Kidstuff AU Product Scraper

The Kidstuff AU Product Scraper allows you to extract comprehensive product data from the Kidstuff Australia storefront. It is ideal for price monitoring, product research, market analysis, and availability tracking.

Features

• Product Search: Search for products using keywords.
• Category Scraping: Extract all products from a specific collection/category.
• Product Detail: Get detailed information for a specific product, including all its variants.
• Category List: Retrieve a complete list of available categories (collections).

Operation Guide

1. Search Products

• Operation: search
• Required Input: search_query (e.g., "wooden toys")
• Optional: page, page_size

2. Category Listing

• Operation: category
• Required Input: category_slug (e.g., "toys-for-preschoolers")
• Optional: page, page_size

3. Product Details

• Operation: item
• Required Input: Provide at least one of slug, url, or variant_id.
• Example: slug: "wooden-toy-set"

4. List All Categories

• Operation: categories
• No other input required.

Output Fields

The scraper returns a normalized dataset containing:

• id: Product or variant ID.
• name: Product name (including variant details).
• brand: Vendor/Brand name.
• sku: Stock Keeping Unit.
• barcode: Product barcode.
• source_url: Direct link to the product or variant.
• category: Product type or category name.
• description: Cleaned product description.
• size: Extracted size/pack information.
• availability: in_stock or out_of_stock.
• price: Original price.
• discount_price: Sale price.
• current_price: The price currently active.
• images: List of product image URLs.

Proxy & Bot Protection

This scraper implements a robust request strategy:

1. Direct Attempt: Tries to fetch data directly (fastest).
2. Apify Proxy: Falls back to Apify residential/datacenter proxies if blocked.
3. Impersonation: Uses curl-cffi with Chrome 124 impersonation for hard blocks.

Non-Affiliation Notice

This scraper is an unofficial tool and is not affiliated with, authorized by, or endorsed by Kidstuff AU.

Limitations

• Scraping speed depends on the site's response time and proxy quality.
• Some very large categories may take longer to process.