Blueland Category Spider

The Blueland Category Spider is a powerful Apify Actor designed to scrape product data from Blueland's category pages efficiently and reliably. It extracts detailed information about products, including titles, prices, badges, and links, making it ideal for e-commerce data collection. This tool empowers businesses and researchers to gather actionable insights from Blueland's sustainable cleaning products without manual effort.

Features

• Efficient Scraping: Quickly extracts product data from specified Blueland category URLs with high accuracy.
• Structured Output: Provides clean, JSON-formatted data including titles, prices, badges, and crawl metadata for easy integration.
• Flexible Input: Accepts multiple URLs to scrape various categories in a single run.
• Reliable Performance: Built on Apify's robust infrastructure, ensuring minimal downtime and consistent results.
• Data Enrichment: Includes crawled date, actor ID, and run ID for tracking and auditing purposes.
• No Coding Required: User-friendly interface for non-technical users to configure and run extractions.
• Scalable: Handles large volumes of data, suitable for batch processing and automation.

Input Parameters

Parameter	Type	Required	Description	Example
Urls	array	No	An array of URLs pointing to Blueland category pages to scrape. Each URL must be a valid HTTP/HTTPS link.	["https://www.blueland.com/categories/dish-soap"]

Example Usage

To run the Blueland Category Spider, provide input in JSON format like this:

{
  "Urls": [
    "https://www.blueland.com/categories/dish-soap"
  ]
}

The Actor will output data in the following JSON structure:

[
  {
    "title": "Dish Soap Refills",
    "href": "https://www.blueland.com/products/dish-soap-refill-packs?Scent=Fragrance-Free",
    "price": "Quick Add",
    "badges": [],
    "crawled_date": "2025-12-02",
    "actor_id": "iddKClVaeEedCghKC",
    "run_id": "VMkN2IvW4iA2WLPS1"
  }
]

Use Cases

• Market Research: Analyze product offerings and pricing trends in the sustainable cleaning market.
• Competitive Intelligence: Monitor Blueland's inventory and compare with competitors for strategic insights.
• Price Monitoring: Track price changes and availability for e-commerce optimization.
• Content Aggregation: Collect product details for blogs, reviews, or affiliate marketing.
• Academic Research: Study consumer trends in eco-friendly products using structured data.
• Business Automation: Automate data feeds for inventory management or sales forecasting.

Installation and Usage

1. Search for "Blueland Category Spider" in the Apify Store
2. Click "Try for free" or "Run"
3. Configure input parameters
4. Click "Start" to begin extraction
5. Monitor progress in the log
6. Export results in your preferred format (JSON, CSV, Excel)

Output Format

The output is an array of JSON objects, each representing a product from the scraped categories. Key fields include:

• title: The product name (e.g., "Dish Soap Refills").
• href: Direct link to the product page.
• price: Pricing information or call-to-action (e.g., "Quick Add").
• badges: Array of any special labels (often empty).
• crawled_date: Date of extraction in YYYY-MM-DD format.
• actor_id and run_id: Identifiers for tracking the Actor run.

This format ensures easy parsing and integration with databases or analytics tools.

Support

For custom/simplified outputs or bug reports, please contact:

• Email: support@getdataforme.com
• Subject line: "custom support"
• Contact form: https://getdataforme.com/contact/

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