# AppSumo SaaS Deals Scraper (`devilscrapes/appsumo-saas-deals-scraper`) Actor Search AppSumo's lifetime-deal marketplace by keyword and get structured rows for every matching SaaS deal — price, original price, discount, category, plan type, and buy link. No page-scraping guesswork, just clean JSON per search term. - **URL**: https://apify.com/devilscrapes/appsumo-saas-deals-scraper.md - **Developed by:** [DevilScrapes](https://apify.com/devilscrapes) (community) - **Categories:** E-commerce - **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks - **User rating**: No ratings yet ## Pricing Pay per event This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events. Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event ## What's an Apify Actor? Actors are web data automations that power AI and operations. They run on the Apify platform to scrape websites, process data, connect APIs, and automate workflows. 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. - **AI agents and MCP clients** — the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/integrations/mcp.md) at `https://mcp.apify.com` (remote, streamable HTTP, OAuth on first use). - **Agentic workflows and local Actor development** — [Agent Skills](https://apify.com/.well-known/agent-skills/index.json) with the [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md): `npm install -g apify-cli`, then `apify login`. - **JavaScript/TypeScript projects** — the official [JS/TS client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md): `npm install apify-client`. - **Python projects** — the official [Python client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md): `pip install apify-client`. - **Any other language** — 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
Devil Scrapes mark ## AppSumo SaaS Deals Scraper **💰 $5.20 / 1 000 results**  ·  pay only for results  ·  no credit card to try *We do the dirty work so your dataset stays clean.* 😈 Search AppSumo's lifetime-deal marketplace by keyword and get structured rows for every matching SaaS deal — price, original price, discount, category, plan type, and buy link. No page-scraping guesswork, just clean JSON per search term.
*** ### 🎯 What this scrapes AppSumo is the web's biggest SaaS lifetime-deal marketplace, and its own search box is the only way to browse it. This Actor pastes your keywords into that search box for you — feed it 1-20 free-text terms like "seo", "crm", or "email marketing" and get back structured rows for every matching deal: current price, original price, discount math, category, plan type, rating votes, and the buy link. Built on curl-cffi with rotating browser impersonation and Apify Proxy so a run finishes clean even when AppSumo's own front end changes shape underneath it. ### 🔥 What we handle for you - 🛡️ **Browser fingerprint rotation** — `curl-cffi` impersonates real Chrome / Firefox TLS handshakes on every fetch, good hygiene on any target. - 🔁 **Retries with exponential backoff** on `408 / 429 / 503` and network errors — up to 5 attempts per query, `Retry-After` honoured. - 🧩 **Per-query fault isolation** — one malformed deal or an unparseable page skips just that item/query with a logged warning; it never sinks the whole run. - 🧊 **Clean, typed dataset rows** — Pydantic-validated, ISO-8601 timestamps, stable deal IDs, JSON / CSV / Excel export straight from the Apify Console. - 💰 **Pay-Per-Event pricing** — you only pay for results that hit your dataset. A search that runs and matches nothing still succeeds — no data, no charge beyond the warm-up fee. ### 💡 Use cases - **Lifetime-deal hunting** — track new SaaS deals matching your stack's keywords before they sell out. - **SaaS review/blog content** — pull structured deal data (price, discount, category) for roundup posts and comparison tables. - **Procurement/ops tracking** — monitor lifetime-deal pricing for tools your team is evaluating. - **Competitive/market research** — see which SaaS categories AppSumo is currently discounting and by how much. - **Discount alerting** — diff successive runs to flag newly-listed or price-dropped deals for a given keyword set. ### ⚙️ How to use it 1. Click **Try for free** at the top of the page. 2. Fill in the input form — most fields have sensible defaults. 3. Click **Start**. Output streams into the run's dataset. 4. Export from **Storage → Dataset** as JSON, CSV, or Excel — or fetch via the API. ### 📥 Input | Field | Type | Required | Default | Notes | |---|---|:--:|---|---| | `searchQueries` | `array` | **yes** | \['seo', 'crm', 'marketing'] | 1-20 free-text AppSumo search terms (e.g. seo, crm, email marketing). Each term is a separate /browse/?query= fetch. | | `maxResultsPerQuery` | `integer` | no | 20 | Cap on rows returned per search query, clamped to \[1, 20] (AppSumo's confirmed single-page ceiling). | | `proxyConfiguration` | `object` | no | {'useApifyProxy': True} | Apify Proxy spec. We rotate exit IPs and browser fingerprints on every fetch by default; datacenter ships out of the box and we can bump you to residential if AppSumo ever tightens up. | #### Example input ```json { "searchQueries": [ "seo", "crm", "marketing" ], "maxResultsPerQuery": 5, "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": true } } ``` ### 📤 Output Every row is one dataset item. | Field | Type | Notes | |---|---|---| | `search_query` | `string` | The AppSumo search term that produced this row. | | `deal_id` | `integer` | AppSumo's internal numeric deal ID. | | `slug` | `string` | AppSumo product slug. | | `public_name` | `string` | Deal / product display name. | | `tagline` | `string` | One-line product pitch. | | `deal_url` | `string` | Canonical deal page URL. | | `logo_url` | `['string', 'null']` | Product logo image URL. | | `featured_image_url` | `['string', 'null']` | Featured/header image URL. | | `price` | `number` | Current lifetime-deal price in USD. | | `original_price` | `['number', 'null']` | List / original price in USD. | | `is_free` | `boolean` | True when the deal is free. | | `plan_type` | `['string', 'null']` | Human plan-type label (e.g. Lifetime Deal). | | `group` | `['string', 'null']` | Top-level taxonomy group. | | `category` | `['string', 'null']` | Taxonomy category. | | `subcategory` | `['string', 'null']` | Taxonomy subcategory. | | `deal_status` | `string` | AppSumo's browse\_deal\_status. | | `percent_claimed` | `['number', 'null']` | Percent of deal codes/spots claimed. | | `total_votes_count` | `integer` | Number of reviews/votes recorded. | | `reviews_summary` | `string` | AI-generated review summary text. | | `start_date` | `['string', 'null']` | ISO-8601 deal start date. | | `end_date` | `['string', 'null']` | ISO-8601 deal end date, null if open-ended. | | `search_total_results` | `integer` | Total deals AppSumo reports for this query. | | `scraped_at` | `string` | ISO-8601 UTC timestamp when the row's query was fetched. | #### Example output ```json { "search_query": "seo", "deal_id": 259504, "slug": "nuwtonic", "public_name": "Nuwtonic SEO", "tagline": "Monitor rankings, optimize pages, and generate GEO-ready content for AI search", "deal_url": "https://appsumo.com/products/nuwtonic/", "logo_url": "https://appsumo2-cdn.appsumo.com/media/deals/images/as-email-Nuwtonic_SEO-800x800-0-2-1_uuid_363613c9-6535-4474-a869-fcab5232ace2.png", "featured_image_url": "https://appsumo2-cdn.appsumo.com/media/deals/images/as-Header-Nuwtonic_SEO-16_9_boeVsgW_uuid_7758f36d-fd8d-42a1-b7a8-4465937edd6d.png", "price": 69.0, "original_price": 1200.0, "is_free": false, "plan_type": "Lifetime Deal", "group": "Marketing", "category": "SEO & Analytics", "subcategory": "SEO", "deal_status": "current", "percent_claimed": null, "total_votes_count": 0, "reviews_summary": "", "start_date": "2026-09-11T17:00:04Z", "end_date": null, "search_total_results": 50, "scraped_at": "2026-09-14T12:00:00.000Z" } ``` ### 💰 Pricing Pay-Per-Event — you pay only when these events fire: | Event | USD | What it is | |---|---:|---| | `actor-start` | $0.20 | One-off warm-up charge per run | | `result-row` | $0.005 | Per unique dataset item | Example: 1 000 results at the rates above ≈ **$5.20**. No subscription, no minimum, no card to start — Apify gives every new account $5 of free credit. ### 🚧 Limitations v0.1 is a single-page-per-query scraper — AppSumo's /browse/ endpoint doesn't expose page 2 via a documented parameter, so breadth comes from adding more or narrower search\_queries, not from paging deeper. Each row's search\_total\_results field tells you how many more deals exist for that term. Individual deal detail pages (deal codes remaining, personalized recommendations) are out of scope; the browse payload already covers price, category, and images. ### ❓ FAQ **Do I need an AppSumo account?** No. This Actor scrapes AppSumo's public /browse/ search page — no login required. **How do I widen my results?** AppSumo's own /browse/ endpoint doesn't expose page 2 via a simple parameter (v0.1 limitation). Add more or narrower search\_queries instead — each row's search\_total\_results tells you how many more deals exist for that term. **What's max\_results\_per\_query for?** AppSumo returns up to 20 deals per search fetch. This caps how many of those you keep per query; values above 20 are clamped, not rejected. **Do I need a residential proxy?** No — the default datacenter proxy plus our rotating browser-fingerprint sessions handle this target today. If AppSumo tightens its defenses later, this Actor is built to add a residential tier without any change on your end. **What happens if a query matches nothing?** The run succeeds with zero rows for that query and reports what was searched — a real zero-match result is not treated as a failure. ### 💬 Your feedback Spotted a bug, hit a weird edge case, or need a new field? Open an issue on the Actor's **Issues** tab on Apify Console — we ship fixes weekly and we read every report. ***
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# Actor input Schema ## `searchQueries` (type: `array`): 1-20 free-text AppSumo search terms (e.g. seo, crm, email marketing). Each term is a separate /browse/?query= fetch — more terms means more distinct deals, since AppSumo's own search buckets are the breadth lever (there's no page-2 for a single term). ## `maxResultsPerQuery` (type: `integer`): Cap on rows returned per search query. AppSumo returns at most 20 deals on a single /browse/ fetch (its confirmed single-page ceiling), so values above 20 are clamped, not rejected. ## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`): Apify Proxy spec — mandatory field. appsumo.com's /browse/ endpoint showed no anti-bot challenge in recon, so the datacenter default is sufficient; RESIDENTIAL is not required. ## Actor input object example ```json { "searchQueries": [ "seo", "crm", "marketing" ], "maxResultsPerQuery": 20, "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": true } } ``` # Actor output Schema ## `datasetItems` (type: `string`): All dataset items as JSON. ## `datasetItemsCsv` (type: `string`): Same data exported to CSV. ## `datasetView` (type: `string`): Open the run dataset in the Console. # 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 = { "searchQueries": [ "seo", "crm", "marketing" ], "maxResultsPerQuery": 20, "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": true } }; // Run the Actor and wait for it to finish const run = await client.actor("devilscrapes/appsumo-saas-deals-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 = { "searchQueries": [ "seo", "crm", "marketing", ], "maxResultsPerQuery": 20, "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": True }, } # Run the Actor and wait for it to finish run = client.actor("devilscrapes/appsumo-saas-deals-scraper").call(run_input=run_input) # Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any) print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}") for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items(): print(item) # 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start ``` ## CLI example ```bash echo '{ "searchQueries": [ "seo", "crm", "marketing" ], "maxResultsPerQuery": 20, "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": true } }' | apify call devilscrapes/appsumo-saas-deals-scraper --silent --output-dataset ``` ## MCP server setup ```json { "mcpServers": { "apify": { "type": "http", "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,devilscrapes/appsumo-saas-deals-scraper" } } } ``` The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer ` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations). ## OpenAPI specification Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/LkQ3IAyyieBitwmRP/builds/dU7g5NHbLYI4racM7/openapi.json