# Selfridges Scraper — Luxury Product Prices, Stock & Images (`studio-amba/selfridges-scraper`) Actor

Scrape selfridges.com, the UK luxury department store: product names, brands, prices, sale/markdown status, sizes, images and breadcrumb categories from site search, unblocked with Bright Data Web Unlocker.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/studio-amba/selfridges-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 $1.20 / 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.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

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

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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## 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

```json
{
  "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](https://apify.com/studio-amba/harrods-scraper) — UK luxury department store, per-size stock
- [Liberty London Scraper](https://apify.com/studio-amba/libertylondon-scraper) — UK luxury department store
- [NET-A-PORTER Scraper](https://apify.com/studio-amba/net-a-porter-scraper) — luxury fashion, per-size stock, 20+ markets
- [Mytheresa Scraper](https://apify.com/studio-amba/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.

# Actor input Schema

## `searchQuery` (type: `string`):

A free-text search term run against selfridges.com's own site search, e.g. "dior bag" or "midi dress". This is the only listing source on selfridges.com -- category pages are CMS landing pages with a fixed ~10-item carousel, not a real paginated listing. Defaults to "dress" (3000+ results) when left empty.

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

Maximum number of products to scrape. Hard-capped at 500 to keep a single run well under an hour even with fetchProductDetails on.

## `fetchProductDetails` (type: `boolean`):

OFF by default: results come straight from the search-results listing (name, brand, price, currency, sale status, colours, image) -- fast and cheap, one Bright Data request per 60 products. ON: fetches each product's own page too, adding full description, breadcrumb category, full colour/image list and currently orderable sizes -- at the cost of one extra Bright Data request PER PRODUCT.

## `brightDataApiKey` (type: `string`):

Bright Data API key (Web Unlocker zone) used to reach selfridges.com behind its Cloudflare WAF block. Falls back to the actor's own BRIGHT\_DATA\_API\_KEY environment variable if left empty.

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

Not used — this actor reaches selfridges.com exclusively through Bright Data Web Unlocker (Cloudflare WAF-protected, confirmed live), which handles unblocking on its own. Kept for input-shape compatibility.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "searchQuery": "dress",
  "maxResults": 20,
  "fetchProductDetails": false,
  "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": "dress",
    "maxResults": 20,
    "fetchProductDetails": false,
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": true
    }
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("studio-amba/selfridges-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": "dress",
    "maxResults": 20,
    "fetchProductDetails": False,
    "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": True },
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("studio-amba/selfridges-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": "dress",
  "maxResults": 20,
  "fetchProductDetails": false,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}' |
apify call studio-amba/selfridges-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,studio-amba/selfridges-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/Ge7CTUL2ERrznVERC/builds/MUUbwjAYBbgY54Tmw/openapi.json