Mamas & Papas Scraper

Scrape Mamas & Papas — a leading UK baby & nursery retailer covering pushchairs, car seats, cots, nursery furniture, feeding, bathing, safety, baby clothing, toys and gifting. Search products, browse any of the site's 1,500+ categories, look up exact products by handle or URL, or list the full collection taxonomy. HTTP-only via the store's public JSON endpoints. No auth, no proxy, no cookies.

What this actor does

• Four modes: search, byCollection, byProductHandles, listCollections
• Search merges the store's own relevance-ranked predictive search with a full product-sitemap scan (plus a curated-collection scan as a second-pass supplement), so short queries aren't capped at a handful of results and coverage spans the entire live catalogue, not just a curated subset
• Category browse across 40+ curated common categories (pushchairs, car seats, cots, nursery furniture, feeding, bathing, safety, clothing, toys, bedding, gifting) plus any of the site's other 1,500+ collections via an exact handle override
• Filters: min/max price, in-stock only, brand, keyword (title/description contains), colour, gender, category, sub-category, age range, sort order
• Rich product data: price, was-price/discount, stock, brand, category, sub-category, colour, age range, gender, all images, all variants (SKU, price, option values), option names
• Empty fields are omitted — no null/""/[] ever shipped

Output per product

• productId, title, handle, vendor (brand), productType
• description — plain text (HTML stripped)
• category, subCategory, colour, ageRange, gender — parsed from the store's internal tag taxonomy where present
• brandTag — brand parsed from the store's internal tag taxonomy (may differ slightly from vendor for multi-brand or licensed products)
• tags[], isNewArrival
• priceMin, priceMax, currency (GBP)
• wasPrice, discountPercent — when the product is on sale
• inStock, variantCount, variants[] (variantId, title, sku, price, compareAtPrice, available, option1/2/3)
• optionNames[] — e.g. Colour, Size
• images[], mainImage
• lowStockMessage, preorderMessage — when present
• sourceUrl, createdAt, updatedAt, publishedAt
• recordType: "product", scrapedAt

Output per collection (mode=listCollections)

• collectionId, title, handle, description, productsCount, imageUrl
• sourceUrl, publishedAt, updatedAt
• recordType: "collection", scrapedAt

Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
mode	string	search	search / byCollection / byProductHandles / listCollections
searchQuery	string	pushchair	Free-text query (mode=search)
collectionHandle	string	pushchairs	Curated category dropdown (mode=byCollection)
customCollectionHandle	string	–	Exact handle for any of the site's other collections; overrides the dropdown
productHandles	array	–	Product handles or full product URLs (mode=byProductHandles)
minPrice / maxPrice	number	–	Price range in GBP
inStockOnly	bool	false	Only in-stock products
brand	string	–	Case-insensitive brand/vendor substring match
keyword	string	–	Case-insensitive substring match against title/brand/description
category	string	–	Exact match against the parsed top-level category (dropdown)
subCategory	string	–	Exact match against the parsed fine-grained sub-category (dropdown)
colour	string	–	Exact match against the parsed colour (dropdown)
gender	string	–	Exact match against the parsed gender — Boys / Girls / Unisex (dropdown)
ageRange	string	–	Exact match against the parsed age/size range, e.g. 0-6 Months, 3+ Years (dropdown)
sortBy	string	relevance	relevance / priceAsc / priceDesc / titleAsc / titleDesc / newest
minProductsCount	int	–	Drop small collections (mode=listCollections)
maxItems	int	50	Hard cap (1–1000)

Example: search with price + stock filters

{
  "mode": "search",
  "searchQuery": "car seat",
  "minPrice": 50,
  "maxPrice": 300,
  "inStockOnly": true,
  "sortBy": "priceAsc",
  "maxItems": 40
}

Example: browse a category

{
  "mode": "byCollection",
  "collectionHandle": "nursery-furniture",
  "sortBy": "newest",
  "maxItems": 100
}

Example: browse a category with taxonomy filters

{
  "mode": "byCollection",
  "collectionHandle": "baby-clothing",
  "gender": "Girls",
  "colour": "Pink",
  "maxItems": 40
}

Example: browse a category not in the curated dropdown

{
  "mode": "byCollection",
  "customCollectionHandle": "baby-monitors",
  "maxItems": 50
}

Example: lookup exact products

{
  "mode": "byProductHandles",
  "productHandles": [
    "graco-daisi-2in1-soother-72352q100",
    "https://www.mamasandpapas.com/products/universal-parasol-black-s92025300"
  ]
}

Example: list the collection taxonomy

{
  "mode": "listCollections",
  "minProductsCount": 50,
  "maxItems": 200
}

Use cases

• Price monitoring — track pushchair, car seat and nursery furniture prices over time
• Competitor / market research — benchmark a UK baby retailer's catalogue, pricing and promotions
• Product feed building — import baby & nursery products into a comparison site or marketplace
• Stock availability tracking — flag when a popular item goes out of stock
• Category / taxonomy analysis — enumerate every collection and its product count

FAQ

Do I need a proxy or login? No. The actor reads the store's own public Shopify JSON endpoints (products.json, collections.json, search/suggest.json) — the same data your browser fetches, no authentication required.

Why is search capped around the requested maxItems but sometimes returns fewer? The store's own predictive-search API returns at most 10 highly relevant matches; the actor extends coverage by scanning the site's full XML product sitemap (which reflects every live product URL, unlike the store's own all-products collection listing — a curated subset covering only a fraction of the ~2,900+ live products) and keyword-matching the product handle/title/caption, with a second-pass scan of the curated all-products collection (matching on title/brand/type) as a supplement. Very narrow queries may still return fewer than maxItems if that's all that exists.

What currency are prices in? GBP (£) — Mamas & Papas is a UK retailer.

What's discountPercent? Computed from wasPrice (the pre-discount price) vs the current priceMin, only present when the product is genuinely discounted.

Why do some products have multiple variants? Products with size/colour options (e.g. clothing, car seats) expose one variant per combination, each with its own SKU, price and availability.

How do I browse a category that isn't in the dropdown? Set customCollectionHandle to the exact handle from a mamasandpapas.com/collections/<handle> URL — it overrides the dropdown.

Why does sortBy sometimes only sort within a candidate pool rather than the whole category? The store's own product-listing endpoint doesn't honor a sort parameter, so the actor fetches a bounded pool of matching products (5x maxItems, up to 500+) in the store's own order and sorts that pool itself. For very large categories with a small maxItems, increase maxItems if you need a true full-category top/bottom ranking.

How fresh is the data? Real-time — every request hits the live storefront.