Mercari Category URL Scraper
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Mercari Category URL Scraper
Extract every Mercari US category with name, URL, and ID across all 3 levels (L1, L2, L3). Perfect for building sitemaps, product feeds, category-based scraping, and marketplace analytics. Powered by Playwright with residential proxy support.
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Mercari Category Scraper — Extract All Categories
🛒 Try the Free Mercari Scraper Chrome Extension
Inspect any Mercari page — categories, products, prices, seller data — right inside your browser.
What you get Why it helps 🔍 One-click category inspection See hidden IDs, URLs, and metadata on any Mercari page 📋 Export any page as JSON/CSV Grab product data without writing a single line of code ⚡ Works alongside this actor Use the extension to spot-check while the actor handles bulk extraction
Extract Mercari.com's complete 3-level category hierarchy — including category IDs, names, and URLs for Main Categories (L1) and Sub Categories (L2/L3) — in one clean, structured dataset.
Built by morkerr.com — marketplace automation tools for developers, dropshippers, and e-commerce pros.
What This Actor Does
Most Mercari scrapers (product scrapers, listing scrapers, price trackers) require a category URL as their starting input. Finding and copying hundreds of category URLs manually is slow and error-prone.
This actor solves that problem. It crawls Mercari.com and extracts every category across all three levels of its taxonomy, giving you a ready-to-use dataset of category URLs, IDs, and names. Feed the output directly into other scrapers to automate category-based scraping across the entire site, or use it to build your own category-to-product pipeline.
Output Data
Each result includes:
| Column | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|
mainCategoryNameL1 | Name of the top-level category | Women |
mainCategoryUrlL1 | Direct URL to the top-level category page | https://www.mercari.com/us/category/women-1/ |
mainCategoryIdL1 | Unique ID of the top-level category | 1 |
subCategoryNameL2 | Name of the second-level subcategory | Women's Handbags |
subCategoryUrlL2 | Direct URL to the second-level subcategory page | https://www.mercari.com/us/category/women-s-handbags-21/ |
subCategoryIdL2 | Unique ID of the second-level subcategory | 21 |
subCategoryNameL3 | Name of the third-level subcategory | Shoulder Bags |
subCategoryUrlL3 | Direct URL to the third-level subcategory page | https://www.mercari.com/us/category/shoulder-bags-217/ |
subCategoryIdL3 | Unique ID of the third-level subcategory | 217 |
Data is available in JSON, CSV, Excel, or HTML table format, and can be accessed via the Apify API for direct integration into your own workflows.
Who This Is For
- Developers building Mercari product/listing scrapers who need category URLs as input
- Market researchers analyzing Mercari's category structure and taxonomy
- Businesses building category-based monitoring, pricing, or resale tools
- Anyone automating a full-site crawl of Mercari that needs to loop through every category systematically
How To Use
- Click Run — no input configuration required. The actor uses residential proxy via Apify and a headless Playwright browser to load the page.
- The actor loads
https://www.mercari.com/us/browse-categories/and extracts the full category tree (3,183+ categories) from Mercari's internal cached data — no tedious page-by-page crawling. - Download the results from the Dataset tab or connect the output directly to another actor/scraper as its input source.
Why Use This Actor Instead of Scraping Categories Yourself
- Saves hours of manual URL collection
- Captures the full 3-level hierarchy in one run, not just top-level categories
- Structured, consistent output ready to plug into other pipelines
- Regularly maintained to reflect Mercari's current category structure
Use Cases
- Pipeline seeding — Use category URLs as input for a Mercari product scraper to extract listings at scale
- Full-site scraping — Loop through every returned category URL to scrape the entire marketplace systematically
- Market research — Analyze how Mercari organizes and segments its marketplace
- Competitive monitoring — Track category structure changes over time
FAQ
Does this actor scrape product listings or prices?
No. This actor extracts category structure only (IDs, names, URLs). For product/listing data, use a dedicated Mercari product scraper with the category URLs from this actor as input.
Do I need any input to run this?
No input is required by default — the actor will crawl and return the full category tree automatically.
Can I get only specific categories?
Yes, the actor supports filtering to a specific starting category if you don't need the full hierarchy.
How often is category data updated?
Category structures rarely change, but the actor is maintained to stay in sync with Mercari.com's live site.
More from morkerr.com
| Tool | What it does | Link |
|---|---|---|
| 🛒 Mercari Scraper Chrome Extension | Inspect categories & products directly in your browser — free | Download → |
| 🔧 Custom Mercari Product Scraper | Full product-level scraping with search, filters, pricing, images, seller data | Learn more → |
| 📊 Mercari Price Tracker | Monitor price changes, set alerts, track historical trends across categories | Learn more → |
| 🤖 Multi-Platform Automation | Schedule runs, webhooks, Slack/Telegram alerts for Mercari + other marketplaces | Contact us → |
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