About You Scraper

Pull product data from aboutyou.de, Germany's Zalando-scale multi-brand fashion marketplace — hundreds of brands, from Levi's and Tommy Hilfiger to smaller German labels, all in one storefront. This scraper reads the same structured data About You's own frontend renders into the page, so it returns clean, per-brand product records without fragile HTML scraping.

How to scrape About You data

Give the actor a German search term (e.g. "jeans", "kleider", "sneaker") and it resolves that term against About You's own category taxonomy (990+ women's, 458 kids', and hundreds of men's categories), then pulls product listings from every matching category page until it hits maxResults.

Under the hood, About You's storefront embeds its product-listing data directly in the page HTML as structured JSON (the same data that renders the product tiles you see on the site) — no login, no cookies, and no browser rendering needed. This actor fetches that JSON directly instead of parsing rendered markup, which makes it fast and resilient to front-end styling changes.

If you don't provide any input, it defaults to searching for "kleider" (dresses) as a demo.

Input

Field	Type	Description
searchQuery	string	Search term, in German (e.g. "jeans", "kleider", "sneaker", "jacke")
maxResults	integer	Cap on number of products returned (default: 100)
proxyConfiguration	object	Apify proxy settings. About You's category pages have no anti-bot protection, so the default Apify proxy is sufficient — no residential proxy needed

What you get back

Field	Type	Example
name	string	"OBJECT Blusenkleid 'OBJSANNE'"
brand	string	"OBJECT"
price	number | null	19.16
originalPrice	number | null	47.90 (only set when the item is discounted)
currency	string	"EUR"
discount	string | null	"-70%"
sku	string	"31737256"
productId	string	"31737256"
inStock	boolean | null	true (null only if the source omits stock data)
url	string	Full product page URL
imageUrl	string	Primary product image
imageUrls	array	All product images
category	string | null	"Kleider"
sizes	array	Currently orderable sizes: [{"size": "38", "inStock": true}]
scrapedAt	string	ISO timestamp

Sample output

{
  "name": "OBJECT Blusenkleid 'OBJSANNE'",
  "brand": "OBJECT",
  "price": 19.16,
  "originalPrice": 47.9,
  "currency": "EUR",
  "discount": "-70%",
  "sku": "31737256",
  "productId": "31737256",
  "inStock": true,
  "url": "https://www.aboutyou.de/p/object/blusenkleid-objsanne-31737256",
  "imageUrl": "https://cdn.aboutstatic.com/file/images/fdbcaa4f50269981a0f9d5dd9c9a932f.jpg?quality=75",
  "imageUrls": [
    "https://cdn.aboutstatic.com/file/images/fdbcaa4f50269981a0f9d5dd9c9a932f.jpg?quality=75",
    "https://cdn.aboutstatic.com/file/images/558af7e605204a921f0b64e2bf231f99.png?bg=F4F4F5&quality=75&trim=1"
  ],
  "category": "Kleider",
  "sizes": [
    { "size": "34", "inStock": true },
    { "size": "36", "inStock": true },
    { "size": "38", "inStock": true }
  ],
  "scrapedAt": "2026-08-29T15:12:09.238Z"
}

Use cases

• Price monitoring — track About You's own price and discount changes across the many brands it resells.
• Multi-brand assortment research — see which brands show up under a given search term, and at what price points, across a Zalando-scale marketplace.
• Discount tracking — originalPrice and discount surface active markdowns as they happen.
• Market comparison — About You aggregates hundreds of brands under one storefront, making it a useful single reference point when benchmarking German fashion pricing against brand-direct sites.

Coverage

v1 defaults to women's categories (About You's own flagship landing segment), but the search-term matcher works against the site's full category tree, which also covers men's and kids' apparel — a men's or kids'-specific search term (e.g. "herrenjacke") will still resolve correctly.

Because About You's category pages return the first ~30 products server-rendered per page (deeper pagination requires an internal binary API not covered by this actor), the scraper reaches higher maxResults values by pulling from multiple matching categories (e.g. a search for "kleider" pulls from the general dresses category, the sale dresses category, the premium dresses category, and so on) and deduplicating by product ID. Broader search terms that match many narrow sub-categories return more unique products per run than very specific ones.

Performance and cost

The scraper reads About You's own embedded page data — no browser rendering, no HTML parsing — so it's fast. A run of 100 products typically completes in a few seconds. This actor charges $0.02 per run (start fee, based on its 4 GB memory allocation) plus $0.002 per result — a 100-product run costs about $0.22. Your run's usage cost only settles after the run reports SUCCEEDED — checking cost mid-run will undercount it.

Limitations

• sizes reflects currently orderable sizes only, not a full stock ladder with per-size quantities — About You's listing data doesn't expose sold-out sizes.
• No separate EAN/barcode field — sku and productId are the same internal About You product ID.
• No rating or review data — not exposed by the category listing endpoint this actor reads.
• Search is keyword-based, matching About You's own category structure. It does not accept direct product URLs or free-text full-site search (About You's /search endpoint is excluded by the site's own robots.txt).
• Deep pagination within a single very broad category (e.g. "all women's clothing") is capped at the SSR page size; use a more specific search term for full coverage of a narrow category, or a broad term to sample across many categories.

Related scrapers

If you're covering German fashion retail more broadly, also check out:

• C&A Scraper — major European fashion chain with per-size stock data
• Deichmann Scraper — Europe's largest shoe retailer
• Intersport Scraper — German sporting goods and athletic footwear
• New Yorker Scraper — German youth/streetwear fashion chain

Support

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