Zid Store Catalog Monitor

Extract clean product catalog data from public Zid storefronts, including prices, availability, images, SKUs, categories, descriptions, and product URLs.

What this Actor does

Zid Store Catalog Monitor turns public Zid storefront product pages into structured data you can use for price monitoring, catalog tracking, market research, and e-commerce analysis.

Provide one or more Zid storefront URLs, and the Actor will discover product listing pages, follow pagination, optionally visit product detail pages, and return normalized product records.

Who it is for

• E-commerce teams monitoring competitor catalogs
• Brands tracking reseller listings and prices
• Agencies managing market intelligence for clients
• Analysts building MENA e-commerce datasets
• Developers and AI agents that need structured product data instead of raw HTML

Data extracted

Each product record can include:

• Product name
• SKU
• Category
• Description
• Price
• Currency
• Availability
• Image URLs
• Product URL
• Store hostname and store name
• Listing position
• Scrape timestamp

Example input

{
  "storeUrls": ["https://oav.zid.store/en/products"],
  "maxProductsPerStore": 25,
  "includeDetails": true,
  "maxDetailItems": 25,
  "politeDelayMs": 1000,
  "requestTimeoutSecs": 30
}

Input options

Field	Type	Description
storeUrls	array	Zid storefront URLs or direct product-list URLs.
maxProductsPerStore	integer	Maximum number of products to return per store.
includeDetails	boolean	Visit product detail pages for richer fields such as SKU, price, description, availability, and images.
maxDetailItems	integer	Maximum number of detail pages to fetch per store.
politeDelayMs	integer	Delay between requests, useful for respectful collection on larger catalogs.
requestTimeoutSecs	integer	Timeout for each page request.

Example output

{
  "id": "zid-oav-zid-store-products-41-1",
  "source_key": "zid",
  "source": "Zid public storefront",
  "platform": "zid",
  "store_url": "https://oav.zid.store/en/products",
  "store_host": "oav.zid.store",
  "store_name": "Oav",
  "product_id": "Z.1780303620965877",
  "product_name": "41",
  "sku": "Z.1780303620965877",
  "category": "العبايات | abayas",
  "description": "عباية شيفون مبطنة...",
  "price": 490,
  "currency": "SAR",
  "availability": "InStock",
  "image_urls": ["https://media.zid.store/...jpeg"],
  "position": 1,
  "product_url": "https://oav.zid.store/products/41-1",
  "url": "https://oav.zid.store/products/41-1",
  "source_url": "https://oav.zid.store/en/products",
  "detail_fetched": true,
  "scraped_at": "2026-01-01T00:00:00.000Z"
}

Common use cases

• Monitor competitor prices and stock status
• Track new products added to public Zid stores
• Export product catalogs into spreadsheets, BI tools, or databases
• Build market research datasets for Saudi and MENA e-commerce
• Feed AI agents with normalized storefront data

Tips for best results

• Use a direct product-list URL when possible, for example https://example.zid.store/products or https://example.zid.store/en/products.
• Keep includeDetails enabled if you need price, SKU, category, availability, descriptions, and images.
• Lower maxDetailItems or increase politeDelayMs for very large stores.
• If a store returns no products, check that the storefront is public and visible without login.

Limitations

This Actor collects public storefront pages visible without login. It does not access private stores, customer accounts, checkout pages, paywalled content, or pages protected by CAPTCHA or other access controls.

Output completeness depends on what the public storefront exposes. Some stores may not provide every field for every product.

Changelog

• 0.1 Initial public Zid storefront catalog monitor.