Douglas Product Scraper — Beauty Prices, Ingredients & Specs 💄

🎉 Pull Douglas prices, discounts, ratings, and full ingredient lists — by keyword, no code

Built for beauty analysts, e-commerce sellers, and brands who need fresh Douglas product data on demand

---

📋 Overview

Track every price, discount, and ingredient list on Douglas — without writing a single line of code. This scraper turns any Douglas (douglas.de) search into a clean, structured spreadsheet of beauty & cosmetics products, complete with EUR prices, ratings, images, classifications, and full INCI ingredient lists.

Why beauty professionals choose us:

• ✅ Complete product data: 35+ fields per product — price, original price, discount, RRP, base price (€/unit), rating, review count, brand, classification, and more
• ⚡ Fast search-first mode: pull up to 48 products per keyword in seconds; scale to thousands across multiple searches
• 🧪 Ingredient extraction: get the full INCI ingredients list, usage instructions and EAN in Detail mode
• 💰 Pay only for results: charged per product you actually receive — no wasted spend, free tier to test
• 💎 Detail enrichment: add the full ingredients list, category trail and long description with one switch
• ✨ Native sorting: sort by relevance, price, newest, or top rated — just like the Douglas site

---

✨ Features

• 🔎 Keyword Search: scrape any Douglas search term across perfume, makeup, skincare, hair and more
• 🏷️ Full Pricing (EUR): current price, original/strikethrough price, discount percentage, RRP (UVP) and base price per unit
• ⭐ Ratings & Reviews: star rating and total review count for every product
• 🧪 Ingredients & Usage: full INCI ingredients list and how-to-apply text (Detail mode)
• 🖼️ Product Images: all product image URLs, ready for catalogs or feeds
• 🧴 Brand & Product Line: brand, brand line, and product family for clean classification
• 🧭 Categories & Classifications: classification (e.g. Eau de Parfum, Mascara) and the full category trail
• 🔢 Identifiers: variant code, base product, EAN barcode, content amount and unit (e.g. 60 ml)
• 📦 Clean Export: results delivered as structured JSON or CSV, ready for Excel or your database
• 🚀 No-Code Setup: configure searches in a simple form — no scripts, no maintenance

---

🎬 Quick Start

Enter one or more search keywords, pick a mode, and run. In under a minute you'll have a structured dataset of Douglas products you can download as JSON or CSV. No setup, no proxies, no code.

curl -X POST https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/sian.agency~douglas-product-scraper/runs?token=YOUR_TOKEN \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-d '{"keywords": ["parfum"], "scrapeMode": "overview"}'

---

🚀 Getting Started (3 Simple Steps)

Step 1: Add Your Searches

Type one or more Douglas search keywords (e.g. parfum, mascara, gesichtscreme) — one per line.

Step 2: Choose Your Mode

Pick Overview for fast search results, or Detail to also pull the full ingredients list, usage text and long description.

Step 3: Run & Download

Click Start, then export your results as JSON, CSV, or Excel from the Apify dataset.

That's it! In just a few minutes, you'll have:

• A clean table of Douglas products with EUR prices and discounts
• Ratings, review counts, and product images
• Full ingredients and descriptions (Detail mode)

---

📥 Input Configuration

Field	Type	Required	Description
keywords	array	No	Douglas search terms, one per item (e.g. parfum, mascara)
productCodes	array	No	Advanced — Douglas product codes (or /de/p/<code> URLs) for direct detail lookup
scrapeMode	string	No	overview (fast search) or detail (adds ingredients + long description)
sort	string	No	relevance, price_low, price_high, newest, or top_rated
maxResults	integer	No	Maximum products to return across all searches

Example — fast search:

{
  "keywords": ["parfum", "mascara"],
  "scrapeMode": "overview",
  "sort": "relevance",
  "maxResults": 100
}

Example — full detail with ingredients:

{
  "keywords": ["gesichtscreme"],
  "scrapeMode": "detail",
  "sort": "top_rated",
  "maxResults": 50
}

---

📤 Output

Results are saved to the Apify dataset with 35+ fields per product, including:

Field	Type	Description
productTitle	string	Product name (brand + line + variant)
brand	string	Brand name
variant_name	string	Variant label, e.g. 50 ml
price	number	Current price (EUR)
original_price	number	Strikethrough / was price (EUR)
discount_percentage	number	Discount as a percentage
recommended_retail_price	number	Manufacturer RRP / UVP (EUR)
base_price	number	Reference price per base unit (e.g. €/litre)
rating	number	Average star rating
review_count	number	Total number of reviews
classifications	array	Product classifications (e.g. Eau de Parfum)
in_stock	boolean	Whether the product is in stock
images	array	All product image URLs
ean	string	EAN barcode (Detail mode)
breadcrumbs	array	Full category path (Detail mode)
ingredients	string	Full INCI ingredients list (Detail mode)
application	string	Usage / how-to-apply text (Detail mode)
description	string	Long product description (Detail mode)

Example:

{
  "code": "301376",
  "base_product": "2010006632",
  "productTitle": "CHANEL WATERPROOF Noir",
  "brand": "CHANEL",
  "variant_name": "Noir",
  "price": 35.2,
  "original_price": 44.0,
  "currency": "EUR",
  "discount_percentage": 20,
  "rating": 4.3,
  "review_count": 80,
  "classifications": ["Mascara"],
  "in_stock": true,
  "images": ["https://media.douglas.de/medias/..."],
  "ean": "3145891969108",
  "breadcrumbs": ["Make-up", "Augen", "Mascara"],
  "ingredients": "Aqua (Water), Paraffin, Acacia Senegal Gum, ...",
  "description": "Wasserfeste Mascara für intensiven Volumeneffekt..."
}

---

💼 Use Cases & Examples

1. Price Monitoring

Retailers and resellers tracking Douglas prices over time to stay competitive.

Input: Your product keywords and a daily schedule Output: Current price, original price, and discount percentage for every match Use: Spot price drops, react to promotions, and keep your own pricing sharp.

2. Competitive Analysis

Beauty brands and category managers benchmarking their products against the Douglas assortment.

Input: Category keywords (e.g. a brand or product type) Output: Competitor prices, ratings, review counts, and discount activity Use: Understand where you win or lose on price, rating, and assortment.

3. Catalog Building

E-commerce teams and marketplaces building a clean beauty catalog with images and ingredients.

Input: Keywords in Detail mode Output: Titles, brands, classifications, images, ingredients and full descriptions Use: Populate your storefront or PIM with structured, ready-to-use product data.

4. Ingredient & Formulation Research

Analysts and formulators extracting INCI ingredient lists across products.

Input: Your product or brand keywords in Detail mode Output: Full INCI ingredients list, usage text and EAN per product Use: Benchmark formulations, build ingredient datasets, and support compliance work.

5. Brand & Assortment Research

Merchandisers studying which products and lines carry the best ratings and assortment.

Input: Brand or category keywords Output: Brand line, product family, classification, and rating data Use: Plan assortment, track brand lines, and find top-rated products in a category.

6. Market Research & Trend Spotting

Analysts and researchers tracking new products, best-sellers, and review momentum.

Input: Broad category keywords, sorted by newest or top-rated Output: Product launches, rating trends, and review-count growth Use: Surface emerging products and category trends before competitors do.

---

🔗 Integration Examples

JavaScript/Node.js

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';
const client = new ApifyClient({ token: 'YOUR_TOKEN' });

const run = await client.actor('sian.agency/douglas-product-scraper').call({
  keywords: ['parfum'],
  scrapeMode: 'overview'
});

const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
console.log(items[0]);

Python

from apify_client import ApifyClient
client = ApifyClient('YOUR_TOKEN')

run = client.actor('sian.agency/douglas-product-scraper').call(
    run_input={'keywords': ['parfum'], 'scrapeMode': 'overview'}
)

for item in client.dataset(run['defaultDatasetId']).iterate_items():
    print(item)

cURL

curl -X POST 'https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/sian.agency~douglas-product-scraper/runs?token=YOUR_TOKEN' \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-d '{"keywords": ["parfum"], "scrapeMode": "overview"}'

Automation Workflows (N8N / Zapier / Make)

1. Trigger: Schedule (e.g. daily) or webhook
2. HTTP Request: Call the actor API with your keywords
3. Process: Handle the JSON results
4. Action: Save to a sheet, sync to a database, or send a price-drop alert

---

📊 Performance & Pricing

FREE Tier (Try It Now)

• 25 products per run — full feature access, same data quality
• No credit card required
• Perfect for testing and small projects

PAID Tier (Production Ready)

• Unlimited products per run
• Run multiple searches in one go
• Pay-per-result: you're only charged for the products you actually receive

💰 Best value on the market — transparent pay-per-result pricing with no hidden proxy or subscription fees.

🔗 View current pricing

---

❓ Frequently Asked Questions

Q: How many products can I scrape? A: FREE tier: 25 products per run. PAID tier: unlimited products across as many searches as you like.

Q: Are prices in euros? A: Yes — this scraper targets douglas.de (Germany), so all prices are in EUR.

Q: What's the difference between Overview and Detail mode? A: Overview is the fast path — search results with EUR price, ratings, images, and classification. Detail adds the full INCI ingredients list, usage text, EAN and the long product description for every product.

Q: Can I look up a specific product directly? A: Yes — use the productCodes field with one or more Douglas product codes (or full /de/p/... links) in Detail mode.

Q: What output formats are available? A: JSON, CSV, and Excel — export directly from the Apify dataset.

Q: Is this legal? A: Yes — we only extract publicly available product data. See the legal section below.

Q: How fresh is the data? A: Every run pulls live data directly from Douglas at the moment you run it. Schedule runs to keep prices and stock up to date.

---

🐞 Troubleshooting

No results returned

• Check that your keywords match real Douglas products
• Try a broader search term or a different sort order

Missing ingredients or description

• Ingredients, usage and long descriptions only appear in Detail mode — switch scrapeMode to detail

Fewer results than expected on the free tier

• The FREE tier is capped at 25 products per run — upgrade to PAID for unlimited results

---

⚖️ Is it legal to scrape data?

Our actors are ethical and do not extract any private user data, such as email addresses, gender, or location. They only extract what is publicly shared. We therefore believe that our actors, when used for ethical purposes by Apify users, are safe.

However, you should be aware that your results could contain personal data. Personal data is protected by the GDPR in the European Union and by other regulations around the world. You should not scrape personal data unless you have a legitimate reason to do so. If you're unsure whether your reason is legitimate, consult your lawyers.

You can also read Apify's blog post on the legality of web scraping.

---

⚖️ Trademark Disclaimer

Douglas® is a trademark of Douglas GmbH. This actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Douglas GmbH.

---

⭐ Love This Tool?

If this actor saves you time, please leave us a 5-star review — it helps other professionals discover it and helps us keep improving.

---

🤝 Support

Join our active support community

• For issues or questions, open an issue in the actor's repository
• Check the SIÁN Agency Store for more automation tools
• 📧 apify@sian-agency.online

More from SIÁN Agency

• 🛍️ Google Shopping Price Scraper — track offers and price history across the web
• 🪚 Home Depot Product Scraper — Home Depot prices, specs & store inventory
• 🏪 Walmart Product Scraper — Walmart product and review data

---

Built by SIÁN Agency | More Tools