# Boohoo Scraper — UK Fast-Fashion Prices & Stock (`studio-amba/boohoo-scraper`) Actor

Scrape product data from boohoo.com, the UK fast-fashion retailer. Extract names, brands, prices, sizes, categories, and images via Boohoo's own product search API.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/studio-amba/boohoo-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

## Boohoo Scraper

Pull product data from boohoo.com, the UK fast-fashion retailer. This scraper talks directly to Boohoo's own product search API, so it returns clean, structured data -- brand, price, sizes, category, images -- without any HTML parsing or browser rendering.

### How to scrape Boohoo data

Give the actor a search term in English (e.g. `"dress"`, `"jeans"`, `"hoodie"`) and it queries Boohoo's search endpoint directly, paginating until it hits `maxResults` or runs out of matching products. There's nothing to configure beyond the search term -- no category URLs to hunt down, no pagination logic to babysit.

Under the hood, Boohoo's storefront (a Remix app) doesn't render product listings server-side -- the page shell loads first, then the browser fetches results client-side from Boohoo's Bloomreach Discovery search index. This actor calls that same public JSON API directly instead of waiting on a browser to render and hydrate the page, which makes it faster and far less likely to break when Boohoo tweaks its frontend markup.

If you don't provide any input, it defaults to searching for `"dress"` as a demo.

### Input

| Field | Type | Description |
|-------|------|-------------|
| `searchQuery` | string | Search term, in English (e.g. `"jeans"`, `"hoodie"`, `"swimwear"`) |
| `maxResults` | integer | Cap on number of products returned (default: 100) |
| `proxyConfiguration` | object | Apify proxy settings. Boohoo's product search API has no anti-bot protection, so the default Apify proxy is sufficient -- no residential proxy needed |

### What you get back

| Field | Type | Example |
|-------|------|---------|
| `name` | string | `"Floral Chiffon Skater Dress"` |
| `brand` | string | `"boohoo"` |
| `price` | number | null | `21.00` |
| `currency` | string | `"GBP"` |
| `sku` | string | `"HZZ23103"` |
| `productId` | string | `"HZZ23103"` |
| `inStock` | boolean | null | `true` (null only if the source gives no availability signal) |
| `sizes` | array | Available size labels, e.g. `["8", "10", "12", "14", "16", "18"]` |
| `url` | string | Full product page URL |
| `imageUrl` | string | null | Primary product image |
| `imageUrls` | array | All product images (across colour variants) |
| `category` | string | null | `"Skater Dress"` |
| `description` | string | null | Plain-text product description |
| `scrapedAt` | string | ISO timestamp |
| `searchQuery` | string | The search term used to find this product (input echo) |

### Sample output

```json
{
  "name": "Floral Chiffon Skater Dress",
  "brand": "boohoo",
  "price": 21.00,
  "currency": "GBP",
  "sku": "HZZ23103",
  "productId": "HZZ23103",
  "inStock": true,
  "sizes": ["8", "10", "12", "14", "16", "18"],
  "url": "https://www.boohoo.com/product/boohoo-floral-chiffon-skater-dress_hzz23103?colour=brown&size=18",
  "imageUrl": "https://mediahub.boohoo.com/hzz23103_brown_xl.jpg",
  "imageUrls": [
    "https://mediahub.boohoo.com/hzz23103_brown_xl.jpg",
    "https://mediahub.boohoo.com/hzz23103_brown_xl_1",
    "https://mediahub.boohoo.com/hzz23103_brown_xl_2",
    "https://mediahub.boohoo.com/hzz23103_brown_xl_3"
  ],
  "category": "Skater Dress",
  "description": "Chiffon fabric for a light, airy feel. Square neckline for a flattering décolletage. Long sleeves with flared cuffs. Tiered skater skirt with flirty movement...",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-08-29T14:40:32.209Z",
  "searchQuery": "dress"
}
```

### Use cases

- **Price monitoring** -- track Boohoo's price changes over time on the styles you sell against.
- **Assortment research** -- see which categories and styles Boohoo is pushing at what price points, across its huge fast-fashion catalogue.
- **Size availability tracking** -- `sizes` shows which sizes are currently listed as available for a given style.
- **Market comparison** -- Boohoo's low-price, high-volume fast-fashion positioning makes it a useful reference point when benchmarking apparel pricing across the UK online fashion market.

### Coverage

v1 covers the UK flagship storefront (`www.boohoo.com`, GBP pricing). Boohoo also runs locale subdomains for the EU, Australia, and the US (`eu.boohoo.com`, `au.boohoo.com`, `us.boohoo.com`, plus per-country subdomains like `nl.`, `fr.`, `se.boohoo.com`) that apply a client-side currency conversion on top of the same underlying catalogue -- those aren't separately indexed, so a locale-specific version isn't planned unless Boohoo starts pricing them independently.

### Performance and cost

The scraper hits Boohoo's Bloomreach Discovery search API directly -- no browser rendering, no HTML parsing -- so it's fast. A run of 100 products typically completes in well under 10 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

- English-language keyword search only, matching Boohoo's own on-site search. It does not accept direct category or product URLs.
- No explicit stock-quantity field is exposed by the search API -- `sizes` lists which sizes are currently returned as available, and `inStock` is derived from whether that list is non-empty. It's never coerced to `false`: if the source gives no signal either way, `inStock` comes back `null`.
- The search index doesn't reliably expose a separate "was" price alongside the current price, so this actor reports one `price` field rather than guessing at a discount that isn't consistently present in the data.
- v1 targets the UK flagship catalogue (GBP). EU/AU/US locale pricing isn't broken out separately (see Coverage above).

### Related scrapers

If you're covering UK and European fast-fashion retail more broadly, also check out:

- [Next Co UK Scraper](https://apify.com/studio-amba/next-co-uk-scraper) -- UK multi-brand fashion retailer
- [New Yorker Scraper](https://apify.com/studio-amba/newyorker-scraper) -- German youth-fashion chain
- [C\&A Scraper](https://apify.com/studio-amba/c-and-a-scraper) -- European fashion retailer
- [Boots Scraper](https://apify.com/studio-amba/boots-scraper) -- UK health, beauty and lifestyle retail

### Support

Found an issue or need a different locale covered? Open an issue on this actor's Apify Store page and we'll take a look.

# Actor input Schema

## `searchQuery` (type: `string`):

Search term to find products on boohoo.com (English, e.g. "dress", "jeans", "hoodie")

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

Maximum number of products to scrape

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

Apify proxy configuration. Boohoo's product search API has no anti-bot protection (verified live), so the default Apify proxy is sufficient.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "searchQuery": "dress",
  "maxResults": 100,
  "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 = {
    "searchQuery": "dress",
    "maxResults": 100,
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": true
    }
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("studio-amba/boohoo-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 = {
    "searchQuery": "dress",
    "maxResults": 100,
    "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": True },
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("studio-amba/boohoo-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 '{
  "searchQuery": "dress",
  "maxResults": 100,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}' |
apify call studio-amba/boohoo-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,studio-amba/boohoo-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/1t2Fr5KVX3A02ai6o/builds/MxUW6OckV6SUYcCeM/openapi.json