Dosenbach Scraper

Pull product data from dosenbach.ch, a Swiss shoe retailer in the Deichmann Group. This scraper pulls directly from the storefront's own product search API, so it returns clean, structured data -- brand, price in CHF, per-size stock, images -- without any HTML parsing.

How to scrape Dosenbach data

Give the actor a search term in German (e.g. "sneaker", "stiefel", "nike") and it queries Dosenbach'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, Dosenbach's storefront (built on the SCAYLE headless-commerce platform, same as sibling brand Deichmann) calls an unauthenticated JSON API for every search and category browse. This actor talks to that same API directly instead of rendering pages and parsing HTML, which makes it faster and far less likely to break when Dosenbach tweaks its frontend markup.

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

Input

Field	Type	Description
searchQuery	string	Search term, in German (e.g. "stiefel", "sneaker", "wanderschuhe")
maxResults	integer	Cap on number of products returned (default: 100)
proxyConfiguration	object	Apify proxy settings. Dosenbach's product 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	"adidas Sneaker Lila"
brand	string	"adidas"
price	number	64.95
originalPrice	number | null	49.95 (only set when the item is discounted)
currency	string	"CHF"
discount	string | null	"-50%"
sku	string	"02596205"
productId	string	"m02596205"
inStock	boolean | null	true (null only if the source omits stock data)
stockLevel	integer | null	124 (total units across all sizes)
url	string	Full product page URL
imageUrl	string	Primary product image
imageUrls	array	All product images
category	string | null	Most specific category label the API exposes
sizes	array	Per-size stock: [{"size": "36", "inStock": true, "stockQuantity": 5}]
scrapedAt	string	ISO timestamp

Sample output

{
  "name": "Catwalk Sandalette Silber",
  "brand": "Catwalk",
  "price": 24.95,
  "originalPrice": 49.95,
  "currency": "CHF",
  "discount": "-50%",
  "sku": "02406564",
  "productId": "m02406564",
  "inStock": true,
  "stockLevel": 42,
  "url": "https://www.dosenbach.ch/de-ch/p/catwalk-sandalette-silber-141234",
  "imageUrl": "https://asset.deichmann.com/images/f_auto,q_auto,w_800/02406564_1/img",
  "imageUrls": [
    "https://asset.deichmann.com/images/f_auto,q_auto,w_800/02406564_1/img",
    "https://asset.deichmann.com/images/f_auto,q_auto,w_800/02406564_2/img"
  ],
  "category": "Sandalen",
  "sizes": [
    { "size": "36", "inStock": true, "stockQuantity": 3 }
  ],
  "scrapedAt": "2026-08-24T19:44:04.059Z"
}

Use cases

• Price monitoring -- track Dosenbach's own price and discount changes over time on the brands and styles you sell against.
• Stock tracking -- sizes gives you per-size availability, useful for spotting which sizes sell out fastest.
• Assortment research -- see which brands and product lines Dosenbach is pushing, and at what CHF price points.
• Market comparison -- Dosenbach is part of the Deichmann Group, Europe's largest shoe retailer, making it a useful reference point when benchmarking Swiss footwear pricing against the group's other markets.

Coverage

v1 covers the German-speaking Swiss storefront (dosenbach.ch/de-ch) -- Dosenbach's default locale.

Performance and cost

The scraper hits Dosenbach's JSON API directly -- no browser rendering, no HTML parsing -- so it's fast. A run of 100 products typically completes in well under 10 seconds and uses a fraction of a compute unit. You're billed per actor start plus per result scraped; check the current per-event pricing on this actor's page before running at scale. Your run's usage cost only settles after the run reports SUCCEEDED -- checking cost mid-run will undercount it.

Limitations

• German-speaking Swiss locale only in v1 (de-ch). French and Italian storefronts aren't covered yet.
• Ratings and review counts aren't exposed by the search API, so they're not included in the output.
• Search is keyword-based, matching Dosenbach's own on-site search. It does not accept direct product or category URLs.
• The API's X-Charybdis header (a shop-configuration blob) was harvested from a live browsing session. It's static shop config, not a rotating secret, but if Dosenbach ever regenerates it, requests will start failing until the actor is updated.
• Dosenbach's product API runs on the same domain as sibling brand Deichmann's (both part of the Deichmann Group), just with its own shop configuration -- this is expected, not a bug, and doesn't affect the data returned.

Related scrapers

If you're covering Swiss retail or European footwear more broadly, also check out:

• Deichmann Scraper -- German footwear, same platform family
• Ochsner Sport Scraper -- Swiss sporting goods, same platform family
• Digitec Scraper -- Swiss electronics retail
• Galaxus Scraper -- Swiss general online retail
• Coop.ch Scraper -- Swiss grocery and household 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.