Azure Marketplace Scraper

Scrape Microsoft Azure Marketplace — the cloud-solution catalog with 10,000+ listings from Microsoft and third-party publishers. Extract full metadata: name, publisher, description, categories, pricing model, ratings, icons, screenshots, and deployment plans.

Data Source

This actor scrapes the Microsoft Azure Marketplace via its public catalog REST API (catalogapi.azure.com). No API key, authentication, or proxy is required — the catalog is fully public and free to access.

Note: Oracle Cloud Marketplace (cloudmarketplace.oracle.com) requires Oracle Cloud authentication and returns gateway errors on all public endpoints. Azure Marketplace covers the same niche (enterprise cloud solutions) with a richer public API.

Features

• 3 scraping modes: Search by keyword, Browse by category, or Fetch by offer ID
• Rich metadata: publisher info, pricing type (Free/BYOL/PayG/Trial), ratings, icons, screenshots, plan IDs
• Category filtering: 20 Azure Marketplace categories (AI/ML, Analytics, Databases, Security, etc.)
• Pricing filtering: Filter by Free, BYOL, Pay-As-You-Go, or Free Trial
• Sort options: By popularity or alphabetically by name
• No credentials required: Zero configuration, works on Apify free plan

Input

Field	Type	Description
mode	select	Required. search, browse, or getById
query	string	Keyword search (modes: search, browse)
category	select	Filter by category (e.g. databases, security, ai-plus-machine-learning)
pricingType	select	Filter by pricing: free, byol, payg, trial
sortBy	select	Sort by popularity (default), ratingAverage, or title
ids	array	Offer IDs for getById mode (e.g. Microsoft.DocumentDB_MongoDB_Support)
maxItems	integer	Max records to return (1–10000, default: 100)

Example Inputs

Search for database solutions:

{
  "mode": "search",
  "query": "database",
  "maxItems": 50
}

Browse free security tools:

{
  "mode": "browse",
  "category": "security",
  "pricingType": "free",
  "maxItems": 100
}

Fetch specific offers by ID:

{
  "mode": "getById",
  "ids": ["Microsoft.DocumentDB_MongoDB_Support", "Avensoft.nService"],
  "maxItems": 10
}

Output

Each record contains:

Field	Type	Description
listingId	string	Azure Marketplace offer ID (bigId)
name	string	Display name of the listing
shortDescription	string	Short summary / headline
description	string	Full description
publisher	string	Publisher display name
publisherId	string	Publisher identifier
categories	array	Category names (e.g. ["Databases", "Analytics"])
offerType	string	Offer type (e.g. SaaS, VirtualMachine)
pricingType	string	Pricing model (Free, BYOL, PayG, FreeTrial)
hasFreeTrials	boolean	Whether a free trial is available
isByol	boolean	Whether BYOL licensing is supported
hasFreePlans	boolean	Whether free plans exist
hasPaygPlans	boolean	Whether pay-as-you-go plans exist
ratingAverage	number	Average star rating (0–5)
ratingCount	integer	Number of ratings
popularity	number	Azure Marketplace popularity score
version	string	Listing version
keywords	array	Associated keywords/tags
iconUrl	string	URL to the listing icon
screenshotUrls	array	URLs to screenshots
publisherUrl	string	Publisher website
supportUrl	string	Support URL
legalTermsUrl	string	Legal terms URL
privacyPolicyUrl	string	Privacy policy URL
planIds	array	Available plan identifiers
listingUrl	string	Direct Azure Marketplace listing URL
lastModified	string	Last modified timestamp (ISO 8601)
recordType	string	Always "listing"
scrapedAt	string	Scrape timestamp (ISO 8601 UTC)

Sample Record

{
  "listingId": "Microsoft.DocumentDB_MongoDB_Support",
  "name": "Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB",
  "shortDescription": "Globally-distributed, multi-model database service.",
  "publisher": "Microsoft",
  "categories": ["Databases", "Analytics"],
  "pricingType": "PayG",
  "hasPaygPlans": true,
  "ratingAverage": 3.702,
  "ratingCount": 754,
  "popularity": 14.92,
  "iconUrl": "https://catalogartifact.azureedge.net/...",
  "listingUrl": "https://azuremarketplace.microsoft.com/en-us/marketplace/apps/Microsoft.DocumentDB_MongoDB_Support",
  "recordType": "listing",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-05-30T12:00:00+00:00"
}

Categories

Available category values for the category input field:

Slug	Display Name
ai-plus-machine-learning	AI + Machine Learning
analytics	Analytics
blockchain	Blockchain
compute	Compute
containers	Containers
databases	Databases
developer-tools	Developer Tools
devops	DevOps
identity	Identity
integration	Integration
internet-of-things	Internet of Things
management-tools	Management Tools
media	Media
migration	Migration
mixed-reality	Mixed Reality
monitoring-and-diagnostics	Monitoring & Diagnostics
networking	Networking
security	Security
storage	Storage
web	Web

FAQs

Q: Do I need an Azure account or API key? A: No. The Azure Marketplace catalog API is fully public and requires no authentication.

Q: How many listings does Azure Marketplace have? A: As of 2026, Azure Marketplace has over 10,000 listings from Microsoft and thousands of third-party publishers.

Q: Can I filter by multiple categories at once? A: The current version supports single-category filtering per run. Use multiple runs with different category values and combine results.

Q: What is the difference between search and browse modes? A: search mode uses the Azure full-text search on your query. browse mode lets you filter by category and pricingType with optional keyword filtering. getById fetches specific listings by their offer ID.

Q: How are offer IDs structured? A: Azure offer IDs follow the pattern PublisherId.OfferId, e.g. Microsoft.DocumentDB_MongoDB_Support or Avensoft.nService.

Q: Is the data real-time? A: The actor fetches live data from the Azure Marketplace catalog API on each run.