# Coolblue Products Scraper — NL Electronics Catalog (`noahadler/coolblue-products`) Actor

Scrape Coolblue Netherlands catalog search: title, EUR price, rating, reviews, brand, availability, product URL and image. List/adviesprijs only when Coolblue shows a discount. HTTP SSR cards — PPE product rows.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/noahadler/coolblue-products.md
- **Developed by:** [Noah Adler](https://apify.com/noahadler) (community)
- **Categories:** E-commerce, Lead generation
- **Stats:** 1 total users, 0 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $1.50 / 1,000 products

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

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For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## Coolblue Products Scraper — NL Electronics Catalog

**Coolblue Netherlands** catalog search: **title**, **EUR price**, **rating**, **review count**, **brand**, **availability**, product URL and image — one clean Dataset row per listing. Former list price (`listPrice` / adviesprijs) is filled **only when Coolblue shows a strikethrough discount**.

HTTP-only (`curl_cffi` + Chrome TLS). Parses Coolblue’s public SSR **product-card** HTML on `/zoeken` (no `__NEXT_DATA__` / public JSON search API in v0.1).

> **Proxy:** Default **Apify RESIDENTIAL** with country **NL**. Bare IPs sometimes get 403 — soft-fail error row (honest), not fake empty success.

**Why this Actor:** NL ecom cluster · Clean PPE schema · Keyword **or** search URL · No Playwright · Honest antibot limits

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### What this Actor does

| Step | Action |
|------|--------|
| 1 | Accept `query` and/or `searchUrl`, optional `sort` / `maxItems` |
| 2 | Build `https://www.coolblue.nl/zoeken?query=…` (+ `sorteren=` / `pagina=`) |
| 3 | `GET` with `curl_cffi` impersonate `chrome124` |
| 4 | Parse SSR `product-card js-product` blocks |
| 5 | Normalize price / listPrice / rating / reviews / brand → Dataset |
| 6 | Paginate until `maxItems` or empty page |

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### Input

| Field | Required | Description |
|-------|----------|-------------|
| `query` | One of query/URL | Keyword (e.g. `headphones`) |
| `searchUrl` | One of query/URL | Full Coolblue `/zoeken` URL (keeps filters) |
| `sort` | No | `relevance`, `price_asc`, `price_desc`, `rating_desc`, `popularity` |
| `maxItems` | No | 1–200 (default 40) |
| `proxyConfiguration` | No | Default RESIDENTIAL; Actor injects `NL` if country empty |

#### Example

```json
{
  "query": "headphones",
  "sort": "relevance",
  "maxItems": 40,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"],
    "apifyProxyCountry": "NL"
  }
}
```

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### Output example

```json
{
  "productId": "936048",
  "title": "Bose QuietComfort Headphones Zwart",
  "price": 230.0,
  "listPrice": null,
  "currency": "EUR",
  "rating": 4.5,
  "reviewCount": 64,
  "brand": "Bose",
  "detailUrl": "https://www.coolblue.nl/product/936048/bose-quietcomfort-headphones-zwart.html",
  "imageUrl": "https://image.coolblue.nl/transparent/max/212x170/products/1969950",
  "availability": "Morgen bezorgd",
  "query": "headphones",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-09-22T20:00:00Z",
  "error": false,
  "errorMessage": null
}
```

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### Limits

- SSR HTML layout can change (selectors: `product-card`, `sales-price__current`, `review-rating__reviews`).
- No public Coolblue JSON search API found in probe — HTTP HTML only.
- Rating is estimated from SVG star icons when no numeric score is in the card.
- Brand is taken from the first title token when Coolblue does not expose a brand string.

### Soft-fail

On 403 / challenge: one Dataset row with `error=true` and a message citing **RESIDENTIAL + NL**.

***

### Local smoke

```bash
cd actors/44-coolblue-products
python smoke_test.py
```

# Actor input Schema

## `query` (type: `string`):

Product keyword as on Coolblue.nl (e.g. headphones, iphone 15). Required unless searchUrl is set.

## `searchUrl` (type: `string`):

Optional full Coolblue search/category URL (https://www.coolblue.nl/zoeken?query=…). Overrides query when set; preserves filters in the URL.

## `sort` (type: `string`):

Catalog sort via Coolblue sorteren= (applied when building from query; ignored if searchUrl already has sorteren=).

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Maximum product rows (1–200). Paginated via ?pagina=N.

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Recommended: Apify RESIDENTIAL. If you leave country empty in the proxy editor, the Actor injects apifyProxyCountry=NL. Without NL residential, some IPs get 403.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "query": "headphones",
  "sort": "relevance",
  "maxItems": 40,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ]
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `products` (type: `string`):

No description

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "query": "headphones"
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("noahadler/coolblue-products").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = { "query": "headphones" }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("noahadler/coolblue-products").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "query": "headphones"
}' |
apify call noahadler/coolblue-products --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,noahadler/coolblue-products"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/4xLf0XtncDDZj16n2/builds/phzs1cB8t24XAhlv8/openapi.json