PressCity Scraper — Used Print & Packaging Machinery

Disclaimer: Unofficial integration for publicly accessible PressCity listings. Not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by PressCity or its operators. Trademarks belong to their respective owners.

This Actor is provided for informational and research purposes only (market research, dealer intelligence, inventory monitoring, pricing workflows). You are solely responsible for ensuring your use complies with applicable laws, platform terms of use, and your organization's policies.

No warranty is given as to accuracy, completeness, or continued availability of third-party data. Use at your own risk.

Scrape used graphic, print, and packaging machinery into clean structured JSON — Heidelberg, Komori, KBA, Manroland, Bobst, Polar, Horizon, and more. Built for B2B workflows: printing equipment dealers, packaging buyers, market comps, and inventory monitoring.

Supports group / category / manufacturer crawls, keyword search, start URLs, and direct machine detail pages. Choose listings mode for fast card-level catalogs or details mode for full product pages with technical specs, JSON-LD, image galleries, and optional dealer profile enrichment.

Lightweight HTTP extraction with TLS fingerprinting — no headless browser overhead. Residential proxies recommended for production runs.

When to use this Actor

Use the PressCity Scraper when you need:

• Machine inventory across Press, Prepress, Postpress / Bindery, Packaging, Web, Digital, and related groups
• Technical attributes — manufacturer, model, year, colors, sheet size, perfector, autoplate, impressions / hours, availability
• Equipped options — feature lists parsed from descriptions (Alcolor, Cptronic, wash-up devices, and more)
• Image galleries — full-size CDN photos for valuation and catalog enrichment
• Dealer context — company name and profile URL; optional website, address, and verified badge when scrapeDealerDetails is enabled
• Keyword discovery — search terms such as Heidelberg SM 74 or Bobst without building category URLs by hand

Ideal for printing equipment dealers, packaging buyers, market analysts, and data teams tracking used graphic-arts machinery.

Data pipeline

Input                              Mode                         Output
─────────────────────────         ────────────────────         ──────────────────────────

  Group / category URL       ──►   listings (fast cards)  ──►  title, snippet, image, IDs
  Keyword search             ──►   details  (full PDP)   ──►  specs, images, description
  Direct machine URL         ──►                           ──►  manufacturer, dealer fields
  categories[] enum

  Join by manufacturer + model ──► comps & inventory alerts

Key Features

• Two extraction modes — listings for card-level stubs; details for JSON-LD Product + specs table + gallery.
• Print-specific specs — colors, sheet size, perfector, autoplate, impressions, availability when published.
• Category shortcuts — optional top-level groups (press, prepress, postpress, packaging, web, digital, …).
• Dealer enrichment — optional profile fetch (website, address, zip/city, verified seller), cached per dealer.
• Robust URL handling — resolves canonical machine pages; skips broken legacy card links.
• Fast concurrent HTTP — Chrome TLS impersonation and parallel detail fetches; residential proxy recommended at scale.

Input Parameters

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
startUrls	Array	sample sheetfed URL	Search, group, category, manufacturer, or machine detail URLs.
searchKeyword	String	—	Keyword search (e.g. Heidelberg SM 74).
categories	Array	[]	Top-level groups when you do not paste filtered URLs.
runMode	String	"details"	"listings" (cards) or "details" (full PDP).
scrapeDealerDetails	Boolean	false	Visit dealer profiles in details mode.
maxItems	Integer	100	Maximum machines to return (0 = unlimited).
maxPagesPerUrl	Integer	5	Pagination depth per start URL (0 = until exhausted).
concurrencyLimit	Integer	5	Parallel detail workers (1–20).
proxyConfiguration	Object	Apify Proxy	Residential proxies recommended.

Input example — sheetfed details

{
  "startUrls": [
    { "url": "https://presscity.com/en/search/group/2/press/category/4/sheetfed/" }
  ],
  "runMode": "details",
  "scrapeDealerDetails": false,
  "maxItems": 100,
  "maxPagesPerUrl": 5,
  "concurrencyLimit": 5,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"]
  }
}

Input example — keyword search

{
  "searchKeyword": "Heidelberg SM 74",
  "runMode": "details",
  "maxItems": 50,
  "maxPagesPerUrl": 3,
  "concurrencyLimit": 4,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"]
  }
}

Output Format

Each row is pushed to the default dataset.

Details mode (enriched)

Field	Description
id, url, title	Machine identifiers
reference, manufacturer, model	Equipment identity
year, colors, location	Core listing facts
sheetSize, impressions, perfector, hasAutoplate	Format and configuration
availability, equippedFeatures	Shipping window and option list
price, priceCurrency, priceStatus	Asking price or request-price status
group, category, breadcrumbs	Taxonomy
description, images, imageUrl	Free text and gallery
dealerName, dealerProfileUrl, dealerWebsite, …	Dealer block (enriched when enabled)
scrapedAt	Scrape timestamp (UTC)

Example record

{
  "id": "452639-457687",
  "url": "https://presscity.com/en/machines/heidelberg/452639-457687/heidelberg-sm-52-p.html",
  "title": "Heidelberg SM 52--P",
  "reference": "G-022-7707",
  "manufacturer": "Heidelberg",
  "model": "SM 52",
  "year": 1999,
  "colors": 2,
  "hasAutoplate": true,
  "perfector": "1 + 1 / 2 + 0",
  "sheetSize": "370 x 520 mm.",
  "location": "Germany",
  "impressions": "approx. 70 mio",
  "availability": "07/2026",
  "priceStatus": "request_price",
  "group": "Press",
  "category": "Sheetfed offset",
  "breadcrumbs": ["Groups", "Press", "Sheetfed offset", "Heidelberg", "SM 52"],
  "equippedFeatures": ["Autoplate", "Alcolor automatic filmdamping", "Cptronic"],
  "images": [
    "https://cdn.presscity.com/838/800/x800_heidelberg-sm52-12840975.jpg"
  ],
  "dealerName": "STC GmbH",
  "dealerProfileUrl": "https://presscity.com/en/dealers/germany/stc-gmbh/info838.html",
  "isVerifiedDealer": true,
  "scrapedAt": "2026-07-22T19:30:00Z"
}

Notes

• Most listings are Request Price — expect priceStatus: "request_price" and a null numeric price.
• Public enquiry forms use captcha; this Actor does not submit enquiries or scrape private contacts beyond what dealer profiles publish.
• Prefer residential proxies for larger crawls; keep concurrency moderate (3–8).
• Pagination continues past the short pager UI (pages beyond 5 still return results until empty).