# Ecommerce Shipping & Returns Scraper (`pequod-labs/ecommerce-shipping-intelligence`) Actor Bulk ecommerce shipping scraper: carriers, return portals, free-shipping thresholds, PUDO pickup, shipping software. $15/1k stores. EU policy pages. - **URL**: https://apify.com/pequod-labs/ecommerce-shipping-intelligence.md - **Developed by:** [Pequod](https://apify.com/pequod-labs) (community) - **Categories:** E-commerce, Lead generation - **Stats:** 2 total users, 0 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks - **User rating**: No ratings yet ## Pricing from $15.00 / 1,000 store analyzeds 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/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event ## What's an Apify Actor? Actors are a software tools running on the Apify platform, for all kinds of web data extraction and automation use cases. 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. Actors are written with capital "A". ## How to integrate an Actor? If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects. You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready. The best way to integrate Actors is as follows. In JavaScript/TypeScript projects, use official [JavaScript/TypeScript client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md): ```bash npm install apify-client ``` In Python projects, use official [Python client library](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md): ```bash pip install apify-client ``` In shell scripts, use [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md): ````bash # MacOS / Linux curl -fsSL https://apify.com/install-cli.sh | bash # Windows irm https://apify.com/install-cli.ps1 | iex ```bash In AI frameworks, you might use the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/integrations/mcp.md). If your project is in a different language, use the [REST API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2.md). For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below. For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt). # README ## Ecommerce Shipping Intelligence **Turn any list of ecommerce domains into a structured shipping & returns intelligence dataset — carriers, return portals, free-shipping thresholds, pickup points, and the shipping software stack behind each store.** No API keys, no LLM costs, no scraping setup. Paste domains, get enriched profiles. ### Why this Actor Shipping and returns data is public — it sits on policy pages, FAQs and footers — but collecting it manually takes 10–15 minutes per site. This Actor does it in seconds per domain, at scale, and returns clean, queryable fields: - **Which carriers does this merchant use?** (DHL, GLS, PostNL, UPS, Colissimo, InPost, …) - **Do they have a branded return portal, or do returns go through email?** (Loop, Outvio, ReturnGO, Narvar, AfterShip, and 30+ more vendors detected) - **What is their free-shipping threshold?** (stated in EUR) - **Do they offer pickup points / PUDO or click & collect?** - **Which shipping software runs behind the store?** (multi-carrier platforms, tracking suites, returns SaaS) - **Which ecommerce platform?** (Shopify, WooCommerce, Magento, PrestaShop, …) - **Do they ship internationally?** ### Who uses it | You are | You get | |---------|---------| | **Logistics / carrier sales team** | Prospect lists segmented by current carrier mix — target merchants using a competitor, or single-carrier stores ready for multi-carrier | | **Returns / post-purchase SaaS** | Merchants with manual, email-only returns flows — your exact ICP — plus stores already using a competitor's portal | | **Shipping software vendor** | The software stack each merchant already runs, so you qualify before the first call | | **Market researcher / analyst** | Free-shipping thresholds, PUDO adoption, international-shipping rates across whole markets | | **Agency / consultant** | Instant shipping-experience audits for pitches and benchmarks | ### How it works 1. Fetches each homepage with browser-like headers (SSL fallback included) 2. Discovers shipping, returns, FAQ and tracking policy pages — multilingual: full rule coverage for EN, IT, DE, FR, NL, ES, PT, PL, SV, DA, NO, FI, CS, RO, HU, EL; AI enhancement reads everything else 3. Recovers missing pages via sitemap parsing, canonical path probing and nav-link ranking 4. Runs 200+ deterministic detection rules refined on thousands of real European stores — no hallucinations, every field is backed by on-page evidence 5. When a policy page is written in a way the rules can't parse — "you have two weeks to change your mind" instead of "14 days" — AI enhancement reads it and fills the gap. Every AI answer must point at an exact sentence from the page; if that sentence isn't there, the answer is thrown away. Fields recovered this way are marked in `llm_enhanced_fields`, so you always know which values came from rules and which from AI ### Quick start ```json { "domains": ["velasca.com", "bergfreunde.de"], "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": true } } ```` That's it. One dataset item per domain. #### Input options - **domains** (required): list of ecommerce domains or URLs - **concurrency** (optional, default 5): parallel domains (1–20) - **proxyConfiguration** (optional, recommended): Apify Proxy avoids IP blocks (403/429) from ecommerce WAFs - **pushFailed** (optional, default `false`): unreachable domains are kept out of the dataset, so **you only pay for successfully analyzed domains**. They are always listed in the `FAILED_DOMAINS` record of the key-value store; set to `true` to also push them as dataset items - **browserFallback** (optional, default `false`): render the homepage with a headless browser when plain HTTP fails — recovers JS-only storefronts and hard WAFs (2048 MB memory suggested) - **aiEnhanced** (optional, default `true`): when the rules can't read an oddly-worded policy page, a language model extracts the missing fields. Every AI answer is verified against the page text before being accepted — values are never invented. Enhanced results are billed as a separate event; turn off to pay the base price only ### Example output ```json { "domain": "bergfreunde.de", "canonical_domain": "bergfreunde.de", "carriers": ["DHL"], "carriers_state": "detected", "return_portal_state": "unknown", "return_window_days": 7, "international_state": "ships_intl", "ecommerce_platform": "Shopware", "discovered_policy_urls": { "shipping": ["https://www.bergfreunde.de/hochtouren/"], "returns": ["https://www.bergfreunde.de/rueckgabe/"], "faq": ["https://www.bergfreunde.de/faq/"] }, "shipping_pages_fetched": 4 } ``` #### Output fields | Field | Description | |-------|-------------| | `domain` | Input domain | | `carriers` | Detected carrier brands (e.g. DHL, GLS, PostNL) | | `carriers_state` | `detected`, `no_carrier_proven`, or `unknown` | | `return_portal_state` | `has_portal`, `manual_only`, or `unknown` | | `returns_portal` | Branded returns vendor when detected (Loop, Outvio, ReturnGO, …) | | `return_window_days` | Stated return window in days | | `free_shipping_threshold_eur` | Free-shipping threshold in EUR when stated | | `pickup_state` / `pickup_vendors` | Carrier PUDO / pickup point detection | | `click_and_collect` | Merchant store pickup | | `detected_tools` / `detected_vendors` | Shipping/returns software stack on site | | `ecommerce_platform` | Shopify, WooCommerce, Magento, … | | `international_state` | `ships_intl`, `domestic_only_proven`, or `unknown` | | `tracking_vendor` | Branded tracking platform when present | | `discovered_policy_urls` | Policy URLs found and fetched per category | Every state field distinguishes **proven** facts from **unknown** — the Actor never guesses. `unknown` means the public pages don't say; it never fabricates a value. ### Reliability - Unreachable homepage + proxy configured → automatic retry on a **fresh proxy session** (new exit IP) - Domains that still fail are listed in the `FAILED_DOMAINS` record of the run's key-value store, so you always know exactly what to re-run - Failed domains are not pushed to the dataset by default — **you never pay for empty results** - AI enhancement never overrides the rules: it only fills fields that would otherwise be `unknown`, and only with values it can prove with a quote from the page. You are only charged the AI event when it actually recovered something ### Limitations - **JavaScript-only storefronts** may return partial profiles from plain HTTP — enable `browserFallback` to recover them - **Hard WAFs**: a small share of sites block all automated traffic; these end up in `FAILED_DOMAINS` instead of producing bad data - **Checkout-only signals**: pickup options shown only at checkout may not appear on policy pages (`pickup_state: unknown`) - **Free-shipping thresholds in local currency** (zł, kr, Kč, Ft, lei): the deterministic parser extracts EUR thresholds only; local-currency amounts are recovered via AI enhancement when a verbatim quote is found on the page ### Questions or feature requests? Open an issue on the Actor's page — feedback on new carriers, vendors or markets to detect is welcome. # Actor input Schema ## `domains` (type: `array`): Ecommerce domains to analyze (e.g. velasca.com). One per line. ## `concurrency` (type: `integer`): Parallel domains processed at once. ## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`): Apify Proxy avoids IP blocks (403/429) from ecommerce WAFs. Strongly recommended for real domain lists. ## `pushFailed` (type: `boolean`): Off by default: you only pay for successfully analyzed domains. Domains that could not be fetched are always listed in the FAILED\_DOMAINS record of the key-value store; enable this to also push them as dataset items. ## `browserFallback` (type: `boolean`): Render pages with a headless browser when the HTTP fetch fails or returns a thin JS shell without policy links, and probe policy paths in the browser on hard WAFs. Slower — use 2048 MB memory. ## `useResidentialProxy` (type: `boolean`): Route Apify Proxy through residential IPs. Slower and more expensive than datacenter proxy, but recovers sites that block datacenter ranges (Fnac, some PL/RO stores). Requires proxyConfiguration.useApifyProxy. ## `aiEnhanced` (type: `boolean`): When detection rules can't read an oddly-worded policy page, a language model extracts the missing fields. Every AI answer is verified against the page text before being accepted — values are never invented. Enhanced results are billed as a separate event. ## Actor input object example ```json { "domains": [ "velasca.com" ], "concurrency": 5, "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": true }, "pushFailed": false, "browserFallback": false, "useResidentialProxy": false, "aiEnhanced": true } ``` # Actor output Schema ## `shippingProfiles` (type: `string`): One profile per successfully analyzed domain: carriers, return portal, free-shipping threshold, pickup/PUDO, software stack. ## `failedDomains` (type: `string`): JSON array of domains that could not be fetched or analyzed. Re-run the Actor with this list (optionally with browserFallback enabled) to retry them. Failed domains are never charged. # 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 '' with your token const client = new ApifyClient({ token: '', }); // Prepare Actor input const input = { "domains": [ "velasca.com" ], "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": true } }; // Run the Actor and wait for it to finish const run = await client.actor("pequod-labs/ecommerce-shipping-intelligence").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 '' with your token. client = ApifyClient("") # Prepare the Actor input run_input = { "domains": ["velasca.com"], "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": True }, } # Run the Actor and wait for it to finish run = client.actor("pequod-labs/ecommerce-shipping-intelligence").call(run_input=run_input) # Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any) print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"]) for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items(): print(item) # 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start ``` ## CLI example ```bash echo '{ "domains": [ "velasca.com" ], "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": true } }' | apify call pequod-labs/ecommerce-shipping-intelligence --silent --output-dataset ``` ## MCP server setup ```json { "mcpServers": { "apify": { "command": "npx", "args": [ "mcp-remote", "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=pequod-labs/ecommerce-shipping-intelligence", "--header", "Authorization: Bearer " ] } } } ``` ## OpenAPI specification ```json { "openapi": "3.0.1", "info": { "title": "Ecommerce Shipping & Returns Scraper", "description": "Bulk ecommerce shipping scraper: carriers, return portals, free-shipping thresholds, PUDO pickup, shipping software. $15/1k stores. 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