MercadoLibre Scraper — Products, Offers & Categories (LatAm)

Scrape MercadoLibre and Mercado Livre product listings across Latin American marketplaces — then download structured results as Excel, CSV, or JSON.

Use this Actor as a practical MercadoLibre / Mercado Livre data API for LatAm price monitoring, category research, deal tracking, and catalog enrichment. Pick a country site (default mercadolibre.com.ar), choose a mode, and get Dataset rows with item IDs, titles, prices, currency, and permalinks.

• Scrape Ofertas deal lists (/ofertas) with optional filters and pagination
• Collect category landings (/c/{slug}) for phones, vehicles, real estate, supermarket, and more
• Cover MercadoLibre and Mercado Livre hosts across Argentina, Mexico, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, plus Central America TLDs
• Capture item_id, title, price, currency, permalink, and source surface
• Export to Excel / CSV / JSON, or connect Make, n8n, Zapier, Python, or the Apify API
• Pay per event — Actor start + each Dataset result; platform usage is included (you do not pay separate Apify compute on top)

Unofficial tool. This Actor is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Mercado Libre S.R.L., MercadoLivre, or MercadoLibre brand sites. It collects publicly reachable listing surfaces and does not complete purchases or access private accounts.

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What does the MercadoLibre Scraper do?

MercadoLibre Scraper lets you extract structured ecommerce listing data from MercadoLibre LatAm sites without operating your own anti-bot browser fleet. Give it a country site and a mode (for example ofertas or category), then start a run.

Under the hood, the Actor:

1. Validates your input (mode, country site / siteId, category slug, filters, max results)
2. Enforces free-tier caps when you are on a free Apify plan
3. Calls a managed Cloud Run worker (mercadolibre-com) that opens public pages with residential egress
4. Parses guest-visible Nordic / poly-card listing signals into normalized records
5. Pushes Dataset rows ready for Excel / CSV / JSON export
6. Writes RUN_SUMMARY (and ERROR_SUMMARY on failure) to the key-value store

You run it like any other Apify Actor — schedule it, call it from the API, or plug it into automations.

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What MercadoLibre data can I extract?

Data	Ofertas	Category /c/	Search listado*	Product PDP*	Categories API
Item ID / product IDs	✅	✅	✅	✅	—
Title	✅	✅	✅	✅	Category names
Price / currency	✅	✅	✅	✅	—
Permalink / product URL	✅	✅	✅	✅	Category URLs
Site ID / country host	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
Source surface / page	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
Category tree nodes	—	—	—	—	✅

*Keyword search and product detail often land on MercadoLibre’s /gz/account-verification gate for anonymous sessions. When that happens the Actor returns an honest blocked diagnostic instead of fake SERP/PDP rows. Prefer ofertas and category for reliable collection.

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Why scrape MercadoLibre?

MercadoLibre (and Mercado Livre in Brazil) is the largest ecommerce marketplace network in Latin America. Teams scrape MercadoLibre to:

• Monitor deal / OFERTAS prices and promotions by country
• Track category landing assortments (phones, autos, real estate, grocery, and more)
• Enrich catalogs with item IDs, titles, prices, and permalinks
• Compare LatAm marketplace pricing across AR / MX / BR / CL / CO and additional hosts
• Feed BI dashboards, pricing tools, or AI agents with structured LatAm ecommerce rows

Compared with MercadoLibre Actors that only cover one country, reviews-only, or seller-offer monitoring, this Actor focuses on multi-country listing surfaces (ofertas + categories + search/product when reachable) in one input form.

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How to scrape MercadoLibre (no code required)

1. Create a free Apify account
2. Open MercadoLibre Scraper
3. Choose a mode: ofertas (default), category, search, product, or categories
4. Choose a country site (default mercadolibre.com.ar) or set siteId (MLA, MLM, MLB, …)
5. For category mode, enter a categorySlug (for example celulares-y-telefonos)
6. (Optional) Set page, categoryId, containerId, price, or maxResults
7. Click Start and download the Dataset as JSON, CSV, Excel, or JSONL

Start with maxResults: 5–10 to verify the query, then scale up.

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How much does it cost to scrape MercadoLibre?

This Actor uses pay-per-event pricing. You are charged for:

Event	Price
Actor Start (apify-actor-start)	$0.005 per start
Result (apify-default-dataset-item)	$3.00 / 1,000 results ($0.003 each)

Platform usage costs are included — you do not pay separate Apify compute/proxy usage for this Actor on top of the event prices above.

Example cost estimates

Results collected	Approx. event cost*
100	~$0.31
1,000	~$3.01
10,000	~$30.01

*Assumes one Actor start at default memory billing for start events, plus $0.003 per Dataset item. Exact start billing can scale with allocated memory (one start event per GB, minimum one).

Free Apify trial credit can cover a small test run — try maxResults: 5 first.

Free-tier caps (Actor developer limits)

Cap	Value
Free Apify-plan runs of this Actor	10 total
Free results / run	200
Paying Apify users	Unlimited runs (schema max still applies)

These limits are enforced in Actor code (set by the Actor developer, not Apify). When the run cap is hit, the Actor finishes successfully with RUN_SUMMARY.status = FREE_TIER_LIMIT and a clear status message.

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Input

Open the Input tab for the full form. Common fields:

Field	Description
mode	ofertas, category, search, product, categories
countrySite	Host such as mercadolibre.com.ar (default), .com.mx, mercadolivre.com.br, .cl, .com.co, …
siteId	Optional MLA / MLM / MLB / … (overrides countrySite)
categorySlug	Required for category (e.g. celulares-y-telefonos)
categoryId / containerId / price / installments	Optional ofertas filters
page	Ofertas page number
keyword / keywords	Search listado query (often verification-gated)
productUrl / productId / itemId / userProductId	Product mode identifiers
maxResults	Cap on emitted Dataset rows
workerBaseUrl	Advanced allowlisted worker override (optional)

Input example (ofertas)

{
  "mode": "ofertas",
  "countrySite": "mercadolibre.com.mx",
  "page": 1,
  "maxResults": 20
}

Input example (category)

{
  "mode": "category",
  "countrySite": "mercadolibre.com.ar",
  "categorySlug": "celulares-y-telefonos",
  "maxResults": 20
}

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Output

Each Dataset item includes site metadata plus listing fields such as:

Field	Description
item_id	MercadoLibre item id when present
product_id / user_product_id	Catalog / UP identifiers when present
title	Listing title
price / currency	Price signals
permalink	Public product / listing URL
siteId / countrySite	Marketplace site and host
source_surface	Surface used (ofertas, category, …)
mode / scrapedAt	Collection mode and timestamp

Field presence depends on mode and what the public page exposes for that run.

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Coverage matrix

Dimension	Coverage
Country sites	18 hosts including AR / MX / BR / CL / CO / PE / UY / VE / EC / BO + Central America + PY
Modes	ofertas · category · search · product · categories
Verticals	Phones, vehicles, real estate, supermercado, etc. via category + slug (not separate Actors)

Preferred surfaces: /ofertas and /c/{slug} for stable anonymous collection. Keyword SERP and some PDP URLs may return blocked when MercadoLibre shows account-verification.

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Architecture and proxy ownership

Apify Actor (input, Dataset, free tier, Standby, PPE)
        │ HTTPS + WORKER_AUTH
        ▼
Cloud Run worker mercadolibre-com (Patchright + Chrome + Xvfb, parse, OpenAPI)
        ▼
MercadoLibre / Mercado Livre public listing pages

WORKER_PROVIDES_PROXY=1 is enabled by default. The Actor does not mint or transmit proxyUrl; proxy/egress is configured on the worker (including egress-control). Set WORKER_BASE_URL and secret WORKER_AUTH in Actor settings.

Default run memory: 1024 MB (min 512).

Standby / Live View

When the Actor runs in Standby mode, these HTTP paths are available (see .actor/openapi.json):

Method	Path	Purpose
GET	/, /health	Readiness / Actor health
GET	/input-example	Documentation-only sample input
GET	/openapi.json, /schema	OpenAPI document
POST	/search, /v1/search	Actor scrape request (mode in JSON)

Batch Actor runs remain the primary path for Dataset export; Standby is for Live View / small HTTP calls. Live View OpenAPI only documents Actor-side paths.

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Run artifacts

Key	Purpose
INPUT_ECHO	Normalized non-secret input and resolved worker source
RUN_SUMMARY	Worker, proxy source, free-tier, and record metrics
ERROR_SUMMARY	Structured failure before valid records are emitted

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Integrations & API

• Schedule recurring MercadoLibre ofertas / category pulls from Apify Console
• Call the Actor from Python, Node.js, or curl via the Apify API
• Connect to Make, n8n, Zapier, Google Sheets, or your BI stack

API example

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/lentic_clockss~mercadolibre-scraper/runs?token=$APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "mode": "ofertas",
    "countrySite": "mercadolibre.com.ar",
    "page": 1,
    "maxResults": 20
  }'

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FAQ

Is login required?

No. The Actor targets publicly reachable listing surfaces via the managed worker.

Can it complete purchases or access seller accounts?

No. Checkout, messaging, and private account flows are intentionally excluded.

Why do search or product runs say blocked?

MercadoLibre often redirects anonymous keyword SERP / PDP traffic to /gz/account-verification. The Actor reports blocked instead of inventing results. Prefer ofertas or category.

Do I need a separate Actor per vertical (phones, cars, real estate)?

No. Use mode=category with the marketplace category slug for that vertical.

Do I pay Apify platform usage separately?

No for this Actor’s configured PPE plan — User pays platform usage costs = No. You pay the event prices above; platform usage is covered by the Actor developer.

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Legal & responsible use

Use this Actor only for lawful purposes and in line with MercadoLibre terms and applicable laws. You are responsible for how you store and use the data. Prefer low-volume smoke inputs first (maxResults: 2–5).

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Support

Questions or feature requests: open an issue on the Actor page in Apify Console or contact the developer through Apify.

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