# Breuninger Scraper — German Luxury Department Store Prices (`studio-amba/breuninger-scraper`) Actor

Scrape product data from breuninger.com, Germany's #1 upscale multi-brand department store. Extract names, brands, prices, stock status and images from Breuninger's fashion, beauty and home catalogue via a simple search query, no login required.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/studio-amba/breuninger-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 $5.00 / 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.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

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# README

## Breuninger Scraper

Pull product data from breuninger.com, Germany's #1 upscale multi-brand department store. This scraper reads Breuninger's own search results and product pages directly, so it returns clean, structured data -- brand, price, stock, colour, category, images -- without a browser and without touching any third-party aggregator.

### How to scrape Breuninger data

Give the actor a German search term and it walks Breuninger's own search-results pages, collects the matching products, then opens each product's page to pull the authoritative price, stock status and category data. There's nothing else to configure -- no category URLs to hunt down, no cookies, no login.

Under the hood, breuninger.com is a server-rendered storefront with no public API -- each search-results page embeds product tiles directly in the HTML, and each product page carries a full `schema.org/Product` structured-data block with the exact price, currency and availability the site itself uses for Google. This actor reads that structured data instead of scraping visual markup, which makes it far less likely to break when Breuninger redesigns its page templates.

Breuninger's WAF (`myracloud`) does not challenge plain requests -- no residential proxy, no browser rendering, no warm-up session needed. If you don't provide any input, it defaults to searching for `"kleid"` (German for "dress") as a demo.

#### A note on colour variants

Different colours of the same style show up as separate product tiles on Breuninger's own search page, each with its own product URL and its own `variant` id. This actor treats each colour as its own result row (`productId` is unique per colour, `sku` is the shared style number), matching what you'd see browsing the site yourself.

#### A note on `referencePrice`

Some listings show a second, smaller price labelled "Bestpreis" next to the current price. That's the EU Omnibus-directive reference price -- the lowest price Breuninger showed in the last 30 days, a legal disclosure requirement, not a "was more expensive" struck-through price. It can be *lower* than the current price. This actor keeps it in a separate `referencePrice` field rather than mislabeling it as `originalPrice`.

### Input

| Field | Type | Description |
|-------|------|-------------|
| `searchQuery` | string | Search term, in German (e.g. `"kleid"`, `"jacke"`, `"tasche"`) |
| `maxResults` | integer | Cap on number of products returned (default: 60, max: 500) |
| `proxyConfiguration` | object | Apify proxy settings. Breuninger's WAF does not challenge plain HTTP, so the default automatic Apify proxy is sufficient |

### What you get back

| Field | Type | Example |
|-------|------|---------|
| `name` | string | `"LUISA CERANO Kleid"` |
| `brand` | string | `"LUISA CERANO"` |
| `price` | number | `399.95` |
| `referencePrice` | number | null | `329.99` (EU reference price, see note above -- often absent) |
| `currency` | string | `"EUR"` |
| `sku` | string | `"1003159803"` (style number, shared across colours) |
| `productId` | string | `"1003159803-a8f0821c6462469da0b260f1ff300050"` (unique per colour) |
| `inStock` | boolean | null | `true` (null only if the source gives no availability signal) |
| `color` | string | null | `"BRAUN / ORANGE / SCHWARZ"` |
| `url` | string | Full product page URL for this exact colour |
| `imageUrl` | string | null | Primary product image |
| `category` | string | null | `"Kleider von LUISA CERANO"` |
| `categories` | array | null | Full breadcrumb path, e.g. `["Damen Bekleidung", "Damen Kleider", "Kleider von LUISA CERANO"]` |
| `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": "MRS & HUGS Kleid mit Volants",
  "brand": "MRS & HUGS",
  "price": 139.99,
  "referencePrice": null,
  "currency": "EUR",
  "sku": "1003138094",
  "productId": "1003138094-84f4bbf2f8904d7abd895159adb91052",
  "inStock": true,
  "color": "DUNKELBRAUN / WEISS",
  "url": "https://www.breuninger.com/de/marken/mrs-hugs/kleid-mit-volants/1003138094/p/?variant=84f4bbf2f8904d7abd895159adb91052",
  "imageUrl": "https://cms.brnstc.de/product_images/1122x1536_retina/cpne/media/images/product/26/5/100313809415000_0_1780012800000.jpg",
  "category": "Kleider von MRS & HUGS",
  "categories": ["Damen Bekleidung", "Damen Kleider", "Kleider von MRS & HUGS"],
  "description": "MRS & HUGS Kleid mit Volants für Damen in dunkelbraun / weiss",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-09-12T14:14:49.586Z",
  "searchQuery": "kleid"
}
```

### Use cases

- **Price monitoring** -- track Breuninger's prices over time on the brands and categories you sell against or compete with.
- **Assortment research** -- Breuninger carries hundreds of premium and luxury brands across fashion, beauty and home; see exactly what it stocks and at what price points.
- **Stock and availability tracking** -- `inStock` gives a live read on which items are still sellable, sourced straight from the product page's own structured data.
- **Colour-variant coverage** -- since colours are separate rows, you can see exactly which colourways of a style Breuninger currently lists.
- **Market comparison** -- as Germany's leading upscale multi-brand department store, Breuninger is a useful benchmark against other European luxury and department-store retailers.

### Coverage

v1 covers Breuninger's German storefront (`www.breuninger.com/de/`, EUR pricing) via keyword search. Breuninger runs a single national storefront -- there is no separate Austrian or Swiss site.

### Performance and cost

The scraper fetches one search-results page per ~90 products plus one product-detail page per result, so a 60-product run typically completes in well under a minute. This actor charges $0.01 per run (start fee) plus $0.005 per result -- a 100-product run costs about $0.51. Your run's usage cost only settles after the run reports SUCCEEDED -- checking cost mid-run will undercount it.

### Limitations

- Keyword search only, matching Breuninger's own on-site search. It does not accept direct category or product URLs.
- Product names are Breuninger's own listing titles, which are typically brand + generic garment type (e.g. "Kleid" = dress) rather than descriptive marketing copy -- use `color` and `category` alongside `name` to tell similar listings apart.
- `referencePrice` is only populated when Breuninger shows a "Bestpreis" line on that listing -- most products don't have one.
- Ratings/reviews are not included: Breuninger renders them client-side only, with no server-side structured data to read.
- v1 targets the German storefront (EUR) only.

### Related scrapers

If you're covering European luxury and department-store retail more broadly, also check out:

- [Manor Scraper](https://apify.com/studio-amba/manor-scraper) -- Swiss department store chain
- [Mytheresa Scraper](https://apify.com/studio-amba/mytheresa-scraper) -- German-headquartered luxury fashion e-tailer
- [Harrods Scraper](https://apify.com/studio-amba/harrods-scraper) -- UK luxury department store
- [Selfridges Scraper](https://apify.com/studio-amba/selfridges-scraper) -- UK luxury department store
- [Vestiaire Collective Scraper](https://apify.com/studio-amba/vestiairecollective-scraper) -- European luxury resale marketplace

### Support

Found an issue or need a different search behavior 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 breuninger.com, in German (e.g. "kleid", "jacke", "tasche"). Defaults to "kleid" (dress) when left empty.

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

Maximum number of products to scrape. Hard-capped at 500 per run — this actor fetches each product's detail page for accurate price/stock data (roughly 2 requests per result), so very large pulls should split across multiple runs with different search terms rather than one huge run.

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

Apify proxy configuration. Breuninger's `myracloud` WAF does not challenge plain HTTP requests (verified live), so the default automatic Apify proxy is sufficient — no residential proxy needed.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "searchQuery": "kleid",
  "maxResults": 60,
  "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": "kleid",
    "maxResults": 60,
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": true
    }
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("studio-amba/breuninger-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": "kleid",
    "maxResults": 60,
    "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": True },
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("studio-amba/breuninger-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": "kleid",
  "maxResults": 60,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}' |
apify call studio-amba/breuninger-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,studio-amba/breuninger-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/fWecERzqDgqbhhds0/builds/RsMDBzCoMTEW5FzRe/openapi.json