# Mercado Livre Scraper (`serj_henrique/mercado-livre-scraper`) Actor

Automate product research on Mercado Livre — Brazil's largest e-commerce marketplace. Scrape product names, prices, discounts, seller info, ratings, free shipping status, and more from search results in structured, analysis-ready JSON.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/serj\_henrique/mercado-livre-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Sergio Henrique](https://apify.com/serj_henrique) (community)
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $1.00 / 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.
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?

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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.

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For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## Mercado Livre Product Scraper

Automate product research on Mercado Livre — Brazil's largest e-commerce marketplace. Scrape product names, prices, discounts, seller info, ratings, free shipping status, and more from search results in structured, analysis-ready JSON.

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### What It Does

The **Apify Mercado Livre Scraper** lets you extract product listings from Mercado Livre search results at scale. Instead of manually browsing thousands of products, you provide a list of keywords and let the Actor run through every search result page, pulling structured data for each item — including price, brand, seller, installment options, free shipping flags, MeliChoice status, best seller badges, and more.

The Actor is designed to handle Mercado Livre's anti-bot protections, automatically rotating residential proxies and re-trying on blocked requests so you can focus on the data instead of infrastructure.

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### Use Cases

- **Price monitoring & competitor analysis** — Track how products in a specific category are priced across sellers and spot opportunities or price drops over time.
- **Market research for importers and retailers** — Feed a list of keywords (e.g., product names or categories) and receive a clean dataset with prices, brands, and seller names to feed into pricing engines or dashboards.
- **Product catalog building** — Scrape an entire category of products (e.g., "smartphones" or "game console cards") and export the results to a spreadsheet or database for inventory planning.
- **Brand presence tracking** — Find every listing for a given brand or product ID on the platform and see where it ranks, how many units have been sold, and whether it carries a MeliChoice or official store badge.
- **E-commerce data pipelines** — Connect the Actor's JSON output to tools like Google Sheets, Airbyte, Fivetran, or custom ETL pipelines for ongoing market intelligence.

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### Input

| Parameter | Description |
|-----------|-------------|
| **Keywords** | A list of search terms to look up on Mercado Livre. You can provide product names, categories, or specific queries (e.g. `["smartphones", "notebooks"]`). |
| **Max Pages** | The maximum number of result pages to scrape per keyword (default: `1`). Each page contains 48 products. |

**Example input:**

```json
{
  "keywords": ["smartphones", "notebooks"],
  "maxPages": 2
}
```

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### Output

Each run produces a dataset where every row is a single product listing. Fields include:

- **Product info:** name, brand, category ID, item URL, image URL
- **Pricing:** price (BRL), original/base price, discount percentage, installment info
- **Seller info:** seller name, whether it's an official store, international shipping
- **Shipping & logistics:** free shipping flag, logistic type (e.g. `fulfillment`)
- **Quality & availability:** rating value & count, sold quantity, MeliChoice badge, best seller, lightning deal, last units, unmissable offer
- **Search metadata:** the keyword used to find the product, its position on the page, result type

**Sample record:**

```json
{
  "itemId": "MLB4625689287",
  "seller": "Azbuy",
  "installment": "4x 29.98 sem juros BRL",
  "isInternational": false,
  "categoryId": "MLB5095",
  "domainId": "MLB-CELLPHONE_CASES_AND_COVERS",
  "isOfficialStore": true,
  "productName": "Capa Anti Impacto Transparente Ringke Original Fusion Para Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra Reforçada Trasparente Lisa",
  "image": "https://http2.mlstatic.com/D_NQ_NP_740217-MLA109560296839_032026-F.jpg",
  "ratingCount": 1345,
  "ratingValue": 4.8,
  "url": "https://www.mercadolivre.com.br/capa-anti-impacto-transparente-ringke-original-fusion-para-samsung-galaxy-s26-ultra-reforcada/p/MLB67276752",
  "brandName": "Ringke",
  "hasFreeShipping": true,
  "position": 13,
  "restultType": "ORGANIC",
  "productId": "MLB67276752",
  "discountPct": 14,
  "priceCurrency": "BRL",
  "price": 119.9,
  "priceBase": 139.9,
  "soldQuantity": 500,
  "shippingLogisticType": "fulfillment",
  "isBestSeller": false,
  "isLightningDeal": false,
  "isLastUnits": false,
  "isMeliChoice": false,
  "isUnmissableOffer": false,
  "keyword": "capa-de-celular"
}
```

***

### Notes

- **Region:** The Actor is configured for Mercado Livre Brazil (`mercadolivre.com.br`) by default. Adjust the proxy country code if you need listings from other Mercado Livre marketplaces.
- **Login not required:** The Actor does not need Mercado Livre account credentials — all product data is publicly available.
- **Pagination:** Set `maxPages` to scrape more results for a keyword.

# Actor input Schema

## `keywords` (type: `array`):

A list of search keywords to scrape products for.

## `maxPages` (type: `integer`):

The maximum number of pages to scrape for each keyword.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "keywords": [
    "iphone"
  ],
  "maxPages": 1
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `default` (type: `string`):

No description

# 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 = {
    "keywords": [
        "iphone"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("serj_henrique/mercado-livre-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 = { "keywords": ["iphone"] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("serj_henrique/mercado-livre-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 '{
  "keywords": [
    "iphone"
  ]
}' |
apify call serj_henrique/mercado-livre-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,serj_henrique/mercado-livre-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/zOYFtFBnjEbhV2O8b/builds/DLkpbDkN2DDhmKGbs/openapi.json