PChome Scraper — Taiwan Product Prices & Listings

Taiwan's largest online retailer in rows: product name and description, price in New Taiwan dollars, category, seller and image — for any search term across the whole catalogue.

What does the PChome Scraper do?

This Actor collects products from PChome 24h, Taiwan's largest online retailer and the reference most Taiwanese shoppers check first — famous locally for 24-hour delivery across the island.

The storefront is served by a search API that answers JSON directly, so no markup is parsed at all. That makes this one of the fastest scrapers in the catalogue: six hundred products in about fifteen seconds, with no proxy needed.

Who is it for?

• Price-monitoring and repricing teams tracking the Taiwanese market.
• Brands and distributors checking how their products are listed and priced in Taiwan.
• Market researchers measuring price distribution in a category.
• Marketplace sellers benchmarking against PChome's own first-party listings.
• Comparison sites seeding a Taiwanese catalogue.
• Supply-chain analysts watching electronics pricing at the source of much of it.

Use cases

• Track prices for a product category day by day to detect discounting.
• Compare PChome's own listings against marketplace sellers on the same term.
• Measure the price spread within a category to position a product.
• Build a Taiwanese price index for consumer electronics.
• Watch how quickly new models appear after a launch.
• Feed an AI agent live Taiwanese retail prices for shopping questions.

Why use this PChome Scraper?

• Straight from the store's JSON API — no markup parsing, nothing to break when the front end changes.
• Very fast: hundreds of products a second, and no proxy required.
• Every emitted column is filled. The API declares brand, author and publish date but returns them empty on every product, so those are excluded rather than shipped blank. See the FAQ.
• First-party and marketplace listings distinguished in the seller column.
• Five sort orders, including best selling and price ascending.
• 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	PChome product ID
url	Link to the product page
title	Product name
description	Product description
price	Price in New Taiwan dollars
categoryId	PChome category identifier
seller	PChome or Marketplace seller
imageUrl	Product image
searchTerm	The term crawled
scrapedAt	ISO timestamp of collection

Sample output

{
  "productId": "DHAEJA-A900IU6JY",
  "url": "https://24h.pchome.com.tw/prod/DHAEJA-A900IU6JY",
  "title": "Aspire Lite 17.3吋文書筆電 銀色(C3-N355/8G/512G/W11/AL17-31P-363V)",
  "description": "ACER Aspire Lite 17.3吋文書筆電 銀色(C3-N355/8G/512G/W11/AL17-31P-363V)",
  "price": 17900,
  "categoryId": "DHAEJA",
  "seller": "PChome",
  "imageUrl": "https://cs-a.ecimg.tw/items/DHAEJAA900IU6JY/000001_1747722528.jpg",
  "searchTerm": "筆電",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-08-23T11:36:26.527Z"
}

How to use the PChome Scraper

Option A — one search term

Put a term in Search term — PChome is a Taiwanese store, so Chinese terms match far more than English ones. Try 筆電 (laptop), 手機 (phone) or 冷氣 (air conditioner). Set Maximum results and run.

Option B — a category sweep

Run several terms and combine the datasets. Each row carries its searchTerm, so the combined set stays segmented, and categoryId groups products by shelf.

Option C — a daily price watch

Schedule a daily run on the same term and diff price by productId.

Input parameters

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
searchTerm	string	筆電	What to search for
sort	select	sale/dc	Best selling, most relevant, price ascending or descending, newest
maxResults	integer	1000	Stop after this many products (max 50,000)
proxyConfiguration	object	(off)	Optional; the API answers without one

Tips for best results

• Search in Chinese. The catalogue is written in Traditional Chinese and an English term matches a fraction of what the Chinese one does. 筆電 returns a whole category; "laptop" returns a handful of imports.
• categoryId is the grouping key. It is PChome's own shelf identifier and is stable across runs, which the search term is not.
• Use seller before comparing prices. PChome's first-party stock and marketplace sellers price differently on the same product.
• productId is your join key across scheduled runs.
• Sort by price ascending if you want the cheap end of a category without pulling the whole thing.

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/pchome-taiwan-product-scraper").call(run_input={
    "searchTerm": "手機",
    "sort": "sale/dc",
    "maxResults": 3000,
})
rows = list(client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items())
first_party = [r for r in rows if r["seller"] == "PChome"]
print(f"{len(first_party)} of {len(rows)} sold by PChome itself")

Use with AI agents (MCP)

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

FAQ

Do I need a PChome account or API key?

No. This Actor reads the store's public search interface; there is nothing to register.

How many products can one run return?

Up to 50,000 per run, twenty per request. Because the source is a JSON API rather than a rendered page, this runs at several hundred products a second.

Why is there no brand or discount column?

Because the API does not fill them. It declares brand, author and publishDate on every record and returns an empty string for all three, and originPrice is always identical to price, so there is no "was" figure and no discount to compute. Shipping columns that are blank on every row makes an export look broken, so they are left out.

What currency are prices in?

New Taiwan dollars (TWD).

Should I search in Chinese or English?

Chinese. The catalogue is in Traditional Chinese, and English terms match only imported goods whose titles happen to carry Latin script.

What is the difference between PChome and a marketplace seller?

PChome holds and ships its own 24h stock; marketplace sellers list through the platform. The seller column separates them, and they price the same product differently.

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 store live, so prices are as current as PChome's own at the moment you run it.

Why did my run return zero products?

Almost always an English search term with no Taiwanese matches. Try the Chinese equivalent.

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 PChome?

PChome is a public retail catalogue and this Actor reads only its public search interface — 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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