Bol Scraper — Netherlands Product Prices & Ratings

The biggest online retailer in the Netherlands and Belgium in rows: product name, price in euros, product ID, stock availability, buyer rating and review count, description and image — across every category.

What does the Bol Scraper do?

This Actor collects products from Bol.com, the largest online retailer in the Netherlands and Belgium and the price reference most Dutch shoppers check first. You give it a category path and it returns the catalogue, one row per product, about thirty to a page.

Products are read from the structured data the site publishes for search engines rather than from the rendered tiles, which keeps the parser stable when the front end changes. One thing had to be handled carefully: the category page describes itself in that same block, with the combined type ["ItemList","Product"], carrying the category name and its price range as though it were an item on sale. Left in, that lands in the export as a product called "Laptops" priced at the cheapest laptop and drags every average down. This Actor keeps only nodes that are a product and not a list.

Who is it for?

• Price-monitoring and repricing teams tracking Dutch and Belgian retail prices.
• Brands and distributors checking how their products are listed, priced and rated.
• Marketplace sellers benchmarking against Bol's own listings.
• Market researchers measuring price distribution and rating spread in a category.
• Comparison sites seeding a Benelux catalogue.
• E-commerce analysts watching availability and discounting over time.

Use cases

• Track prices in a category day by day to detect discounting.
• Compare your listed price against the market spread on Bol.
• Rank products by review count to find a category's bestsellers.
• Watch stock availability flip in and out to infer demand.
• Measure the relationship between rating and price in a segment.
• Build a Benelux price index for consumer electronics.
• Feed an AI agent live Dutch retail prices for shopping questions.

Why use this Bol Scraper?

• The category's own self-listing filtered out, so your averages are not poisoned. See the FAQ.
• Price, availability and product ID at 100% fill.
• Ratings and review counts where buyers have left them.
• Descriptions stripped of HTML, so the column is readable in a spreadsheet.
• Any category — pass the path straight from a Bol.com URL.
• Keyless and login-free.

What data can you extract?

One row per product. Anything the source left blank comes back as null.

Field	Description
productId	Bol.com product ID
url	Link to the product page
title	Full product name
price	Current price
currency	Currency, normally EUR
availability	Stock status, e.g. InStock
rating	Buyer rating out of 5
reviewCount	Number of reviews
description	Product description, plain text
imageUrl	Product image
category	The category crawled
scrapedAt	ISO timestamp of collection

Sample output

{
  "productId": "9300000233102407",
  "url": "https://www.bol.com/nl/nl/p/asus-vivobook-m3607ha-sh164w/9300000233102407/",
  "title": "ASUS Vivobook S16 M3607HA-SH164W - Laptop - 16 inch",
  "price": 1099,
  "currency": "EUR",
  "availability": "InStock",
  "rating": 4.5,
  "reviewCount": 2,
  "description": "Deze ASUS Vivobook S16 wordt geadviseerd voor thuisgebruik en studie.",
  "imageUrl": "https://media.s-bol.com/9KmAg0B88BvP/DRyPXg5/1200x808.jpg",
  "category": "laptops",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-08-22T09:18:59.106Z"
}

How to use the Bol Scraper

Option A — one category

Put the category path in Category path, exactly as it appears in a Bol.com URL after /nl/nl/ — for example l/laptops/4770. Set Maximum results and run.

Option B — several categories

Run once per category and combine the datasets. Each row carries its category.

Option C — a daily price watch

Schedule a daily run on the same category and diff price by productId to spot changes.

Input parameters

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
categoryPath	string	l/laptops/4770	Category path as it appears in a Bol.com URL
maxResults	integer	1000	Stop after this many products (max 50,000)
proxyConfiguration	object	NL residential	Bol.com serves Dutch exits

Tips for best results

• Copy the path from the URL, including the numeric id: bol.com/nl/nl/**l/laptops/4770**/.
• productId is your join key across runs; the URL slug changes when a product is renamed.
• Ratings appear on roughly six products in ten — the ones with reviews. That is the source, not a gap.
• Watch availability, not just price. A product going out of stock often precedes a price move.
• Deduplicate on productId. Sponsored slots repeat the same product across pages.

Integrations

Connect the dataset to Make, Zapier, Airbyte, Google Sheets, Slack, GitHub or any HTTP endpoint through Apify integrations, or schedule a run and push results into a warehouse with a webhook.

API usage

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")
run = client.actor("logiover/bol-netherlands-product-scraper").call(run_input={
    "categoryPath": "l/laptops/4770",
    "maxResults": 3000,
})
rows = list(client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items())
rated = [r for r in rows if r["rating"]]
print(len(rated), "rated products, avg price €",
      round(sum(r["price"] for r in rated) / len(rated)))

Use with AI agents (MCP)

The Actor is callable from the Apify MCP server, so an assistant can pull Dutch retail prices directly and answer product and pricing questions.

FAQ

Do I need a Bol.com account or API key?

No. This Actor reads the public catalogue; there is nothing to register.

How many products can one run return?

Up to 50,000 per run, about thirty per page. Pages are fetched several at a time, so several thousand rows take about a minute.

Where do I find the category path?

Browse to any category on Bol.com and copy everything after /nl/nl/ — for example l/koptelefoons/12609.

Why would a category appear as a product?

Because Bol's structured data describes the category page using both the list type and the product type at once, complete with the category's name and its cheapest price. Any parser that simply collects "products" picks it up and reports "Laptops, €399" as an item. This Actor excludes nodes that are also a list, so only real products are exported.

Why do some products have no rating?

Because nobody has reviewed them yet. Roughly six in ten carry a rating and review count; the rest are genuinely unrated.

Does it cover Belgium as well?

The catalogue is shared across the Netherlands and Belgium. This Actor reads the Dutch storefront, where prices are quoted in euros for both markets.

Can I export to CSV or Excel?

Yes — every run's dataset exports to JSON, CSV, Excel, XML or JSONL.

How fresh is the data?

Each run reads the catalogue live, so prices are as current as Bol.com's own at the moment you run it.

Why did my run return zero products?

Almost always a category path that does not exist. Copy it exactly from a Bol.com URL, including the numeric identifier.

How often is the Actor updated?

It is monitored and fixed when the source changes. See the changelog for release history.

Is it legal to scrape Bol.com?

Bol.com is a public retail catalogue and this Actor reads only its public category pages — no accounts, no logins, no personal data. Product names, prices and availability are commercial information published to be seen. As with any scraping, you remain responsible for how you use the data and for respecting the retailer's terms in your own jurisdiction.

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