# China Electronics Prices & Specs Scraper (ZOL) (`sinodata/china-electronics-prices`) Actor

China consumer electronics prices and full specs from ZOL (中关村在线), no login: phones, laptops, graphics cards, CPUs, monitors, TVs and more, with prices, ratings, popularity rank, launch dates and up to 70 spec fields per product.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/sinodata/china-electronics-prices.md
- **Developed by:** [SinoData](https://apify.com/sinodata) (community)
- **Categories:** E-commerce
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 66.7% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $1.80 / 1,000 products

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.
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Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

## How to integrate an Actor?

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You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

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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

## China Electronics Prices & Specs Scraper (ZOL)

Track **what consumer electronics cost in China and what's inside them**. Data comes from **ZOL (中关村在线)**, China's biggest electronics product database. No login, no browser.

- **13 categories**: smartphones, laptops, graphics cards, CPUs, monitors, TVs, motherboards, memory, SSDs, desktop PCs, robot vacuums, refrigerators and washing machines
- **Price in CNY**, price ranges for product series, **user rating**, review count and **popularity rank**
- **Full specs** (optional): launch date and 20-70 spec fields per product, grouped by section (display, processor, camera, battery...)
- **Sort** phones and laptops by popularity, newest, price, reviews or rating
- **Filter** by name: `RTX 5070`, `iPhone`, `华为`, `小米`...

### Use cases

- **Consumer electronics brands and distributors**: monitor Chinese launches, prices and specs of competitors (Huawei, Xiaomi, vivo, OPPO, Honor, Lenovo...).
- **PC hardware market**: GPU and CPU street prices in China, e.g. the NVIDIA RTX 50 series.
- **Market research**: what sells in China and at what price point.
- **Product databases**: enrich your catalogue with Chinese models and specs.

### Example input

```json
{
  "categories": ["phones", "gpus"],
  "sortBy": "newest",
  "maxProductsPerCategory": 50,
  "includeSpecs": true
}
```

### Output

```json
{
  "type": "product",
  "category": "phones",
  "categoryEnglish": "Smartphones",
  "productId": "2178313",
  "name": "vivo X500 Pro Max(12GB/256GB)",
  "slogan": "蔡司2亿APO超级长焦，蓝晶×天玑9600 Pro，蔡司超动态主摄",
  "price": 6999,
  "priceMin": 6999,
  "priceMax": 6999,
  "priceText": "6999",
  "currency": "CNY",
  "rating": 6.8,
  "reviewCount": 2,
  "hotRank": 1,
  "launchDate": "2026-09-21",
  "specs": {
    "上市日期": "2026年9月21日",
    "产品型号": "vivo X500 Pro Max",
    "机身颜色": "大地回声，晴天，览霞，摄夜",
    "长度": "163.32mm",
    "厚度": "7.95mm"
  },
  "specSections": { "基本参数": { "...": "..." }, "屏幕": { "...": "..." } },
  "url": "https://detail.zol.com.cn/cell_phone/index2178313.shtml",
  "specsUrl": "https://detail.zol.com.cn/2179/2178313/param.shtml"
}
```

- Names, spec labels and values are in Chinese as published by ZOL.
- `price` is ZOL's reference price; for product series (e.g. TVs in several sizes) `price` is null and `priceMin` / `priceMax` give the range. `priceText` can also be a status such as 概念产品 (concept) or 停产 (discontinued).
- `hotRank` is ZOL's popularity rank (shown for some categories).
- `launchDate` can be a full date, a month (`2026-09`) or a year (`2026`).

### Pricing

**$0.002 per product**, specs included. 50 products cost $0.10.

### Notes and limits

ZOL shows a human check on deeper list pages, and we never try to get around it. In practice:

- **Graphics cards and CPUs**: several hundred products per run.
- **Phones and laptops**: the first 3-4 pages, about 75-100 products **per sort order**. Run with different sort orders (popular, newest, price...) to cover more.
- **Other categories**: the top 25 or so products in ZOL's popularity order.
- If ZOL asks for a human check, the run stops cleanly, keeps everything saved so far and says so in the status message. If it happens often, raise **Delay between requests**.

### Feedback

Need another category or field? Open an issue on the Issues tab.

# Actor input Schema

## `categories` (type: `array`):

Product categories to scrape.

## `sortBy` (type: `string`):

Order of the list. Phones and laptops support all orders; other categories always use ZOL's popularity order.

## `maxProductsPerCategory` (type: `integer`):

How many products to save from each category (see the limits in the README).

## `nameContains` (type: `array`):

Only products whose name contains one of these, e.g. RTX 5070, iPhone, 华为, 小米. Case-insensitive.

## `includeSpecs` (type: `boolean`):

Open each product's spec page and add launch date and every spec field (20-70 per product). One extra request per product, fetched slowly.

## `requestDelaySecs` (type: `integer`):

Pause between page requests. Raise it if runs stop early with a human-check message.

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

Not needed for normal use.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "categories": [
    "phones"
  ],
  "sortBy": "popular",
  "maxProductsPerCategory": 50,
  "includeSpecs": false,
  "requestDelaySecs": 2,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": false
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `overview` (type: `string`):

No description

## `results` (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 = {};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("sinodata/china-electronics-prices").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("sinodata/china-electronics-prices").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 sinodata/china-electronics-prices --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,sinodata/china-electronics-prices"
        }
    }
}
```

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/uv5UeuO6zQZwq1SUW/builds/sXDNawjb3Z57KJ1LY/openapi.json