Selfridges Scraper

Pull product data from selfridges.com, the UK luxury department store. This scraper reads Selfridges' own search-results and product pages, so it returns clean, structured data — name, brand, price, sale status, sizes, images — for real catalogue listings, not a scraped screenshot of a page.

How to scrape Selfridges data

Give the actor a free-text searchQuery (e.g. "dior bag" or "midi dress") and it pages through Selfridges' own site search, 60 products per page, until it hits maxResults. Search is the only listing source on selfridges.com — the category pages under /GB/en/cat/{brand-or-category}/ are CMS landing pages with a fixed ~10-item product carousel, not a real paginated catalogue, so this actor doesn't use them.

Selfridges sits behind a Cloudflare WAF: a plain request to any selfridges.com path — including /robots.txt — comes back as Cloudflare's own "Attention Required! Sorry, you have been blocked" page (HTTP 403), even from a real headless browser. This actor routes every request through Bright Data's Web Unlocker, which clears the block, so you don't need your own proxy or browser-automation setup.

Selfridges runs on Next.js, streaming its product data as React Server Component payloads embedded in the page rather than a single data blob — the actor reassembles those chunks and pulls out each product's record directly, so search-mode results come straight out of the page with no extra requests. Every product's lowestPrice block also carries its markdown status: when an item is discounted, the current price and the original ("was") price are both present, so onSale and originalPrice come for free without a detail-page fetch.

Turn on fetchProductDetails to fetch each product's own page too, adding the full description, breadcrumb category, complete colour/image list and the sizes currently orderable.

If you don't provide any input, it defaults to a "dress" search as a demo (3,000+ results on Selfridges today).

Input

Field	Type	Description
searchQuery	string	A free-text search term run against Selfridges' own site search (default: "dress")
maxResults	integer	Cap on number of products returned (default: 20, max: 500)
fetchProductDetails	boolean	OFF by default. ON adds description, breadcrumb category, full colour/image list and currently orderable sizes — at the cost of one extra Bright Data request per product.
brightDataApiKey	string	Your own Bright Data API key, if you want to use your own Web Unlocker zone instead of the actor's built-in one
proxyConfiguration	object	Not used — this actor reaches selfridges.com exclusively through Bright Data, which handles unblocking on its own. Kept for input-shape compatibility.

What you get back

Field	Type	Example
name	string	"Aster Sequin Stretch-Knit Midi Dress"
brand	string	"PH5" — falls back to "Selfridges" for own-label items
price	number | null	276 — current/effective selling price in GBP
currency	string	"GBP" — selfridges.com is a single UK storefront
originalPrice	number | null	460 — pre-discount price, only present when the item is on sale
onSale	boolean	true when originalPrice is present
sku	string | null	"R04654674" — Selfridges' internal product ID
productId	string | null	Same value as sku
inStock	boolean | null	true when derived from currently orderable sizes (fetchProductDetails on); null on listing-mode rows, which carry no stock signal at all — never coerced to false
url	string	Full product page URL
imageUrl	string | null	Primary product image
imageUrls	array	Product images (default + alternate from listing; full gallery with fetchProductDetails on)
colour	string | null	"PINK"
colours	array	All colour variants found for this product
description	string | null	Editorial product copy — only with fetchProductDetails on
category	string | null	Deepest breadcrumb category — only with fetchProductDetails on
categories	array	Full breadcrumb path — only with fetchProductDetails on
sizes	array	Currently orderable size labels — only with fetchProductDetails on. Not a per-size stock quantity ladder; Selfridges doesn't expose one on the product page.
scrapedAt	string	ISO timestamp

Sample output

{
  "name": "Linda Gathered-Waist Satin Midi Dress",
  "brand": "MALINA",
  "price": 276,
  "currency": "GBP",
  "originalPrice": 460,
  "onSale": true,
  "sku": "R04617890",
  "productId": "R04617890",
  "inStock": true,
  "url": "https://www.selfridges.com/GB/en/product/malina-linda-gathered-waist-satin-midi-dress_R04617890/",
  "imageUrl": "https://images.selfridges.com/is/image/selfridges/R04617890_VANILLA_M",
  "imageUrls": [
    "https://images.selfridges.com/is/image/selfridges/R04617890_VANILLA_M",
    "https://images.selfridges.com/is/image/selfridges/R04617890_VANILLA_ALT01"
  ],
  "colour": "VANILLA",
  "colours": ["VANILLA"],
  "description": "- Malina satin midi dress\n- 100% acetate\n- Concealed zip fastening\n- Regular fit, round-neck, short sleeves, gathered waist\n- Hand wash\n- True to size",
  "category": "Midi",
  "categories": ["Womens", "Dresses", "Midi"],
  "sizes": ["8", "10", "12", "14", "16"],
  "scrapedAt": "2026-09-08T20:36:16.578Z"
}

Use cases

• Price monitoring — track Selfridges' own pricing and markdown activity across designer brands over time.
• Sale tracking — onSale and originalPrice flag every discounted item without a detail-page fetch.
• Assortment research — see which designers and products are showing up for a given search term, and in what depth of size runs.
• Market comparison — Selfridges is a standard UK luxury reference point alongside Harrods, NET-A-PORTER, Mytheresa and Farfetch.

Coverage

selfridges.com is a single UK storefront, priced in GBP throughout. Selfridges ships internationally, but there is no separate country-specific storefront the way some luxury e-tailers run — this actor covers the one live site.

Performance and cost

Search-mode listing data (name, brand, price, sale status, colours, image) comes from a single Bright Data request per 60 products — a small fraction of a cent per result. Turning on fetchProductDetails adds one Bright Data request per product for the richer fields (description, breadcrumb, full colour/image list, sizes) — budget for that when sizing a run. Your run's usage cost only settles after the run reports SUCCEEDED — checking cost mid-run will undercount it.

Limitations

• There is no category-browsing mode. Selfridges' /GB/en/cat/{slug}/ pages are CMS landing pages with a fixed ~10-item carousel, not a real listing — every bulk pull on this actor goes through site search instead.
• sizes lists which sizes are currently orderable, not a stock-quantity ladder — Selfridges doesn't expose per-size quantities on the product page the way some other luxury retailers (e.g. Harrods' SCAYLE platform) do.
• department/division metadata that Selfridges' own page data carries is sometimes an internal deduplication reference rather than an inline value, so it isn't surfaced in the output — category/categories (from fetchProductDetails) are the reliable category signal instead.
• Ratings and review counts aren't exposed on either the listing or detail pages, so they're not included in the output.
• If Selfridges restructures its search-results or product-page data shape, the actor will need updating.

Related scrapers

If you're covering European luxury fashion more broadly, also check out:

• Harrods Scraper — UK luxury department store, per-size stock
• Liberty London Scraper — UK luxury department store
• NET-A-PORTER Scraper — luxury fashion, per-size stock, 20+ markets
• Mytheresa Scraper — luxury fashion e-tail, full per-size stock

Support

Found an issue or need a search term that isn't resolving correctly? Open an issue on this actor's Apify Store page and we'll take a look.

Why Bright Data instead of a standard proxy

Selfridges' Cloudflare WAF returns a direct "Attention Required" block on every path from a plain connection, including /robots.txt itself, and even a real headless browser gets the same static block page — confirmed live. Bright Data's Web Unlocker handles that fingerprinting and challenge-solving so this actor can focus on parsing real product data instead of maintaining an anti-bot bypass.