Mercado Libre Scraper - 17 LATAM Countries, No Login

Why use this scraper

Mercado Libre does not offer a public API for product search, and every one of its 17 country sites (Argentina, Mexico, Colombia, Chile and more) is a separate catalog with its own prices, currency and stock. If you need price data, competitor listings or product research from Mercado Libre today, the only two options are building and maintaining your own scraper against a site that changes its markup often, or paying a person to copy rows by hand. Both are slow and both break.

Mercado Libre Scraper does the job in one API call: give it a keyword and a country, and it returns every product on the search results, with price, discount, installments, seller, rating, shipping and images already structured as JSON. No login, no cookies, no CAPTCHA to solve on your end. It runs on Apify's infrastructure, so it scales from a 10-item test run to a 5,000-item daily monitor without you touching a proxy or a browser.

Overview

The actor takes a search keyword and a target country, crawls the Mercado Libre search-results pages for that marketplace, and returns one record per product listed. Each run is scoped to a single country because each country is a fully separate catalog with its own currency and pricing; run it once per country if you need multi-country coverage. A typical run of 50 items finishes in under a minute. You are charged $0.00175 per product scraped and nothing else, no run-start fee.

Supported inputs

This actor has a single, focused input mode: keyword search on one country marketplace.

• keyword (required) - the search term exactly as a shopper would type it: "iphone", "notebook gamer", "celular samsung".
• country (required) - the ISO code of the Mercado Libre marketplace to search: AR, MX, CO, CL, PE, UY, VE, EC, BO, PY, PA, DO, CR, GT, HN, NI or SV. Each code maps to its own domain (mercadolibre.com.ar, mercadolibre.com.mx, and so on) and its own prices in local currency.
• maxItems (optional, default 50) - hard cap on how many products the run returns, across all result pages.
• maxPages (optional, default 5) - hard cap on how many result pages (roughly 48 products each) the run crawls, whichever cap is hit first.
• sort (optional, default relevance) - relevance, price_asc, price_desc or newest.

There is no direct product-URL or product-ID input mode: this actor is built for search and discovery, not for re-scraping a fixed list of URLs. See Notes & limitations below.

For Brazil (mercadolivre.com.br), use the separate Mercado Livre Scraper, since it is a distinct marketplace with its own catalog.

Use cases

• Price monitoring for resellers. Track a product line's price, discount and installment offers across sellers on one or more country sites, and get alerted when a competitor undercuts you.
• Market research for expansion. Before entering a new LATAM country, pull the top listings for your category on that country's Mercado Libre to see incumbent prices, ratings and shipping offers.
• Dropshipping and sourcing teams. Search a product niche across several countries in one pass to find winning listings, then compare price points before sourcing.
• Lead generation for B2B sales. Collect seller names surfaced by a keyword search to build a prospect list of active Mercado Libre sellers in a given country and category.
• AI shopping agents and RAG pipelines. Feed clean, structured product JSON (price, images, ratings, shipping) into an assistant that compares options or answers "what's the cheapest X in Mexico right now" queries.

How it works

The actor opens the Mercado Libre search-results page for the chosen keyword and country, and reads the product cards exactly as a shopper's browser would render them: title, price, discount badge, installment offer, rating, seller name, shipping label and image. It paginates through result pages until it hits maxItems or maxPages, whichever comes first. Because it reads the public search results directly, it needs no login and no session cookie, and it adapts automatically when Mercado Libre changes small layout details on a page.

Input configuration

1. Basic keyword search (default country, Argentina)

{
  "keyword": "iphone"
}

2. Cheapest-first search in a specific country

{
  "keyword": "iphone",
  "country": "MX",
  "maxItems": 30,
  "sort": "price_asc"
}

3. Deep crawl for a broad category, newest listings first

{
  "keyword": "notebook gamer",
  "country": "CO",
  "maxItems": 200,
  "maxPages": 5,
  "sort": "newest"
}

Output sample

Real output from a production run against mercadolibre.com.ar (keyword iphone, September 2026):

[
  {
    "productId": "MLA1055308620",
    "title": "Apple iPhone 17 Pro Max (256 GB) - Naranja cosmico - Distribuidor Autorizado",
    "price": 3129999,
    "currency": "ARS",
    "originalPrice": 3999999,
    "discount": null,
    "installments": "Mismo precio 6 cuotas de $521.666",
    "rating": 4.9,
    "reviewCount": null,
    "seller": "Apple",
    "condition": null,
    "shipping": "Llega gratis manana",
    "freeShipping": true,
    "highlight": null,
    "coupon": null,
    "variations": null,
    "image": "https://http2.mlstatic.com/D_Q_NP_2X_964942-MLA104127286834_012026-E.webp",
    "url": "https://www.mercadolibre.com.ar/apple-iphone-17-pro-max-256-gb-naranja-cosmico-distribuidor-autorizado/p/MLA1055308620",
    "keyword": "iphone",
    "country": "AR",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-09-28T19:09:39.753Z"
  },
  {
    "productId": "MLA1040287808",
    "title": "Apple iPhone 16 (128 GB) - Negro - Distribuidor Autorizado",
    "price": 1859999,
    "currency": "ARS",
    "originalPrice": 2569999,
    "discount": null,
    "installments": "Mismo precio 6 cuotas de $309.999",
    "rating": 4.9,
    "reviewCount": null,
    "seller": "Apple",
    "condition": null,
    "shipping": "Llega gratis manana",
    "freeShipping": true,
    "highlight": null,
    "coupon": null,
    "variations": null,
    "image": "https://http2.mlstatic.com/D_Q_NP_2X_838311-MLA99501450112_112025-E.webp",
    "url": "https://www.mercadolibre.com.ar/apple-iphone-16-128-gb-negro-distribuidor-autorizado/p/MLA1040287808",
    "keyword": "iphone",
    "country": "AR",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-09-28T19:09:39.753Z"
  }
]

Key output fields

Field	Type	Description
productId	string	Mercado Libre item ID, prefixed by marketplace (MLA Argentina, MLM Mexico, MCO Colombia, MLC Chile, MPE Peru, ...).
title	string	Product title as shown on the listing.
price	number	Current price, in the marketplace's local currency.
currency	string	Local currency code (ARS, MXN, COP, CLP, PEN, UYU, VES, BOB, PYG, ...).
originalPrice	number | null	Pre-discount price; null when the item is not on sale.
discount	string | null	Discount label as shown (e.g. 46% OFF); null when not on sale.
installments	string | null	Installment offer text, when Mercado Libre shows one.
rating	number | null	Average buyer rating, 1 to 5.
reviewCount	number | null	Number of buyer reviews, when shown on the card.
seller	string | null	Seller or brand name.
condition	string | null	Nuevo, Usado or Reacondicionado, when shown.
shipping	string | null	Shipping label as shown (e.g. free-shipping text).
freeShipping	boolean	true when the listing offers free shipping.
highlight	string | null	Promotional badge (e.g. MAS VENDIDO), when present.
coupon	string | null	Coupon label, when present.
variations	string | null	Variation summary (size, color), when present.
image	string	Product image URL.
url	string	Canonical product page URL.
keyword / country / scrapedAt	string	The search keyword, ISO country code and scrape timestamp for that record.

Pricing

Pay-per-event, one charge type, no run-start fee:

Event	Price
Product scraped	$0.00175

That is $1.75 per 1,000 products scraped, regardless of country or plan tier. There is no separate charge for starting a run.

What makes this richer than the competition

Two other actors cover Mercado Libre product search on the Apify Store:

• karamelo/mercadolibre-scraper-espanol-castellano (166 users in the last 30 days) charges $0.005 per result on its Free plan tier, only dropping to $0.0012 once a buyer is on a Gold plan or higher. Our flat $0.00175 per product beats its Free, Bronze and Silver tier pricing outright, with no plan upgrade required.
• sourabhbgp/mercadolibre-scraper (149 users in the last 30 days) is broader in scope, it also scrapes reviews, buyer Q&A and seller catalogs, but charges $0.005 per product result on its Free tier plus a $0.005 one-time run fee. For teams that only need product search data, this actor is cheaper per item and has no run fee.

If your use case needs reviews, Q&A or seller-catalog scraping alongside products, sourabhbgp's actor covers more ground than this one does. If you only need product listings by keyword, this actor is the cheaper, simpler option.

Notes & limitations

• Search only, no direct URL/ID mode. This actor takes a keyword and a country, and returns search results. It does not accept a list of product URLs or IDs to re-scrape individually.
• One country per run. Each country is a separate catalog with its own currency; to cover multiple countries, run the actor once per country.
• Fields are null when Mercado Libre doesn't show them. Not every listing has a rating, coupon, discount or condition label; the actor returns null rather than guessing.
• ~48 products per result page. Very deep result sets (hundreds of items for a broad keyword) take proportionally more pages and more time.
• Public data only. The actor reads publicly visible search-result data; it does not access buyer accounts, order history or any authenticated area of Mercado Libre.

FAQ

Do I need a Mercado Libre account to use this? No. The actor reads public search results; no login, cookies or credentials are required.

Which countries can I search? 17 Hispanic LATAM marketplaces: Argentina, Mexico, Colombia, Chile, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, Paraguay, Panama, Dominican Republic, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and El Salvador. For Brazil, use the separate Mercado Livre Scraper.

Can I search multiple countries in one run? No, one country per run, since each is a separate catalog with its own prices and currency. Run the actor once per country you need.

Can I get product reviews or seller profiles with this actor? No, this actor returns product search results only. If you need reviews, buyer Q&A or seller-catalog data, see the comparison in What makes this richer than the competition above.

Why is a field like rating or coupon sometimes null? Mercado Libre does not show every field on every listing card. When a value is not present, the actor returns null instead of inventing one.

How much does a 1,000-product run cost? $1.75 at $0.00175 per product scraped, with no run-start fee.

Can I schedule this to run automatically? Yes, use Apify's built-in schedules to run it daily or hourly for ongoing price monitoring.

For AI Agents & LLM Apps

This actor is callable from any MCP-compatible AI assistant through the Apify MCP server, and directly from code through the Apify API.

Via MCP (mcp.apify.com): add the Apify MCP server to your AI assistant (Claude, ChatGPT, or any MCP client) and call the gio21/mercado-libre-scraper actor by name with a keyword and country. The assistant gets back structured JSON it can reason over directly.

Via API (run-sync-get-dataset-items), for a synchronous call that returns the dataset items in the same request:

curl "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/gio21~mercado-libre-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=<APIFY_TOKEN>" \
  -X POST \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"keyword": "iphone", "country": "MX", "maxItems": 30, "sort": "price_asc"}'

Disclaimer

This Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Mercado Libre or any of its subsidiaries. All trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners.

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