# Zalando Scraper — Product Prices, Stock & Images (`studio-amba/zalando-scraper`) Actor

Scrape product data from zalando.de, Europe's largest online fashion retailer. Extract names, brands, prices, sizes, stock and images for any search term or keyword across thousands of brands, unblocked with Bright Data Web Unlocker.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/studio-amba/zalando-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

## Zalando Scraper

Pull product data from zalando.de, Europe's largest online fashion retailer. This scraper reads directly from Zalando's own server-rendered catalog search, so it returns clean, structured data — name, brand, price, sizes, stock, images — for real search results, not a scraped screenshot of a page.

### How to scrape Zalando data

Give the actor one or more search keywords (brand names, product types, or a mix — `"adidas sneaker"`, `"Damen Kleider"`, `"Nike Sportswear"` all work, German or English) and it runs them against Zalando's own `/katalog/` catalog search, paging through results until it hits `maxResults`.

Zalando sits behind Akamai's bot-management layer: a plain request to any `zalando.de` path, including `robots.txt`, gets a bare 403 at the edge — no JavaScript challenge is even served. 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.

Under the hood, Zalando server-renders its search-result grid directly into the page HTML as a `window.__hydrationDataConsume(...)` hydration blob — a GraphQL response cache with one full product object per card actually painted on the page (name, brand, price, available sizes, canonical product URL, image gallery). There's no separate hidden API call to reverse-engineer; the same Bright Data-fetched HTML page the actor already downloads for you IS the data source. The actor pages through results with Zalando's own `?p=` parameter, 24 fresh products per page, and de-duplicates by SKU as it goes.

If you don't provide any input, it defaults to scraping Zalando's "Sneaker" search as a demo — a broad, cross-brand term with thousands of matches.

### Input

| Field | Type | Description |
|-------|------|-------------|
| `searchQueries` | array of strings | Search keywords to run on zalando.de, e.g. `"adidas sneaker"`. Up to 25 per run. |
| `maxResults` | integer | Cap on number of products returned across all search queries (default: 100) |
| `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 zalando.de exclusively through Bright Data, which handles unblocking on its own. Kept for input-shape compatibility. |

### What you get back

| Field | Type | Example |
|-------|------|---------|
| `name` | string | `"SAMBA OG UNISEX - Sneaker low - footwear white/core black"` |
| `brand` | string | `"adidas Originals"` |
| `price` | number | `80.95` |
| `originalPrice` | number | null | Pre-discount price, only present when Zalando marks a markdown |
| `currency` | string | `"EUR"` — zalando.de is a single-market, EUR-only storefront |
| `sku` | string | null | `"AD116D1S8-A13"` |
| `productId` | string | null | Same as `sku` |
| `inStock` | boolean | null | `true` when at least one size is purchasable, `null` only when the source doesn't confirm stock status — never coerced to `false` |
| `url` | string | Full product page URL |
| `imageUrl` | string | null | Primary product image |
| `imageUrls` | array | Up to 8 product images for the default color (video previews are filtered out) |
| `category` | string | null | Target group / silhouette label, e.g. `"WOMEN / DRESS"` |
| `specs` | object | Currently the available sizes, e.g. `{"sizes": "38, 39 1/3, 40"}` |
| `scrapedAt` | string | ISO timestamp |

### Sample output

```json
{
  "name": "SAMBA OG UNISEX - Sneaker low - footwear white/core black",
  "brand": "adidas Originals",
  "price": 80.95,
  "currency": "EUR",
  "url": "https://www.zalando.de/adidas-originals-samba-og-unisex-sneaker-low-footwear-whitecore-black-ad116d1s8-a13.html",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-09-04T14:13:39.915Z",
  "originalPrice": 89.95,
  "sku": "AD116D1S8-A13",
  "productId": "AD116D1S8-A13",
  "inStock": true,
  "imageUrl": "https://img01.ztat.net/article/spp-media-p1/34f7481205e141e3961668ccf6bfdbc7/137c32396c3845848ec5f3dda5582bc9.jpg?imwidth=500&filter=packshot",
  "imageUrls": [
    "https://img01.ztat.net/article/spp-media-p1/34f7481205e141e3961668ccf6bfdbc7/137c32396c3845848ec5f3dda5582bc9.jpg?imwidth=500&filter=packshot",
    "https://img01.ztat.net/article/spp-media-p1/e113bcc65f0f403e9fe53e230648d2ba/8e83ea24b37149a2bdeadf3c13e04b5a.jpg?imwidth=500"
  ],
  "category": "KIDS / SNEAKER",
  "specs": { "sizes": "35.5, 36, 36 2/3, 37 1/3, 38, 38 2/3" },
  "scrapedAt": "2026-09-04T14:13:39.915Z"
}
```

### Use cases

- **Price monitoring** — track Zalando's own price and markdown changes over time on the brands and styles you sell against.
- **Assortment research** — see which brands and products rank for a given search term on Europe's largest fashion marketplace.
- **Market comparison** — Zalando is the single biggest fashion retailer in Europe alongside Zara and H\&M, making it a standard reference point when benchmarking fashion pricing.
- **Stock and size tracking** — `inStock` and the `sizes` spec flag when a product or a specific size run has sold through.

### Coverage

zalando.de is Zalando's German storefront (EUR pricing, German-market catalog). Zalando runs separate country domains (zalando.fr, zalando.co.uk, zalando.it, ...) with distinct catalogs and currencies — this actor is scoped to zalando.de only.

### Performance and cost

Every request goes through Bright Data's Web Unlocker, but a single search-result page returns 24 products in one call, so the Bright Data cost per result is a small fraction of a cent — well under a quarter of the per-result price, which is why this actor is priced at the standard e-commerce tier rather than a premium anti-bot tier. A 100-product run typically completes in under a minute. Your run's usage cost only settles after the run reports SUCCEEDED — checking cost mid-run will undercount it.

### Limitations

- Input is search keywords, not category browsing — Zalando's category-tree navigation wasn't wired into this actor; a keyword search covers the same catalog and is simpler to use.
- `originalPrice` is only populated when Zalando marks an item as discounted; full-price items will show it as absent, which is correct, not missing data.
- Ratings and review counts aren't exposed on the search-result endpoint, so they're not included in the output.
- Per-size stock isn't included — `sizes` lists which sizes are currently purchasable, but not a count per size.
- If Zalando restructures its `/katalog/` search page or hydration data shape, the actor will need updating — it depends on the exact structure of the `window.__hydrationDataConsume(...)` blob.

### Related scrapers

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

- [Zara Scraper](https://apify.com/studio-amba/zara-scraper) — Inditex flagship, category-based catalog
- [Mytheresa Scraper](https://apify.com/studio-amba/mytheresa-scraper) — luxury fashion e-tail, full per-size stock
- [Vinted Scraper](https://apify.com/studio-amba/vinted-scraper) — European resale/secondhand fashion

### Support

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

# Actor input Schema

## `searchQueries` (type: `array`):

Search keywords to run on zalando.de's catalog search, e.g. "adidas sneaker" or "Damen Kleider". German or English both work. Leave empty to use the default ("Sneaker").

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

Maximum number of products to scrape across all search queries

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

Bright Data API key (Web Unlocker zone) used to reach zalando.de behind its Akamai anti-bot protection. Falls back to the actor's own BRIGHT\_DATA\_API\_KEY environment variable if left empty.

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

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

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "searchQueries": [
    "adidas sneaker"
  ],
  "maxResults": 20,
  "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 = {
    "searchQueries": [
        "adidas sneaker"
    ],
    "maxResults": 20,
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": true
    }
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("studio-amba/zalando-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 = {
    "searchQueries": ["adidas sneaker"],
    "maxResults": 20,
    "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": True },
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("studio-amba/zalando-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 '{
  "searchQueries": [
    "adidas sneaker"
  ],
  "maxResults": 20,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}' |
apify call studio-amba/zalando-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,studio-amba/zalando-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/OSdxvIzbbOCnQcx4O/builds/C14hmYaelvjgI1ttq/openapi.json