# Buscapé & Zoom Price Scraper (`normdata/buscape-price-scraper`) Actor

Brazil's price comparators Buscapé and Zoom: lowest price, every store's offer (Magalu, Amazon, KaBuM, Casas Bahia...), installments, cashback, 40-day price history, specs and pros/cons. Search or paste links. 1,000 products in seconds, no proxy.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/normdata/buscape-price-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Norm Data](https://apify.com/normdata) (community)
- **Categories:** E-commerce, Automation
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $10.00 / 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.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

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.

## How to integrate an Actor?

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You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

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

![Norm Data](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/FabriAV/normdata/refs/heads/main/assets/banner_norm2.png)

## 🛒 Buscapé & Zoom Price Scraper

Extract product prices from **Buscapé** and **Zoom**, Brazil's two biggest price comparison sites. For every product you get the lowest price, the cheapest store, how many stores sell it, installments and cashback, plus **every store's offer** (Magazine Luiza, Amazon, KaBuM!, Casas Bahia, Fast Shop and hundreds more) with price, installments, interest-free flag, stock and a link. Turn on details for the **last 40 days of prices**, the full spec sheet, photos and the editors' pros and cons. About **1,000 products in under 15 seconds**, with no browser and no proxy.

### 🎯 Who uses it?

#### 🏪 Retailers and e-commerce teams

Watch what every competitor charges for the products you sell, how many installments they give and whether they offer them interest-free.

#### 🏭 Brands and manufacturers

Check how your products are priced across Brazilian stores, spot sellers going under your suggested price and track marketplace sellers.

#### 📈 Market and pricing analysts

Build price indexes by category, follow how prices move over 40 days, and compare price levels between stores.

#### 🛍️ Deal hunters and affiliate sites

Find products at their lowest price in 40 days, or well below their recent average, and publish them with the store link.

### ✨ What it does

- **Search** by one or more product names, or **paste links**: a search, a category (like `/celular`) or a single product page.
- **Both sites:** Buscapé (buscape.com.br) and Zoom (zoom.com.br).
- **Every store's offer** for each product, cheapest first, from the same source the product page uses for "ver mais ofertas".
- **Price history (optional):** 40 days of daily lowest prices, with the minimum, maximum, average, how today's price compares (`priceVsAverage40d`) and `isLowestPrice40d`.
- **Specs, photos and review (optional):** the full spec sheet as clean name and value pairs, every photo, and the editors' summary, pros and cons.
- **Sort** by relevance, lowest price or highest price. Optionally keep only products compared across stores.

### 🏆 Why this scraper

- **The whole comparison in one row.** Most scrapers stop at the search card (one price, one store). Here each product carries every store's offer, so you see the full price spread.
- **Price history without waiting.** You don't need to run it daily for weeks to see a trend: 40 days of prices come with the first run.
- **Fast and light.** About 1,000 products with all store offers in 12 seconds in our tests. No browser, no proxy.
- **Clean numbers.** Prices, installments and cashback are numbers in BRL, never text like "R$ 5.698,80".

### ⚖️ How it compares

| Capability | This actor | [dadhalfdev](https://apify.com/dadhalfdev/buscape-scraper) |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| Buscapé | **yes** | yes |
| Zoom | **yes** | no |
| Several searches in one run | **yes** | no |
| Every store's offer per product | **yes** | no |
| Interest-free installments and stock per store | **yes** | no |
| 40-day price history with min, max and average | **yes** | no |
| Full spec sheet, photos, pros and cons | **yes** | no |
| Paste a product link | **yes** | no |
| Category, brand and site filters | via pasted link | **as inputs** |
| Proxy | **none needed** | not stated |

dadhalfdev has the site's category and brand filters as input fields and is cheaper per row, for card-level data. Here you set those filters on the site and paste the link.

### 📦 What data you get

| Field | Description |
| --- | --- |
| `productId`, `type`, `name`, `url` | The site's ID, `product` (compared across stores) or `offer` (a single store's listing shown in results), the name and the link. |
| `site`, `searchTerm`, `category`, `position` | Which site, which of your searches found it, the site's category and its place in the results. |
| `price`, `currency`, `bestStore` | Lowest price right now (BRL) and the store offering it. |
| `storeCount`, `stores` | How many stores sell it and their names. |
| `installmentMonths`, `installmentValue`, `installmentTotal` | Installment plan for the lowest offer (e.g. 10 x R$ 633.20 = R$ 6,332.00). |
| `cashbackPercent`, `cashbackValue` | Buscapé cashback for that offer. |
| `image` | Main photo. |
| `offers` | *(on by default)* Every store's offer: `store`, `storeId`, `title`, `price`, `totalPrice`, `installmentMonths`, `installmentValue`, `interestFree`, `stock`, `condition`, `marketplace`, `url`. Cheapest first. |
| `highestPrice` | *(with offers)* The priciest offer, so you see the spread at a glance. |
| `brand`, `specs`, `images` | *(details)* Brand, full spec sheet (`{"Processador": "Apple A19", ...}`) and all photos. |
| `priceHistory` | *(details)* `[{date, price}]` for the last 40 days. |
| `lowestPrice40d`, `highestPrice40d`, `averagePrice40d` | *(details)* Summary of that history. |
| `priceVsAverage40d`, `isLowestPrice40d` | *(details)* Today's price vs the 40-day average in % (-12 means 12% cheaper), and whether it is the lowest of the period. |
| `expertSummary`, `pros`, `cons` | *(details)* The editors' review, when the product has one. |
| `listedSince` | *(details)* When the product was added to the site. |
| `scrapedAt` | When the row was collected (UTC). |
| `error` | Only present when a product's offers or details didn't load. |

Fields marked *(details)* or *(with offers)* only appear when that option is on.

### 💡 Use cases

#### 📱 Every store's price for the latest iPhones

```json
{ "maxItems": 50, "searchTerms": ["iphone 17"], "comparedOnly": true }
```

#### 📉 Fridges at their lowest price in 40 days

```json
{ "maxItems": 300, "searchTerms": ["geladeira frost free"], "includeDetails": true }
```

Then filter the dataset on `isLowestPrice40d` = true or `priceVsAverage40d` below -10.

#### 💻 Cheapest gaming laptops on Zoom

```json
{ "maxItems": 100, "site": "zoom", "searchTerms": ["notebook gamer"], "sortBy": "price_asc" }
```

#### 🗂️ A whole category with your own filters

```json
{ "maxItems": 2000, "urls": [{ "url": "https://www.buscape.com.br/celular/samsung" }] }
```

#### 🔎 Track a list of exact products daily

```json
{ "urls": [{ "url": "https://www.buscape.com.br/celular/celular-apple-iphone-17-256gb" }], "includeDetails": true }
```

### ⚙️ How the input is organised

| Section | What it's for |
| --- | --- |
| **Maximum products** | Always first, caps the whole run. Empty means no limit. |
| **Search** | Site, search terms, pasted links, sort order, compared-only filter. |
| **What to include** | Store offers (on by default) and price history, specs and review (off by default). |

### 💰 Pricing

Pay-per-event: a one-time **$0.003** when the run starts, plus a price per product saved to your dataset. The price depends on your Apify plan tier:

| Your Apify plan | Price per product |
| --- | --- |
| Free | $0.014 |
| Bronze | $0.0125 |
| Silver | $0.011 |
| Gold / Platinum / Diamond | $0.01 |

Approximate total cost (includes the $0.003 start fee):

| Products collected | Free | Bronze | Silver | Gold+ |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 100 | $1.40 | $1.25 | $1.10 | $1.00 |
| 1,000 | $14.00 | $12.50 | $11.00 | $10.00 |
| 10,000 | $140.00 | $125.00 | $110.00 | $100.00 |

One product row carries every store's offer, so you pay once per product, not once per store. Offers and details cost nothing extra. New Apify accounts start with $5 in free credit. On the Free plan a run saves up to 10 products.

### 🚀 Run it

1. Create a free Apify account with $5 in credit.
2. Open the Buscapé & Zoom Price Scraper.
3. Type a product (or keep the prefilled one), or paste links, set Maximum products, then click **Start**.
4. Export the results as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML from the Dataset tab.

Run it programmatically through the Apify API (`run-sync-get-dataset-items`) or the ApifyClient for JavaScript and Python, and schedule it with Apify's built-in Scheduler.

### 🤖 Use with AI agents (MCP)

Give an AI agent live access to Brazilian prices through the Model Context Protocol:

```
claude mcp add --transport http apify "https://mcp.apify.com?tools=normdata/buscape-price-scraper"
```

Then prompt it in plain language to run the scraper and read back the results.

### 🔧 Troubleshooting

**The log says "Buscapé asked to slow down".**
Buscapé limits how fast one connection can load pages. The run pauses about 45 seconds and carries on by itself; nothing is lost. It mostly happens on big runs with price history and specs turned on, since each product page is one more request.

**Fewer products than the site's counter.**
The sites stop paging at about 10,000 results, and the same product can appear twice in results (it's kept once). Split a big search into narrower terms or categories.

**Some rows have no offers list or details.**
Rows of type `offer` are a single store's listing, so they have one offer and no price history or spec sheet. Turn on "Only products compared across stores" to skip them.

**A row has an `error` field.**
That product's offers or details didn't load; the row keeps the search card data (price, store, link).

**Search finds nothing.**
Search in Portuguese, the way shoppers type it ("geladeira", not "refrigerator").

### ❓ FAQ

| Question | Answer |
| --- | --- |
| Do I need a Buscapé account? | No. Only public price data is read. |
| Does it need a proxy? | No. |
| Are prices live? | Yes, read fresh on every run. The 40-day history comes from the site's own price chart. |
| What's the difference between Buscapé and Zoom? | Same company, largely the same stores and products. Pick the one your team uses; results are very close. |
| Is `price` cash or installment? | `price` is the lowest cash price ("à vista"). The installment plan is in `installmentMonths`, `installmentValue` and `installmentTotal`. |
| Can I track exact products every day? | Yes. Paste their product links and schedule the run daily. |
| Does it follow the "Ir à loja" link to the store? | No. `url` on each offer is the site's own store link, which forwards to the store's product page when opened. |
| Can I schedule it? | Yes, with Apify's built-in Scheduler. |

### 🛡️ Limits & responsible use

This Actor reads only public price data from Buscapé and Zoom. It never signs in, never buys and never clicks store links. Use the data in line with the sites' terms and applicable law (LGPD).

### 📧 Contact

Need a scraper for a different site, or found something wrong with this one? norm.data.scrapers@gmail.com

### 🧪 Local development

```powershell
bun install
bun run typecheck
bun test/qa.mjs
apify run
```

Local results are stored in `storage/datasets/default`.

# Actor input Schema

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

Stop after this many products. Leave empty for no limit (the run stops once the search runs out). The Apify Free plan is always capped at 10.

## `site` (type: `string`):

Which comparator the search terms run on. Buscapé and Zoom belong to the same company and list largely the same stores; pasted links always use their own site.

## `searchTerms` (type: `array`):

Products to look up, in Portuguese as shoppers type them, e.g. "iphone 16", "geladeira frost free", "notebook gamer". Each term runs its own search and is tagged on every row it produces.

## `urls` (type: `array`):

Search, category or product links from buscape.com.br or zoom.com.br. Search and category links keep every filter you set on the site; a product link returns that one product.

## `sortBy` (type: `string`):

The site's own relevance order (default), or cheapest or priciest first. A pasted link that already has a sort keeps it.

## `comparedOnly` (type: `boolean`):

Skip listings sold by a single store (the site shows them mixed into results) and keep only products with a price comparison.

## `includeOffers` (type: `boolean`):

Adds `offers`: each store selling the product, with price, installments, interest-free flag, stock and a link, cheapest first. On by default.

## `includeDetails` (type: `boolean`):

Adds the last 40 days of daily lowest prices (with min, max, average and how today's price compares), the full spec sheet, photos and the editors' pros and cons. Opens each product page, so big runs take a few minutes longer.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "maxItems": 10,
  "site": "buscape",
  "searchTerms": [
    "iphone"
  ],
  "urls": [
    {
      "url": "https://www.buscape.com.br/celular"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://www.buscape.com.br/celular/celular-apple-iphone-17-256gb"
    }
  ],
  "sortBy": "relevance",
  "comparedOnly": false,
  "includeOffers": true,
  "includeDetails": false
}
```

# Actor output Schema

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

One row per product.

# 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 = {
    "maxItems": 10,
    "searchTerms": [
        "iphone"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("normdata/buscape-price-scraper").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 = {
    "maxItems": 10,
    "searchTerms": ["iphone"],
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("normdata/buscape-price-scraper").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 '{
  "maxItems": 10,
  "searchTerms": [
    "iphone"
  ]
}' |
apify call normdata/buscape-price-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,normdata/buscape-price-scraper"
        }
    }
}
```

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/5DcUQnpEfWUmQJ4Pd/builds/gECbULT7wAxHt7L2m/openapi.json