Fisher Scientific Product Scraper

Extract public product catalog data from Fisher Scientific for procurement research, laboratory supply comparison, supplier catalog monitoring, and product database pipelines.

The actor supports direct Fisher Scientific product pages, browse/category pages, and public catalog search URLs. It returns one structured dataset record per catalog SKU or variant, including specifications, features, images, public list price when shown, availability indicators, product claims, and source metadata.

It does not sign in, place orders, submit forms, retrieve private account data, or request account-specific contract pricing.

What it collects

• Fisher catalog number, manufacturer part number, supplier ID, family ID, and variant differentiator
• Product name, description, features, warranty, and key/value technical specifications
• Product image URLs and public catalog breadcrumbs
• Public list price, displayed price, currency, unit, availability, and available quantity when the page exposes them
• Discontinued, returnable, buyable, and viewable flags from Fisher's public product data
• Public catalog keywords, claims, badges, source URL, and ISO 8601 scrape timestamp

The source website often represents several package sizes or capacities as variants on one product-family page. The actor preserves those variants as separate rows keyed by their Fisher catalog number.

Input

Use direct product URLs for selected products, Fisher browse/category URLs for catalog collection, or a search keyword for public Fisher catalog search.

{
  "startUrls": [
    { "url": "https://www.fishersci.com/shop/products/fisherbrand-elite-adjustable-volume-pipetters-13/FBE01000" }
  ],
  "maxResults": 25,
  "includeSpecifications": true,
  "includePriceAndAvailability": true,
  "maxConcurrency": 2,
  "maxRequestsPerMinute": 30
}

For a category page:

{
  "startUrls": [
    { "url": "https://www.fishersci.com/us/en/browse/90094065/beakers" }
  ],
  "maxResults": 100
}

For keyword search, set searchKeyword to values such as pipettes, beakers, antibodies, or a catalog number. Fisher may apply Akamai protection to search pages; if a search run receives access-denied responses, provide an Apify Proxy configuration with a residential group and keep concurrency modest.

Output example

{
  "product_name": "Fisherbrand™ Elite™ Adjustable-Volume Pipettes",
  "product_url": "https://www.fishersci.com/shop/products/fisherbrand-elite-adjustable-volume-pipetters-13/FBE01000",
  "catalog_number": "FBE01000",
  "manufacturer_part_number": "4680070",
  "variant": "100 to 1000 µL",
  "description": "Extremely low plunger forces work longer without fatigue and reduce the risk of RSI.",
  "specifications": { "Autoclavable": "Autoclavable", "Volume (Metric)": "100 to 1000 µL" },
  "price": 490,
  "price_display": "$490.00",
  "currency": "USD",
  "availability": "N/A",
  "discontinued": false,
  "categories": ["Manual Single Channel Pipettes"],
  "claims": ["GSA_VA", "GREENER_CHOICE"],
  "source_url": "https://www.fishersci.com/shop/products/fisherbrand-elite-adjustable-volume-pipetters-13/FBE01000",
  "scraped_at": "2026-08-11T12:00:00.000Z"
}

Pricing

This actor uses PAY_PER_EVENT pricing at $0.005 per unique product/SKU record. The actor-start event is configured separately by Apify. Use maxResults to cap result-event charges.

• 10 products → $0.05 in result events
• 100 products → $0.50 in result events
• 1,000 products → $5.00 in result events

Normal Apify compute, storage, and proxy usage may also apply. The actor charges only after a unique product record has been saved to the dataset.

Responsible use

Only collect public pages and follow Fisher Scientific's terms, robots guidance, and applicable law. Keep concurrency and request rate appropriate for the source website. Product price and availability are public storefront values and may change; account-specific pricing is intentionally not collected.

The final run summary is written to the OUTPUT key-value record with status, counts, estimated result charges, and warnings. A blocked or markup-changed page is reported as a partial or empty run whenever the actor can do so without discarding products already saved.

What data does Fisher Scientific Product Scraper return?

Field	Type	Description
product_name	string	Product or product-family name shown by Fisher Scientific.
product_url	string	Canonical public Fisher Scientific product URL for the catalog SKU or variant.
catalog_number	string or null	Fisher Scientific catalog number (SKU/part number) for this product record.
manufacturer_part_number	string or null	Supplier or manufacturer part number when publicly provided.
supplier_id	string or null	Fisher Scientific supplier identifier when publicly provided.
family_id	string or null	Fisher product-family identifier when provided in the public page data.
variant	string or null	Variant differentiator such as volume, capacity, size, or pack configuration.
description	string or null	Public long or teaser product description.
features	string or null	Public feature text, preserved as readable text when specifications are enabled.
specifications	object	Key/value technical specifications published on the product page.
warranty	string or null	Public warranty text when provided.
image_url	string or null	Largest publicly listed product image URL, when available.
image_urls	array	All distinct public product image URLs listed for this SKU.
price	number or null	Publicly displayed Fisher Scientific list price as a number, excluding account-only contract pricing.
price_display	string or null	Original public price string, including currency or price qualifiers.
currency	string or null	Currency code inferred from the US Fisher Scientific storefront when a public price is present.
unit_of_measure	string or null	Public pricing unit or display unit.
availability	string or null	Public stock indicator or availability text.
available_quantity	number or null	Public available quantity when the storefront exposes one.
discontinued	boolean or null	Whether Fisher's public product data marks the SKU as discontinued.
returnable	boolean or null	Whether Fisher's public product data marks the SKU as returnable.
buyable	boolean or null	Whether the public page marks the SKU as buyable without asserting account access.
viewable	boolean or null	Whether Fisher's public product data marks the SKU as viewable.
categories	array	Public breadcrumb category labels found on the product page.

Use cases

• Schedule repeatable collection and export results to downstream workflows.
• Monitor public products, prices, availability, sellers, and catalog changes.
• Run a one-off research job and export the structured result as JSON, CSV, Excel, XML, or RSS from Apify.
• Schedule the same input to monitor changes over time and send completed datasets to a webhook or integration.
• Feed schema-shaped records into a database, spreadsheet, BI tool, or AI workflow with the source URL retained for verification.

Run Fisher Scientific Product Scraper with the Apify API

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: process.env.APIFY_TOKEN });
const run = await client.actor('muhammadafzal/fisher-scientific-product-scraper').call({
  "startUrls": [
    {
      "url": "https://www.fishersci.com/shop/products/fisherbrand-elite-adjustable-volume-pipetters-13/FBE01000"
    }
  ],
  "searchKeyword": "",
  "maxResults": 10,
  "includeSpecifications": true,
  "includePriceAndAvailability": true,
  "maxConcurrency": 2,
  "maxRequestsPerMinute": 30,
  "proxyConfiguration": {}
});
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
console.log(items);

You can also run the Actor from Apify Console, schedules, webhooks, the REST API, Make, Zapier, n8n, or the hosted Apify MCP server.