Backcountry.com Scraper

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Backcountry (backcountry.com) is a premier US online retailer specializing in outdoor gear and apparel. With over 4.4 million monthly visitors, Backcountry carries top brands across camping, hiking, skiing, snowboarding, climbing, cycling, and lifestyle categories — offering detailed product pages with variant-level pricing, technical specifications, and customer reviews.

Introduction

This Apify scraper extracts structured product data from Backcountry.com. Given a search URL, category page, or direct product URL, it collects detailed information including pricing, color/size variants, technical specifications, brand details, images, review metrics, and product badges — without requiring any account or API key.

Use Cases

• Price monitoring: Track prices and discounts across Backcountry's catalog to spot deals, sales, or clearance items.
• Product research: Build comprehensive datasets of outdoor gear with detailed specs, materials, and feature comparisons.
• Competitor analysis: Monitor product assortments, pricing strategies, and discount patterns in the outdoor retail space.
• Inventory tracking: Track stock levels, variant availability, and new product arrivals across categories.

Input

Provide the following fields:

• startUrls (array, required): One or more URLs to scrape. Supports:
  • Search pages: https://www.backcountry.com/search?s=u&q=ski+tools
  • Category pages: https://www.backcountry.com/cat/mens-hats
  • Product detail pages: https://www.backcountry.com/black-diamond-flat-bill-trucker-hat
• maxItems (integer, optional): Maximum number of products to scrape per start URL. Default: 5.
• proxyConfiguration (object, optional): Proxy settings. Defaults to no proxy.

Input Examples

1) Scrape products from a search

{
  "startUrls": [
    {
      "url": "https://www.backcountry.com/search?s=u&q=ski+tools"
    }
  ],
  "maxItems": 10
}

2) Scrape a category page

{
  "startUrls": [
    { "url": "https://www.backcountry.com/cat/mens-hats" }
  ],
  "maxItems": 20
}

3) Scrape a specific product page

{
  "startUrls": [
    { "url": "https://www.backcountry.com/black-diamond-flat-bill-trucker-hat" }
  ],
  "maxItems": 1
}

Output

Each dataset item represents one Backcountry product with fields like:

{
  "url": "https://www.backcountry.com/black-diamond-flat-bill-trucker-hat",
  "id": "BLDZ9RS",
  "title": "Flat Bill Trucker Hat",
  "brand": "Black Diamond",
  "brandUrl": "https://www.backcountry.com/brand/black%20diamond",
  "description": "Primed and ready for long days on the open range, the Flat Bill Trucker Hat is a road trip essential.",
  "gender": "unisex",
  "minListPrice": 40,
  "maxListPrice": 45,
  "minSalePrice": 16,
  "maxSalePrice": 45,
  "minDiscountPercent": 0,
  "maxDiscountPercent": 60,
  "availabilityStatus": "InStock",
  "isInStock": true,
  "hasAddOns": false,
  "reviewCount": 0,
  "averageRating": 0,
  "attributes": [
    { "name": "Adjustability", "value": "Snapback" },
    { "name": "Recommended Use", "value": "Casual" }
  ],
  "features": [
    { "name": "Adjustability", "value": "snapback" },
    { "name": "Style", "value": "trucker hat" }
  ],
  "colors": [
    {
      "name": "Charcoal/White Mountainscape",
      "family": "blue",
      "image": "https://www.backcountry.com/images/items/medium/BLD/BLDZ9RS/CHAWHIMOU.jpg",
      "sizes": [
        { "name": "One Size", "scale": "Standard Alphabetical", "skuId": "BLDZ9RS-CHAWHIMOU-ONESIZ" }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "skus": [
    {
      "id": "BLDZ9RS-CHAWHIMOU-ONESIZ",
      "color": "Charcoal/White Mountainscape",
      "colorFamily": "blue",
      "size": "One Size",
      "sizeScale": "Standard Alphabetical",
      "listPrice": 45,
      "salePrice": 45,
      "discountPercent": 0,
      "onSale": false,
      "isPastSeason": false,
      "availability": "InStock",
      "stockLevel": 7
    }
  ],
  "images": ["https://www.backcountry.com/images/items/small/BLD/BLDZ9RS/CHWHWABLDI_D1.jpg"],
  "breadcrumbs": [
    { "name": "Men", "url": "https://www.backcountry.com/cat/mens-clothing" },
    { "name": "Accessories", "url": "https://www.backcountry.com/cat/mens-accessories" }
  ],
  "activationDate": "2024-02-16T21:31:59Z",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-02-27T12:00:00.000Z"
}

Why use the Backcountry.com Scraper?

• Comprehensive: Extracts full product detail including all color/size variants, SKU-level pricing, stock levels, and technical specifications.
• Fast: Lightweight HTTP-only scraper — no browser overhead, fast execution times.
• Easy to use: Simply provide a URL and set maxItems. Supports search, category, and detail page URLs.
• Well-Maintained: Actively maintained by Lexis Solutions as part of an 180+ scraper monorepo.

FAQ

• Do I need a Backcountry account to use this scraper?

  No. The scraper accesses only publicly available product pages and search results.

• How many products can I scrape?

  There is no hard limit. Use the maxItems field to control the number of results per start URL.

• Does the scraper handle pagination?

  Yes. For search and category URLs, the scraper automatically pages through all results up to maxItems.

• What data is available for each product?

  Full product details including pricing at the SKU level, all color and size variants with stock levels, technical specifications, brand info, images, reviews, and category breadcrumbs.

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Image credit: https://backcountry.com