ASOS Scraper

Pull product data from asos.com, the UK-headquartered fashion retailer that ships across the EU and beyond. This scraper reads directly from ASOS's own server-rendered search page, so it returns clean, structured data — name, brand, price, sale discounts, images — for real search results, not a scraped screenshot of a page.

How to scrape ASOS data

Give the actor one or more search keywords (brand names, product types, or a mix — "nike", "midi dress", "adidas originals" all work) and it runs them against asos.com's own site search, paging through results until it hits maxResults.

ASOS sits behind Akamai's bot-management layer: a plain request to any asos.com path never completes — the connection hangs at the TLS handshake, no response at all. This actor routes every request through Bright Data's Web Unlocker, which clears the block, so you don't need your own proxy or browser-automation setup.

Under the hood, ASOS server-renders its search-result grid directly into the page HTML as a window.asos.plp._data=JSON.parse('...') hydration blob — the same Redux state React uses to paint the page, carrying one full product object per card actually shown (name, brand, price, sale price, colour, canonical product URL, image gallery). There's no separate hidden API call to reverse-engineer; the same Bright Data-fetched HTML page the actor already downloads for you IS the data source. (ASOS does expose a discoverable JSON API at /api/product/search/v2/categories/{id}, but it silently ignores free-text search terms — confirmed by testing the same query against three different keywords and getting identical results back every time — so this actor uses the rendered search page instead, which does respect the query.) The actor pages through results with ASOS's own ?page= parameter, 72 fresh products per page, and de-duplicates by product ID as it goes.

If you don't provide any input, it defaults to scraping ASOS's "dress" search as a demo — a broad, cross-brand term with over 20,000 matches.

Input

Field	Type	Description
searchQueries	array of strings	Search keywords to run on asos.com, e.g. "nike" or "midi dress". Up to 25 per run.
maxResults	integer	Cap on number of products returned across all search queries (default: 100)
brightDataApiKey	string	Your own Bright Data API key, if you want to use your own Web Unlocker zone instead of the actor's built-in one
proxyConfiguration	object	Not used — this actor reaches asos.com exclusively through Bright Data, which handles unblocking on its own. Kept for input-shape compatibility.

What you get back

Field	Type	Example
name	string	"Nike P-6000 trainers in white and metallic silver"
brand	string	"Nike"
price	number	78 — the current selling price (sale price when discounted, otherwise full price)
originalPrice	number | null	Pre-discount price, only present when ASOS marks a markdown
currency	string	"GBP" — asos.com's .com storefront is priced in GBP
productId	string | null	"207050600" — ASOS's internal product ID
productCode	string | null	"137292900" — a distinct ASOS internal reference code
inStock	boolean | null	Always null — ASOS search results don't carry an explicit stock flag; sold-out items appear to be filtered out of listings entirely. Never coerced to false.
url	string	Full product page URL
imageUrl	string | null	Primary product image
imageUrls	array	Up to 8 product images for the default colour
colour	string | null	"WHITE"
isSale	boolean | null	true when ASOS is currently showing a markdown price for this item
scrapedAt	string	ISO timestamp

Sample output

{
  "name": "Nike P-6000 trainers in white and metallic silver",
  "brand": "Nike",
  "price": 78,
  "currency": "GBP",
  "url": "https://www.asos.com/nike/nike-p-6000-trainers-in-white-and-metallic-silver/prd/207050600#colourWayId-207050633",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-09-04T14:27:08.970Z",
  "originalPrice": 109.99,
  "productId": "207050600",
  "productCode": "137292900",
  "inStock": null,
  "imageUrl": "https://images.asos-media.com/products/nike-p-6000-trainers-in-white-and-metallic-silver/207050600-1-white",
  "imageUrls": [
    "https://images.asos-media.com/products/nike-p-6000-trainers-in-white-and-metallic-silver/207050600-1-white",
    "https://images.asos-media.com/products/nike-p-6000-trainers-in-white-and-metallic-silver/207050600-2"
  ],
  "colour": "WHITE",
  "isSale": true
}

Use cases

• Price monitoring — track ASOS'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 one of the UK's largest fashion marketplaces.
• Market comparison — ASOS is a standard reference point alongside Zalando and Zara when benchmarking European fashion pricing.
• Sale tracking — isSale and originalPrice flag exactly when and how much a product or category is discounted.

Coverage

asos.com is ASOS's international storefront (.com), browsed here through a UK Bright Data exit — pricing and catalogue reflect the GB market (GBP). ASOS runs country-specific storefronts for other markets (asos.com/de, asos.com/fr, etc. via locale routing) with different pricing; this actor is scoped to the GB-priced .com search results.

Performance and cost

Every request goes through Bright Data's Web Unlocker, but a single search-result page returns 72 products in one call, so the Bright Data cost per result is a small fraction of a cent per product. A 100-product run typically completes in under a minute. Your run's usage cost only settles after the run reports SUCCEEDED — checking cost mid-run will undercount it.

Limitations

• Input is search keywords, not category browsing — ASOS's category-tree navigation wasn't wired into this actor; a keyword search covers the same catalogue and is simpler to use.
• originalPrice is only populated when ASOS marks an item as discounted; full-price items will show it as absent, which is correct, not missing data.
• Ratings and review counts aren't exposed on the search-result endpoint, so they're not included in the output.
• Size/stock-per-size isn't included — ASOS's search grid doesn't expose per-size availability.
• If ASOS restructures its /search/ page or hydration data shape, the actor will need updating — it depends on the exact structure of the window.asos.plp._data blob.

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
• Mytheresa Scraper — luxury fashion e-tail, full per-size stock

Support

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Why Bright Data instead of a standard proxy

ASOS's Akamai layer doesn't just rate-limit or serve a CAPTCHA — a plain connection from a datacenter or residential IP without the right TLS/JA3 fingerprint hangs indefinitely at the handshake, confirmed against /robots.txt itself. Bright Data's Web Unlocker handles that fingerprinting and challenge-solving so this actor can focus on parsing real product data instead of maintaining an anti-bot bypass.