Takealot Listings Scraper

🚀 Takealot Listings Scraper

Easily extract product data from Takealot.com, South Africa's largest online marketplace. The Takealot Listings Scraper gathers structured product listings and full product details — straight from Takealot's public JSON API, with no proxy and no browser required — for price monitoring, catalog research, and product matching.

✨ Features

• 🏷️ Comprehensive Product Data: Retrieve titles, brands, prices, savings, ratings, reviews, stock, images, and category taxonomy.
• 🔎 Three Ways to Seed: Scrape by search keyword, by category/department filter, or by direct product URL.
• 🧬 Optional Detail Enrichment: Add EAN/MPN barcodes, SKU, multi-warehouse stock, full review distribution, and HTML descriptions for every product.
• 💱 ZAR Market, Underserved Niche: Clean, fast data for the South African market in Rands.
• ⚡ Fast & Proxy-Free: Hits api.takealot.com directly — no anti-bot, no browser, ~36 products per request.

🛠️ How It Works

1. Choose Your Input – Provide search terms (e.g. playstation 5), category filters (e.g. Type:13), and/or direct product URLs.
2. Pick the Depth – Toggle Scrape full product details on for rich PDP data, or off for fast, cheap listings.
3. Run the Scraper – Start the run and receive structured product data, ready to export as JSON, CSV, Excel, or HTML.

⚙️ Input

Provide at least one of searchTerms, categoryFilters, or startUrls.

Field	Type	Description
searchTerms	array	Keywords to search (e.g. ["laptop", "playstation 5"]).
categoryFilters	array	Facet filters to browse, e.g. ["Type:13"] (Computers & Tablets) or ["Brand:HP"].
startUrls	array	Direct Takealot product URLs containing a PLID.
scrapeProductDetails	boolean	Fetch full product details (EAN/MPN, stock, reviews). Default true.
maxItems	integer	Maximum products to scrape (0 = unlimited). Default 50.
imageSize	string	Gallery image size token (pdpxl, zoom, …). Default pdpxl.
sort	string	Listing sort order. Default Relevance.
proxyConfiguration	object	Optional proxy. Not needed — leave disabled.

Example input

{
    "searchTerms": ["playstation 5"],
    "scrapeProductDetails": true,
    "maxItems": 50
}

📊 Sample Output Data

The scraper provides structured JSON output with key product details. Example:

[
    {
        "plid": "PLID95228805",
        "tsin": 96098813,
        "title": "PlayStation 5 Slim Console with disc drive (PS5 Slim)",
        "brand": "Sony Playstation",
        "price": 13398,
        "prettyPrice": "R 13,398",
        "listingPrice": 15999,
        "saving": "16%",
        "currency": "ZAR",
        "inStock": true,
        "stockStatus": "In stock",
        "ean": "711719577188",
        "mpn": "711719577188",
        "sku": 233384319,
        "starRating": 4.9,
        "reviewCount": 201,
        "reviewDistribution": { "5": 184, "4": 14, "3": 0, "2": 0, "1": 3 },
        "department": "Gaming",
        "categories": ["Consoles"],
        "distributionCentres": ["JHB"],
        "images": ["https://media.takealot.com/covers_images/<hash>/s-pdpxl.file"],
        "url": "https://www.takealot.com/playstation-5-slim-console-with-disc-drive-ps5-slim/PLID95228805"
    }
]

When scrapeProductDetails is false, only the listing-level fields are returned (no ean, sku, taxonomy, etc.).

💸 Pricing

This Actor uses Apify's Pay Per Event model — you pay per delivered result, by how much data it contains. Each dataset item is charged exactly once, and you only pay the higher rate when you opt into the detail enrichment pass.

Event	When it's charged	Price	Per 1,000
product-listing	A shallow listing record is delivered (scrapeProductDetails = false).	$0.0015	$1.50
item-detail	A fully enriched product record is delivered (scrapeProductDetails = true, or a direct product URL).	$0.005	$5.00

Set a maximum total charge on the run to cap your spend — the Actor stops cleanly once that budget is reached, so it never delivers data you haven't paid for. Start with a small maxItems to estimate, then scale up.

Get clean, proxy-free Takealot product data with the Takealot Listings Scraper today! 🚀