# Shopify Products Scraper: Catalog, Prices & Variants to JSON (`lepidata/shopify-products`) Actor

Shopify product data: every product from any store's public catalog (title, vendor, type, tags, dates, min/max and compare-at price, variants with SKU and availability, images, URL). Whole store or one collection. No login, no browser.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/lepidata/shopify-products.md
- **Developed by:** [Lepi Data](https://apify.com/lepidata) (community)
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
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## Pricing

from $0.90 / 1,000 products

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

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For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## Shopify Products Scraper: Catalog, Prices & Variants to JSON

Give it a list of Shopify stores and get **one row per product** from each store's public catalog: title, vendor, product type, tags, created/updated/published dates, lowest and highest price, compare-at ("was") price, variants with SKU, price and availability, images and the product URL. Read a whole store or a single collection. No login, no browser, no proxies.

Useful for price monitoring, competitor and assortment research, catalog migration, and feeding product data into Sheets, a database or an AI agent.

### What you get

| Field | Meaning |
|---|---|
| `type` | `product` for a product; free status rows otherwise |
| `store`, `url` | Store host and the product page URL |
| `id`, `title`, `handle` | Shopify product id, title and URL handle |
| `vendor`, `productType`, `tags` | As set by the store |
| `createdAt`, `updatedAt`, `publishedAt` | ISO 8601, in the store's time zone |
| `priceMin`, `priceMax` | Lowest / highest variant price, in the store's default currency |
| `compareAtPriceMin`, `compareAtPriceMax` | Compare-at prices, when the store sets them |
| `available`, `variantCount` | Any variant in stock to buy; number of variants |
| `variants` | Up to 100: `id`, `title`, `sku`, `price`, `compareAtPrice`, `available` |
| `options` | Option names and values (e.g. Size, Color) |
| `images`, `imageCount` | Up to 20 image URLs; total number of images |

The currency isn't included in Shopify's public catalog, so prices are numbers in whatever currency the store shows by default. Product descriptions and stock quantities are not returned.

### Pricing

**$0.90 per 1,000 products** (pay per event `product`), no extra start fee beyond Apify's standard one. Free: stores that aren't Shopify, are password-protected, rate-limited or blocked by robots.txt (`store-error` rows with the reason), and the limit rows. Set a maximum charge per run and the Actor stops cleanly when it's reached.

Free-plan accounts can check up to 20 stores and get up to 100 products per run to try it out. Paid Apify plans get full results.

### Input

- `storeUrls`: domains (`allbirds.com`), URLs, or `*.myshopify.com` addresses. A URL with `/collections/<handle>` reads just that collection.
- `maxProductsPerStore` (default 100): stop after this many products per store, in the store's own catalog order.
- `collection` (optional): a collection handle, e.g. `sale`, applied to every store.

### How it works, and what it never touches

- It requests only the store's public catalog files, `/products.json` and `/collections/<handle>/products.json`, 250 products per request. Every other path is refused in code, including after redirects: it never requests customer, order, cart, checkout, account, admin or search pages.
- robots.txt is checked for each store. Stores whose robots.txt disallows the catalog, or can't be read, are skipped as free rows.
- At most one request per second per store (slower if robots.txt sets a crawl delay). On HTTP 429 it waits (honoring `Retry-After`) and retries up to 3 times, then reports `RATE_LIMITED`.
- The user agent names the Actor and links to our Apify profile.

### Good to know

- **Stores that block access are not supported.** If a store's robots.txt disallows its catalog, it answers 401/403 or redirects to a password page, or it keeps answering 429 after 3 polite retries, you get one free `store-error` row and the Actor makes no further requests to that store in the run. It does not switch to proxies, change its user agent or headers, or try other pages (such as `/collections/all`, sitemaps or feeds).

- Shopify's public catalog lists at most **25,000 products per store or collection**. Bigger stores get a free `store-incomplete` row; read them collection by collection to get more.

- Some Shopify stores turn off or block their public catalog. They show up as `STORE_PROTECTED`, `NOT_SHOPIFY` or `ROBOTS_BLOCKED` rows, free of charge.

- Non-Shopify sites are detected (no Shopify product list at `/products.json`) and reported as `NOT_SHOPIFY`.

- Only public https sites; private and internal addresses are refused.

### FAQ

**Is this data public?** Yes. It's the product information each store publishes for anyone to read, with no login. No personal data is collected. If you republish product text or images, respect the store's rights and terms.

**Why didn't I get every product?** Check `maxProductsPerStore` (default 100), and look for a `store-incomplete` or `store-error` row for that store.

### Not affiliated

This Actor is an independent, unofficial tool. It is not made, endorsed, or supported by Shopify Inc. "Shopify" is used only to describe the public store catalogs this tool reads.

# Actor input Schema

## `storeUrls` (type: `array`):

Shopify stores as domains (allbirds.com), URLs, or myshopify.com addresses. A URL containing /collections/<handle> reads just that collection. Non-Shopify sites get a free store-error row. Up to 1,000 per run.

## `maxProductsPerStore` (type: `integer`):

Stop after this many products per store (the store's own catalog order). Each product row is billed. Shopify lists at most 25,000 products per store or collection.

## `collection` (type: `string`):

Read only this collection in every store, e.g. "sale" or "mens-shoes" (the part after /collections/ in the store's URL). Leave empty for the whole catalog.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "storeUrls": [
    "https://www.allbirds.com",
    "https://www.brooklinen.com"
  ],
  "maxProductsPerStore": 100
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `items` (type: `string`):

All rows from this run.

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "storeUrls": [
        "https://www.allbirds.com",
        "https://www.brooklinen.com"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("lepidata/shopify-products").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = { "storeUrls": [
        "https://www.allbirds.com",
        "https://www.brooklinen.com",
    ] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("lepidata/shopify-products").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "storeUrls": [
    "https://www.allbirds.com",
    "https://www.brooklinen.com"
  ]
}' |
apify call lepidata/shopify-products --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,lepidata/shopify-products"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/YIcypyo2FCz0TpSYs/builds/UNhuMOtNXQqdyYnTA/openapi.json