Idealo.de Scraper — German Product Prices & Offer Counts

Scrape Idealo.de, Germany's leading price-comparison site, in bulk — no login, no API key, no browser. Point the Actor at any category or result page and it walks the pages, parses every card into flat, sortable columns, and saves rows as it goes.

14 columns per row · thousands of rows per run · numeric prices, not strings · JSON, CSV, Excel or API · pay only for the rows you keep.

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Why this Idealo.de scraper

Idealo.de publishes everything a buyer needs on the result page — but as prose, inside a card, behind pagination. Reading it at any useful scale by hand is not realistic, and copy-paste gives you text where you need numbers.

This Actor turns those pages into a table. price is a number, not "1.149,90 €". Location, seller and category are their own columns instead of one blob. That is the difference between data you can pivot on and data you have to clean first.

It is built on the same engine as the rest of this fleet, which means three things you only notice when they are missing:

• It respects the clock. Every run carries a time budget and saves rows continuously, so a slow page never costs you the whole run.
• One bad page does not end the crawl. An unreachable page is retried, then skipped and logged — not treated as the end of the listing.
• It says what it did. Row counts, skipped pages and stop reasons all appear in the log, so a short run is always explainable.

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What you get

Competitive price intelligence in Germany

Idealo is where German shoppers compare before they buy, so its cheapest-offer price is the number your own pricing has to beat. price plus offerCount tells you both the floor and how crowded the listing is.

Assortment and gap analysis

Walk a whole category and you get every product German merchants actually list, with ratings attached. Products with a high offerCount are commodity; a low count with strong ratingAvg is where margin still lives.

Brand and MAP monitoring

If you sell through resellers, the cheapest Idealo offer is the fastest way to detect a partner breaking minimum advertised price.

Energy-label compliance and catalogue enrichment

energyClass and the parsed specs line let you enrich your own catalogue or check EU energy-label coverage across a category.

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Input

Field	Type	What it does
startUrl	string	Any Idealo.de category or result URL. The Actor paginates from here.
searchQuery	string	Optional keyword. When set, the site is searched for it and the category URL is ignored.
maxResults	integer	Stop after this many rows (default 200).
proxyConfiguration	object	Apify Proxy settings. The default is fine.

Example input

{
  "startUrl": "https://www.idealo.de/preisvergleich/ProductCategory/19116.html",
  "searchQuery": "",
  "maxResults": 200,
  "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": true }
}

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Output

One row per product, 14 columns:

Column	Type	Description
productId	string	Idealo product id.
title	string	Product name.
productUrl	string	Canonical Idealo offers page.
price	number	Cheapest listed price as a number.
currency	string	Always EUR.
offerCount	number	How many merchants list this product.
ratingAvg	number	Average German school-grade rating (1 is best).
reviewCount	number	Number of user ratings.
specs	string	Short specification line shown on the tile.
energyClass	string	EU energy label class, where shown.
imageUrl	string	Product image, where the tile ships one.
country	string	Always Germany.
source	string	Always idealo_de.
scrapedAt	string	ISO timestamp of collection.

Example row

{
  "productId": "…",
  "title": "…",
  "productUrl": "…",
  "price": 0,
  "currency": "…",
  "offerCount": 0,
  "ratingAvg": 0,
  "reviewCount": 0,
  "specs": "…",
  "energyClass": "…",
  "imageUrl": "…",
  "country": "…",
  "source": "…",
  "scrapedAt": "…"
}

Export from the Apify Console as JSON, CSV, Excel, XML or RSS, or pull it straight from the Dataset API.

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How to use it

1. Open the Actor and paste a Idealo.de category URL into Category or listing URL.
2. Set Maximum results to how many rows you want.
3. Click Start. Rows appear in the dataset while the run is still going.
4. Export, or schedule the run daily and diff the results to track price moves.

You can also run it from the Apify API, the JavaScript client or the Python client, and wire the output into Google Sheets, Zapier, Make or your own warehouse.

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Frequently asked questions

Do I need an Idealo account or API key?

No. Everything comes from Idealo's public result pages.

Is price the cheapest offer?

Yes — it is the "ab" (from) price Idealo shows on the tile, which is the cheapest listed offer at the time of the run.

Why is ratingAvg lower for better products?

Idealo uses the German school-grade scale, where 1.0 is best and 6.0 is worst. The column is reported as shown.

Why is imageUrl empty on some rows?

Idealo only ships image URLs for the tiles above the fold and lazy-loads the rest, so the column is populated where the page provides it and left blank where it does not — rather than being filled with a guessed URL.

Can I search by keyword?

Yes. Fill in Search keyword to run an Idealo search instead of walking a category.

How much does it cost?

You pay per row kept, plus Apify platform usage. A 1,000-row run is inexpensive; run it on a schedule and you have a continuous price feed for the cost of a coffee.

Is scraping Idealo.de legal?

This Actor reads only publicly available pages — the same ones anyone can open in a browser — and collects no personal data beyond the seller display name that Idealo.de itself publishes next to each listing. You are responsible for how you use the output, including compliance with Idealo.de's terms and with data-protection law such as the GDPR. If in doubt, take legal advice.

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Support

Found a broken column or a site change? Open an issue on the Actor's Issues tab and it will be looked at. This Actor is actively maintained — see the Changelog for its history.

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Idealo.de is a trademark of its respective owner. This Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Idealo.de.