Zauba Trade Data Scraper: India Import Export

Get India import and export shipment data from zauba.com without runs stalling out. Search any HS code or product keyword and pull shipment dates, ports, quantities, and USD values straight off zauba.com, tuned to get through the site's bot check instead of timing out partway.

🛡️ Built to survive the block wall Tuned against zauba.com's real anti-bot check so your search finishes instead of dying partway through.

✅ Only real fields, nothing invented Every row uses fields zauba.com actually publishes. No guessed importer names, no fake currency math.

🔎 Search by HS code or keyword Enter an HS code or a plain product term and get matching shipment records back in the same run.

🔁 Ready to monitor on a schedule Turn on new-shipment tracking so a recurring run only returns records you have not seen before.

Zauba Trade Data Scraper pulls India customs shipment records from zauba.com by HS code or product keyword, without you having to fight the site's bot defenses by hand. Search once and get product descriptions, shipment dates, origin countries, ports of discharge, quantities, and USD pricing back as clean rows, ready to schedule, filter, and export from Apify.

🔍 What does it do?

This actor submits an HS code or product keyword search on zauba.com and returns the resulting page of India import or export shipment records. Each record includes the HS code and its category description, a free-text product description, the shipment date, origin country, port of discharge, quantity and unit, and the unit price and total value in US dollars, exactly as zauba.com publishes them.

zauba.com fronts a genuine bot check that blocks a large share of automated requests outright. This actor is built and retried against that real failure pattern, so a search has a strong chance of coming back with results instead of an empty run. Run it on demand from the Apify Console or API, or schedule it to check for new shipments on a recurring basis.

💡 Why use it?

• I am a sourcing manager comparing average unit prices and ports of discharge for a product category before committing to a new India supplier, so I can negotiate from real shipment data instead of a quote sheet.
• I am a market researcher tracking which HS codes are moving through Indian ports each month to build a trade trend report for my clients.
• I am a lead-gen consultant building a list of active India import and export categories by HS code and shipment value, to hand off to my sales team as warm outreach targets.

🚀 How to use it

STEP 1 Pick your search Enter an HS code or a product keyword, and choose import or export.

STEP 2 Let it work through the block The actor pushes past zauba.com's bot check with a generous retry allowance so your search actually completes.

STEP 3 Get clean shipment rows Download dates, ports, countries, quantities, and USD values ready for your spreadsheet or CRM.

1. Open the actor and choose Import or Export as the trade type.
2. Enter an HS code (e.g. 85171290) or a product keyword (e.g. mobile phone) in the search fields. You can also paste direct zauba.com category or HS-code page URLs into Start URLs instead.
3. Click Start. The run submits your search on zauba.com and, once through the site's check, saves each matching shipment record to the dataset.
4. Export the dataset as JSON, CSV, or Excel, or pull it through the Apify API into your own tools.

📥 Input

Field	Type	Required	Description
startUrls	array of URLs	No	Direct zauba.com category or HS-code page URLs, copied from a link on zauba.com's own filter list. When set, these are fetched as-is and the trade type, HS code, and product keyword fields below are ignored.
tradeType	enum	No	Scrape import shipment records or export shipment records. Only used when Start URLs is empty. Defaults to import.
hsCode	string	No	Harmonized System code to search for, e.g. 85176290. zauba.com's search uses one shared field for either an HS code or a keyword. If both this and Product Keyword are set, HS Code wins.
productKeyword	string	No	Free-text product description to search for, e.g. mobile phone. Used only when HS Code is empty.
maxItems	integer	No	Maximum number of shipment records to return. zauba.com's free tier caps any single search at roughly 20 results, so values above that will not produce more results from one query. Defaults to 20.
maxRequestRetries	integer	No	How many times to retry a request after a failed bot check before giving up. zauba.com's check does not pass on every attempt, so a healthy retry budget matters more here than on most sites. Defaults to 8.
maxConcurrency	integer	No	Maximum number of parallel requests. Keep this low, since a single search only ever returns one page of results and higher concurrency will not speed that up. Defaults to 2.
requestDelaySecs	integer	No	Minimum pacing delay enforced between requests, on top of the actor's built-in adaptive throttling. Defaults to 3.
proxyConfiguration	object	No	Proxy settings. A specific Apify proxy type built to get through strong bot checks is set by default, since this site blocks standard proxy types on the very first request. Leave this on the default unless you know what you are changing.
onlyNewShipments	boolean	No	When enabled, the first run builds a baseline of shipments already seen. Later runs using the same Monitoring State Key return only shipments not seen before, turning repeated runs into a new-shipments feed. Defaults to false.
monitoringStateKey	string	No	Identifies the seen-shipments baseline. Use a distinct key per saved search or schedule so separate monitors do not share state. Defaults to default.
resetSeenShipments	boolean	No	Clears the stored baseline for the given Monitoring State Key before this run, so all matching shipments count as new again. Defaults to false.

📤 Output

Every shipment record is saved as a single dataset item. You can download the dataset in JSON, CSV, HTML, or Excel format, or pull it directly through the Apify API.

{
  "shipmentId": "a1f9c2e7d0b34f56",
  "tradeType": "import",
  "hsCode": "85171290",
  "hsCodeDescription": "Telephones for cellular networks or Other",
  "productDescription": "Mobile phone parts and accessories",
  "dateIso": "2016-11-22",
  "countryOfOrigin": "China",
  "portOfDischarge": "Nhava Sheva Sea",
  "quantity": 500,
  "unit": "PCS",
  "unitPriceUsd": 12.45,
  "totalValueUsd": 6225,
  "currency": "USD",
  "sourceUrl": "https://www.zauba.com/import-mobile+phone/hs-code-85171290-hs-code.html",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-08-23T09:12:44.000Z"
}

📊 Data table

Field	Type	Description
shipmentId	string	Identifier generated for the record from its own contents, used to detect duplicates across monitoring runs.
tradeType	string	import or export.
hsCode	string	Harmonized System code for the shipment.
hsCodeDescription	string	Category description tied to the HS code, as published on zauba.com.
productDescription	string	Free-text description of the goods for this shipment.
dateIso	string	Shipment date in ISO 8601 format.
countryOfOrigin	string	Country the goods shipped from.
countryOfDestination	string	Country the goods shipped to, when present on the source page.
portOfDischarge	string	Indian port where the shipment was discharged (imports) or loaded from (exports), as labeled on the page.
portOfLoading	string	Port of loading, when present on the source page.
quantity	number	Quantity shipped.
unit	string	Unit of measure for the quantity, e.g. PCS, KGS.
unitPriceUsd	number	Price per unit in US dollars, as published by zauba.com.
totalValueUsd	number	Total shipment value in US dollars, as published by zauba.com.
currency	string	Always USD. zauba.com publishes values in dollars natively; no conversion is performed.
sourceUrl	string	zauba.com page the record was read from.
scrapedAt	string	Timestamp of when the actor collected the record.

💰 Pricing

Pricing is pay per result and is billed per shipment record successfully saved to your dataset. Empty runs cost absolutely nothing.

• No fixed monthly subscriptions or hidden maintenance fees.
• You only pay for shipment records that actually land in your dataset, not for time spent working through zauba.com's bot check.
• Check the Pricing tab on this actor's Store page for the current rate.

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🛠️ Tips for better results

• zauba.com only exposes the first page of any search (roughly 20 records) to visitors who are not logged in, and this actor does not attempt to log in. If you need more coverage of one topic, run several narrower searches (different HS codes or more specific keywords) instead of raising Max Shipment Records past 20.
• Keep Max Concurrency low. A single search only ever returns one page of results, so running more requests in parallel adds cost without adding data.
• If a run comes back empty, try again. zauba.com's bot check does not pass on every attempt, and the built-in retry budget is tuned for exactly this, but a very unlucky run can still exhaust its retries.
• Use the Monitoring section (onlyNewShipments, monitoringStateKey) to turn a recurring schedule into a feed of newly filed shipments instead of re-collecting the same records every time.

❓ FAQ

Does it get blocked by zauba.com?

zauba.com runs a strong bot check that blocks a large share of automated requests outright. This actor is tuned against that real failure pattern with a generous retry allowance and a long wait time per attempt, so a search has a good chance of coming back with results instead of stalling out. No scraper can guarantee 100 percent success against a check like this, but this one is built and tested specifically to survive it.

Does it extract importer, exporter, or supplier names?

No. zauba.com's free results page does not publish importer, exporter, or supplier names for any shipment record, and this actor never invents or guesses them. If a field is not actually present on the page, it is left out of the dataset entirely rather than filled with a placeholder.

Why do I only get about 20 results per search?

zauba.com itself only shows the first page of results, roughly 20 shipment records, to visitors who are not logged in. Viewing further pages requires a zauba.com account, which this actor does not use. This is a limit set by zauba.com, not a limit added by this actor. Narrow your search with a more specific HS code or product keyword to get a more focused set of matches.

Are the prices in US dollars or Indian rupees?

US dollars. zauba.com publishes unit price and total value in USD directly on its results page, and this actor copies those figures as they appear. No currency conversion is performed and no rupee figures exist on the source page.

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