zooplus Scraper: Pet Supplies Price Watch (12 countries)

Search zooplus for one or more terms and get one flat row per product variant (one pack size or flavour, with its own price and stock): the price in the site's own currency, the unit price per kg or litre, the was-price and discount percentage, zooplus's "Extra-Rabatt" price and its subscription (Abo) price, brand, rating, review count, stock, marketplace seller, image and product URL. Run it on a schedule and diff the dataset to get a pet-food and pet-supply price-change watch, or read a whole brand on several country sites to compare what the same bag of cat food costs in Germany, France, the UK and Poland.

No account, no API key, no login, no browser. One request returns 48 variants.

Input

Field	Notes
searchTerms	One or more search terms, one per line, in the language of the site you chose (katzenfutter on zooplus.de, cat food on zooplus.co.uk, croquettes chat on zooplus.fr). Required. A variant found by two terms is returned once, under the first. zooplus matches loosely: katzenfutter finds 22,000 products, so name the brand or pack you watch (royal canin sterilised 37).
site	Country shop: de (default), at, ch, fr, it, es, nl, pl, co.uk, ie, se, dk.
maxItems	Variants to read per search term (default 100, up to 10,000). 48 per page.
sort	relevance (default), price-asc, price-desc, unit-price-asc, unit-price-desc, rating.
proxyConfiguration	Apify proxy by default (see "How it fetches").

Sites

Twelve country sites were fetched and parsed live on 2026-10-14. All answer with the same page state and the same fields; only the language of the text and the currency change.

site	Shop	Currency on every money field
de	zooplus.de	EUR
at	zooplus.at	EUR
ch	zooplus.ch	CHF
fr	zooplus.fr	EUR
it	zooplus.it	EUR
es	zooplus.es	EUR
nl	zooplus.nl	EUR
pl	zooplus.pl	PLN
co.uk	zooplus.co.uk	GBP
ie	zooplus.ie	EUR
se	zooplus.se	SEK
dk	zooplus.dk	DKK

zooplus runs more shops than these. They were not tested and are not offered.

Output

Prices are numbers in the site's currency; currency is on every row. They are read from the number zooplus puts in its page data, not parsed out of text like 12,29 €; the printed text is kept in price_text so you can check it.

Field	Notes
query, site, page, position	The search term that first found the row, the country site, and where it sat in the results (page and place on the page).
product_id, variant_id, variant_number, variant_key	zooplus's product number (shared by all sizes of one product), the variant's own article id, its index, and <product_id>.<variant_number> (173156.4), the key the rows are de-duplicated on.
name, variant_name, brand, brands, description, pet_types	As zooplus shows them. variant_name is what separates sizes (3 kg, Thunfisch mit Pazifik-Garnelen). brands is empty on some own-label and veterinary lines, and then brand is null. description is plain text.
url, image_url	The variant's product page and its photo.
currency, price, price_text	The shelf price of one pack and how zooplus prints it.
price_type	zooplus's own class: REGULAR (no reference price), RETAIL (reference is the manufacturer's recommended price), SET (a bundle; reference is the same items bought one by one), OFFER (reference is the earlier price).
was_price, was_price_label, was_price_kind, price_note, discount_percent	The crossed-out reference price, the word zooplus prints beside it (UVP, RRP, Einzeln, Was), what it means (rrp, single_items, previous_price) and zooplus's footnote ("Lowest price in the 30 days prior to the discount"). discount_percent is worked out here from the two prices. Null when zooplus shows no reference price, never 0. See "Which reference price is real?".
unit_price, unit_measure	The price per kg, l or piece that zooplus prints under the price, and the unit in the site's language. Null on products it gives no figure for (large items, most marketplace goods).
extra_discount_percent, extra_discount_price	zooplus's "Extra-Rabatt": a percentage off that the customer switches on in the cart, and the price it gives. Null where there is none.
subscription_price, subscription_discount_percent	The price with a zooplus subscription ("Abo"), usually 5% off. Null where there is none.
promotion_text, badge, is_new, is_limited_deal, is_sponsored	Card wording (Gratis!, 2kg free), zooplus's own pick label, and its flags. is_sponsored marks paid placements.
is_available	False when zooplus lists the variant as out of stock.
is_marketplace, seller_id, seller_name	True when a third-party seller on zooplus's marketplace sells it.
delivery_days_min, delivery_days_max	Delivery estimate in working days.
rating, review_count, variant_count	Star rating out of 5 and review count for the product (all variants together, not this size alone), and how many variants the product has. zooplus sends 0 and 0 for an unreviewed product; that is null rating here with review_count 0.

Which reference price is real?

was_price is whatever zooplus crosses out, and the three kinds mean different things; filter on was_price_kind before reading it as "the old price":

• rrp: the manufacturer's recommended price (UVP/RRP). A list price, not a price zooplus ever charged. 198 of 960 rows sampled across six sites (de, pl, ch, se, co.uk, dk).
• single_items: for a bundle, the price of the same items bought separately (310 of the same 960 rows).
• previous_price: an actual earlier price; zooplus footnotes it as the lowest price in the 30 days before the discount. The only kind that is a was-price in the shopper's sense, and the rarest (1 of the same 960 rows).

extra_discount_price and subscription_price are separate from price: price is what a customer pays by default, the other two need an action (activate the Extra-Rabatt in the cart, or subscribe).

Honest nulls

A field zooplus did not send is null, never 0 or "". A price of exactly 0.0 is real: zooplus lists Gratis! free samples at 0,00 €, and unit_price is 0.0 on them too.

Pricing

Pay per event:

• $0.002 per run (actor-start), charged only after your input is validated, so a run that fails on bad input costs nothing.
• $0.00062 per product row written (product-scraped), i.e. $0.62 per 1,000 products. A row that is not written is not charged.

How it fetches

It requests the search page the shop itself serves (www.zooplus.<tld>/search/results?q=<term>&p=<page>&sorting=<sort>) and reads the product state the Next.js page embeds in its HTML, not the visible cards. 48 variants per request, paged with p. Measured 2026-10-14: HTTP 200 and the full state from a plain residential connection with a Chrome TLS fingerprint (curl_cffi), no key or login. A refusal (403, 429, 5xx, or a 200 without the product state) is treated as the address being blocked, and the actor rotates to a fresh one and retries; any other error status is permanent and is not retried.

Things worth knowing, all measured:

• Pace. zooplus sits behind CloudFront, which answered HTTP 403 "Request blocked" to a home connection after about 150 page fetches in ten minutes, and kept doing so for a few minutes. The actor asks one page at a time through Apify's rotating proxy.
• Depth ceiling. A search pages to about 10,000 matches (209 pages) however many it reports; maxItems stops there, and the log names any term that had more behind it. Make the term more specific to see the rest.
• Past the end. zooplus does not stop where a search stops: asking for page 3 of a 2-page search returns a different, looser search with its own page count. The actor stops at the page count page 1 reported and never reads past it. A search that fits on one page has no paging block at all.
• The count wobbles. zooplus answers different visitors with slightly different result sets (922 against 889 matches for the same search), fixed by its visitor cookie. The actor keeps one cookie for the run, so pages of one search agree with each other; a retry from a new address starts a new visitor, and the de-duplication on variant_key covers any overlap that causes.
• Currency. The page's own currency reads EUR on every site, even the pound, franc, zloty and krona shops, whose prices are printed in another currency. The actor reports the currency the site prints (its alternativeCurrency), checked against the printed symbol on all twelve (kr is shared by SEK and DKK, so there the sites' own currency field decides).
• Sorts. The sorts are zooplus's own and the actor checks each one: the page says which sort it applied, and the actor fails a term (at no charge) rather than return rows in an order that was not asked for. zooplus accepts unknown sort names with HTTP 200 and its default order. Paid is_sponsored rows are mixed in whatever the sort.
• Not offered. Category browsing, product-detail pages and review text are not read; the search page does not carry them.