JB Hi-Fi AU Product Scraper

Scrape product listings, categories, prices, and detailed item data from JB Hi-Fi Australia (jbhifi.com.au).

Use this scraper for price monitoring, market research, product research, and availability checks on Australia's JB Hi-Fi retail catalog.

Disclaimer: This is an unofficial scraper and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by JB Hi-Fi.

Supported operations

Operation	Description
search	Keyword search via Algolia API with pagination, sorting, and filters
category	List products for a category by ID, slug, or URL
categories	Full category tree from header navigation
item	Full product details with Shopify JSON enrichment (variants, description, barcode)
search_filters	Live facet discovery for search or category context
probe	Health check for Algolia and navigation backends

Not supported: store locator, reviews, postcode-specific pricing.

Input guide by operation

The Apify Console form shows all fields at once. Only fill the fields relevant to your chosen operation.

search (default)

Field	Required	Notes
query	No	Defaults to iphone; examples: iphone, samsung tv, sony headphones
page	No	Default 1
limit	No	Default 24, max 120
sort	No	relevance, price_asc, price_desc, rating_desc
filter	No	Repeatable facet tokens, e.g. vendor:Apple

category

Field	Required	Notes
category_id or slug or url	One required	e.g. collection:tvs, slug=tvs, or full URL
query	No	Optional keyword within the category
page, limit	No	Pagination
sort	No	Sort options
filter	No	Repeatable facet tokens

item

Field	Required	Notes
item_id or slug or url	One required	e.g. item_id=804803, slug=sony-wh1000xm5-black, or full product URL

categories

Field	Required	Notes
includeContent	No	Default false. Set to true to include content/navigation links
query	No	Filter categories by text
page, limit	No	Pagination

search_filters / probe

No additional fields required. For search_filters, you may provide query or category_id/slug/url to get context-specific filters.

Example inputs

Default search (fast, non-empty):

{
  "operation": "search",
  "query": "iphone",
  "limit": 5
}

Category listing:

{
  "operation": "category",
  "category_id": "collection:tvs",
  "limit": 10
}

Full item details:

{
  "operation": "item",
  "item_id": "804803"
}

Category tree:

{
  "operation": "categories"
}

Search with filters:

{
  "operation": "search",
  "query": "sony",
  "filter": ["vendor:Sony"],
  "sort": "price_asc",
  "limit": 20
}

Output fields

Search / category listings

id, sku, object_id, name, brand, price, discount_price, current_price, currency, image, images, url, slug, handle, category, category_id, collection_handles, breadcrumbs, availability, stock_status, in_stock, rating, review_count, review_summary

Item (full enrichment)

All listing fields plus:

• description, short_description, type, tags
• variants, variant_count, options
• barcode

Categories

id, parent_id, name, category_id, url, slug, depth, path, is_browseable, type

Run summary is stored in the OUTPUT key-value record. Dataset items are normalized product rows.

AI / MCP / API contract

• Empty input is buyer-useful and runs a small iphone search.
• Positive search/category/item operations write normalized semantic data to the default Dataset.
• A true no-match search returns an exact empty Dataset ([]), not diagnostic or summary rows.
• search_filters writes structured filter rows suitable for programmatic planning.
• The OUTPUT key contains status, counts, errors, supported operations, and an agent provenance envelope; the Dataset remains the primary data surface.
• Product rows expose stable IDs, names, brand/category context, price/currency, stock state, source URL, and richer item fields when available.

Proxy behavior

• Default strategy: auto — direct requests first, proxy fallback on block.
• Modes: auto (recommended), direct, apify, custom via proxyMode input or APIFY_WAVE1_PROXY_MODE env.
• Geography: Australian site; AU Apify proxy or custom AU proxy recommended when blocked.
• Retries: Rotates httpx / cloudscraper / tls_client / curl_cffi clients on 403, 429, 502, 503.
• Structured errors: Returns status: blocked or error summary instead of crashing when all strategies fail.

Limitations

• Search uses the public Algolia API plus a conservative semantic relevance gate to suppress partial stop-word false positives. Broad but meaningful queries may still return many results.
• Category resolution tries multiple candidate strategies; some category URLs may not resolve.
• Pricing is national; no postcode/store-specific availability.
• Probe returns diagnostics only (may produce an empty dataset).

Free trial limit

Free/trial usage limits are enforced by runtime policy. There is no public input that bypasses quota enforcement.

Monetization

Pay-per-event pricing:

• Actor start: ~$0.005
• Dataset item (result-item): ~$0.0003