# Croma + Reliance Digital Price Scraper & Tracker (`rowsmith/india-electronics-price-scraper`) Actor

Scrape Croma and Reliance Digital in one run — prices, MRP, discounts, ratings, stock and bank offers, exported to Excel, CSV, or JSON. Track any product URL and get price-change deltas between runs.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/rowsmith/india-electronics-price-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Pratyush Sharma](https://apify.com/rowsmith) (community)
- **Categories:** E-commerce, Automation, SEO tools
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

Pay per usage

This Actor is paid per platform usage. The Actor is free to use, and you only pay for the Apify platform usage, which gets cheaper the higher subscription plan you have.

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

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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## Croma + Reliance Digital Price Scraper & Tracker

Scrape **both of India's biggest electronics retailers in one run** — and track how prices move. Search Croma and Reliance Digital by keyword or exact product URL, export prices, MRP, discounts, ratings, stock and bank offers to **Excel, CSV, or JSON**, and get **price-change deltas** on every row when you run it on a schedule.

- 🛒 **Two retailers, one actor, one schema** — Croma + Reliance Digital rows side by side
- 🔗 **Product-URL input** — paste exact product links to monitor specific SKUs
- 📉 **Price-change tracking built in**: `prevPriceINR`, `priceChangeINR`, `isNew` on every row from your second run
- 💳 **Bank/card offers** captured where exposed (Reliance Digital)
- 🏷 MRP vs selling price, discount, rating & review counts, stock status, EAN (RD), category path
- 🗃 Optional **continuous price-history dataset** across runs
- 📤 Export to Excel, CSV, JSON, or Parquet, or pull via API

### Who is this for?

- **Price monitoring** — track a basket of products daily and get the delta column free
- **D2C & electronics brands** — watch street prices, discounts, and bank offers on your SKUs and competitors'
- **Deal hunters & deal sites** — biggest-discount sorting across both chains in one dataset
- **Market research** — assortment, pricing, and ratings across India's organized electronics retail

### Usage

1. Enter search queries (`"iphone 15"`, `"washing machine"`) and/or exact product URLs.
2. Run — you get a combined dataset across both retailers.
3. **Schedule it daily** to turn snapshots into price history: every row then carries `priceChangeINR` vs your previous run, and the optional named dataset accumulates the full time series.

**Note on Croma**: Croma sits behind aggressive bot protection. The Actor handles it with a real browser session; if Croma requests fail on the Apify platform, enable the **RESIDENTIAL proxy** option in the input. Reliance Digital requires no proxy.

### Output example

```json
{
    "retailer": "croma",
    "name": "Apple iPhone 15 (128GB, Black)",
    "brand": "Apple",
    "priceINR": 60900,
    "mrpINR": 69900,
    "discountText": "13%",
    "rating": 4.6,
    "inStock": true,
    "sku": "300894",
    "url": "https://www.croma.com/apple-iphone-15-128gb-black-/p/300894",
    "prevPriceINR": 62900,
    "priceChangeINR": -2000,
    "isNew": false,
    "snapshotDate": "2026-08-21"
}
```

### FAQ

**How is this different from other Croma / Reliance Digital scrapers?**
Others sell the two retailers as separate actors, charge more, and return snapshots only. This one covers both in a single schema, accepts exact product URLs for monitoring, and computes price deltas between runs natively.

**Can I build a price-drop alert with it?**
Yes — schedule it, then filter the dataset for `priceChangeINR < 0` and pipe it to email/Slack with an Apify integration.

**Is this legal?**
The Actor reads publicly displayed product listings — prices, discounts, ratings — the same data any visitor sees. No accounts, no personal data.

***

Built by [rowsmith](https://apify.com/rowsmith). Also see: [App Store Rank Tracker](https://apify.com/rowsmith/app-rank-tracker) and [Substack Leaderboard Tracker](https://apify.com/rowsmith/substack-leaderboard-tracker) — the same track-it-over-time engine for app charts and newsletters.

# Actor input Schema

## `retailers` (type: `array`):

Which retailers to scrape.

## `queries` (type: `array`):

Product searches to run on both retailers, e.g. "laptop", "iphone 15", "washing machine".

## `productUrls` (type: `array`):

Specific Croma / Reliance Digital product URLs to fetch — ideal for tracking exact products. Works with croma.com/...p/<code> and reliancedigital.in/product/<slug> links.

## `maxResultsPerQuery` (type: `integer`):

You are charged per product row returned.

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

Result ordering on both retailers.

## `computePriceDeltas` (type: `boolean`):

Stores each SKU's last price in a small named key-value store in your account and adds prevPriceINR / priceChangeINR / isNew to every row. Schedule the Actor to build price history.

## `historyDatasetName` (type: `string`):

If set, rows are ALSO appended to this named dataset, building one continuous price-history table across runs (e.g. "electronics-price-history").

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

Croma sits behind Akamai bot protection; if runs fail on Croma, enable Apify RESIDENTIAL proxy here. Reliance Digital needs no proxy.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "retailers": [
    "croma",
    "reliance_digital"
  ],
  "queries": [
    "laptop"
  ],
  "productUrls": [],
  "maxResultsPerQuery": 100,
  "sort": "relevance",
  "computePriceDeltas": true
}
```

# Actor output Schema

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

The dataset of Croma / Reliance Digital products with prices and deltas.

# 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 = {};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("rowsmith/india-electronics-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 = {}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("rowsmith/india-electronics-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 '{}' |
apify call rowsmith/india-electronics-price-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,rowsmith/india-electronics-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/MMohTcLfqdhZOBKVb/builds/EcCJEGsQVQW7tp2Kf/openapi.json