🚢 Zauba Scraper — Indian Customs Import & Export Trade Data

🎯 Turn India's customs shipment records into a clean, structured dataset — in minutes, not weeks.

This scraper pulls real import and export shipment records from Zauba.com: HS codes and their descriptions, line-level product descriptions, trading-partner countries, Indian ports, quantities, units, and USD values. Perfect for sourcing, supply-chain mapping, competitive intelligence, and trade research.

🚀 What Does It Do?

This scraper automatically collects structured, ready-to-use Indian customs shipment data from Zauba.com and hands it to you as a clean table. No manual browsing, no copy-pasting — just set your product and hit Start.

💡 Two modes of operation:

1. 🔍 Discovery Mode — Type a product keyword (e.g. "laptop", "cotton", "rice") and pick import or export. The scraper finds the right Zauba listing and walks through the pages for you.
2. 📋 Direct URL Mode — Already have specific Zauba listing URLs? Drop them in and the scraper extracts exactly those.

👥 Who Is This For?

🏢 Use Case	💬 How It Helps
📦 Sourcing & Procurement	Discover alternative suppliers by country and HS code, and benchmark unit costs across vendors and ports
🕵️ Competitive Intelligence	Monitor competitors' import and export volumes and spot product launches via shipment timing
📈 Market Researchers	Build trade-flow datasets, track seasonality, and analyse pricing across thousands of shipments
💼 Sales & Lead Generation	Identify active importers and exporters as outbound leads for territory planning
🎓 Academics & Analysts	Power empirical studies and longitudinal trade-trend research with real customs data
⚖️ Compliance & Investigations	Trace product flows across tariff classifications for due diligence and investigative work

✨ Features

• 🌐 Import & Export Coverage — Scrape shipments flowing into or out of India with a single switch
• 🔢 HS Code Intelligence — Every record carries the HS code plus its official tariff description
• 💵 Full Valuation Data — Total shipment value, quantity, unit, and a derived price-per-unit
• 🌍 Trade Partners & Ports — See the origin/destination country and the Indian port for each shipment
• 📅 Clean Dates — Both the original Zauba date and a normalised ISO date for easy sorting
• 🔄 Deep Pagination — Pages through the shipment history up to your chosen limit
• 🎛️ Smart Filters — Search by product keyword and trade direction, or feed exact URLs
• ⚡ Fast & Scalable — Pull anywhere from a handful of records to your chosen maximum per run
• 🧹 Clean, Consistent Output — Uniform field names and types across imports and exports
• 📤 Export Anywhere — Download results as JSON, CSV, Excel, or push to Google Sheets, Zapier, Make, or your CRM

🎛️ Filters & Options

Option	What It Does
🏷️ Product / Keyword	The product to search for on Zauba (e.g. "laptop", "cotton", "steel")
🔁 Trade Direction	Choose import shipments (into India) or export shipments (out of India)
🔢 Max Results	Control how many shipment records to extract per run
🔗 Direct URLs	Optionally provide specific Zauba listing URLs to scrape
🌐 Proxy	Residential proxy configuration (Apify residential preset, recommended)

📦 What You Get (Output Fields)

Every shipment record includes:

Shipment

Field	Example
date	22-Nov-2016
dateIso	2016-11-22
productDescription	0A61770 FILTER LENOVO 12.5W9 LAPTOP PF
country	China
port	Banglore Air Cargo
tradeType	import

Classification

Field	Example
hsCode	39269099
hsCodeDescription	Other: Other

Valuation

Field	Example
unit	NOS
quantity	12
totalValueUsd	636
pricePerUnitUsd	52.97

Metadata

Field	Example
product	laptop
url	https://www.zauba.com/import-laptop/p-1-hs-code.html
scrapedAt	2026-06-25T14:39:05.879Z

📊 Example Output

{
    "date": "22-Nov-2016",
    "dateIso": "2016-11-22",
    "hsCode": "84713010",
    "hsCodeDescription": "Portable automatic data processing machines, weighing not more than 10 kg",
    "productDescription": "DW22Y LATITUDE E5470 PORTABLE COMPUTER-NOTEBOOK (LAPTOP)",
    "country": "China",
    "port": "Banglore Air Cargo",
    "unit": "NOS",
    "quantity": 4,
    "totalValueUsd": 3694,
    "pricePerUnitUsd": 923.52,
    "tradeType": "import",
    "product": "laptop",
    "url": "https://www.zauba.com/import-laptop/p-1-hs-code.html",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-06-25T14:39:05.879Z"
}

📋 Dataset Views

The Apify Console gives you 3 ready-made table views to quickly browse your results:

View	What It Shows
📊 Overview	Date, HS code, product, country, port, quantity, value and trade direction
💵 Trade & Valuation	HS codes with descriptions, units, quantities and USD values
📋 Full Details	Every single field — the complete dataset

❓ FAQ

🤔 Can I scrape both imports and exports? Yes — just flip the Trade Direction switch. You can run separate jobs for each, or feed import and export URLs together.

🤔 How many results can I get? Up to your Max Results setting. The scraper pages through the available shipment history for the product up to that limit.

🤔 What is the HS code in the output? It's the Harmonized System tariff code that classifies the product at customs. Each record also includes the official description for that code.

🤔 Can I export the data? Yes — JSON, CSV, Excel, XML, HTML, RSS. You can also push data directly to Google Sheets, Zapier, Make, or any webhook/API endpoint.

🤔 How often should I run this? For fresh data, run daily or weekly. You can schedule automatic runs on Apify with just a few clicks.

🤔 Why does the first page take about a minute? Zauba's anti-bot protection needs a moment to clear on each fresh run. The scraper waits it out automatically on the first page; every page after that loads quickly.

🛠️ Need Custom Filters or Features?

I'm happy to customize this scraper for your specific needs! 🤝

Whether you need:

• 🎯 Additional filters (filter by HS code, country, port, value range, or date window)
• 📊 Extra data fields or custom output formats
• 🔄 Integration with your CRM, Google Sheets, or database
• ⏰ Scheduled scraping with automatic deduplication
• 🌐 Scraping from other trade-data platforms alongside Zauba

👉 Don't hesitate to reach out via private message — I respond quickly and I'm always open to building exactly what you need. No request is too small or too specific!

⚖️ Legal & Ethical Use

This scraper collects only publicly available information from Zauba.com. It does not access private data or bypass authentication. Please use the data responsibly and in compliance with applicable laws and platform terms of service.