PressXchange Scraper — Used Printing & Packaging Equipment

Disclaimer: Unofficial integration for publicly accessible PressXchange listings. Not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by PressXchange 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 and new printing presses, postpress / bindery, prepress, digital, web, and cardboard / packaging machines into clean structured JSON. Built for B2B workflows: equipment dealers, print-shop buyers, market comps, and inventory monitoring.

Supports catalog group crawls, year filters, 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, image galleries, manufacturer data, and dealer IDs (no phone or email).

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

When to use this Actor

Use the PressXchange Scraper when you need:

• Machine inventory across presses, postpress, prepress, digital, web, and packaging groups
• Technical attributes — manufacturer, model / model range, year, colours, sheet size, impressions, location
• Structured specifications — coater, autoplate, and other PDP key-value fields when published
• Image galleries — CDN photo sets for valuation and catalog enrichment
• Year-filtered crawls — optional yearFrom / yearTo on category URLs
• Dealer linkage — public dealerId for downstream enrichment (contacts stay behind enquiry forms)

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, year, thumbnail
  Year-filtered URL          ──►   details  (full PDP)   ──►  specs, images, description
  Direct machine-id URL      ──►                           ──►  manufacturer, dealerId
  groups[] + yearFrom/To

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

Key Features

• 10 catalog groups — Prepress, Press, Postpress/Bindery, Cardboard/Packaging, Web, Corrugated, Digital, Material Handling, Other, Large Format Digital.
• Year filters — optional manufacture-year range appended to category URLs.
• Two extraction modes — listings for card-level stubs; details for JSON-LD + HTML specs + gallery.
• Deep machine attributes — sheet size, impressions, colours, location, condition when available.
• Dealer ID without PII — enquiry-hook dealer ID only; no phone or email scraping.
• Fast concurrent HTTP — Chrome TLS impersonation and parallel detail fetches; residential proxy recommended at scale.

Input Parameters

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
startUrls	Array	sample Press group	Category/search pages or machine detail URLs (/machine-id/{id}/).
groups	Array	["press"]	Used when startUrls is empty. Empty = all catalog groups.
yearFrom	Integer	—	Optional minimum manufacture year.
yearTo	Integer	—	Optional maximum manufacture year.
runMode	String	"details"	"listings" (cards) or "details" (full PDP).
maxItems	Integer	100	Maximum machines to return (0 = unlimited).
maxPagesPerUrl	Integer	5	Pagination depth per start URL (0 = until exhausted; ~34 items/page).
concurrencyLimit	Integer	5	Parallel detail workers (1–20).
proxyConfiguration	Object	Apify Proxy	Residential proxies recommended.

Input example — Press group details

{
  "startUrls": [
    { "url": "https://www.pressxchange.com/en/search/group/2/press/" }
  ],
  "runMode": "details",
  "maxItems": 100,
  "maxPagesPerUrl": 5,
  "concurrencyLimit": 5,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"]
  }
}

Input example — year filter via groups

{
  "groups": ["press", "postpress-bindery"],
  "yearFrom": 2010,
  "yearTo": 2024,
  "runMode": "details",
  "maxItems": 200,
  "maxPagesPerUrl": 10,
  "concurrencyLimit": 5,
  "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
category, manufacturer, model, modelRange	Equipment identity
year, colours, location	Core listing facts
sheetSize, impressions	Format and usage when published
price, currency, priceOnRequest	Asking price or contact-for-price
description, specifications, images	Free text, spec map, gallery
dealerId, dealerRefNumber	Dealer linkage (no phone/email)
condition, scrapedAt	Condition label and scrape timestamp

Example record

{
  "id": "451020",
  "url": "https://www.pressxchange.com/en/4-color-heidelberg-cx-102-4-lx-year-2016/machine-id/451020/",
  "title": "HEIDELBERG CX 102-4+LX",
  "category": "Sheet Fed",
  "manufacturer": "Heidelberg",
  "model": "CX 102",
  "modelRange": "CX 102",
  "year": 2016,
  "colours": 4,
  "location": "Europe",
  "sheetSize": "720 x 1020 mm.",
  "impressions": "180 million",
  "price": null,
  "currency": "EUR",
  "priceOnRequest": true,
  "description": "Prinect press Centre\nInpress\nAuto plate\n...",
  "images": [
    "https://cdn.pressxchange.com/53/800/x800_heidelberg-cx102-12763447.jpg"
  ],
  "specifications": {
    "Category": "Sheet Fed",
    "Manufacturer": "Heidelberg",
    "Model range": "CX 102",
    "Colours": "4",
    "Year": "2016",
    "Location": "Europe",
    "Coater": "Yes",
    "Has Autoplate Loading": "Yes"
  },
  "dealerId": "456068",
  "condition": "Used",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-07-22T18:59:00+00:00"
}

Notes

• Most listings are Request Price — expect priceOnRequest: true and a null price.
• Public pages do not expose dealer phone or email; the Actor stores dealerId only.
• Prefer residential proxies for larger crawls; keep concurrency moderate (3–8) to reduce WAF friction.
• Sliding pagination is handled automatically (featured cards may repeat across pages and are deduped by machine ID).