# Petrovich Building Materials Scraper (`crawlerbros/petrovich-scraper`) Actor Scrape Petrovich (petrovich.ru) - a major Russian building-materials and DIY retailer. Search products, browse by category, and fetch full product detail pages including price, specs/characteristics tables, brand, images, and availability. - **URL**: https://apify.com/crawlerbros/petrovich-scraper.md - **Developed by:** [Crawler Bros](https://apify.com/crawlerbros) (community) - **Categories:** E-commerce, Automation, Integrations - **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks - **User rating**: No ratings yet ## Pricing from $3.00 / 1,000 results This Actor is paid per event and usage. You are charged both the fixed price for specific events and for Apify platform usage. Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have. Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event ## What's an Apify Actor? Actors are a software tools running on the Apify platform, for all kinds of web data extraction and automation use cases. 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? If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects. 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. In JavaScript/TypeScript projects, use official [JavaScript/TypeScript client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md): ```bash npm install apify-client ``` In Python projects, use official [Python client library](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md): ```bash pip install apify-client ``` In shell scripts, use [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md): ````bash # MacOS / Linux curl -fsSL https://apify.com/install-cli.sh | bash # Windows irm https://apify.com/install-cli.ps1 | iex ```bash In AI frameworks, you might use the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/integrations/mcp.md). If your project is in a different language, use the [REST API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2.md). For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below. For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt). # README ## Petrovich Building Materials Scraper Scrape **Petrovich** (petrovich.ru) — a major Russian building-materials and DIY retailer. Search products, browse any catalog category, or fetch full product detail pages with price, brand, specs/characteristics tables, images, and availability. Uses a residential proxy to reliably load pages. ### What this actor does - **Search** — run a free-text search (e.g. `кабель`, `цемент`, `дрель`) and collect matching products. - **Browse a category** — give one or more `petrovich.ru/catalog//...` URLs and collect every product listed in that category, with sort order control. - **Fetch product pages** — give one or more `petrovich.ru/product//` URLs (or bare numeric IDs) and get the full detail record for each, including specs, gallery, and category-tree links. - **Merged extraction** — combines each page's structured `Product`/`BreadcrumbList` data with DOM fallbacks, so records stay populated even on pages missing structured data. - **Empty fields are omitted** — a field only appears on a record when Petrovich actually exposes that data for the product. ### Output per product Each item in the output dataset is a single product. - `productUrl` — canonical product page URL; always present. - `sku` — product SKU / item code; always present. - `title`, `description`, `brand` — product name, description, and brand, when exposed. - `price`, `currency` — current price and currency (always `RUB`), when available. - `oldPrice` — the crossed-out "was" price, present only when the product is discounted and the old price is genuinely higher than the current price. - `discountPercent` — derived from `price`/`oldPrice` when both are present. - `clubPrice` — the "Клуб Петрович" loyalty-member price, present only when the page shows one and it's at or below the listed price. - `availability` — stock status label (e.g. `In stock`, `Out of stock`), when exposed. - `unit` — unit of measure / package label (e.g. `шт`, `уп`, `м2`), product-detail mode only. - `city` — the region/city the session's price and stock are resolved for, product-detail mode only. - `promotions[]` — marketing badges shown on the product page (e.g. "Акция", "Хит продаж"), product-detail mode only. - `images[]` — the product image gallery; on product pages this is a de-duplicated merge of the structured data and the on-page thumbnail strip, while search/category listing records carry whatever image the listing card exposes. - `breadcrumbs[]` — the full breadcrumb trail text (including the current product/page), when exposed, product-detail mode only. - `category`, `categoryPath[]` — the immediate category name and full ancestor category path, derived from the breadcrumb trail, product-detail mode only. - `categoryPathUrls[]` — the catalog URL for each ancestor category in `categoryPath`, letting you re-crawl the category tree from a product page, product-detail mode only. - `offerUrl` — the canonical offer URL reported by the page's own structured data, when present, product-detail mode only. - `specifications[]` — array of `{name, value}` pairs from the product's characteristics table, product-detail mode only. - `ratingValue`, `reviewCount` — average rating and number of reviews, when the product has reviews. - `recordType` — always `"product"`. - `scrapedAt` — UTC timestamp the record was written. `oldPrice`, `discountPercent`, `clubPrice`, `unit`, `city`, `promotions`, `breadcrumbs`, `category`, `categoryPath`, `categoryPathUrls`, `offerUrl`, and `specifications` are only populated in `mode=productDetails`; `search`/`byCategory` listing records carry a lighter subset (`productUrl`, `sku`, `title`, `price`, `currency`, `brand`, `images`, `availability`, `ratingValue`, `reviewCount` when available). ### Why is residential proxy required? petrovich.ru is protected by the **QRATOR** WAF, which blocks every request from a datacenter IP with a persistent "access temporarily restricted" page, regardless of cookies or challenge state. Residential IPs load the site transparently. The actor fails fast if no residential proxy is configured, so `proxyConfiguration` is a required input. ### Input | Field | Type | Default | Description | |---|---|---|---| | `mode` | string | `search` | `search` / `byCategory` / `productDetails` | | `searchQuery` | string | – | Free-text query (required for `mode=search`) | | `categoryUrls` | array | `[]` | One or more full catalog URLs (required for `mode=byCategory`) | | `productUrls` | array | `[]` | One or more product URLs or bare numeric IDs (required for `mode=productDetails`) | | `sortBy` | string | `popular` | `popular` / `price_asc` / `price_desc` / `new` — applies to `mode=byCategory` only; ignored in `mode=search`, which is always served in the site's default relevance order | | `maxItems` | integer | `30` | Hard cap on emitted records (1–500) | | `proxyConfiguration` | object | Residential | Apify proxy configuration; a **residential** proxy is required | #### Example: search for products ```json { "mode": "search", "searchQuery": "кабель", "maxItems": 50, "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": true, "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"] } } ```` #### Example: browse a category, cheapest first ```json { "mode": "byCategory", "categoryUrls": ["https://petrovich.ru/catalog/100131139/"], "sortBy": "price_asc", "maxItems": 100, "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": true, "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"] } } ``` #### Example: fetch specific product pages ```json { "mode": "productDetails", "productUrls": ["https://petrovich.ru/product/1181179/", "1181180"], "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": true, "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"] } } ``` #### Example: newest items in a category ```json { "mode": "byCategory", "categoryUrls": ["https://petrovich.ru/catalog/100131139/", "https://petrovich.ru/catalog/100131200/"], "sortBy": "new", "maxItems": 200, "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": true, "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"] } } ``` ### Use cases - **Price monitoring** — track price, old price, discount %, and loyalty price for building-materials SKUs over time. - **Assortment research** — pull every product in a Petrovich catalog category to analyze range and coverage. - **Procurement & sourcing** — bulk-fetch product specs and availability for construction/DIY purchasing decisions. - **Competitive benchmarking** — compare Petrovich pricing and promotions against other Russian building-materials retailers. - **Catalog enrichment** — feed specs, images, and category trees into a downstream product catalog or PIM. ### Other Russian marketplace actors by CrawlerBros | Actor | URL | |---|---| | Citilink Scraper - Russian Electronics Store Products | | | DNS-Shop Scraper | | | Eldorado Scraper | | | ETM Electrical Equipment Scraper | | | Holodilnik.ru Scraper | | | Lemanapro Scraper | | | Magnit Market (mm.ru) Scraper | | | Maxidom Scraper | | | Megamarket.ru Scraper | | | M.Video Scraper | | | Onlinetrade.ru Scraper | | | Ozon Scraper - Products, Categories & Search | | | Petrovich Building Materials Scraper (this actor) | | | Regard Scraper | | | Russkiy Svet (rs24.ru) Electrical Equipment Scraper | | | Technopark.ru Scraper - Products, Categories & Search | | | VseInstrumenti.ru Scraper | | | Wildberries Scraper | | | X-Com Shop Scraper | | | Yandex Market Pro Scraper | | ### FAQ **What is the data source?** All data comes directly from petrovich.ru's own product, category, and search pages — the same pages a shopper would see in a browser. **Is this affiliated with Petrovich?** No. This is an independent, third-party actor that reads publicly visible pages on petrovich.ru; it is not affiliated with or endorsed by Petrovich. **Why do I need a residential proxy?** petrovich.ru blocks datacenter IPs outright at the network/WAF level. A residential proxy is the only way to reliably load any page on the site, which is why `proxyConfiguration` is a required input. **Why does `sortBy` have no effect in `mode=search`?** petrovich.ru's own search endpoint doesn't support sort parameters reliably — applying one silently discards the search query and returns unrelated results. To avoid returning wrong data, the actor always uses the site's default relevance order for search and only honors `sortBy` when browsing a category. **Why are some fields missing from certain products?** Petrovich doesn't expose every field (e.g. specs table, promotions, club price, rating) for every product. Fields are only included on a record when the source page actually has that data — nothing is invented or filled with placeholders. **Why do listing records (search/category) have fewer fields than product-detail records?** Search and category pages show a lighter card view, while product detail pages expose the full page (specs, breadcrumbs, gallery, promotions, etc.). Use `mode=productDetails` on the `productUrl` from a listing record to get the full set of fields. **How fresh is the data?** Every run fetches pages live from petrovich.ru at request time — there is no caching, so prices and availability reflect what the site shows at the moment of the run. **Can I look up a product by just its numeric ID?** Yes — in `mode=productDetails`, `productUrls` accepts bare numeric IDs (e.g. `1181179`) in addition to full product URLs. **What happens if a product no longer exists?** If a `productUrls` entry resolves to Petrovich's own "page not found" page, the actor skips it rather than emitting fabricated data for a nonexistent product. # Actor input Schema ## `mode` (type: `string`): What to fetch. ## `searchQuery` (type: `string`): Free-text query, e.g. `кабель`, `цемент`, `дрель`. ## `categoryUrls` (type: `array`): Full Petrovich catalog URLs, e.g. `https://petrovich.ru/catalog/100131139/`. ## `productUrls` (type: `array`): Full Petrovich product URLs, e.g. `https://petrovich.ru/product/1181179/`. ## `sortBy` (type: `string`): Sort order for category listings (mode=byCategory only). petrovich.ru's search endpoint does not support sorting reliably, so this is ignored in mode=search (results are always in the site's default relevance order). ## `maxItems` (type: `integer`): Hard cap on emitted records. ## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`): Apify residential proxy is required — petrovich.ru is protected by QRATOR, which blocks all Apify datacenter IPs (verified: 401 on every plain/TLS-fingerprinted/JS-challenge-cookie request from datacenter IPs). Residential IPs are required to load any page. ## Actor input object example ```json { "mode": "search", "searchQuery": "кабель", "categoryUrls": [], "productUrls": [], "sortBy": "popular", "maxItems": 30, "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": true, "apifyProxyGroups": [ "RESIDENTIAL" ] } } ``` # Actor output Schema ## `products` (type: `string`): Dataset containing all scraped Petrovich products. # 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 '' with your token const client = new ApifyClient({ token: '', }); // Prepare Actor input const input = { "mode": "search", "searchQuery": "кабель", "categoryUrls": [], "productUrls": [], "sortBy": "popular", "maxItems": 30, "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": true, "apifyProxyGroups": [ "RESIDENTIAL" ] } }; // Run the Actor and wait for it to finish const run = await client.actor("crawlerbros/petrovich-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 '' with your token. client = ApifyClient("") # Prepare the Actor input run_input = { "mode": "search", "searchQuery": "кабель", "categoryUrls": [], "productUrls": [], "sortBy": "popular", "maxItems": 30, "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": True, "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"], }, } # Run the Actor and wait for it to finish run = client.actor("crawlerbros/petrovich-scraper").call(run_input=run_input) # Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any) print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"]) for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items(): print(item) # 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start ``` ## CLI example ```bash echo '{ "mode": "search", "searchQuery": "кабель", "categoryUrls": [], "productUrls": [], "sortBy": "popular", "maxItems": 30, "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": true, "apifyProxyGroups": [ "RESIDENTIAL" ] } }' | apify call crawlerbros/petrovich-scraper --silent --output-dataset ``` ## MCP server setup ```json { "mcpServers": { "apify": { "command": "npx", "args": [ "mcp-remote", "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=crawlerbros/petrovich-scraper", "--header", "Authorization: Bearer " ] } } } ``` ## OpenAPI specification ```json { "openapi": "3.0.1", "info": { "title": "Petrovich Building Materials Scraper", "description": "Scrape Petrovich (petrovich.ru) - a major Russian building-materials and DIY retailer. 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Residential IPs are required to load any page.", "default": { "useApifyProxy": true, "apifyProxyGroups": [ "RESIDENTIAL" ] } } } }, "runsResponseSchema": { "type": "object", "properties": { "data": { "type": "object", "properties": { "id": { "type": "string" }, "actId": { "type": "string" }, "userId": { "type": "string" }, "startedAt": { "type": "string", "format": "date-time", "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z" }, "finishedAt": { "type": "string", "format": "date-time", "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z" }, "status": { "type": "string", "example": "READY" }, "meta": { "type": "object", "properties": { "origin": { "type": "string", "example": "API" }, "userAgent": { "type": "string" } } }, "stats": { "type": "object", "properties": { "inputBodyLen": { "type": "integer", "example": 2000 }, "rebootCount": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "restartCount": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "resurrectCount": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "computeUnits": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 } } }, "options": { "type": "object", "properties": { "build": { "type": "string", "example": "latest" }, "timeoutSecs": { "type": "integer", "example": 300 }, "memoryMbytes": { "type": "integer", "example": 1024 }, "diskMbytes": { "type": "integer", "example": 2048 } } }, "buildId": { "type": "string" }, "defaultKeyValueStoreId": { "type": "string" }, "defaultDatasetId": { "type": "string" }, "defaultRequestQueueId": { "type": "string" }, "buildNumber": { "type": "string", "example": "1.0.0" }, "containerUrl": { "type": "string" }, "usage": { "type": "object", "properties": { "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATASET_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATASET_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 1 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "PROXY_SERPS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 } } }, "usageTotalUsd": { "type": "number", "example": 0.00005 }, "usageUsd": { "type": "object", "properties": { "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATASET_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATASET_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": { "type": "number", "example": 0.00005 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "PROXY_SERPS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 } } } } } } } } } } ```