Blick Art Materials Scraper

🛒 Browse Blick products without manual catalog work

For ecommerce researchers, art-supply buyers, catalog teams, and developers, Blick Art Materials Scraper reads public dickblick.com pages and saves product data in an Apify dataset. Get product family summaries for category or keyword searches, or variant details from product URLs, with prices, brands, category paths, images, ratings, stock signals, and source links when Blick publishes them.

Use it to:

• Compare paint families when planning an order with Acrylic Paint.
• Find watercolor families by category or keyword with Watercolor Paint.
• Review oil paint families with prices and source links in Oil Paint.
• Gather drawing pencil families for a classroom or studio list with Drawing Pencils.
• Check visible sale fields for framing products with Blick Framing Sale.
• Collect product image URLs for catalog work with Blick Art Materials Photos.
• Browse art-supply families and compare brands, price ranges, and categories with Art Supplies.

📦 Blick product families and variants

Every dataset row has one of two shapes. Product family rows come from a category browse or one keyword and keep a family price range. Product variant rows come from submitted product URLs and keep one variant's price, SKU, availability, and attributes. Optional fields appear only when Blick publishes them, so missing source values are omitted.

▶️ Run a Blick catalog check

Choose Product family summaries or Product variant details. For family summaries, choose one public category URL or one keyword. For variant details, add one or more public product URLs, then add any filters you need. Fields in the other choice are ignored. Leave Maximum results empty to return all available results until the source is exhausted.

⚙️ Input

Input fields

Field	Type	What it does
resultType	string	Chooses product_families for category or keyword family summaries, or product_variants for product URL lookups.
familySearch	object	Holds the discovery method and value used for Product family summaries. This section is ignored for Product variant details.
familySearch.discoveryMethod	string	Chooses category to browse one public category URL or keyword to search one keyword.
familySearch.categoryUrl	string (URL)	Gives one public Blick category or subcategory URL when discoveryMethod is category.
familySearch.keyword	string	Gives one keyword when discoveryMethod is keyword.
productUrls	array of objects	Gives one or more public Blick product URLs for Product variant details.
productUrls[].url	string (URL)	Gives the public product URL inside a productUrls entry.
brand	string	Keeps Product variant details whose brand contains this text. Leave it blank to allow all brands.
priceRange	object	Holds a minimum price, a maximum price, or both for Product variant details. Values use the source currency.
priceRange.min	number	Keeps variant results at or above this price in the source currency.
priceRange.max	number	Keeps variant results at or below this price in the source currency.
minimumRating	number	Keeps Product variant details with a source rating at or above this value. Use 0 to 5.
saleOnly	boolean	Keeps Product variant details that Blick marks with a sale or clearance price.
inStockOnly	boolean	Keeps Product variant details that Blick marks as in stock.
maxItems	integer	Stops Product family summaries after this many family rows. Leave it empty to return all available results until the source is exhausted.

Successful current-beta input

This is the public input from a successful current-beta category run.

{
  "resultType": "product_families",
  "familySearch": {
    "discoveryMethod": "category",
    "categoryUrl": "https://www.dickblick.com/categories/painting/"
  },
  "maxItems": 20
}

🧾 Output

Run output

Field	Type	What it does
results	string (URL)	Opens the default dataset view for the saved product rows.

Product family summary rows

These rows come from a category browse or keyword search. The required fields are recordType, productId, title, sourceUrl, priceMin, priceMax, and currency.

Field	Type	What it does
recordType	string	Identifies the row as productFamily.
productId	string	Blick's source ID for the product family.
title	string	Product title published by Blick.
sourceUrl	string (URL)	Public Blick URL for the product family.
priceMin	number	Lowest price published for a variant in the family.
priceMax	number	Highest price published for a variant in the family.
currency	string	Currency code published with the family prices.
brand	string	Brand name published by Blick.
categoryPath	array of strings	Public category or breadcrumb names for the product.
description	string	Product description published by Blick.
imageUrls	array of strings	Public product image URLs published by Blick.
rating	number	Average rating published by Blick.
ratingCount	integer	Number of ratings published by Blick.
onSale	boolean	Says whether Blick marks the family as on sale.
isBestPrice	boolean	Says whether Blick marks the family as a best price.
isOnClearance	boolean	Says whether Blick marks the family as on clearance.
isNew	boolean	Says whether Blick marks the family as new.
isOverstock	boolean	Says whether Blick marks the family as overstock.
savingStory	string	Savings text published by Blick.
labels	array of strings	Product labels or certifications published by Blick.

Genuine current-beta family row

This complete row comes from the successful current-beta keyword run.

{
  "recordType": "productFamily",
  "productId": "5gVJXjJopb5NXDCoYSfTJe",
  "title": "Blickrylic Student Acrylic Paints and Sets",
  "sourceUrl": "https://www.dickblick.com/products/blickrylic-student-acrylics/",
  "priceMin": 5.17,
  "priceMax": 183.4,
  "currency": "USD",
  "brand": "Blick",
  "description": "Blickrylic is a true acrylic paint, priced for the budget-minded. The paint is extremely pourable and non-toxic, making it ideal for classroom settings. It dries quickly to a permanent, waterproof, semi-gloss finish.",
  "imageUrls": [
    "https://cld-assets.dick-blick.com/image/upload/f_auto/q_auto/00711-Group-12-4ww.jpg"
  ],
  "rating": 4.6
}

Product variant rows

These rows come from submitted product URLs. The required fields are recordType, productId, itemSku, title, sourceUrl, price, and currency.

Field	Type	What it does
recordType	string	Identifies the row as productVariant.
productId	string	Blick's source ID for the product family of this variant.
itemSku	string	Blick's source SKU for the product variant.
title	string	Product title published by Blick.
sourceUrl	string (URL)	Public Blick URL for the product variant.
price	number	Price published for the product variant.
currency	string	Currency code published with the variant price.
variantName	string	Variant name, such as a size or color, published by Blick.
brand	string	Brand name published by Blick.
categoryPath	array of strings	Public category or breadcrumb names for the product.
description	string	Product description published by Blick.
color	string	Color name published for the variant.
gtin	string	Global Trade Item Number published for the variant.
imageUrls	array of strings	Public product image URLs published by Blick.
availability	string	Availability status published for the variant.
inStock	boolean	Says whether Blick publishes the variant as in stock.
rating	number	Average rating published by Blick.
ratingCount	integer	Number of ratings published by Blick.
onSale	boolean	Says whether Blick marks the variant as on sale.
isBestPrice	boolean	Says whether Blick marks the variant as a best price.
isOnClearance	boolean	Says whether Blick marks the variant as on clearance.
isNew	boolean	Says whether Blick marks the variant as new.
isOverstock	boolean	Says whether Blick marks the variant as overstock.
savingStory	string	Savings text published by Blick.
labels	array of strings	Product labels or certifications published by Blick.

Genuine current-beta variant row

This complete row comes from the successful current-beta product URL run.

{
  "recordType": "productVariant",
  "productId": "6QEpEx5CHqjh12XfPrdyq7",
  "itemSku": "01637-1010",
  "title": "Blick Studio Acrylic Paints and Sets",
  "sourceUrl": "https://www.dickblick.com/products/blick-studio-acrylics/?Item=01637-1010",
  "price": 4.21,
  "currency": "USD",
  "variantName": "Blick Studio Acrylics  Pkg of 2 Titanium White 4 oz tubes",
  "brand": "Blick",
  "categoryPath": [
    "Home",
    "Paint and Mediums",
    "Paint Sets",
    "Acrylic Paint Sets",
    "Blick Studio Acrylic Paints and Sets"
  ],
  "description": "Pkg of 2",
  "color": "Titanium White",
  "gtin": "741389150497",
  "imageUrls": [
    "https://cld-assets.dick-blick.com/image/upload/f_auto/q_auto/v1748040642/01637-1010-SC-4ww.jpg",
    "https://cld-assets.dick-blick.com/image/upload/f_auto/q_auto/v1748045458/01637-1020-s-4ww.jpg"
  ],
  "availability": "InStock",
  "inStock": true,
  "rating": 4.7,
  "ratingCount": 1148,
  "onSale": true,
  "isBestPrice": true,
  "isOnClearance": false,
  "isNew": false,
  "isOverstock": false,
  "savingStory": "SAVE 35-75%",
  "labels": [
    "California Proposition 65",
    "CL Cautionary Label"
  ]
}

💳 Pricing

This Actor uses pay-per-event pricing. A saved product family summary uses the family event, and a saved product variant detail uses the variant event. Check the pricing panel for the current tier rates. Your total depends on how many rows the run saves.

🔌 Integrations

Open the default Apify dataset to export the rows or read them through its API URL in the output panel.

❓ FAQ

Can I get one row for every color or size?

Product URL lookups return variant-level rows when Blick publishes those variants. Category and keyword searches return product family summaries, not an exhaustive variant expansion.

Can I search more than one keyword or category in one run?

No. Choose one category URL or one keyword for a family run. Run the Actor again for another search or category.

Can I filter the returned products?

Yes, for Product variant details you can filter by brand, price range, minimum rating, sale status, and stock status. These filters do not apply to Product family summaries.

Why is a field missing from a row?

Optional fields appear only when Blick publishes a value for that product or variant. The Actor leaves unpublished values out instead of guessing.

Does the Actor place orders or use private account data?

No. It reads public Blick product pages and returns catalog data. It does not handle checkout or other transaction actions.

Do I need a Blick login?

No. The Actor reads publicly accessible Blick pages and does not ask for customer login credentials.

📝 Changelog

v0.0 (20-09-2026)

• Initial release.

🆘 Support

For issues, questions, or feature requests, file a ticket and I'll fix or implement it in less than 24h 🫡

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