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📚 MerriamWebster Product Scraper

The MerriamWebster Product Scraper is an Apify Actor designed to extract structured product data from the [Merriam-Webster Shop]. Given one or more product URLs, this actor fetches detailed information such as name, description, images, price, stock availability, and more.

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✅ Input

Provide a JSON input with the following fields:

{
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"]
  },
  "urls": [
    "https://shop.merriam-webster.com/products/merriam-websters-collegiate-dictionary-eleventh-edition"
  ]
}

Input Fields

Field	Type	Required	Description
proxyConfiguration	object	✅	Proxy configuration. Use Apify Residential proxy for reliability.
urls	string[]	✅	List of Merriam-Webster product page URLs to scrape.

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🧾 Output

The actor returns an array of structured product objects. Here's an example output:

[
  {
    "name": "Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, Eleventh Edition",
    "url": "https://shop.merriam-webster.com/products/merriam-websters-collegiate-dictionary-eleventh-edition",
    "image": [
      "https://shop.merriam-webster.com/cdn/shop/products/Merriam-Webster_s-Collegiate-Dictionary-Eleventh-Edition-cover-update.jpg?v=1680122076&width=744"
    ],
    "description": "Newly Revised & Updated! ... (truncated for brevity)",
    "sku": "8095 M-W's Collegiate Dict 11th Ed Indexed",
    "brand": "Merriam Webster",
    "offers": [
      {
        "sku": "8095 M-W's Collegiate Dict 11th Ed Indexed",
        "availability": "http://schema.org/InStock",
        "price": 27.95,
        "priceCurrency": "USD",
        "url": "https://shop.merriam-webster.com/products/merriam-websters-collegiate-dictionary-eleventh-edition?variant=39821101269175"
      },
      {
        "sku": "8071 M-W's Collegiate Dict 11th Ed Laminated",
        "availability": "http://schema.org/OutOfStock",
        "price": 24.95,
        "priceCurrency": "USD",
        "url": "https://shop.merriam-webster.com/products/merriam-websters-collegiate-dictionary-eleventh-edition?variant=39821101301943"
      }
    ]
  }
]

Output Fields

Field	Type	Description
name	string	Full product name.
url	string	Source URL of the product.
image	string[]	Array of product image URLs.
description	string	Full HTML-cleaned product description.
sku	string	SKU identifier of the main variant.
brand	string	Product brand name.
offers	object[]	Variants with price, availability, and direct buy URLs.

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🔧 Use Cases

• E-commerce market research
• Competitor price tracking
• Dictionary or book product aggregator
• Content enrichment for product catalogs

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📬 Support

For custom data formatting, feature requests, or bug reports, feel free to contact us:

• 📧 Email: support@getdataforme.com → Please mention your Actor name (MerriamWebster Product Scraper) in the subject line.

• 🌐 Contact Form: https://getdataforme.com/contact/

We're here to help you get the data you need!

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