Krefel Scraper

Extract product data from Krefel.be — Belgium's second-largest electronics chain (behind Vanden Borre). Laptops, TVs, smartphones, white goods, small appliances, the lot.

How it works

Krefel uses a Hybris/SAP Commerce backend with a product search API at /api/proxy/products/search. The actor opens a Playwright browser session to establish a valid session cookie, then calls that API directly. This means you get full structured data (specs, stock levels, images, EAN codes) without parsing HTML.

The browser is only needed for the session — actual data extraction happens through the API, so it's faster than a typical Playwright scraper.

Input

Field	Type	Description
categoryUrls	Array	Category pages to scrape. Example: https://www.krefel.be/nl/c/laptops
searchQuery	String	Search by keyword, e.g. Samsung Galaxy or wasmachine
maxResults	Integer	Product limit (default: 100)
language	String	nl or fr — Krefel serves both
proxyConfiguration	Object	Recommended if you're pulling 200+ products

Pass a category URL, a search query, or both. If you pass neither, it falls back to the homepage.

Example category URLs

• https://www.krefel.be/nl/c/laptops
• https://www.krefel.be/nl/c/smartphones
• https://www.krefel.be/nl/c/televisies
• https://www.krefel.be/nl/c/wasmachines
• https://www.krefel.be/fr/c/ordinateurs-portables (French)

Output fields

Every product includes name, brand, price, currency, sku, inStock, url, and scrapedAt. The rest depends on what Krefel has for that product:

Field	Notes
originalPrice	Only when there's an active promo
discount	Promo label, e.g. "Promo" or a signing title
ean	EAN-13 barcode
stockLevel	Exact warehouse stock count (e.g. 170)
rating / reviewCount	Customer ratings
imageUrl	Primary image. imageUrls has all of them (up to 9)
specs	Object with 30-40 technical specs, keyed by Dutch name
category	Breadcrumb path like "Computers > Laptops"
description	Product summary or full description (HTML)

{
    "name": "Galaxy S25 Ultra 256 GB Titanium Blue",
    "brand": "SAMSUNG",
    "price": 1349,
    "currency": "EUR",
    "ean": "8806095483627",
    "sku": "41012150",
    "inStock": true,
    "stockLevel": 85,
    "rating": 4.7,
    "reviewCount": 12,
    "imageUrl": "https://media.krefel.be/sys-master/products/9571234567890/41012150_01.webp",
    "specs": {
        "Schermgrootte": "6,8\" (17,3 cm)",
        "Processor": "Snapdragon 8 Elite",
        "RAM configuratie": "12 GB",
        "Capaciteit Opslag": "256 GB",
        "OS Versie": "Android 15"
    },
    "category": "Smartphones > Samsung",
    "url": "https://www.krefel.be/nl/p/41012150",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-03-16T10:00:00.000Z"
}

Cost

About 0.05 compute units per 100 products. Krefel's full catalog is around 5,000-6,000 products — scraping everything runs under $1.50 in Apify credits. The Playwright overhead adds a bit compared to pure HTTP scrapers.

Heads up

• Product descriptions come back as HTML. Strip tags yourself if you need plain text.
• Krefel's API paginates at 24 items per page. The actor handles this automatically, but large category scrapes will make many sequential API calls.
• The /api/proxy/products endpoint requires a browser session cookie. Running without proxy on very large jobs may result in session expiration — enable proxy for anything over a few hundred products.
• Specs are keyed by their Dutch display name regardless of language setting (e.g. "Schermgrootte", not "Screen Size").