vanHaren Scraper

Pull product data from vanharen.nl and vanharen.be, the Dutch/Belgian shoe retailer and part of the Deichmann Group. This scraper pulls directly from vanHaren's own product search API, so it returns clean, structured data -- brand, price, per-size stock, images -- without any HTML parsing.

How to scrape Van Haren data

Give the actor a search term in Dutch (e.g. "sneaker", "laarzen", "sandalen") and pick a country (NL for vanharen.nl or BE for vanharen.be). It queries vanHaren's search endpoint directly, paginating until it hits maxResults or runs out of matching products. There's nothing else to configure -- no category URLs to hunt down, no pagination logic to babysit.

Under the hood, vanHaren's storefront (built on the same SCAYLE headless-commerce platform as sibling brands Deichmann and Ochsner Sport) 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 vanHaren tweaks its frontend markup.

If you don't provide any input, it defaults to searching "sneaker" on the Netherlands site as a demo.

Input

Field	Type	Description
country	string	"NL" (vanharen.nl) or "BE" (vanharen.be). Default: "NL"
searchQuery	string	Search term, in Dutch (e.g. "laarzen", "sandalen", "pumps")
maxResults	integer	Cap on number of products returned (default: 100)
proxyConfiguration	object	Apify proxy settings. vanHaren'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	"bugatti Sneaker Zwart"
brand	string	"bugatti"
price	number	59.99
originalPrice	number | null	59.99 (only set when the item is discounted)
currency	string	"EUR"
discount	string | null	"-50%"
sku	string	"02649128"
productId	string	"m02649128_02649135"
inStock	boolean | null	true (null only if the source omits stock data)
stockLevel	integer | null	96 (total units across all sizes)
url	string	Full product page URL
imageUrl	string	Primary product image
imageUrls	array	All product images
category	string | null	"Lage sneaker"
country	string	"NL" or "BE"
sizes	array	Per-size stock: [{"size": "40", "inStock": true, "stockQuantity": 10}]
scrapedAt	string	ISO timestamp

Sample output

{
  "name": "bugatti Sneaker Zwart",
  "brand": "bugatti",
  "price": 59.99,
  "originalPrice": null,
  "currency": "EUR",
  "discount": null,
  "sku": "02649128",
  "productId": "m02649128_02649135",
  "inStock": true,
  "stockLevel": 96,
  "url": "https://www.vanharen.nl/nl-nl/p/bugatti-sneaker-zwart-148223",
  "imageUrl": "https://asset.vanharen.nl/images/f_auto,q_auto,w_800/02649128_1/img",
  "imageUrls": [
    "https://asset.vanharen.nl/images/f_auto,q_auto,w_800/02649128_1/img",
    "https://asset.vanharen.nl/images/f_auto,q_auto,w_800/02649128_2/img"
  ],
  "category": "Lage sneaker",
  "country": "NL",
  "sizes": [
    { "size": "40", "inStock": true, "stockQuantity": 10 }
  ],
  "scrapedAt": "2026-08-24T19:49:24.586Z"
}

Use cases

• Price monitoring -- track vanHaren's own price and discount changes over time on the styles you sell against, in both the Dutch and Belgian markets.
• Stock tracking -- sizes gives you per-size availability, useful for spotting which sizes sell out fastest.
• Assortment research -- see which brands and shoe categories vanHaren is pushing, and at what price points, in NL versus BE.
• Market comparison -- vanHaren's budget-to-mid positioning makes it a useful reference point when benchmarking footwear pricing across the Dutch and Belgian markets.

Coverage

v1 covers both vanHaren storefronts: the Netherlands site (vanharen.nl/nl-nl) and the Belgium site (vanharen.be/nl-be), selected via the country input. Both price in EUR. vanHaren is part of the Deichmann Group and shares the same SCAYLE storefront platform as Deichmann and Ochsner Sport, so the underlying data quality and update cadence match those sibling scrapers.

Performance and cost

The scraper hits vanHaren'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

• Dutch language search only (matches vanHaren's own on-site search in both NL and BE). It does not accept direct product or category URLs.
• Ratings and review counts aren't exposed by the search API, so they're not included in the output.
• The API's X-Charybdis header (a shop-configuration blob, one per country) was harvested from a live browsing session. It's static shop config, not a rotating secret, but if vanHaren ever regenerates it, requests will start failing until the actor is updated.

Related scrapers

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

• Deichmann Scraper -- sibling brand, German shoe retail on the same SCAYLE platform
• Ochsner Sport Scraper -- sibling brand, Swiss sporting-goods retail on the same SCAYLE platform
• Kruidvat Scraper -- Dutch/Belgian health & beauty retail
• Zeeman Scraper -- Dutch/Belgian budget clothing 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.