🎌 Japanwelt Product Scraper — Prices, Stock & SKUs

🎉 Germany's largest Japan-focused shop, exported — 4,781 products across 21 departments

Built for price monitoring, resellers and anyone tracking Japanese goods in the German market

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🔎 What is the Japanwelt Product Scraper — and when should you use it?

The Japanwelt Product Scraper turns the German shop japanwelt.de and its roughly 4,781 product pages into clean, structured rows you can filter, export and feed straight into a spreadsheet, database or AI agent. No account, no portal API key, no browser automation to maintain.

Use it when you need: Japanwelt product rows carrying the German product name, the current EUR price, the shop's own published price per unit where there is one, the pack content, a three-state stock light and a direct link to the product page. Detail mode goes further on named products: the shop's article number, the brand, the manufacturer part number, the shop's own category path, the delivery window, the specification table, the full description and every gallery image.

Use something else when: you need a different shop. Use Kleinanzeigen Scraper for German classifieds, where the same futons, tatami and Go sets turn up second-hand. Use BAUHAUS Product Scraper for German DIY, garden and interiors, where this one covers the Japanese end of the same room. Use Douglas Product Scraper for German beauty and fragrance retail. This actor reads one shop, so it says what Japanwelt charges rather than what anyone else charges for the same matcha. Each run is a snapshot: price history exists only if you schedule the run and keep the datasets. The shop publishes no EAN barcodes, so joins against other catalogues go through brand plus manufacturer part number.

🤖 Use with AI agents

Already connected to the Apify MCP server? Just ask for this Actor by name: sian.agency/japanwelt-product-scraper

Your agent can pay for its own runs. This Actor is eligible for agentic payments, so an agent can discover it, run it and settle the bill over x402 (USDC on Base) or Skyfire — without an Apify account or API token of its own. Billing is the same either way: per successful row, never for errors.

Otherwise copy this prompt into Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or any MCP-enabled assistant:

I want prices, per-unit prices, stock and article numbers from the Japanwelt shop using the Apify Actor `sian.agency/japanwelt-product-scraper`.

Use it when I need: Japanwelt product rows carrying the German product name, the current EUR price, the shop's own published price per unit where there is one, the pack content, a three-state stock light and a direct link to the product page. Detail mode goes further on named products: the shop's article number, the brand, the manufacturer part number, the shop's own category path, the delivery window, the specification table, the full description and every gallery image.

Don't use it when: you need a different shop — use kleinanzeigen-scraper or bauhaus-product-scraper or douglas-product-scraper instead.

How to call it: leave `operation` on `catalog` and put German words in `searchTerms` (tee returns 276 products, matcha 109, kintsugi 11, shogi 5), or paste shop category links into `categoryUrls` to take whole shelves — a department link takes everything under it. Clear both to walk all 21 departments. `sortBy` decides which end of the shelf a capped run returns: priceAsc, priceDesc, newest, popularity or name. Switch `operation` to `productDetail` and pass `productUrls` for one deep row per product. `maxItems` is the hard ceiling on rows and therefore on what a run charges.

Start with this input:
{
  "operation": "catalog",
  "searchTerms": [
    "matcha"
  ],
  "sortBy": "priceAsc",
  "maxItems": 100
}

Ask me whether they want a broad shelf sweep or a deep read of named products, and which German word or shop category to narrow to, then run the Actor and summarise the results as a table.

Things you can ask your agent for:

• Export every matcha and green tea at Japanwelt with its price per 100 g, cheapest first.
• Watch the futon and tatami departments daily and tell me when anything drops below 300 euro or comes back in stock.
• Give me the article number, brand and part number for these ten product links so I can match them against my wholesaler list.

Machine-readable API, MCP config and OpenAPI definition for this Actor are published at apify.com/sian.agency/japanwelt-product-scraper.md.

📋 Overview

Shop	japanwelt.de (Germany)
Catalogue	~4,781 product pages, 549 shop categories, 21 top-level departments
Language	German product text, prices in EUR including VAT
Modes	Catalogue (search or shelves) · Product detail
Fanout	up to 100 products per request in catalogue mode
Proxy	none needed, and none billed to you
Charging	a small run-start fee, then one event per product row

Two operations, picked with a single operation field:

• 🛒 Catalogue — search the shop for your terms, or walk the shop categories you name, and get one row per product: price, per-unit price, pack content, image, stock light and listing position. This is the broad, cheap mode.
• 🔬 Product detail — hand it product page links and get one deeper row each: article number, brand, manufacturer part number, the shop's own category path, delivery window, the specification table, the full description and every gallery image.

✨ Features

• One request, a whole shelf. The listing page accepts a large page size and returned 276 products for a single search during the build, so a category export is a handful of requests.
• Per-unit prices the shop publishes. Tea and food rows carry the shop's own euro-per-100-g or euro-per-litre figure next to the pack content, which is the only honest way to compare a 25 g tin of gyokuro against a 200 g bag of konacha.
• A stock light with three states, not a boolean. Green ships now, amber ships in roughly four to six weeks, red is sold out. A plain in-stock flag hides the middle one.
• Article numbers, brands and part numbers in detail mode, which is what you join on when you match this catalogue against a wholesaler list or a marketplace listing.
• Sort the shelf before the cap bites. Cheapest first, most expensive first, newest, most popular or A–Z, so a capped run returns the end of the shelf you actually wanted.
• German decimals handled properly. 3.599,00 € is three thousand five hundred and ninety-nine euros, and the row says 3599, not 3.6.
• No proxy, no key, no surprise bill. The shop answers plain requests; nothing else is charged to your account.

🎬 Quick start

Press Start with the default input and you get 25 matcha products with prices. That is the whole setup.

{
  "operation": "catalog",
  "searchTerms": ["matcha"],
  "maxItems": 25
}

🚀 Getting started (3 simple steps)

Step 1: Pick a mode

Leave operation on catalog for breadth. Switch it to productDetail when you already know which products you care about and want the article number, brand and specifications.

Step 2: Say what to cover

In catalogue mode, put German words in searchTerms, shop category links in categoryUrls, or clear both to walk all 21 departments. In detail mode, put product page links in productUrls. Catalogue rows carry the exact link in productUrl, so one feeds the other.

Step 3: Set your ceiling

maxItems is the hard limit on rows, and therefore on what the run can charge. 25 is a look around; 5000 with empty search terms and empty category links is a full catalogue export.

📥 Input configuration

Field	Type	Default	What it does
operation	select	catalog	catalog for many products at once, productDetail for one deep row per link
searchTerms	list of text	["matcha"]	German search words, one per line. Each is searched separately
categoryUrls	list of links	empty	Shop category links. A department link takes everything under it
sortBy	select	relevance	Shop default, newest, most popular, cheapest first, most expensive first, or name A–Z
productUrls	list of links	empty	Product page links, required in detail mode
maxItems	number	25	Hard ceiling on rows returned and charged

German words find the most, because the shop is German. Measured during the build: tee returns 276 products, matcha 109, kintsugi 11, wagashi 9, shogi 5. futon, tatami, sake, shoji, bento and kimono all have shelves of their own.

Nothing in the input asks you how to fetch anything. No proxy picker, no concurrency, no retry count. Those are ours to get right.

📤 Output

One flat row per product. Fields that a mode does not publish are simply absent rather than invented.

Field	Type	Notes
productId	number	The shop's own numeric article id
sku	text	Article number such as JW11081 (detail mode)
productName	text	German product name as published
productUrl	link	Direct link to the product page
imageUrl	image	Full-size product picture
price	number	Current price in EUR, VAT included
priceIsFrom	boolean	True when the shop shows a starting price for several sizes
currency	text	EUR
referencePrice	number	The shop's published price per unit
referenceUnit	text	What that per-unit price is per, e.g. 100 Gramm
packContent	text	Pack content, e.g. 40 Gramm or 1 Stück
availability	text	InStock or OutOfStock
inStock	boolean	Convenience flag
stockIndicator	text	green, amber or red — the shop's own light
deliveryTime	text	Delivery window, e.g. ca. 9-13 Tage (detail mode)
brand	text	Brand or manufacturer (detail mode)
partNumber	text	Manufacturer part number (detail mode)
categoryPath	text	The shop's own path, e.g. Teezeremonie > Matcha & Grüner Tee
rating	number	Rating on the shop's 1-to-10 scale, empty when nobody has rated it
reviewCount	number	How many reviews that rating is built on
shortDescription	text	The shop's own summary
descriptionText	text	Full product description (detail mode)
specifications	array	Name/value pairs from the product's own spec table (detail mode)
imageUrls	array	Every gallery image of this product (detail mode)
listingPosition	number	Where the product sat in the listing you asked for
searchTerm	text	Which of your search terms produced this row
categoryUrl	link	Which shelf produced this row
operation	text	catalog or productDetail
scrapedAt	date	When the row was read

A run also writes an HTML 📄 Processing Report to the key-value store: what came back, what did not and why, what it cost, and links to download the dataset as JSON or CSV.

💼 Use cases & examples

1. Japanese food and tea price monitoring

Track what Germany's largest Japan-focused retailer charges for matcha, sencha, gyokuro, hojicha, sake, soy sauce and miso, at the pack size that matters. The published per-100-g price lets you compare a 25 g tin against a 200 g bag without doing the arithmetic.

{ "operation": "catalog", "searchTerms": ["matcha", "sencha", "gyokuro"], "sortBy": "priceAsc", "maxItems": 300 }

2. Furniture and interiors catalogue research

Futon beds, tatami mats in custom sizes, shoji screens, paravents and Japanese lamps run from the low hundreds into the low thousands of euros. One department link returns them all with availability and delivery windows attached.

{ "operation": "catalog", "categoryUrls": ["https://www.japanwelt.de/futon-betten/", "https://www.japanwelt.de/tatami/"], "maxItems": 500 }

3. Reseller and marketplace arbitrage

Detail rows carry the article number, the brand and the manufacturer part number, which is enough to match a product against a wholesaler list or a marketplace listing and find where the same article sells for more.

{ "operation": "productDetail", "productUrls": ["https://www.japanwelt.de/anziehen/schluesselanhaenger/anhaenger-kinchaku.html"] }

4. Availability and assortment monitoring

The stock light and the delivery window show what is genuinely available rather than merely listed. Run a shelf on a schedule and watch it change week to week.

{ "operation": "catalog", "categoryUrls": ["https://www.japanwelt.de/teezeremonie/"], "sortBy": "newest", "maxItems": 400 }

5. Niche market sizing

Go and Shogi sets, calligraphy supplies, kimono and yukata, bonsai tools — shelves too small for a general retail scraper to bother with, priced and counted in one export.

{ "operation": "catalog", "searchTerms": ["go-brett", "shogi", "kalligraphie", "bonsai"], "maxItems": 200 }

6. Cross-shop price comparison

Pair this with the sibling German Asian-goods scrapers to see who charges what for the same rice, sauce or tea across three shops.

7. AI agents and shopping assistants

Point an agent at this actor over MCP and it can answer "what does Japanwelt want for a 2 m tatami mat, and is it in stock" with real numbers rather than a guess.

🔗 Integration examples

JavaScript/Node.js

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: 'YOUR_API_TOKEN' });

const run = await client.actor('sian.agency/japanwelt-product-scraper').call({
    operation: 'catalog',
    searchTerms: ['matcha'],
    sortBy: 'priceAsc',
    maxItems: 100,
});

const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
for (const p of items) {
    console.log(`${p.productName} — ${p.price} ${p.currency} (${p.referencePrice ?? '—'} / ${p.referenceUnit ?? '—'})`);
}

Python

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("YOUR_API_TOKEN")

run = client.actor("sian.agency/japanwelt-product-scraper").call(run_input={
    "operation": "catalog",
    "categoryUrls": ["https://www.japanwelt.de/futon-betten/"],
    "maxItems": 200,
})

for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item["productName"], item.get("price"), item.get("stockIndicator"))

cURL

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/sian.agency~japanwelt-product-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_API_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "operation": "catalog",
    "searchTerms": ["tatami"],
    "maxItems": 50
  }'

Automation workflows (N8N / Zapier / Make)

Every one of these can run the actor on a schedule and act on the rows:

• N8N — an Apify node runs the actor, and a Function node compares today's price against yesterday's dataset to raise a price-drop alert.
• Zapier — trigger on a finished run and append new rows to Google Sheets or Airtable.
• Make — watch a category on a daily schedule and post to Slack when stockIndicator flips from red to green.

📊 Performance & pricing

FREE tier (try it now)

Free Apify accounts get up to 25 rows a run so you can see the shape of the data before spending anything.

PAID tier (production)

No row cap beyond your own maxItems. You pay a small run-start fee plus one event per product row returned. Nothing for a search that matched nothing, nothing for a link that could not be read, and no proxy bill.

Catalogue mode reads up to 100 products per request, so a 500-product export is a handful of requests. Detail mode reads one product page per row and the shop answers those in anything from three to seventy seconds, so plan a large detail run as a scheduled background job.

❓ FAQ

How many products are there? About 4,781 product pages across 21 departments and 549 shop categories on the day of the build. Set maxItems to 5000 and leave both searchTerms and categoryUrls empty for a full export.

What is the difference between catalogue mode and detail mode? Catalogue mode is broad and cheap: one row per product with price, per-unit price, pack content, image, availability and listing position, up to a hundred products per request. Detail mode is deep: one row per link with article number, brand, part number, category path, delivery time, the specification table, the description and the gallery.

Why does a run take so long? The shop's own pages answer in anything from three to seventy seconds, and a request cannot come back faster than the shop sends it. Runs are paced and retried rather than hammered, because hammering a slow shop returns errors instead of rows.

Is the data in German? Yes. Product names, descriptions, specification labels and category names come from the German shop exactly as published, and prices are in EUR. Nothing is translated.

Do I get EAN barcodes? No. The shop publishes its own article number (JW11081) and a manufacturer part number, but no barcode. Match on brand plus part number where you need to join against another catalogue.

Why do some prices start with "from"? Products sold in several sizes or finishes show a starting price on the listing tile. Those rows set priceIsFrom to true rather than pretending it is the only price. Run detail mode on the link for the exact figure.

What does the amber stock light mean? In stock, but with a long delivery window, typically four to six weeks. Green ships in days, red is sold out.

Can I follow one shelf only? Yes. Paste one or more category links into categoryUrls. A department link takes everything under it; the Wohnen department returned 211 products in a single request during the build.

Are there hidden costs? No. A small run-start fee plus one event per product row, and nothing else.

🐛 Troubleshooting

A search returned an error row saying nothing matched. The shop searches German words. Try the German term, tee rather than tea or bett rather than bed, or paste a category link instead.

A category link returned nothing. Open it in a browser first. Department landing pages work, but a page that only lists sub-shelves and no products of its own returns nothing. Pick the shelf itself.

A product link failed. Product page links end in .html. Category links do not work in detail mode. Catalogue rows carry the exact link in productUrl.

A run stopped early. Either maxItems was reached, or a free Apify account hit the 25-row tier cap. Both are stated in the run log and in the report.

Rows came back but a column is empty. Some fields only exist in detail mode: sku, brand, partNumber, deliveryTime, specifications and imageUrls among them. Switch operation to productDetail for those.

⚖️ Legal — is it legal to scrape this data?

This actor reads only pages the shop publishes for shoppers, and it reads them the way a shopper's browser does. It collects no personal data: product names, prices, availability and descriptions are commercial information about goods for sale.

Japanwelt is a trademark of its owner. This tool is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by Japanwelt. Product names, images and descriptions belong to the shop; SIÁN does not host them or claim rights to them, and the shop can change or withdraw any of them at any time.

Scraping publicly available information is generally lawful in the EU and the US, but what you do with the data afterwards is your responsibility. Take your own advice before republishing product text or images.

🤝 Support

• 🐛 Issues: https://apify.com/sian.agency/japanwelt-product-scraper/issues
• ⭐ Reviews: https://apify.com/sian.agency/japanwelt-product-scraper/reviews
• 🏪 More actors: https://apify.com/sian.agency?fpr=sian

Sibling shops in the same market:

• Kleinanzeigen Scraper — Germany's biggest classifieds, for second-hand prices on the same futons, tatami and Go sets.
• BAUHAUS Product Scraper — German DIY, garden and interiors, with prices and availability.
• Douglas Product Scraper — German beauty and fragrance retail.

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