# ASOS Scraper — Product Prices, Sales & Images (`studio-amba/asos-scraper`) Actor

Scrape product data from asos.com, the UK-headquartered, EU-wide fashion retailer. Extract names, brands, prices, sale discounts and images for any search term or keyword across thousands of brands, unblocked with Bright Data Web Unlocker.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/studio-amba/asos-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Studio Amba](https://apify.com/studio-amba) (community)
- **Categories:** E-commerce
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $1.20 / 1,000 result scrapeds

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

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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## 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

```json
{
  "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](https://apify.com/studio-amba/zalando-scraper) — Europe's largest online fashion retailer
- [Zara Scraper](https://apify.com/studio-amba/zara-scraper) — Inditex flagship, category-based catalog
- [Mytheresa Scraper](https://apify.com/studio-amba/mytheresa-scraper) — luxury fashion e-tail, full per-size stock

### Support

Found an issue or need a market that isn't resolving correctly? Open an issue on this actor's Apify Store page and we'll take a look.

### 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.

# Actor input Schema

## `searchQueries` (type: `array`):

Search keywords to run on asos.com's site search, e.g. "nike" or "midi dress". Leave empty to use the default ("dress").

## `maxResults` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of products to scrape across all search queries

## `brightDataApiKey` (type: `string`):

Bright Data API key (Web Unlocker zone) used to reach asos.com behind its Akamai anti-bot protection. Falls back to the actor's own BRIGHT\_DATA\_API\_KEY environment variable if left empty.

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

Not used — this actor reaches asos.com exclusively through Bright Data Web Unlocker (Akamai-protected, confirmed live), which handles unblocking on its own. Kept for input-shape compatibility.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "searchQueries": [
    "nike"
  ],
  "maxResults": 20,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `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 = {
    "searchQueries": [
        "nike"
    ],
    "maxResults": 20,
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": true
    }
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("studio-amba/asos-scraper").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 = {
    "searchQueries": ["nike"],
    "maxResults": 20,
    "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": True },
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("studio-amba/asos-scraper").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 '{
  "searchQueries": [
    "nike"
  ],
  "maxResults": 20,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}' |
apify call studio-amba/asos-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,studio-amba/asos-scraper"
        }
    }
}

```

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/Pkjh9sbionxIQ0AeE/builds/cshytepiXf03E0YEq/openapi.json