Shein Featured Products Scraper

Scrape featured products from Shein regional homepages across 22 countries. Returns product ID, title, URL, sale and retail prices with formatted currency text, discount %, category, and images — all in local currency.

What it does

• Fetches the Shein homepage for the selected country
• Parses ~6–16 server-rendered featured products from the embedded productList JSON (varies by country and session)
• Bracket-counted JSON extraction tolerates non-JSON fragments in the surrounding page
• Returns prices in local currency with sale/retail/discount and formatted symbol text
• Hardcoded residential proxy (Shein blocks all datacenter IPs)

Scope note

This scraper returns currently-featured Shein homepage products, not a keyword/URL-based catalog lookup. Shein's category (/dress-c-1727.html) and product detail (/...-p-39521541.html) pages redirect every anonymous session to /risk/challenge?captcha_type=903. Only the root homepage is reachable without cookies, so the scraper extracts the featured products from the homepage server-side render.

The featured set rotates per session ID, so each run can return different products. Run the scraper multiple times to accumulate variety.

Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
country	enum	US	Shein regional homepage (see supported countries below)
maxItems	integer	30	Maximum featured products to return (1–200)

Supported countries

Code	Country	Currency
US	United States	USD
UK	United Kingdom	GBP
DE	Germany	EUR
FR	France	EUR
ES	Spain	EUR
IT	Italy	EUR
AU	Australia	AUD
BR	Brazil	BRL
CA	Canada	CAD
MX	Mexico	MXN
NL	Netherlands	EUR
SE	Sweden	SEK
PL	Poland	PLN
CH	Switzerland	CHF
PT	Portugal	EUR
AT	Austria	EUR
IL	Israel	ILS
PH	Philippines	PHP
SG	Singapore	SGD
MY	Malaysia	MYR
NZ	New Zealand	NZD
ZA	South Africa	ZAR

Example input

{
    "country": "DE",
    "maxItems": 20
}

Output

Each product is a JSON record. Fields are omitted when not present — no field is ever null.

Field	Type	Always present	Description
productId	string	✓	Shein goods_id
title	string	✓	Product name
url	string	✓	Product page URL
countryCode	string	✓	2-letter country code
scrapedAt	string	✓	UTC ISO 8601 scrape timestamp
mainImage	string	✓	Main product image URL
currency	string	✓	Local currency code
salePrice	number	✓	Current sale price (numeric)
salePriceText	string	✓	Formatted sale price with symbol (e.g. $18.23)
retailPrice	number	✓	Original retail price (numeric)
retailPriceText	string	✓	Formatted retail price with symbol (e.g. $26.39)
discountPercentage	integer	—	Discount % off retail (present on ~95% of products)
catId	string	—	Shein category ID (present on ~96% of products)
images	array	—	Additional product image URLs (present on ~99% of products)

Sample output

{
    "productId": "410596328",
    "title": "Aloruh Women's Beaded Floral Loose Halter Neck Top",
    "url": "https://us.shein.com/-p-410596328.html",
    "countryCode": "US",
    "mainImage": "https://img.ltwebstatic.com/v4/j/pi/2026/03/16/ea/1773668717f1aeb4cce6f077e48c10775ec0127141_thumbnail_405x552.jpg",
    "currency": "USD",
    "salePrice": 13.33,
    "salePriceText": "$13.33",
    "retailPrice": 20.49,
    "retailPriceText": "$20.49",
    "discountPercentage": 35,
    "catId": "2223",
    "images": [
        "https://img.ltwebstatic.com/v4/j/pi/2026/02/28/3b/1772264392b9902f7c9c914bac00c237fb58631ada_thumbnail_405x552.jpg",
        "https://img.ltwebstatic.com/v4/j/pi/2026/03/16/72/177366871989f4c9815bf2e1e447c739a678fb483d_thumbnail_405x552.jpg"
    ],
    "scrapedAt": "2026-05-15T16:34:10Z"
}

FAQ

Do I need a proxy? No configuration needed — a residential proxy is hardcoded and applied automatically. Shein blocks all direct datacenter access.

Why featured products only, not keyword search? Shein blocks category and product detail pages with a /risk/challenge?captcha_type=903 redirect for anonymous sessions. Only the root homepage is reachable without pre-seeded cookies or a captcha-solver.

How many products per run? The server-rendered homepage typically contains 6–16 featured products depending on country and session. maxItems caps the output (default 30, max 200), but you will rarely exceed ~16 per run.

Do different countries return different products? Yes. Each regional site has its own featured set with local pricing, currency, and products.

Is the data fresh? Every run fetches the live homepage. The featured set rotates per session, so repeated runs build up a rolling catalog.

Use cases

• Daily trending monitor — track what Shein is featuring on each regional homepage
• Price sampling — accumulate a rolling catalog of Shein prices across 22 markets
• Market research — monitor product themes, categories, and promotions globally
• Cross-market comparison — compare US vs EU featured picks, pricing, or discount levels
• Competitive intelligence — track which products Shein promotes in emerging markets

Notes

• Pricing is configured in the Apify UI (pay-per-result).
• The daily Apify test run uses country=US, maxItems=5.
• Parser: _iter_product_blocks walks every {"goods_id":"..."} object with a bracket counter + json.loads, tolerant of nested JSON fragments in the enclosing array.