📸 B&H Product Scraper

Scrape complete product intelligence from B&H Photo & Video in a single run.
Collect pricing, availability, images, reviews, warranty, and key commercial signals from product or category URLs, all cleanly structured and ready for analysis, dashboards, and automation.

📚 Table of Contents

• 🧾 What This Actor Does
• 📦 What Data You Get
• 👥 Who This Actor Is For
• 🔥 Use Cases
• ⚡ Quick Start
• ⬇️ Input Format
• 🧪 Example Input
• 📥 Example Output (JSON)
• 🧪 Troubleshooting (You Rarely Need This)
• 🔗 Related Scrapers

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🧾 What This Actor Does

You provide:

• One or more B&H product URLs
• Or category URLs, where the actor automatically discovers and processes individual products
• Optional limits for the number of products and reviews to collect

The actor returns:

• One normalized dataset item per product
• Stable identifiers such as SKU, item codes, and canonical URLs
• Pricing, availability, media, reviews, warranty, and SEO signals
• A schema built for commercial and analytical use cases, not raw page scraping

🧠 This actor mirrors how B&H internally represents products, resulting in data that is unusually clean, complete, and trustworthy.

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📦 What Data You Get

Each dataset item represents one fully normalized product.

Category	What’s Included
🆔 Product Identity	sku bhId name shortDescription itemCode manufacturerCatalogNumber upc
🏷 Brand	brandName
💰 Pricing & Promotions	price currencyPrice strikethroughPrice hasDiscount hasSavings instantSavingsAmount instantSavingsPercent
🛒 Commercial Rules	soldInKitOnly callForPrice mapItem hasSessionPricing
📦 Inventory & Availability	stockAvailability stockStatus stockMessage stockImportance stockShipTime maxSellQuantity minSellQuantity sellsInMultipleOf
📐 Physical & Packaging Specs	itemWeight weightUnit itemLength itemWidth itemHeight dimensionUnit packageWeight packageLength packageWidth packageHeight
📦 Box Contents	includedItems[]
🖼 Images & Media	mainImageUrl imageUrls[] imageCount hasImages hasSecondaryImages hasVideos has3DImages
⭐ Reviews & Reputation	rating reviewCount hasReviews
🛡 Warranty & Protection	hasManufacturerWarranty manufacturerWarrantyPeriod hasProtectionPlans protectionPlanCount lowestProtectionPlanPrice hasWarranty
🗂 Category Context	category1 category2 category3
🔍 SEO & URLs	productUrl canonicalUrl shortUrl pageTitle seoShortDescription
🧾 Technical Specifications	specifications (fully grouped spec object from product specs page)
🧑‍💻 Metadata	scrapedAt rawPayloadVersion

💡 All fields are normalized, nullable, and safe for analytics pipelines.

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👥 Who This Actor Is For

This actor is built for teams that care about how products are positioned, priced, merchandised, and stocked, not just listed.

It captures:

• Commercial pricing behavior
• Availability pressure
• Spec richness
• Media completeness
• Warranty depth

Rather than static attributes alone.

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📊 Data & Analytics Teams

Useful for:

• 💰 Price and savings tracking
• 📉 MAP enforcement monitoring
• 📦 Stock volatility analysis
• ⭐ Rating vs review maturity modeling
• 🧮 Category-level aggregation

Key fields:

price, instantSavingsPercent, stockStatus, rating, reviewCount, category1, category2

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🔥 Use Cases

💰 Pricing & Discount Intelligence

Track price shifts, instant savings, strikethrough logic, and promotional depth across categories.

🛒 Commercial Strategy Analysis

Understand how products are gated (MAP, call-for-price, kit-only restrictions).

📦 Inventory Pressure Monitoring

Detect:

• In-stock vs soft out-of-stock messaging
• Quantity caps
• Shipping timing signals

📊 Market & Category Research

Analyze behavior differences across:

• Categories
• Brands
• Price bands
• Warranty depth

⭐ Reputation & Product Maturity Signals

Correlate:

• Rating
• Review volume
• Media richness
• Warranty presence

To identify strong vs weak product positioning.

🧩 Dashboards, Alerts & Automation

Feed clean normalized data into:

• BI dashboards
• Internal tooling
• Price monitoring systems
• Competitive intelligence pipelines
• Catalog enrichment workflows

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🧠 Why This Dataset Is Different

Unlike raw scraped HTML or unstructured API dumps, this dataset:

• Flattens nested API structures
• Normalizes commercial signals
• Extracts structured physical dimensions
• Groups technical specs cleanly
• Preserves warranty hierarchy
• Maintains nullable-safe analytics fields

It’s designed for production-grade analytics, not just scraping.

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⚡ Quick Start

• Provide one or more B&H product or category URLs

• Set optional limits

• Run the actor

Category URLs automatically expand into individual product pages.

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⬇️ Input Format

Input	Description
categoryUrls	Product (/browse/) or category (/buy/) URLs
productsLimit	Max products per category URL
includeReviews	Include customer reviews and ratings
reviewsLimit	Reviews per product (default: 100)

💡 Disabling reviews skips review requests and speeds up execution.

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🧪 Example Input

Here is a sample JSON input you can provide when running the scraper:

{
  "includeReviews": false,
  "categoryUrls": [
    "https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/browse/Lighting-Studio/ci/1161/N/4294551176"
    "https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/buy/light-panels/ci/48383",
  ],
  "productsLimit": 20
}

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📥 Example output (JSON):

{
    "sku": 1667228,
    "itemSource": "REG",
    "name": null,
    "shortDescription": "Sigma 18-50mm f/2.8 DC DN Contemporary Lens for Sony E",
    "upc": null,
    "brandName": "Sigma",
    "brandAuthorizedDealer": true,
    "brandUrl": "/c/browse/Sigma/ci/5545/N/4232860402",
    "itemCode": "SI185028DCEM",
    "manufacturerCatalogNumber": "585965",
    "productUrl": "/c/product/1667228-REG/sigma_18_50mm_f_2_8_dg_dn.html",
    "shortUrl": "https://bhpho.to/3vhUahU",
    "pageTitle": "Sigma 18-50mm f/2.8 DC DN Contemporary Lens for Sony E 585965",
    "canonicalUrl": "https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1667228-REG/sigma_18_50mm_f_2_8_dg_dn.html",
    "seoShortDescription": "Sigma 18-50mm f/2.8 DC DN Contemporary",
    "price": 555,
    "currencyPrice": null,
    "strikethroughPrice": null,
    "soldInKitOnly": false,
    "callForPrice": false,
    "mapItem": false,
    "hasSessionPricing": false,
    "hasDiscount": false,
    "hasSavings": false,
    "instantSavingsAmount": null,
    "instantSavingsPercent": null,
    "instantSavingsEndDate": null,
    "taxNote": null,
    "stockStatus": "IN_STOCK",
    "stockImportance": "LOW",
    "stockMessage": "Temporarily Out of Stock",
    "stockShipTime": null,
    "shipsAlone": false,
    "freeShipping": false,
    "maxSellQuantity": 20,
    "minSellQuantity": 1,
    "sellsInMultipleOf": 1,
    "rating": 5,
    "reviewCount": 247,
    "hasReviews": true,
    "isHighlyRated": true,
    "mainImageUrl": "https://static.bhphoto.com/images/images345x345/1634631630_1667228.jpg",
    "images": [
      {
        "url": "https://static.bhphoto.com/images/images345x345/1634631630_1667228.jpg",
        "width": 345,
        "height": 345,
        "type": "main",
        "isMain": true,
        "note": null
      },
      {
        "url": "https://www.bhphotovideo.com/images/images500x500/sigma_18_50mm_f_2_8_dg_dn_1634631630_1667228.jpg",
        "width": 500,
        "height": 500,
        "type": "gallery",
        "isMain": false,
        "note": null
      },
      {
        "url": "https://static.bhphoto.com/images/multiple_images/images500x500/1634631378_IMG_1623592.jpg",
        "width": 500,
        "height": 500,
        "type": "gallery",
        "isMain": false,
        "note": null
      },
      {
        "url": "https://static.bhphoto.com/images/multiple_images/images500x500/1634631378_IMG_1623593.jpg",
        "width": 500,
        "height": 500,
        "type": "gallery",
        "isMain": false,
        "note": null
      },
      {
        "url": "https://static.bhphoto.com/images/multiple_images/images500x500/1634631378_IMG_1623602.jpg",
        "width": 500,
        "height": 500,
        "type": "gallery",
        "isMain": false,
        "note": null
      },
      {
        "url": "https://static.bhphoto.com/images/multiple_images/images500x500/1634631378_IMG_1623603.jpg",
        "width": 500,
        "height": 500,
        "type": "gallery",
        "isMain": false,
        "note": "Sample Photo"
      },
      {
        "url": "https://static.bhphoto.com/images/multiple_images/images500x500/1634631378_IMG_1623604.jpg",
        "width": 500,
        "height": 500,
        "type": "gallery",
        "isMain": false,
        "note": "Sample Photo"
      },
      {
        "url": "https://static.bhphoto.com/images/multiple_images/images500x500/1634631378_IMG_1623605.jpg",
        "width": 500,
        "height": 500,
        "type": "gallery",
        "isMain": false,
        "note": "Sample Photo"
      },
      {
        "url": "https://static.bhphoto.com/images/multiple_images/images500x500/1634631378_IMG_1623606.jpg",
        "width": 500,
        "height": 500,
        "type": "gallery",
        "isMain": false,
        "note": "Sample Photo"
      }
    ],
    "imageCount": 9,
    "hasImages": true,
    "hasSecondaryImages": true,
    "hasVideos": true,
    "has3DImages": true,
    "isUsed": false,
    "isRefurbished": false,
    "isOpenBox": false,
    "isNewArrival": false,
    "isNewRelease": false,
    "isExclusive": false,
    "conditionLabel": null,
    "hasManufacturerWarranty": true,
    "manufacturerWarrantyPeriod": "Year",
    "hasProtectionPlans": true,
    "protectionPlanCount": 3,
    "lowestProtectionPlanPrice": 71.99,
    "hasWarranty": true,
    "sellingPoints": [
      "E-Mount Lens/APS-C Format",
      "27-75mm (35mm Equivalent)",
      "Aperture Range: f/2.8 to f/22",
      "Minimum Focusing Distance: 4.8\"",
      "Three Aspherical Elements",
      "Special Low Dispersion Element",
      "Rounded 7-Blade Diaphragm",
      "Dust- and Splash-Proof Design",
      "Includes LH582-02 Lens Hood"
    ],
    "categoryExperts": [
      {
        "profileTitle": "Rafael D., B&H Photo Expert",
        "imageUrl": "https://static.bhphotovideo.com/explora/sites/default/files/exp/rafael-d.png",
        "categoryName": "Photography"
      },
      {
        "profileTitle": "Vilson L., B&H Photo Expert",
        "imageUrl": "https://static.bhphotovideo.com/explora/sites/default/files/exp/vilson-l.png",
        "categoryName": "Photography"
      },
      {
        "profileTitle": "Leonard E., B&H Photo Expert",
        "imageUrl": "https://static.bhphotovideo.com/explora/sites/default/files/exp/leonard-e.png",
        "categoryName": "Photography"
      },
      {
        "profileTitle": "Marisa P., B&H Photo Expert",
        "imageUrl": "https://static.bhphotovideo.com/explora/sites/default/files/exp/marisa-p.png",
        "categoryName": "Photography"
      },
      {
        "profileTitle": "Gerry R., B&H Photo Expert",
        "imageUrl": "https://static.bhphotovideo.com/explora/sites/default/files/exp/gerry-r.png",
        "categoryName": "Photography"
      },
      {
        "profileTitle": "Boyd H., B&H Photo Expert",
        "imageUrl": "https://static.bhphotovideo.com/explora/sites/default/files/exp/boyd-h.png",
        "categoryName": "Photography"
      },
      {
        "profileTitle": "Gil R., B&H Expert",
        "imageUrl": "https://static.bhphotovideo.com/explora/sites/default/files/exp/gil-r.png",
        "categoryName": "Photography"
      },
      {
        "profileTitle": "Jeannette G., B&H Photo Expert",
        "imageUrl": "https://static.bhphotovideo.com/explora/sites/default/files/exp/jeannette_g.png",
        "categoryName": "Photography"
      },
      {
        "profileTitle": "Jamie P., B&H Photo Expert",
        "imageUrl": "https://static.bhphotovideo.com/explora/sites/default/files/exp/jamie_p.png",
        "categoryName": "Photography"
      },
      {
        "profileTitle": "Patrick D., B&H Photo Expert",
        "imageUrl": "https://static.bhphotovideo.com/explora/sites/default/files/exp/patrick_d_1.png",
        "categoryName": "Photography"
      }
    ],
    "scrapedAt": "2026-01-19T09:10:01.322537",
    "rawPayloadVersion": "v1"
  },

🧭 Output Views in Apify

The actor includes predefined output overviews in the Apify UI, tailored for different user needs such as pricing analysis, inventory monitoring, and market research.
You can explore these directly in the Apify Dataset → Output tab without writing any code.

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🧪 Troubleshooting (You Rarely Need This)

• The Actor is built to handle transient issues, including occasional failed requests or network hiccups.

• Failed requests are automatically retried using a smart exponential backoff strategy.

• Proper proxy rotation and session management ensure that data extraction remains consistent and uninterrupted.

• What this means for you: occasional warnings in logs are normal and do not indicate a failure — the Actor will continue fetching until the requested data is collected or retries are exhausted.

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• 🚚 Blinkit Search Results Scraper – Quick-commerce pricing and availability
• ⚡ Zepto Product Scraper – Hyperlocal delivery intelligence