Answear Scraper

Pull product data from answear.com, PL/CEE's leading online multi-brand fashion retailer. This scraper reads directly from Answear's own on-site search backend, so it returns clean, structured data — name, brand, price, sizes, EANs, stock, images, full descriptions — for real search results, not a scraped screenshot of a page.

How to scrape Answear data

Give the actor one or more search keywords (product types, brand names, or a mix — "sukienka" (dress), "buty" (shoes), "Tommy Hilfiger" all work, Polish or English) and it pages through Answear's search results until it hits maxResults. An optional categorySlug narrows any query to a specific department, e.g. "ona/odziez/sukienki" for women's dresses.

Answear.com sits behind Akamai's bot-management layer: a plain request to any answear.com path, including robots.txt, gets blocked at the edge. But Answear's own on-site search runs on Luigi's Box, a third-party search backend hosted separately from answear.com and reachable with a plain, stateless HTTP request — no proxy, no browser automation, no anti-bot workaround needed. This actor talks directly to that backend, which is also why it's fast: a single request returns up to 200 full product records at once, and a typical run finishes in a few seconds.

Each result carries the full data Answear's search index holds per product: current and pre-discount price, brand, breadcrumb category, a full-paragraph description, primary and additional images, available sizes, and a representative EAN barcode pulled from the product's size/SKU variants.

If you don't provide any input, it defaults to scraping Answear's "sukienka" (dress) search as a demo — a broad, evergreen term with hundreds of matches across dozens of brands.

Input

Field	Type	Description
searchQueries	array of strings	Search keywords to run on answear.com, e.g. "sukienka", "buty". Up to 25 per run.
categorySlug	string	Optional category filter applied on top of every query, e.g. "ona/odziez/sukienki" (women / clothing / dresses)
maxResults	integer	Cap on number of products returned across all search queries (default: 100)
proxyConfiguration	object	Not used — this actor reaches answear.com's search backend directly, no proxy needed. Kept for input-shape compatibility.

What you get back

Field	Type	Example
name	string	"Sukienka letnia z wiskozą"
brand	string	"Medicine"
price	number	139.90
originalPrice	number | null	Pre-discount price, only present when Answear marks a markdown
currency	string	"PLN" — answear.com is a single-market, PLN-only storefront
sku	string | null	"RW26-SUD011" — manufacturer part number
productId	string | null	Answear's internal numeric product id
ean	string | null	Barcode of one in-stock size variant (each size has its own EAN, not one per product)
inStock	boolean | null	true when at least one size is purchasable, false when every known size is confirmed sold out, null only when the source doesn't confirm stock — never coerced to false
url	string	Full product page URL
imageUrl	string | null	Primary product image
imageUrls	array	Primary plus additional product angle images
category	string | null	Full breadcrumb, e.g. "Ona / Odzież / Sukienki"
description	string | null	Full product description (Polish)
specs	object	Available sizes plus a handful of product attributes (material, fit, pattern, neckline, etc)
scrapedAt	string	ISO timestamp

Sample output

{
  "name": "Sukienka letnia z wiskozą",
  "brand": "Medicine",
  "price": 139.9,
  "currency": "PLN",
  "url": "https://answear.com/p/medicine-sukienka-letnia-z-wiskoza-bezowa-gladka-1720119",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-09-07T14:18:24.371Z",
  "sku": "RW26-SUD011",
  "productId": "1720119",
  "ean": "5907842288229",
  "inStock": true,
  "imageUrl": "https://img2.ans-media.com/i/855x1290/RW26-SUD011-01X_F1.avif?v=1784538642",
  "imageUrls": [
    "https://img2.ans-media.com/i/855x1290/RW26-SUD011-01X_F1.avif?v=1784538642",
    "https://img2.ans-media.com/i/855x1290/RW26-SUD011-01X_F2.avif?v=1784538785"
  ],
  "category": "Ona / Odzież / Sukienki",
  "description": "Sukienka mini Medicine to trapezowa, letnia propozycja, która wyróżnia się gładką strukturą i cienkimi ramiączkami...",
  "specs": {
    "sizes": "S, L, XL, XS",
    "Długość fasonu": "mini",
    "Materiał": "wiskoza"
  }
}

Use cases

• Price monitoring — track Answear's own price and markdown changes over time on the brands and styles you sell against.
• Assortment research — see which brands and products rank for a given search term on Poland's leading multi-brand fashion marketplace.
• Market comparison — Answear fills the gap next to Zalando, H&M and Zara for CEE fashion pricing benchmarks.
• Stock and size tracking — inStock and the sizes spec flag when a product or a specific size run has sold through, with a real EAN for barcode-level joins.

Coverage

answear.com is Answear's primary/parent storefront (Polish language, PLN pricing). Answear runs separate country domains (answear.de, answear.ro, answear.cz, and others) on the same underlying platform with localized catalogs and currencies — this actor is scoped to answear.com only.

Performance and cost

This actor makes zero requests through Bright Data or any paid unblocking service — Answear's search backend (Luigi's Box) is open to plain HTTP requests, and a single call returns up to 200 products at once. A 100-product run typically completes in a few seconds. Infrastructure cost per result is effectively zero, which is why this actor is priced at $0.002 per result plus a $0.005 run-start fee — the standard e-commerce tier. Your run's usage cost only settles after the run reports SUCCEEDED — checking cost mid-run will undercount it.

Limitations

• Input is search keywords (optionally narrowed by one category filter), not full category-tree browsing.
• originalPrice is only populated when Answear marks an item as discounted; full-price items will show it as absent, which is correct, not missing data.
• ean reflects one size variant's barcode, not a single product-level code — fashion items don't have one EAN across all sizes.
• Ratings and review counts aren't exposed on the search endpoint, so they're not included in the output.
• If Answear or Luigi's Box changes its search API shape, or the tracker id rotates, the actor will need updating — see the recon notes in src/main.ts for the harvest procedure.

Related scrapers

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

• Zalando Scraper — Europe's largest online fashion retailer
• Zara Scraper — Inditex flagship, category-based catalog
• Vinted Scraper — European resale/secondhand fashion

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