ABOUT YOU Product Scraper

Extract structured product and price snapshots from ABOUT YOU Germany search and category listings. This ABOUT YOU scraper supports catalog research, assortment analysis, discount discovery, and scheduled snapshot comparisons without manually browsing listing pages.

This Actor uses a low-concurrency Playwright browser, German residential proxy settings on Apify Cloud, rendered listing-card extraction, product deduplication, and an exact global result cap.

Key features

• Process ABOUT YOU Germany search terms with searchQueries.
• Process supported ABOUT YOU Germany search and category URLs with startUrls.
• Resolve every search source through the visible ABOUT YOU search UI from a stable category seed page before extraction.
• Control the exact global product cap with maxItems.
• Bound each source with maxPagesPerSource.
• Configure Apify or custom HTTP(S) proxies with proxyConfiguration.
• Extract listing-card identity, price, discount reference price, brand, image, availability status, source position, and timestamps.
• Deduplicate products by productId across all requested sources.
• Follow rendered next-page anchors only; when none exists, use bounded scrolling.
• Export the default Dataset in formats supported by Apify, including JSON, CSV, and Excel.
• Fail explicitly on detected Cloudflare challenges, unsupported empty pages, or layout drift instead of returning misleading success.

Input

{
  "searchQueries": ["nike", "adidas sneaker"],
  "startUrls": [
    { "url": "https://www.aboutyou.de/c/frauen/bekleidung-20204" }
  ],
  "maxItems": 100,
  "maxPagesPerSource": 20,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"]
  }
}

At least one searchQueries entry or startUrls entry is required. Search terms are trimmed and deduplicated case-insensitively. URLs must use HTTPS, exact host www.aboutyou.de, and either /search?term=... or an ABOUT YOU /c/...-ID category path. Product-detail and arbitrary URLs are rejected.

Search sources, including /search?term=... entries from startUrls, keep their canonical query URL as sourceUrl provenance but do not navigate directly to it. The browser opens a stable category seed, fills the visible ABOUT YOU search input, submits with Enter, and extracts only after the same page and session resolve to an allowlisted brand, category, or generic search listing. Category sources continue to navigate directly.

maxItems defaults to 100 and accepts 1–10,000. maxPagesPerSource defaults to 20 and accepts 1–200. On Apify Cloud, Apify Proxy configuration is normalized to Residential group and country DE; explicit custom HTTP(S) proxy URLs remain supported. Direct cloud crawling without a suitable proxy is rejected.

Output

Each default Dataset row contains:

• Source context: sourceType, searchQuery, sourceUrl, page, pagePosition, position
• Identity: productId, productUrl
• Product fields: name, brand, imageUrl, availability
• Snapshot fields: price, originalPrice, currency, scrapedAt

Example from the verified local fixture run:

{
  "sourceType": "CATEGORY",
  "searchQuery": null,
  "sourceUrl": "https://www.aboutyou.de/c/frauen/bekleidung-20204",
  "page": 1,
  "pagePosition": 1,
  "position": 1,
  "productId": "9961424",
  "name": "Bluse 'Neele' -",
  "brand": "EDITED",
  "price": 19.96,
  "originalPrice": 49.9,
  "currency": "EUR",
  "availability": "UNKNOWN",
  "productUrl": "https://www.aboutyou.de/p/edited/bluse-neele-9961424",
  "imageUrl": "https://cdn.aboutstatic.com/file/images/a8d255436f1bc1e4950b14c5d73668c5.png?bg=F4F4F5&quality=75&trim=1&height=480&width=360",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-07-24T12:00:33.006Z"
}

OUTPUT in the default key-value store contains run status, counts, stop reason, and timestamps. STATE stores versioned deduplication and cap state without cookies, proxy credentials, or page content.

Pricing

Pay-Per-Event charging uses event product-extracted at USD 0.004 for each newly persisted unique product. Duplicate and rejected records are not charged. Buyer-facing equivalent: USD 4.00 per 1,000 extracted products; platform usage is not added as a separate pass-through charge.

How it works

1. Add search terms, supported listing URLs, or both.
2. Set product and page limits; keep German Residential Proxy enabled for cloud runs.
3. Run the Actor. Search sources resolve through visible browser interaction; category sources open directly.
4. Download or integrate the structured default Dataset.

Use cases

• Capture current ABOUT YOU Germany listing prices and discounted reference prices.
• Compare independently scheduled Dataset snapshots in an external workflow.
• Research fashion assortment, brands, listing positions, and visible discount patterns.
• Feed normalized listing records into business intelligence, enrichment, or AI analysis pipelines.
• Export selected category or search results for spreadsheet analysis.

Search and localization

English buyer terms for this Actor include ABOUT YOU product scraper, ABOUT YOU price scraper, ABOUT YOU product data extractor, ABOUT YOU category scraper, and German fashion product scraper. Typical workflows: extract ABOUT YOU product prices to CSV, export ABOUT YOU category products, scrape ABOUT YOU search results, compare ABOUT YOU listing price snapshots, and analyze ABOUT YOU fashion assortment data.

German title: ABOUT YOU Produkt- und Preis-Scraper. German buyer terms include ABOUT YOU Produkt Scraper, ABOUT YOU Preis Scraper, ABOUT YOU Preise extrahieren, ABOUT YOU Produktdaten exportieren, ABOUT YOU Kategorie Scraper, and ABOUT YOU Sortiment analysieren. Relevante Suchbegriffe: Produktdaten, Preise, Rabatte, Kategorien, Sortiment und Datenexport.

Reliability and limitations

ABOUT YOU uses dynamic rendering and anti-bot controls. Browser execution plus German residential proxy traffic improves access but does not guarantee bypass of anti-bot challenges. Detected challenge pages fail with CLOUDFLARE_CHALLENGE.

This Actor emits independent listing-page snapshots. It does not maintain historical prices or calculate price changes, and it does not send alerts. It does not visit product-detail pages or extract size-level inventory. It does not use a direct ABOUT YOU API. It does not guarantee bypass of anti-bot challenges, solve CAPTCHAs, or promise uninterrupted access.

availability reflects evidence available on supported listing cards and can be UNKNOWN. Selectors and access behavior can change when ABOUT YOU updates its site. Already-written partial Dataset rows remain inspectable if a later source fails.

Residential browser traffic creates proxy and compute cost. Start with small maxItems and maxPagesPerSource, then measure cloud usage before scheduling larger runs.

Local development

pnpm install
pnpm test
pnpm run test:coverage
pnpm run lint
pnpm run typecheck
pnpm run build

Default tests are fixture-only and do not contact ABOUT YOU or Apify Cloud. Private local Actor verification uses one allowlisted environment variable:

$ABOUT_YOU_INTERNAL_FIXTURE_PATH=tests/fixtures/category-page-1.html apify run

This variable is absent from INPUT_SCHEMA.json, accepts no arbitrary path, and is ignored when APIFY_IS_AT_HOME=1. Fixture mode is neither a Store input nor a cloud fallback.