Chrono24 Watch Listing Scraper

Chrono24 blocks scrapers — it sits behind Cloudflare plus a bot-risk engine, so a normal request gets a 403. That is why most Chrono24 Actors are slow, tiny, or broken.

This one gets through. Every request uses a real browser TLS fingerprint and runs through Apify's residential proxy, retrying on a fresh IP whenever it is challenged. The watch data is read straight out of each page's own JSON-LD — no private API, no login, no captcha setup from you.

Point it at a brand, a model, a reference, a search, or a single listing and get one clean row per watch for sale.

What you get per watch

Field	Meaning
title, brand, model	Watch identity
referenceNumber	Manufacturer reference / model number
year	Year of production (when the seller states it)
price, currency	Asking price and currency
condition	New · Used · Refurbished …
availability, inStock	Listing status
movement	Automatic · Manual winding · Quartz …
caseMaterial, caseDiameterMm	Case material and diameter in mm
crystal, strapMaterial	Crystal and strap/bracelet material
jewels, powerReserveHours	Caliber details, when Chrono24 exposes them
gender	mens · womens · unisex
sellerCountry	ISO country code of the seller
hasBox, hasPapers, boxAndPapers	Parsed from the listing text — the single biggest price driver on the used market
imageUrl, imageCount	First image and how many photos the listing has
description	The seller's full spec/description text
listingId, url	Chrono24 listing id and direct link

Input

{
  "brands": ["rolex", "omega"],
  "urls": ["https://www.chrono24.com/rolex/submariner--mod1240.htm"],
  "maxListingsPerInput": 120,
  "scrapeDetails": true
}

• brands — brand names (rolex, patek-philippe, audemars-piguet, a-lange-sohne …). Each becomes a Chrono24 brand page and is paginated.
• urls — any chrono24.com page that lists watches: a brand page, a model page (…--mod….htm), a reference page, a filtered search (paste the URL with the filters applied on the site), or a single listing (…--id….htm).
• maxListingsPerInput — stop after this many watches per brand/URL (60 per page). 0 = no limit, hard-capped at 3000.
• scrapeDetails — true (default): open every listing for the full record. false: faster and cheaper, but only title, price, currency, imageUrl and inStock from the results page.
• proxyConfiguration — defaults to Apify Residential, which is required. Datacenter IPs get blocked by Cloudflare.

Output

One dataset row per watch, plus a SEARCH_SUMMARY key-value record per brand/URL with listingsScraped, priceMin / priceAvg / priceMax, conditionBreakdown, boxAndPapersCount, topSellerCountries and brandsSeen.

Example row

{
  "source": "rolex",
  "listingId": "47038909",
  "url": "https://www.chrono24.com/rolex/submariner-date--id47038909.htm",
  "title": "Rolex Submariner Date",
  "brand": "Rolex",
  "model": "Submariner Date",
  "referenceNumber": "116610LN",
  "year": "2018",
  "price": 12750,
  "currency": "USD",
  "condition": "Used",
  "availability": "InStock",
  "inStock": true,
  "movement": "Automatic",
  "caseMaterial": "Steel",
  "caseDiameterMm": 40,
  "crystal": "Sapphire crystal",
  "strapMaterial": "Steel",
  "jewels": 31,
  "powerReserveHours": 48,
  "gender": "unisex",
  "sellerCountry": "DE",
  "hasBox": true,
  "hasPapers": true,
  "boxAndPapers": true,
  "imageUrl": "https://img.chrono24.com/images/uhren/….jpg",
  "imageCount": 8
}

Use cases

• Price research — pull a reference or model and see the full asking-price spread, split by condition and box-and-papers status
• Dealer sourcing — filter by sellerCountry, condition and price to spot listings worth a closer look
• Market monitoring — schedule it weekly on a brand or model and diff priceAvg and listing counts to catch a reference heating up or cooling off
• Arbitrage screening — compare Chrono24 asking prices against retail or another marketplace
• Datasets — export a whole brand's inventory with specs for analysis or a valuation model

FAQ

Why do other Chrono24 scrapers break? Chrono24 is behind Cloudflare and a bot-risk engine, and rotates its protection. A normal request gets a 403. This Actor sends a real browser TLS fingerprint and retries on a fresh residential IP, so it reads the same pages a visitor sees.

Do I need a proxy or captcha solver? Apify Residential proxy is the default and required — no captcha solver needed. Datacenter proxy usually gets blocked.

Where does the data come from — a private API? No. Every Chrono24 brand, model and listing page embeds a JSON-LD block with the offer and product data. Only public pages, no login.

Can I filter (year, price, condition, box & papers…)? Apply the filters on chrono24.com, then paste that filtered URL into urls. The Actor follows whatever the URL narrows to.

Is this allowed? It reads only public Chrono24 brand, model and listing pages — the same pages any visitor sees. It never logs in and never touches account, order or buyer data. Respect Chrono24's terms and your local laws.

Use it from an AI agent

This Actor is available as a tool over Apify's MCP server, so an AI agent (Claude, ChatGPT, or any MCP client) can call it directly to pull Chrono24 watch listings and pricing into a conversation or workflow.

Notes

Reads only public Chrono24 pages. No login, no private data.