulk/commercial automation) and third-party hosting-lookup directories that prohibit automated scraping in their terms — so coverage is real but not exhaustive.

### Who this is for

- **E-commerce SaaS vendors** (payment processors, marketing/email tools, fulfillment, accounting apps) sourcing Shopify merchants to sell into.
- **Shopify App Store developers** prospecting merchants in a specific product category.
- **Marketing agencies** building prospect lists for e-commerce clients.
- **Market research** — merchant density and positioning by product niche.

# Actor input Schema

## `queries` (type: `array`):

Product keywords describing what the stores sell, e.g. \["handmade candles", "yoga mats"]. Each query runs as one search; results are checked for a Shopify fingerprint before being enriched.

## `maxResultsPerQuery` (type: `integer`):

How many search results to check per query before moving to the next one. Not every result will be a Shopify store.

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Apify Proxy settings to route the browser's traffic through.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "queries": [
    "handmade candles"
  ],
  "maxResultsPerQuery": 5,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": false
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `stores` (type: `string`):

Every confirmed Shopify store found, one row per store — the actor's main result.

## `runSummary` (type: `string`):

Status and total stores found for the whole run.

# 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 = {};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("clura/shopify-store-leads-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 = {}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("clura/shopify-store-leads-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 '{}' |
apify call clura/shopify-store-leads-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,clura/shopify-store-leads-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/6sn3dJcZEZuMTzPoa/builds/LzSDypuk8VoyKODqr/openapi.json