MercadoLibre Email Scraper

MercadoLibre Email Scraper — seller contacts from Latin America's largest marketplace

The MercadoLibre Email Scraper builds a dataset of publicly indexed contact emails tied to sellers and stores across mercadolibre.com, mercadolibre.com.ar, mercadolibre.com.mx and mercadolivre.com.br. You give it keywords and email domains; it returns emails, account names, listing titles and the snippet each address came from.

Read this before you run it: MercadoLibre indexes product listings rather than seller profiles, so most rows carry a seller email without a profile URL. You will get contactable addresses and listing context — you will usually not get a clean perfil handle to go with them.

That trade-off is worth knowing up front, because it changes what a MercadoLibre seller contact list from this Actor looks like. It is an email-and-listing dataset, not a profile directory.

What the MercadoLibre Email Scraper does and does not do

The MercadoLibre Email Scraper composes Google queries with the site: operator against all four MercadoLibre domains, fetches the result pages, and extracts emails from the titles and snippets. Each unique address is deduplicated and pushed into an Apify dataset the moment it is found.

The MercadoLibre Email Scraper does not log into MercadoLibre, use the MercadoLibre Developers API, or open the site in a browser. No JavaScript rendering, no authentication, no cookies — only what Google has already indexed publicly.

It is an independent tool, not affiliated with, supported by or endorsed by MercadoLibre.

Who uses this MercadoLibre vendedor email extractor

Wholesale buyers and importers run the MercadoLibre Email Scraper to find sellers already trading in a category across Argentina, Mexico and Brazil. Dropshippers use it to reach the vendedores behind listings they want to resell.

Brand-protection teams collect MercadoLibre seller emails before an authorisation check or a counterfeit enquiry. Marketplace agencies build prospect lists of sellers who may need listing optimisation, advertising or logistics help across LatAm.

Teams covering more than one market often pair regions: the Amazon Email Scraper reaches many of the same brands where they also sell into North America.

Key features of the MercadoLibre Email Scraper

Everything in this table is behaviour the MercadoLibre Email Scraper genuinely implements.

Feature	What it means in practice
Four-domain site: scoping	Queries are locked to mercadolibre.com, mercadolibre.com.ar, mercadolibre.com.mx and mercadolivre.com.br
Spanish-first defaults	keywords default to vendedor and tienda; modifiers to contacto, mayorista, atencion al cliente and ventas
Query expansion	Each keyword × domain pair runs as a base query, a quoted query, an intitle: query, plus one variant per query modifier
Domain-filtered extraction	Only emails on the domains you list are kept, so you control the shape of the output
Global deduplication	An address appears once per run no matter how many queries or pages surfaced it
Obfuscation handling	Reads name [at] domain [dot] com, name (at) domain, name @ domain.com, domain .com, zero-width characters and the full-width ＠
Junk filter	Discards placeholders such as email@, yourname@, test@, xxx@ and single-character locals
Boundary-correct matching	@gmail.com does not match inside @gmail.company or @gmail.com.br
Soft-wrap repair	Drops a hit that is only the tail of another email in the same result block
Structural parsing	Locates the <h3> title and the smallest surrounding block instead of trusting Google's CSS class names
Whole-page fallback	A Google layout change degrades to "emails without account details", not "no emails"
Block detection	CAPTCHA, "unusual traffic" and consent pages are detected and retried rather than counted as empty
Retries with backoff	Up to 3 attempts per page, exponential backoff, a fresh proxy session per request
End-of-run requeue	Blocked or failed queries get one more pass before the run finishes
Resumable state	Progress lives in the key-value store keyed by an input hash, saved on PERSIST_STATE, MIGRATING and ABORTING
Async concurrency	An asyncio worker pool with a shared stop signal once maxEmails is reached
Run summary	Pages fetched, blocked pages, retries and emails per page are all logged

How the MercadoLibre Email Scraper works

Six steps, start to finish.

1. The MercadoLibre Email Scraper reads your input: keywords, location, email domains and limits.
2. It composes Google queries with the site: operator, for example site:mercadolibre.com.ar vendedor mayorista "@gmail.com".
3. It fetches the result pages through the Apify GOOGLE_SERP proxy using async aiohttp.
4. It parses each result block structurally, finding the <h3> title and the tightest block around it.
5. It extracts emails from that block text with a domain-filtered regex.
6. It deduplicates globally and pushes each lead into the dataset immediately.

Spanish and Portuguese keywords are the main lever here

This is the one Actor in the family where writing your keywords in English will quietly cost you most of the results. The defaults are Spanish for a reason: vendedor and tienda match the language MercadoLibre listings are actually written in.

Extend them rather than replacing them. mayorista, distribuidor, local comercial, ventas por mayor and revendedor all reach different seller populations. For mercadolivre.com.br, add Portuguese: vendedor, loja, atacado, revendedor and contato.

The shipped queryModifiers follow the same logic — contacto, mayorista, atencion al cliente and ventas are the phrases sellers actually publish next to an address. Swap in Portuguese modifiers when you are aiming at Brazil specifically.

countryCode and location as regional levers

MercadoLibre is four national marketplaces in one index, and countryCode decides which country's Google index the search proxy resolves from. AR, MX, BR, CO and CL all return visibly different result sets for the same keyword.

Pair it with a location phrase such as Buenos Aires, Guadalajara or São Paulo. Running the same MercadoLibre Email Scraper input once per country is usually more productive than one broad run.

Beating Google's per-query ceiling

Google returns roughly 300 results for any single query, however many MercadoLibre listings actually match. The catalogue is orders of magnitude larger, so one query can never see all of it.

Query expansion is the answer. The MercadoLibre Email Scraper turns each keyword into several phrasings and pairs it with each modifier, so a swarm of narrow queries covers ground a single broad query cannot.

Input settings for the MercadoLibre Email Scraper

Nine fields drive the MercadoLibre Email Scraper. Only keywords is required; every other field ships with a working default.

Field	Type	Default	Meaning
keywords	array (required)	["vendedor", "tienda"]	Search terms describing the MercadoLibre accounts you want (niche, job title, industry)
location	string	""	Optional location phrase added to every query
customDomains	array	["@gmail.com","@yahoo.com"]	Only emails on these domains are collected; the leading @ is optional
maxEmails	integer 1–10000	20	Stop once this many unique emails have been collected
countryCode	string	""	Two-letter country code for the search proxy (US, GB, DE...)
expandQueries	boolean	true	Search each keyword × domain pair in several phrasings
queryModifiers	array	["email","contacto","mayorista","atencion al cliente","ventas"]	Extra words combined with each keyword when expansion is on
maxPagesPerQuery	integer 1–50	30	Page cap per query
maxConcurrency	integer 1–20	5	How many queries run in parallel

Example input for a MercadoLibre vendedor email run

{
  "keywords": ["vendedor", "tienda", "mayorista", "distribuidor"],
  "location": "Buenos Aires",
  "customDomains": ["@gmail.com", "@hotmail.com"],
  "maxEmails": 300,
  "countryCode": "AR",
  "expandQueries": true,
  "queryModifiers": ["email", "contacto", "mayorista", "atencion al cliente", "ventas"],
  "maxPagesPerQuery": 30,
  "maxConcurrency": 5
}

Note @hotmail.com in customDomains. It remains very common among small businesses in Argentina and Mexico, and omitting it costs a MercadoLibre Email Scraper run real yield.

Start a new keyword set at maxEmails of 20–50. A short probe tells you whether the category is well indexed before you spend compute on a long run.

Output fields from the MercadoLibre Email Scraper

Every dataset item the MercadoLibre Email Scraper writes carries all fourteen fields. The keys are always present; some values are conditional.

Field	Meaning
network	Platform name
keyword	The keyword that produced the lead
query	The exact Google query used
title	Raw result title
accountName	Account label Google prints (store name or listing seller label)
fullName	Display name parsed from a profile-style title; empty for listing-style results
username	URL-safe handle when the platform exposes one; otherwise null
profileUrl	Canonical perfil URL when a handle is known; otherwise empty
url	Direct platform link when exposed, else the profile URL
description	Listing or snippet text, cleaned of labels and counters
email	Lower-cased email address
emailDomain	The matched domain (e.g. @gmail.com)
possiblyTruncated	true when Google's snippet ellipsis touched the email — verify before sending
foundAt	ISO 8601 UTC timestamp

Example output rows

The first row is the common shape here — a listing with a seller email and no handle. The second is the less common profile-style row.

[
  {
    "network": "MercadoLibre",
    "keyword": "mayorista",
    "query": "site:mercadolibre.com.ar mayorista contacto \"@gmail.com\"",
    "title": "Bazar Y Cotillon Por Mayor - Envio A Todo El Pais | MercadoLibre",
    "accountName": "Distribuidora Sur",
    "fullName": "",
    "username": null,
    "profileUrl": "",
    "url": "https://www.mercadolibre.com.ar/",
    "description": "Venta mayorista de bazar y cotillón. Consultas y pedidos: distribuidorasur.ventas@gmail.com",
    "email": "distribuidorasur.ventas@gmail.com",
    "emailDomain": "@gmail.com",
    "possiblyTruncated": false,
    "foundAt": "2025-06-20T13:22:51Z"
  },
  {
    "network": "MercadoLibre",
    "keyword": "tienda",
    "query": "site:mercadolibre.com.mx tienda atencion al cliente \"@gmail.com\"",
    "title": "casaverdemx - Perfil | MercadoLibre",
    "accountName": "casaverdemx",
    "fullName": "Casa Verde MX",
    "username": "casaverdemx",
    "profileUrl": "https://www.mercadolibre.com/perfil/casaverdemx",
    "url": "https://www.mercadolibre.com/perfil/casaverdemx",
    "description": "Artículos para el hogar y jardín. Atención al cliente: casaverde.mx.ventas@gmail.com",
    "email": "casaverde.mx.ventas@gmail.com",
    "emailDomain": "@gmail.com",
    "possiblyTruncated": false,
    "foundAt": "2025-06-20T13:31:04Z"
  }
]

Export what the MercadoLibre Email Scraper collects as CSV, JSON, Excel or XML, or read it through the Apify API straight into your CRM.

Use cases for the MercadoLibre Email Scraper

MercadoLibre is a seller marketplace, so these use cases sit in sourcing, trade and marketplace operations rather than consumer prospecting.

Use case	How the MercadoLibre Email Scraper helps
Wholesale sourcing in LatAm	Find sellers already trading in your category and reach the address on their listings
Dropshipping supplier outreach	Build a MercadoLibre seller contact list for products you plan to resell
Brand protection	Collect vendedor emails before an authorisation, counterfeit or grey-market enquiry
Marketplace agency prospecting	Prospect MercadoLibre sellers who may need listing, ads or logistics support
Distributor recruitment	Identify regional resellers advertising mayorista terms
Regional market comparison	Run the same keywords per country to compare Argentina, Mexico and Brazil
Category and competitor research	Sample a MercadoLibre niche by keyword to see how crowded it is
CRM enrichment	Match scraped seller emails against accounts you already track

Worked example: finding mayoristas in Mexico and Brazil

Run the MercadoLibre Email Scraper once with keywords of ["vendedor", "mayorista", "distribuidor"] and countryCode: "MX". Then run it again with ["vendedor", "atacado", "revendedor", "loja"] and countryCode: "BR" to cover the Portuguese-language side.

Keep expandQueries on both times so the MercadoLibre Email Scraper also runs each keyword with the shipped modifiers. Set customDomains to ["@gmail.com", "@hotmail.com", "@outlook.com"] for small-business coverage.

Probe at maxEmails: 30 each time before committing to a longer run. The second MercadoLibre Email Scraper run reuses the same expansion plan, so the probe costs little.

Tips for getting more from the MercadoLibre Email Scraper

Write in Spanish, and in Portuguese for Brazil. This single change does more for a MercadoLibre Email Scraper run than any other setting.

Category nouns beat role nouns. "herramientas electricas" or "insumos de peluqueria" is worth far more than "vendedor" on its own.

Treat customDomains as a segmentation lever. Free-mail domains dominate among small LatAm sellers; branded domains point to larger distributors.

Do not raise maxConcurrency for its own sake. More parallel queries will not make the MercadoLibre Email Scraper find emails that are absent from the index — it only spends proxy budget faster.

Schedule the MercadoLibre Email Scraper monthly on a stable input. Listings get reindexed continuously, so repeat runs keep a MercadoLibre seller email list current.

If your sourcing reaches beyond LatAm, the AliExpress Email Scraper and the DHgate Email Scraper cover the upstream Chinese suppliers many of these sellers buy from.

Responsible use, GDPR and marketplace terms

The MercadoLibre Email Scraper only collects addresses that are already public in Google's index, and most of them are business or customer-service mailboxes published for trade enquiries. That does not make every use lawful by default.

GDPR, Brazil's LGPD, Argentina's and Mexico's data-protection statutes, CAN-SPAM and equivalent rules all govern how you store, contact and profile the people behind those addresses. MercadoLibre's own terms of service govern how you may interact with sellers on the platform.

Keep outreach relevant and commercial, honour opt-outs immediately, and do not use marketplace contact data for consumer spam. Compliance is your responsibility, not the Actor's.

Limitations of the MercadoLibre Email Scraper

Stated plainly, because they affect what you should expect.

• Listings, not profiles. MercadoLibre indexes product listings rather than seller profiles, so most rows carry a seller email without a profile URL. Expect username: null and profileUrl: "" on the majority of rows.
• Lower identity resolution than its siblings. In our own measured testing, a MercadoLibre Email Scraper run resolved only 1 of 10 targeted results into a row with a full seller handle and profile URL. The emails are usable; the profile layer largely is not.
• Publicly indexed emails only. If an address is not in Google's index, the MercadoLibre Email Scraper cannot find it. Contact forms and in-platform chat are invisible to it.
• Google's ~300-result cap. A single query tops out at roughly 300 results, which is exactly why query expansion exists.
• possiblyTruncated. When Google's snippet ellipsis touched the email, this flag is true and the address may be incomplete. Verify before sending.
• username and profileUrl are conditional. They are only populated when Google's result exposes a usable handle. That is a Google limitation, not a bug.
• Apify GOOGLE_SERP proxy required. The MercadoLibre Email Scraper cannot run without Apify proxy credentials.
• Free-plan cap. Free Apify plans stop at 100 emails per run; paid plans are uncapped.
• No guaranteed volume. Results vary with keywords, language, domains, country and location, and no volume is guaranteed.

If a populated profile URL matters more to you than regional coverage, the Shopee Email Scraper resolves seller identity far more reliably.

Related Actors

The MercadoLibre Email Scraper shares its engine with the rest of this E-commerce & Marketplaces family; only the platform configuration differs.

Actor	What it collects
MercadoLibre Email and Phone Number Scraper	Emails and phone numbers from MercadoLibre
MercadoLibre Phone Number Scraper	Public phone numbers from MercadoLibre
AliExpress Email Scraper	Public contact emails from AliExpress
Allegro Email Scraper	Public contact emails from Allegro
Amazon Email Scraper	Public contact emails from Amazon
Best Buy Seller Email Scraper	Public contact emails from Best Buy
BigCommerce Store Email Scraper	Public contact emails from BigCommerce Store
Cdiscount Email Scraper	Public contact emails from Cdiscount
Coupang Email Scraper	Public contact emails from Coupang
Depop Email Scraper	Public contact emails from Depop
DHgate Email Scraper	Public contact emails from DHgate
eBay Email Scraper	Public contact emails from eBay
Ecwid Store Email Scraper	Public contact emails from Ecwid Store
Etsy Email Scraper	Public contact emails from Etsy
Faire Email Scraper	Public contact emails from Faire
Flipkart Email Scraper	Public contact emails from Flipkart
Home Depot Seller Email Scraper	Public contact emails from Home Depot
JD.com Email Scraper	Public contact emails from JD.com
Lazada Email Scraper	Public contact emails from Lazada
Lowe's Seller Email Scraper	Public contact emails from Lowe's
Mercari Email Scraper	Public contact emails from Mercari
Newegg Email Scraper	Public contact emails from Newegg
Otto Email Scraper	Public contact emails from Otto
Overstock Email Scraper	Public contact emails from Overstock
Poshmark Email Scraper	Public contact emails from Poshmark
Rakuten Email Scraper	Public contact emails from Rakuten
Shopee Email Scraper	Public contact emails from Shopee
Shopify Store Email Scraper	Public contact emails from Shopify Store
Taobao Email Scraper	Public contact emails from Taobao
Target Seller Email Scraper	Public contact emails from Target
Temu Email Scraper	Public contact emails from Temu
Tmall Email Scraper	Public contact emails from Tmall
Vinted Email Scraper	Public contact emails from Vinted
Walmart Email Scraper	Public contact emails from Walmart
Wayfair Email Scraper	Public contact emails from Wayfair
Wish Email Scraper	Public contact emails from Wish
Wix Stores Email Scraper	Public contact emails from Wix Stores
WooCommerce Email Scraper	Public contact emails from WooCommerce
Zalando Email Scraper	Public contact emails from Zalando
AliExpress Email and Phone Number Scraper	Emails and phone numbers from AliExpress
Allegro Email and Phone Number Scraper	Emails and phone numbers from Allegro
Amazon Email and Phone Number Scraper	Emails and phone numbers from Amazon

FAQ about the MercadoLibre Email Scraper

Does the MercadoLibre Email Scraper use the MercadoLibre API? No. It does not use any MercadoLibre API, does not log in, and does not open the website. Every field comes from publicly indexed Google search results.

Is this Actor affiliated with or endorsed by MercadoLibre? No. It is an independent tool built on public Google results, and it is not officially supported by, affiliated with or endorsed by MercadoLibre.

Why are most profileUrl values empty? Because MercadoLibre indexes product listings rather than seller profiles, so most rows carry a seller email without a profile URL. You still get the email, the listing title and the snippet.

Do I have to write keywords in Spanish? You do not have to, but you should. Spanish keywords such as vendedor, tienda, mayorista and distribuidor match how listings are actually written, and Portuguese terms are needed for mercadolivre.com.br.

Which domains does the MercadoLibre Email Scraper search? Four: mercadolibre.com, mercadolibre.com.ar, mercadolibre.com.mx and mercadolivre.com.br. Every query is scoped with Google's site: operator.

Can I target one country? Yes. Set countryCode to AR, MX, BR or another two-letter code, and add a location phrase such as Buenos Aires or São Paulo.

Whose emails does the MercadoLibre Email Scraper actually find? Mostly business mailboxes — ventas, contacto and atención al cliente addresses — published so buyers and trade partners can write in.

What does possiblyTruncated: true mean? Google's snippet ellipsis touched the email, so the address may be cut off. Treat those rows as leads to verify rather than addresses to mail.

How many emails can one MercadoLibre Email Scraper run return? Free Apify plans stop at 100 emails per run. Paid plans are uncapped and bounded by maxEmails, which accepts 1 to 10000.

Do I need a proxy? Yes. The MercadoLibre Email Scraper requires the Apify GOOGLE_SERP proxy and cannot run without Apify proxy credentials.

Why did I get fewer emails than maxEmails? Google caps a single query at roughly 300 results, and only some listings publish an email that Google indexes. Adding Spanish and Portuguese keywords usually helps more than raising maxPagesPerQuery.

Can a run be resumed after a migration? Yes. Progress is stored in the key-value store keyed by a hash of your input, and saved on Apify's PERSIST_STATE, MIGRATING and ABORTING events.

Is this data compliant to use? The MercadoLibre Email Scraper only collects addresses already public in Google's index. How you store and use them — GDPR, LGPD, local LatAm data-protection law, CAN-SPAM and MercadoLibre's own terms — remains your responsibility.

Support

Questions, feature requests or a custom build? Email neurodata.apify@gmail.com.