C&A Scraper

Scrape product names, prices, sizes, colors, and stock levels from C&A.com — one of Europe's largest fashion retailers, with stores and online shops across Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Belgium, the Netherlands, France, Poland, Spain and more.

Why use this actor?

Fashion retailers, price-comparison sites, and market researchers use this data to track C&A's assortment, pricing, and stock availability without manually browsing the site. Because C&A has no public search API of its own, this actor works directly with the same internal data feed the C&A website itself uses — so it returns full pricing, per-size stock quantities, and color variants, not just what's visible on a product card.

How to scrape C&A data

1. Open the actor and set Search Query to a German keyword — e.g. jeans, kleid, pullover, jacke.
2. Set Max Results to how many products you want (default: 100).
3. Click Start. The actor resolves your keyword to a matching C&A category, then paginates through it until it has enough products or the category runs out.
4. Download the results as JSON, CSV, or Excel from the Dataset tab, or pull them via the Apify API.

No login, cookies, or browser automation is needed — C&A's category pages ship their product data as structured JSON embedded in the page itself, and further pages come from the same internal API the site's own frontend calls. That also makes this actor fast and cheap to run (see Cost estimate below).

Input

Field	Type	Required	Description
searchQuery	String	No	German keyword to search for, e.g. "jeans", "kleid", "pullover". Defaults to "jeans". Matched against C&A's own category taxonomy, so broader terms (e.g. "hosen") return more products than narrow ones.
maxResults	Integer	No	Maximum number of products to return. Default: 100.
proxyConfiguration	Object	No	Proxy settings. Not required — C&A's shop pages have no anti-bot wall. Included for forward-compatibility.

Output

Each result contains:

Field	Type	Example
name	String	"Wide Leg Jeans - High Waist"
brand	String	"C&A"
price	Number	29.99
currency	String	"EUR"
originalPrice	Number	39.99 (only present when the item is discounted)
productId	String	"2261085"
inStock	Boolean	true
color	String	"dunkeljeansblau"
sizes	Array	Per-size stock: [{"size":"38","inStock":true,"quantity":52}, ...]
imageUrl	String	Product image URL
category	String	The resolved C&A category slug, e.g. "damen-bekleidung-jeans"
isNew	Boolean	Present when C&A flags the item as new
isBestseller	Boolean	Present when C&A flags the item as a bestseller
url	String	Full product page URL
scrapedAt	String	ISO 8601 timestamp

Example output

{
    "name": "Wide Leg Jeans - High Waist",
    "brand": "C&A",
    "price": 29.99,
    "currency": "EUR",
    "url": "https://www.c-and-a.com/de/de/shop/wide-leg-jeans-high-waist-2261085/1",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-08-24T09:21:25.405Z",
    "productId": "2261085",
    "inStock": true,
    "imageUrl": "https://www.c-and-a.com/image/upload/productimages/v1778669905/2261085-1-08.jpg",
    "category": "damen-bekleidung-jeans",
    "language": "de",
    "searchQuery": "jeans",
    "color": "dunkeljeansblau",
    "isNew": true,
    "sizes": [
        { "size": "34", "inStock": true, "quantity": 18 },
        { "size": "36", "inStock": true, "quantity": 39 },
        { "size": "38", "inStock": true, "quantity": 52 },
        { "size": "40", "inStock": true, "quantity": 40 }
    ]
}

This is a real item from a live run of this actor.

Cost estimate

This actor makes plain HTTP requests only — no headless browser, no residential proxy. A run for 100 products (one category page plus 1-2 API pagination calls) completes in a few seconds and costs a fraction of a cent in platform compute. Pulling 1,000 products (roughly 17 pagination calls) still finishes in well under a minute. There is no per-request proxy cost, since the default configuration doesn't need one.

Usage cost only settles once a run reports SUCCEEDED — reading the dataset from a still-running run will undercount what you'll actually be charged.

Coverage

This actor scrapes C&A's German storefront (c-and-a.com/de/de), with EUR pricing. C&A runs the same underlying platform across all its national sites (AT, CH, BE, NL, FR, PL, ES and more), so the category and product structure is consistent — a future version could add locale selection for other markets.

Limitations

• Data reflects C&A's current live catalog and changes as stock, prices, and promotions change.
• searchQuery is matched against C&A's own category pages, not a true free-text product search — very specific or brand-name queries may resolve to a broader category than expected. The actor always falls back to a general category rather than returning zero results.
• Product detail fields beyond what's shown on the category listing (e.g. full descriptions, care instructions) are not included — this actor is built for pricing/catalog monitoring, not full PDP scraping.
• Respect C&A's terms of service and use the data responsibly.

Features

• No login required — scrapes publicly available data without needing credentials or cookies.
• No browser, no proxy needed — plain HTTP requests against C&A's own data feed, so runs are fast and cheap.
• Per-size stock data — not just "in stock", but availability and quantity for every size.
• Automatic category resolution — type a keyword, the actor finds the matching C&A category.
• Automatic pagination — keeps paging through the category until maxResults is reached.
• Deduplication — products are deduplicated by C&A's internal product ID within a run.
• Structured output — clean, consistent JSON ready for downstream processing.

FAQ

Is it legal to scrape C&A? Web scraping of publicly available data is generally permitted. This actor only accesses information that is publicly visible to any website visitor, via the same category and product-listing endpoints C&A's own website uses. Always review C&A's terms of service before scraping.

How often should I run this scraper? For price or stock monitoring, daily runs are common. Set up a schedule in Apify Console to automate this.

Can I search for a specific product by name? searchQuery resolves to the closest matching C&A category rather than a single product, so it works best for product types ("jeans", "kleid", "jacke") rather than exact product names.

Can I export the data to Google Sheets or Excel? Yes. After each run, download results in CSV, JSON, or Excel format from Apify Console, or connect results to Google Sheets using Apify integrations.

What if the scraper stops working? Websites change their structure occasionally. If you notice issues, please open an issue on the actor's page — this scraper is actively maintained.

Related scrapers

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• JBC Scraper — Belgian fashion retailer (JBC.be)
• Primark Scraper — Primark's online catalog
• Zeeman Scraper — Zeeman's budget fashion and household range