Snipes Scraper

Pull product data from snipes.com, Europe's sneaker and streetwear retailer with stores across Germany, France, the Netherlands, Italy and beyond. This scraper pulls directly from Snipes' own product search API, so it returns clean, structured data -- brand, price, discount, per-size stock, images -- without any HTML parsing.

How to scrape Snipes data

Give the actor a search term and a country and it queries Snipes' search endpoint directly, paginating until it hits maxResults or runs out of matching products. There's nothing to configure beyond the search term and country -- no category URLs to hunt down, no pagination logic to babysit.

Under the hood, Snipes' storefront (built on the SCAYLE headless-commerce platform, the same platform behind Deichmann and Ochsner Sport) calls an unauthenticated JSON API at api.snipes.com 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 Snipes tweaks its frontend markup.

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

Input

Field	Type	Description
searchQuery	string	Search term, in the language of the selected country (e.g. "sneaker" for DE/NL/IT, "baskets" for FR)
country	string	Storefront to scrape: DE, FR, NL or IT (default: DE)
maxResults	integer	Cap on number of products returned (default: 100)
proxyConfiguration	object	Apify proxy settings. Snipes' 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 Originals Stan Smith Sneaker weiß"
brand	string	"adidas Originals"
price	number	109.99
originalPrice	number | null	121.99 (only set when the item is discounted)
currency	string	"EUR"
discount	string | null	"-18%"
sku	string	"01331729"
productId	string	"m02221730"
inStock	boolean | null	true (null only if the source omits stock data)
stockLevel	integer | null	330 (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
country	string	Storefront country scraped (DE, FR, NL or IT)
sizes	array	Per-size stock: [{"size": "41", "inStock": true, "stockQuantity": 14}]
scrapedAt	string	ISO timestamp

Sample output

{
  "name": "Nike Hakimi / No. 2 / PSG Nike Third Stadium 2025/26 rot",
  "brand": "Nike",
  "price": 100,
  "originalPrice": 121.99,
  "currency": "EUR",
  "discount": "-18%",
  "sku": "02573630",
  "productId": "m02490210",
  "inStock": true,
  "stockLevel": 42,
  "url": "https://www.snipes.com/de-de/p/nike-hakimi-no-2-psg-nike-third-stadium-2025-26-rot-102345",
  "imageUrl": "https://asset.snipes.com/images/f_auto,q_auto,w_800/02573630_1/img",
  "imageUrls": [
    "https://asset.snipes.com/images/f_auto,q_auto,w_800/02573630_1/img",
    "https://asset.snipes.com/images/f_auto,q_auto,w_800/02573630_2/img"
  ],
  "category": "Trikot",
  "country": "DE",
  "sizes": [
    { "size": "L", "inStock": true, "stockQuantity": 12 }
  ],
  "scrapedAt": "2026-08-24T19:48:20.780Z"
}

Use cases

• Price monitoring -- track Snipes' 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 on drop-heavy sneaker releases.
• Assortment research -- see which brands and product lines Snipes is pushing, and at what price points, across four European markets.
• Cross-market comparison -- run the same search across DE, FR, NL and IT to compare pricing and assortment for the same sneaker or streetwear item across countries.

Coverage

v1 covers four of Snipes' 12 country storefronts: Germany (de-de), France (fr-fr), the Netherlands (nl-nl) and Italy (it-it) -- Snipes' largest markets. Austria, Switzerland, Belgium, Spain, Poland, Portugal, Croatia and the smaller French/Dutch/German-Swiss/Austrian sub-locales aren't covered yet.

Performance and cost

The scraper hits Snipes' 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

• Four country locales in v1 (DE, FR, NL, IT). The other eight Snipes locales aren't covered yet.
• Ratings and review counts aren't exposed by the search API, so they're not included in the output.
• The search endpoint returns one representative variant per product, not the full size range -- sizes reflects that single sampled variant, not every size Snipes stocks.
• The API's X-Charybdis header (a shop-configuration blob, one per country) was harvested from a live browsing session per locale. It's static shop config, not a rotating secret, but if Snipes ever regenerates it for a locale, requests for that country will start failing until the actor is updated.
• Search is keyword-based, matching Snipes' own on-site search. It does not accept direct product or category URLs.

Related scrapers

If you're covering European fashion and footwear retail more broadly, also check out:

• Deichmann Scraper -- German footwear, same SCAYLE platform family
• Ochsner Sport Scraper -- Swiss sporting goods, same SCAYLE platform family
• C&A Scraper -- European fashion retail, same corporate umbrella
• Vinted Scraper -- European second-hand fashion marketplace

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.