M.Video Russia Electronics Product & Review Scraper

Scrape mvideo.ru, one of Russia's largest electronics and appliance retailers, without cookies, logins, or proxy setup. Search the full catalog, browse any category with live brand / condition / price filters, pull complete product detail with seller and store availability, and export customer reviews — all for a chosen Russian city.

What this actor does

• Four modes: search, byCategory, productDetails, reviews
• Full pagination — search walks every result page (about 2,100+ unique TV listings across ~38 pages at test time), de-duplicated by product ID
• Live facets — brand, seller, condition and parallel-import filters are resolved from each response, so the actor uses the IDs the site is actually serving instead of stale hardcoded values
• City-aware availability — stock status, pickup stores and delivery dates follow the city you choose (Москва, Санкт-Петербург, Владивосток, Казань, Екатеринбург, Новосибирск and others)
• Product detail — prices, promo discounts, bonus rubles, rating, specifications, images, breadcrumbs, similar SKUs, seller/buybox and other marketplace offers
• Store stock — optional per-store pickup list with address, metro, coordinates, quantity and schedule
• Customer reviews — paginated review export with rating, text, pros/cons, photos, replies and likes; product detail adds the star histogram
• Empty fields are omitted — no null placeholders anywhere in a record

Output per product (recordType: "product")

• productId, name, modelName, brandName, brandId
• productUrl, sourceUrl
• categoryId, categoryName, breadcrumbs[], breadcrumbPath[] ({name, categoryId})
• salePrice, basePrice, promoPrice, discountPercent, discountAmount, discounts[], bonusAmount, currency
• ratingStar, ratingCount, totalRating, ratingsStats, ratingBreakdown, reviewsTotal, reviews[]
• inStock, soldOut, availabilityStatus, availabilityDate, storeOnly, isPrepayment, showcase, isPreorder, isLastChance, isNew
• condition, productType, materialSource
• description, specifications[], weightKg, imageUrl, imageUrls[], videos[], images3d[], certificates[], instructions[]
• seller ({id, name, legalName, inn, ogrn, address, phone, rating, orders, reviews}), multiofferCount, otherOffers[], similarProducts[]
• deliveryDate, stockLocation, hasExpressDelivery, prepaidOnly
• stores[] ({storeId, name, address, metro, lat, lng, quantity, availabilityDate, schedule, isAllDay}), storeCount, storeQuantity
• cityId, cityName, regionId
• position, query, source, recordType, scrapedAt

Listing modes (search, byCategory) return the identity, price, stock, rating and image fields available in the catalog response. Detail enrichment (specifications, seller, stores, reviews) is produced by productDetails.

Output per review (recordType: "review", mode = reviews)

• reviewId, productId, productUrl
• rating, author, date
• text, pros, cons
• photos[], responses[]
• likes, dislikes, isPopular
• recordType, scrapedAt

Output per error record (recordType: "error")

Invalid or unavailable product IDs in productDetails mode produce an error row instead of being dropped. Error rows carry errorType (invalid_input), productId, message, mode, sourceUrl, retryable, cityId, cityName, regionId and scrapedAt, and never count toward maxItems.

Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
mode	string	search	search / byCategory / productDetails / reviews
searchQuery	string	телевизор	Free-text query (mode=search)
city	string	Москва	City name or mvideo city ID; controls stock, stores and delivery
category	string (select)	""	Top-level category (mode=byCategory)
categoryUrl	string	–	Any category URL or slug/ID; overrides category
productUrls	array	[]	Product URLs or numeric IDs (mode=productDetails / reviews)
brands	array	[]	Brand names or slugs, e.g. Samsung, lg
sellers	array	[]	Seller names or slugs, e.g. BQ.ru, bqru (mode=byCategory; search has no seller facet)
minPrice / maxPrice	integer	–	Sale-price range in RUB
minRating	number	–	Minimum rating (0–5); unrated products are excluded when set
minDiscount	integer	–	Minimum discount percent (0–99)
condition	string	any	any / new / refurbished / used / markdown / showcase (search / category; resolved from the live facet)
fromAbroad	boolean	false	Parallel-import listings only (mode=search)
sortOrder	string	popularity	popularity / priceAsc / priceDesc
maxItems	integer	100	Hard cap on emitted records (0–10,000; 0 = all, capped at 10,000)
maxReviews	integer	20	Reviews per product (0–200; 20 per page)
includeStoreStock	boolean	false	Attach stores[] in mode=productDetails
storeLimit	integer	20	Maximum stores per product
includeOtherOffers	boolean	true	Attach otherOffers[] in mode=productDetails
failOnEmpty	boolean	false	Mark the run failed when zero records are emitted
proxyConfiguration	object	automatic	Optional; the actor connects directly first and escalates only if blocked

Example: search with filters

{
  "mode": "search",
  "searchQuery": "телевизор",
  "city": "Москва",
  "brands": ["Samsung", "LG"],
  "minPrice": 30000,
  "maxPrice": 90000,
  "condition": "new",
  "sortOrder": "priceAsc",
  "maxItems": 200
}

Example: browse a category, used or refurbished only

{
  "mode": "byCategory",
  "categoryUrl": "https://www.mvideo.ru/televizory-i-cifrovoe-tv-1/televizory-65",
  "city": "Санкт-Петербург",
  "condition": "refurbished",
  "minDiscount": 10,
  "maxItems": 100
}

Example: full detail with stores and seller offers

{
  "mode": "productDetails",
  "productUrls": [
    "https://www.mvideo.ru/products/televizor-general-electronics-ge55lqs2-401211841",
    "402415077"
  ],
  "city": "Москва",
  "maxReviews": 20,
  "includeStoreStock": true,
  "includeOtherOffers": true
}

Example: export reviews

{
  "mode": "reviews",
  "productUrls": ["400205087"],
  "maxReviews": 200,
  "maxItems": 200
}

Use cases

• Price monitoring — track sale prices, promo discounts and bonus rubles across a category
• Assortment research — compare brand and seller coverage in Russian electronics retail
• Catalog enrichment — pull specifications, images and breadcrumbs for a known SKU list
• Availability intelligence — monitor stock and pickup stores by city for selected products
• Review analytics — export review text, pros/cons and star distributions for sentiment analysis
• Marketplace seller tracking — compare the buybox seller and other offers on marketplace listings

FAQ

Do I need cookies, a login, or a proxy? No. Catalog, product detail and reviews are read from mvideo.ru's public endpoints without an account. The actor connects directly first; if the site temporarily rate-limits a detail or review request, it retries and falls back to a real browser session, and only then to a different Apify Proxy route. If every HTTP route is blocked, it can continue in a browser-only session. You do not configure anything.

Why does the city matter? mvideo.ru serves city-specific stock, pickup stores and delivery dates. In testing, catalog prices for fixed products did not differ between cities, so treat the city setting as an availability selector rather than a price-comparison tool.

How many search results can I get? Search pages through the source's own cursor. At the time of testing, телевизор declared 2,253 results across 38 pages and yielded 2,125 unique products; the source itself does not surface a small number of advertised or duplicate rows. Set maxItems to the number you need.

Why are some fields missing on some products? Empty fields are omitted. Marketplace rows may lack a description, an M.Video-owned product has no third-party seller, and not every SKU has a rating, discount, store stock or video.

Are videos and 3D images included? The fields exist and are filled when mvideo.ru returns them, but most products have none. The actor does not promise video or 3D content.

What does condition guarantee? The filter is applied through the site's live condition facet. Refurbished and markdown items can be recognized from the product name; marketplace "used" listings do not always expose a machine-readable condition, so treat the echoed condition as the filter you requested, not a per-row certification.

Can I sort by rating, newest, or discount? No. Popularity and sale-price ordering are supported. For priceAsc / priceDesc, the actor sorts the emitted rows by sale price because the source's own ordering is approximate. minRating and minDiscount are applied as filters instead.

Why is there no "in stock only" toggle? In validation, every sampled catalog listing was marked available, so the toggle was a no-op. Use the inStock / soldOut fields in the output if you need to filter downstream.

How many reviews can I fetch? The source serves 20 reviews per page with no login wall. maxReviews controls the per-product cap (up to 200); maxItems caps the total rows in reviews mode.

Are review filters or date sorting supported? No. The review list supports useful/rating ordering; the undocumented review filters returned empty results in testing, so they are not exposed.

Why did a brand or seller filter stop the run? Filter facets are resolved from the live response. If a requested brand, seller, condition or parallel-import facet is not present for that query or category, the actor stops with a clear message rather than silently returning unfiltered results. Remove that filter or try a broader query/category.

How fresh is the data? Every run reads current catalog, price, stock and review data directly from mvideo.ru.

Is this actor affiliated with mvideo.ru? No. It is an independent, third-party actor that reads publicly reachable product data. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or operated by M.Video.