# MercadoLibre Price Monitor & Product Scraper (`robertoleon57/mercadolibre-price-monitor`) Actor Scrape MercadoLibre across 18 Latin American sites. Monitor competitor prices and extract product data: title, price, currency, seller, sold quantity, rating, shipping and search position. Built for sellers who need daily price intelligence. - **URL**: https://apify.com/robertoleon57/mercadolibre-price-monitor.md - **Developed by:** [Roberto León](https://apify.com/robertoleon57) (community) - **Categories:** E-commerce, Lead generation, Developer tools - **Stats:** 3 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, NaN bookmarks - **User rating**: No ratings yet ## Pricing from $3.00 / 1,000 results 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.md): ```bash npm install apify-client ``` In Python projects, use official [Python client library](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python.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/platform/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 ## MercadoLibre Price Monitor & Product Scraper Scrape **MercadoLibre** across every Latin American site — Colombia, Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Peru, Uruguay, Ecuador, and more — and get clean, structured product data for competitive price monitoring. Most scrapers on the market cover Amazon and eBay. **Almost none cover MercadoLibre**, the dominant marketplace across Latin America (700M+ users, the region's Amazon). This Actor closes that gap. ### What you get per product | Field | Description | |---|---| | `title` | Product title | | `price` | Numeric price (parsed, ready for math) | | `currency` | Currency symbol (COP, MXN, ARS, BRL...) | | `seller` | Seller / official store name | | `sold_quantity` | Units sold (product pages) | | `rating` | Average star rating | | `reviews` | Number of reviews | | `free_shipping` | Whether "envío gratis" applies | | `url` | Direct product link | | `position` | Rank in search results (for SEO/ad position tracking) | | `site` | MercadoLibre national site | | `scraped_at` | UTC timestamp | ### Use cases - **Sellers**: monitor competitor prices daily, get alerted when a competitor undercuts you, track your own search ranking position. - **Brands**: MAP (minimum advertised price) compliance monitoring across LatAm. - **Analysts / agencies**: market pricing intelligence for a category or region. - **Dropshippers / arbitrage**: source product + price data at scale. ### Input ```json { "site": "MCO", "searchQueries": ["cafe organico", "audifonos bluetooth"], "maxItemsPerQuery": 50, "useApifyProxy": true } ```` Or monitor specific competitor listings: ```json { "site": "MLM", "productUrls": [ "https://articulo.mercadolibre.com.mx/MLM-..." ] } ``` ### Why Residential Proxy is on by default MercadoLibre serves a JavaScript shell + anti-bot challenge to datacenter IPs and has closed its public search API. This Actor renders pages with a real headless browser over **Apify Residential Proxy** so you get the real listing data, reliably. Keep `useApifyProxy: true`. ### Pricing Pay per result. You only pay for products successfully extracted. Run it on a schedule (daily / hourly) for continuous price monitoring. ### Schedule it Set an Apify Schedule to run this Actor every morning and pipe results to Google Sheets, a webhook, or your database via Apify integrations — fully automated price intelligence with zero maintenance. *** Built for the Latin American market. Bilingual support (ES/EN). Questions or a site not listed? Open an issue on the Actor's Issues tab. # Actor input Schema ## `site` (type: `string`): Which national MercadoLibre to scrape. ## `searchQueries` (type: `array`): Keywords to search (e.g. 'cafe organico', 'audifonos bluetooth'). Each runs a separate search. Leave empty if using product URLs instead. ## `productUrls` (type: `array`): Exact MercadoLibre product/listing URLs to monitor (for tracking specific competitors). Optional. ## `maxItemsPerQuery` (type: `integer`): How many products to extract per search keyword. ## `useApifyProxy` (type: `boolean`): Strongly recommended. MercadoLibre blocks datacenter IPs; residential proxy is required to render listings reliably. ## `debugMode` (type: `boolean`): Output extra diagnostic records and save raw page HTML. Leave off for clean product-only output. ## Actor input object example ```json { "site": "MCO", "searchQueries": [ "cafe organico" ], "productUrls": [], "maxItemsPerQuery": 50, "useApifyProxy": true, "debugMode": false } ``` # 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 = { "searchQueries": [ "cafe organico" ] }; // Run the Actor and wait for it to finish const run = await client.actor("robertoleon57/mercadolibre-price-monitor").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 = { "searchQueries": ["cafe organico"] } # Run the Actor and wait for it to finish run = client.actor("robertoleon57/mercadolibre-price-monitor").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 '{ "searchQueries": [ "cafe organico" ] }' | apify call robertoleon57/mercadolibre-price-monitor --silent --output-dataset ``` ## MCP server setup ```json { "mcpServers": { "apify": { "command": "npx", "args": [ "mcp-remote", "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=robertoleon57/mercadolibre-price-monitor", "--header", "Authorization: Bearer " ] } } } ``` ## OpenAPI specification ```json { "openapi": "3.0.1", "info": { "title": "MercadoLibre Price Monitor & Product Scraper", "description": "Scrape MercadoLibre across 18 Latin American sites. Monitor competitor prices and extract product data: title, price, currency, seller, sold quantity, rating, shipping and search position. Built for sellers who need daily price intelligence.", "version": "0.1", "x-build-id": "5VhB6kBhm9oIU2Evs" }, "servers": [ { "url": "https://api.apify.com/v2" } ], "paths": { "/acts/robertoleon57~mercadolibre-price-monitor/run-sync-get-dataset-items": { "post": { "operationId": "run-sync-get-dataset-items-robertoleon57-mercadolibre-price-monitor", "x-openai-isConsequential": false, "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for its completion, and returns Actor's dataset items in response.", "tags": [ "Run Actor" ], "requestBody": { "required": true, "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema" } } } }, "parameters": [ { "name": "token", "in": "query", "required": true, "schema": { "type": "string" }, "description": "Enter your Apify token here" } ], "responses": { "200": { "description": "OK" } } } }, "/acts/robertoleon57~mercadolibre-price-monitor/runs": { "post": { "operationId": "runs-sync-robertoleon57-mercadolibre-price-monitor", "x-openai-isConsequential": false, "summary": "Executes an Actor and returns information about the initiated run in response.", "tags": [ "Run Actor" ], "requestBody": { "required": true, "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema" } } } }, "parameters": [ { "name": "token", "in": "query", "required": true, "schema": { "type": "string" }, "description": "Enter your Apify token here" } ], "responses": { "200": { "description": "OK", "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/runsResponseSchema" } } } } } } }, "/acts/robertoleon57~mercadolibre-price-monitor/run-sync": { "post": { "operationId": "run-sync-robertoleon57-mercadolibre-price-monitor", "x-openai-isConsequential": false, "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for completion, and returns the OUTPUT from Key-value store in response.", "tags": [ "Run Actor" ], "requestBody": { "required": true, "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema" } } } }, "parameters": [ { "name": "token", "in": "query", "required": true, "schema": { "type": "string" }, "description": "Enter your Apify token here" } ], "responses": { "200": { "description": "OK" } } } } }, "components": { "schemas": { "inputSchema": { "type": "object", "required": [ "site" ], "properties": { "site": { "title": "MercadoLibre country site", "enum": [ "MCO", "MLM", "MLA", "MLB", "MLC", "MPE", "MLU", "MEC", "MCR", "MRD", "MBO", "MGT", "MPA", "MPY", "MSV", "MHN", "MNI", "MLV" ], "type": "string", "description": "Which national MercadoLibre to scrape.", "default": "MCO" }, "searchQueries": { "title": "Search keywords", "type": "array", "description": "Keywords to search (e.g. 'cafe organico', 'audifonos bluetooth'). Each runs a separate search. Leave empty if using product URLs instead.", "default": [], "items": { "type": "string" } }, "productUrls": { "title": "Specific product URLs", "type": "array", "description": "Exact MercadoLibre product/listing URLs to monitor (for tracking specific competitors). Optional.", "default": [], "items": { "type": "string" } }, "maxItemsPerQuery": { "title": "Max products per search", "minimum": 1, "maximum": 1000, "type": "integer", "description": "How many products to extract per search keyword.", "default": 50 }, "useApifyProxy": { "title": "Use Apify Residential Proxy", "type": "boolean", "description": "Strongly recommended. MercadoLibre blocks datacenter IPs; residential proxy is required to render listings reliably.", "default": true }, "debugMode": { "title": "Debug mode", "type": "boolean", "description": "Output extra diagnostic records and save raw page HTML. Leave off for clean product-only output.", "default": false } } }, "runsResponseSchema": { "type": "object", "properties": { "data": { "type": "object", "properties": { "id": { "type": "string" }, "actId": { "type": "string" }, "userId": { "type": "string" }, "startedAt": { "type": "string", "format": "date-time", "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z" }, "finishedAt": { "type": "string", "format": "date-time", "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z" }, "status": { "type": "string", "example": "READY" }, "meta": { "type": "object", "properties": { "origin": { "type": "string", "example": "API" }, "userAgent": { "type": "string" } } }, "stats": { "type": "object", "properties": { "inputBodyLen": { "type": "integer", "example": 2000 }, "rebootCount": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "restartCount": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "resurrectCount": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "computeUnits": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 } } }, "options": { "type": "object", "properties": { "build": { "type": "string", "example": "latest" }, "timeoutSecs": { "type": "integer", "example": 300 }, "memoryMbytes": { "type": "integer", "example": 1024 }, "diskMbytes": { "type": "integer", "example": 2048 } } }, "buildId": { "type": "string" }, "defaultKeyValueStoreId": { "type": "string" }, "defaultDatasetId": { "type": "string" }, "defaultRequestQueueId": { "type": "string" }, "buildNumber": { "type": "string", "example": "1.0.0" }, "containerUrl": { "type": "string" }, "usage": { "type": "object", "properties": { "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATASET_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATASET_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 1 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "PROXY_SERPS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 } } }, "usageTotalUsd": { "type": "number", "example": 0.00005 }, "usageUsd": { "type": "object", "properties": { "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATASET_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATASET_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": { "type": "number", "example": 0.00005 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "PROXY_SERPS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 } } } } } } } } } } ```