MercadoLibre Scraper

Extract product listings, prices, discounts, ratings, and seller information from MercadoLibre — Latin America's largest e-commerce platform. Supports keyword search and direct URL scraping across 7 countries: Chile 🇨🇱, Argentina 🇦🇷, Mexico 🇲🇽, Colombia 🇨🇴, Peru 🇵🇪, Uruguay 🇺🇾, and Brazil 🇧🇷. No API key or account required.

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What data do you get?

Field	Type	Description	Example
id	string	MercadoLibre product ID	MLC123456
title	string	Product title	Notebook Lenovo IdeaPad 15
price	number	Current price	499990
originalPrice	number	Price before discount	599990
discountPercent	number	Discount percentage	17
currency	string	ISO 4217 currency	CLP
installments	object	Best installment plan {quantity, amount, rate}	{6, 83331, 0}
condition	string	new or used	new
soldQuantity	number	Units sold	342
availableQuantity	number	Units in stock	10
rating	number	Average rating 0–5	4.6
reviewCount	number	Number of reviews	128
brand	string	Product brand	Lenovo
thumbnail	string	Main image URL	https://http2.mlstatic.com/…
url	string	Product page URL	https://www.mercadolibre.cl/…
sellerName	string	Seller nickname	TIENDA_OFICIAL_LENOVO
officialStore	boolean	Official brand store	true
freeShipping	boolean	Free shipping	true
country	string	Country code	CL
searchTerm	string	Keyword used	notebook lenovo
source	string	Extraction method: ssr, api, dom	ssr
extractedAt	string	ISO 8601 timestamp	2026-01-15T10:30:00.000Z

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How to use

1. Open the actor and click Try for free — $5 free credit included.
2. Set mode to search (default) or urls for direct URL scraping.
3. Enter searchTerms (e.g. ["laptop", "iphone 15"]) and countries (e.g. ["CL", "AR"]).
4. Set maxResultsPerSearch (default 100) and click Start.
5. When finished, download results from the Dataset tab in JSON, CSV or Excel.

Supported countries

Code	Country	Domain
CL	Chile	mercadolibre.cl
AR	Argentina	mercadolibre.com.ar
MX	Mexico	mercadolibre.com.mx
CO	Colombia	mercadolibre.com.co
PE	Peru	mercadolibre.com.pe
UY	Uruguay	mercadolibre.com.uy
BR	Brazil	mercadolivre.com

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Use cases

• Price monitoring — Track prices of specific products across multiple countries and identify the best market for sourcing or selling.
• Competitor analysis — Monitor which sellers dominate a category, their pricing strategy, discounts and official store status.
• Market research — Discover top-selling products, average prices, discount patterns and review volumes in Latin American markets.
• E-commerce arbitrage — Find price gaps between countries (e.g. Chile vs. Argentina) and identify import/export opportunities.
• Trend detection — Track which products appear in search results over time and detect rising demand before competitors do.
• Academic research — Analyze Latin American consumer markets, pricing behavior, and the impact of currency fluctuations on product prices.

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Input parameters

{
  "mode": "search",
  "searchTerms": ["zapatillas nike", "smartphone samsung"],
  "countries": ["CL", "AR"],
  "maxResultsPerSearch": 200,
  "fetchDetails": false,
  "sortBy": "relevance",
  "priceMin": 10000,
  "priceMax": 500000
}

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
mode	string	search	search for keyword search, urls for direct URL scraping
searchTerms	string[]	["laptop"]	Keywords to search. Each term × each country = one search run
countries	string[]	["CL"]	Country codes: CL, AR, MX, CO, PE, UY, BR
maxResultsPerSearch	number	100	Max products per search term per country (up to 1000)
fetchDetails	boolean	false	Visit each product page for full images, stock and ratings. Slower.
sortBy	string	relevance	Sort order: relevance, price_asc, price_desc, sold_quantity_desc
priceMin	number	—	Minimum price filter (in local currency)
priceMax	number	—	Maximum price filter (in local currency)
urls	string[]	—	Direct MercadoLibre product or listing URLs (only for mode: urls)

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Sample output

{
  "id": "MLA123456789",
  "title": "Notebook Lenovo IdeaPad 3 15 AMD Ryzen 5 8GB RAM 512GB SSD",
  "price": 649999,
  "originalPrice": 799999,
  "discountPercent": 19,
  "currency": "ARS",
  "installments": {
    "quantity": 12,
    "amount": 54166,
    "rate": 0,
    "currency": "ARS"
  },
  "condition": "new",
  "soldQuantity": 215,
  "availableQuantity": 8,
  "rating": 4.5,
  "reviewCount": 67,
  "brand": "Lenovo",
  "thumbnail": "https://http2.mlstatic.com/D_NQ_NP_883851-MLA123456789_032026-V.jpg",
  "images": [],
  "url": "https://www.mercadolibre.com.ar/notebook-lenovo-ideapad-3/p/MLA123456789",
  "sellerName": "LENOVO_STORE_AR",
  "sellerReputation": "platinum",
  "officialStore": true,
  "freeShipping": true,
  "tags": ["good_seller", "brand_verified"],
  "country": "AR",
  "siteId": "MLA",
  "searchTerm": "notebook lenovo",
  "source": "ssr",
  "extractedAt": "2026-05-13T10:30:00.000Z"
}

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Performance

Scenario	Results	Time	Cost
1 term × 1 country, no details	100	~60 s	$0.20
1 term × 3 countries, no details	300	~2–3 min	$0.60
1 term × 1 country, with details	100	~5–8 min	$0.50+
5 terms × 7 countries	3,500	~25–35 min	$7.00

• Default throughput: ~80–100 products/min without fetchDetails.
• With fetchDetails: true: ~10–15 products/min (visits each product page).
• Memory: 1 GB default. Increase to 2–4 GB for multi-country runs > 500 results.
• Uses residential proxy automatically in cloud — required for MercadoLibre.

Country reliability

Country	Reliability	Notes
AR, MX, BR	High	Large IP pools, stable extraction
CO, PE, UY	Medium	Smaller pools, occasional retries needed
CL	Variable	ML Chile has aggressive anti-bot detection; success depends on IP pool freshness. Expect occasional 0-result runs during peak scraping hours — retry after a few hours

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Pricing

This actor uses the Pay per result model at $0.002 per product.

Products scraped	Estimated cost
100	$0.20
500	$1.00
1,000	$2.00
5,000	$10.00

Apify provides $5 free credit on signup — enough for ~2,500 free results. Costs are higher with fetchDetails: true due to additional page visits and proxy usage.

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Keywords

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Legal disclaimer

This actor is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by MercadoLibre S.R.L. or any of its subsidiaries. It extracts publicly available data for lawful purposes such as market research, price monitoring, and competitive analysis. Users are solely responsible for complying with MercadoLibre's Terms of Service and all applicable data protection laws, including the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and Chilean Law 19.628 on Personal Data Protection. The author makes no warranty as to the completeness or accuracy of the extracted data.