MercadoLibre Review Scraper

Collect public product reviews from MercadoLibre marketplaces in Latin America. Provide product URLs or catalog IDs and receive one flat, normalized dataset record for each unique review. The actor uses MercadoLibre's public review response, preserves the original review language, and keeps pagination, retries, and review deduplication bounded.

Use cases

• Monitor customer feedback for a catalog product in Mexico, Argentina, and other supported MercadoLibre marketplaces.
• Export ratings, review text, helpful-vote counts, dates, variants, and public review media for analysis.
• Compare review coverage across a list of product URLs without managing marketplace-specific review requests.

Input

productUrls is the preferred input. A run can contain URLs from more than one supported marketplace. Raw catalog IDs are also accepted through productUrls or skus.

{
  "productUrls": [
    "https://www.mercadolibre.com.mx/apple-iphone-13-128-gb-medianoche-distribuidor-autorizado/p/MLM1018500844",
    "https://www.mercadolibre.com.ar/lego-classic-caja-de-ladrillos-creativos-mediana-10696-cantidad-de-piezas-484/p/MLA18581975"
  ],
  "maxReviewsPerProduct": 100,
  "reviewOrder": "relevance",
  "maxConcurrency": 4,
  "useResidentialProxy": false
}

Field	Type	Default	Description
productUrls	array	—	Product URLs or raw catalog IDs. At least one valid value is required across the URL/SKU fields.
skus	array	—	Catalog IDs such as MLM1018500844 or MLA18581975.
domain	string	—	Compatibility metadata used to choose a marketplace for a numeric SKU.
country	enum	MX	Fallback marketplace for a numeric SKU without an identifiable country prefix.
maxReviewsPerProduct	integer	100	Maximum unique reviews per product. 0 uses the finite 5,000-record cap.
reviewOrder	enum	relevance	relevance or dateCreated (newest first).
maxConcurrency	integer	4	Product requests processed in parallel, limited to 1–12.
useResidentialProxy	boolean	false	Enables Apify Residential Proxy routing.
proxyConfiguration	object	—	Optional Apify Proxy configuration.

The actor requests relevance and newest-first slices, then deduplicates by review ID. The configured product limit remains in effect.

Output

Each dataset item is a flat JSON object. Missing public source values are null; the actor does not infer them. This example is illustrative:

{
  "country": "MX",
  "siteId": "MLM",
  "productId": "MLM1018500844",
  "catalogProductId": null,
  "productUrl": "https://www.mercadolibre.com.mx/apple-iphone-13-128-gb-medianoche-distribuidor-autorizado/p/MLM1018500844",
  "reviewId": 3061778982,
  "reviewRating": 5,
  "reviewTitle": null,
  "reviewText": "Muy bueno lo recomiendo, es de marca.",
  "reviewDate": "2026-08-09T15:28:40.000Z",
  "reviewDateText": "Hace 5 días",
  "reviewCountry": "Argentina",
  "reviewLikes": 0,
  "reviewMedia": null,
  "reviewVariant": "",
  "reviewerName": null,
  "verifiedPurchase": null,
  "scrapedAt": "2026-08-14T16:40:16.738Z"
}

Field	Description
country, siteId	Marketplace country and site code determined from the input.
productId	Product identifier resolved from the input URL or ID.
catalogProductId	Catalog product identifier supplied by MercadoLibre review metadata, when present. It can differ from productId.
productUrl	Original product URL or the URL generated for a raw ID.
reviewId, reviewRating, reviewTitle, reviewText	Public review identity and content.
reviewDate, reviewDateText	ISO creation time when present and MercadoLibre's localized date label.
reviewCountry, reviewLikes, reviewVariant	Reviewer country, helpful-vote count, and reviewed variant.
reviewMedia	Public image or video URLs, or null when none are present.
reviewerName, verifiedPurchase	Publicly exposed reviewer metadata, otherwise null.
scrapedAt	UTC timestamp when the actor normalized the record.

site_id and review_site_id are intentionally not emitted: in the supplied API response they duplicate siteId. The output therefore keeps one canonical marketplace field. catalogProductId is retained because it is a distinct source value and is present as null when MercadoLibre does not publish it.

Run through the Apify API

Set APIFY_TOKEN in your environment; do not embed it in application source. The synchronous endpoint returns dataset items when the run finishes within the platform's synchronous time limit.

cURL

curl --request POST \
  --url "https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/karamelo~mercadolibre-review-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=$APIFY_TOKEN" \
  --header "content-type: application/json" \
  --data '{
    "productUrls": [
      "https://www.mercadolibre.com.mx/apple-iphone-13-128-gb-medianoche-distribuidor-autorizado/p/MLM1018500844",
      "https://www.mercadolibre.com.ar/lego-classic-caja-de-ladrillos-creativos-mediana-10696-cantidad-de-piezas-484/p/MLA18581975"
    ],
    "maxReviewsPerProduct": 25,
    "reviewOrder": "dateCreated"
  }'

JavaScript

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: process.env.APIFY_TOKEN });
const run = await client.actor('karamelo/mercadolibre-review-scraper').call({
    productUrls: [
        'https://www.mercadolibre.com.mx/apple-iphone-13-128-gb-medianoche-distribuidor-autorizado/p/MLM1018500844',
        'https://www.mercadolibre.com.ar/lego-classic-caja-de-ladrillos-creativos-mediana-10696-cantidad-de-piezas-484/p/MLA18581975',
    ],
    maxReviewsPerProduct: 25,
    reviewOrder: 'dateCreated',
});

const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
console.log(items);

Python

import os
from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient(token=os.environ["APIFY_TOKEN"])
run = client.actor("karamelo/mercadolibre-review-scraper").call(
    run_input={
        "productUrls": [
            "https://www.mercadolibre.com.mx/apple-iphone-13-128-gb-medianoche-distribuidor-autorizado/p/MLM1018500844",
            "https://www.mercadolibre.com.ar/lego-classic-caja-de-ladrillos-creativos-mediana-10696-cantidad-de-piezas-484/p/MLA18581975",
        ],
        "maxReviewsPerProduct": 25,
        "reviewOrder": "dateCreated",
    }
)

items = client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).list_items().items
print(items)

Limitations

• Only public reviews returned by MercadoLibre are collected; private, removed, or account-restricted content is unavailable.
• Review availability, language, and optional metadata vary by marketplace and product.
• Each product is capped at 5,000 output records, including when maxReviewsPerProduct is 0.
• Residential proxy traffic can incur separate Apify Proxy usage charges.