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.