Vee Shop

The full product catalog of any Shopify store, with prices, sale prices and stock, in one run.

Give Vee Shop a store URL or a collection URL. It reads the public products feed that Shopify stores publish and returns one clean record per product, with every variant, SKU and image link.

Who it is for

• Retailers and brands that track competitor prices and stock
• Price-comparison and deal sites
• Analysts studying a category, a brand range or a store's assortment over time
• Developers who need product data for an internal tool

What you get: Shopify products, prices, variants and stock (CSV, JSON, Excel)

One record per product (or one per variant in flat mode):

{
  "store": "theme-dawn-demo.myshopify.com",
  "productId": 6920737783897,
  "handle": "puff-olive-leaf",
  "title": "Puff",
  "vendor": "Mlouye",
  "productType": null,
  "url": "https://theme-dawn-demo.myshopify.com/products/puff-olive-leaf",
  "currency": "CAD",
  "priceMin": 465,
  "priceMax": 465,
  "compareAtPriceMax": null,
  "onSale": false,
  "available": true,
  "variantCount": 6,
  "optionNames": ["Color"],
  "imageUrls": ["https://cdn.shopify.com/…"],
  "descriptionText": "A streamlined approach to daily essentials…",
  "createdAt": "2021-11-16T17:16:27-07:00",
  "updatedAt": "2026-10-15T11:48:42-06:00",
  "publishedAt": "2021-11-16T17:16:13-07:00",
  "variants": [
    { "variantId": 39577056936025, "title": "Olive Leaf", "sku": "10-039-065", "price": 465, "compareAtPrice": null, "available": false, "option1": "Olive Leaf", "option2": null, "option3": null, "grams": 500 }
  ],
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-16T…"
}

Prices are numbers, exactly as the store publishes them. currency is the store's currency (ISO code) read from its public meta.json, or null when the store does not publish it. optionNames names the variant options (for example Color, Size). In flat mode each variant row is one result, and one result is one billed item. A SUMMARY record in the key-value store lists every store you entered, how many products were returned, and the reason for any store that was skipped.

How it works

Vee Shop reads each store's public /products.json feed, about 250 products per request. It needs no browser and no proxies, so runs are light on compute.

How it is different

• robots.txt is always respected, and it cannot be switched off. Before scraping, Vee Shop reads the store's robots.txt. If the products feed is disallowed for VeeShop or for *, the store is skipped and the reason is written to SUMMARY. Crawl-delay is honoured, up to 30 seconds. If robots.txt cannot be fetched because of a server or network error, the store is skipped, because permission cannot be verified. A missing robots.txt (404) counts as allowed.
• No bypassing. Stores that block the feed or put it behind a waiting room are skipped and reported. Vee Shop does not work around them.
• Ready-made monitoring fields. onSale and available are computed for you, and onlyAvailable returns in-stock products only.
• Choose your shape. Variants nested inside the product, one row per variant (flat), or left out (none).
• Merchant tags are off by default, because tags hold internal labels. Turn them on with includeTags.
• Clear errors. A site that is not a Shopify store, or one with the feed disabled, is reported in SUMMARY and the run moves on.
• Controlled cost. maxProductsPerStore caps each store, and charging stops if you set a maximum cost on the run.

If a store returns nothing

The SUMMARY record and the run's status message give the reason in plain words: the store blocks the request (HTTP 403, bot protection), it is not a Shopify store or has switched off /products.json (HTTP 404), the store is password protected, robots.txt disallows the feed or cannot be read, or the store is rate-limiting (HTTP 429). The same store listed twice is read once.

Input examples

Whole catalog of one store:

{ "storeUrls": ["https://theme-dawn-demo.myshopify.com"] }

One collection, in stock only, one row per variant:

{
  "storeUrls": ["https://example-store.com/collections/sale"],
  "onlyAvailable": true,
  "variantMode": "flat"
}

Several stores, first 200 products each, with tags and a contact in the User-Agent:

{
  "storeUrls": ["store-one.com", "store-two.com"],
  "maxProductsPerStore": 200,
  "includeTags": true,
  "contact": "https://example.com/contact"
}

Field	What it does
storeUrls	Store URLs or collection URLs (max 100)
maxProductsPerStore	Cap per store (default 1,000)
variantMode	nested (default), flat or none
onlyAvailable	Skip products with no available variant
includeTags	Include merchant tags (default off)
delayMs	Delay between pages, minimum 250 ms (default 500)
maxRuntimeSecs	Stop after this many seconds (default 3,600)
contact	Optional URL or email added to the User-Agent

What it costs

Pay per event. You pay only for results, and the price is the same on every Apify plan.

Event	Price
Product returned	$0.90 per 1,000 products ($0.0009 each)
Run start	$0.005 per run

Platform usage (compute) is included in these prices, so there is no separate bill for it. The pricing table at the top of the Actor page is Apify's standard layout and lists every plan (Free, Starter, Scale, Business). Our price is the same in every column, so you never pay more or less because of your plan.

Examples, each for one run:

You get	Results	Run start	Total
100 products	$0.09	$0.095
1,000 products	$0.90	$0.905
10,000 products	$9.00	$9.005

Filters and caps (limits such as the per-run result caps and your input filters) only reduce the number of results you pay for. Set a maximum cost on the run in Apify if you want a hard spending limit.

FAQ

Does it work on every Shopify store? On stores whose products feed is public and allowed by robots.txt. Others are skipped and reported in SUMMARY.

Can I scrape one collection? Yes. Use a URL like https://store.com/collections/sale.

Do I need proxies? No.

Does it download images? No. It returns image URLs only.

Does it return stock counts? It returns whether each variant is available, not the quantity.

How do I monitor price changes? Schedule the Actor and compare runs by productId or variantId. The onSale flag and compareAtPriceMax show discounts.

Why was my store skipped? Open SUMMARY. The reason is one of: not a Shopify store or feed unavailable, disallowed by robots.txt, or robots.txt could not be fetched.

Limits

• Up to 100 stores per run, up to 100,000 products per store, up to 400 pages per store.
• Up to 250 variants per product are returned.
• Each response is capped at 20 MB.
• Only public http(s) hosts on ports 80 and 443 are fetched. Private, loopback and link-local addresses are blocked, and redirects must stay on the same site.
• Descriptions are plain text. Titles, tags and other fields come from the store, so still escape them before showing them in HTML. Control characters, HTML tags and script/style blocks are removed from them, and text is limited to a sensible length.
• Spreadsheets: text fields that a spreadsheet would read as a formula (starting with = or @, or with + / - that is not followed by a digit) get a leading apostrophe, so opening the CSV or Excel export cannot run them. Normal values are untouched.
• The same store or collection entered twice (any capitalisation of the collection name, with or without www.) is read and billed once.
• With variantMode flat, each variant row is one billed result, so a product with many variants produces many results. Use maxProductsPerStore and a maximum cost per run to bound spend.

Responsible use, legal and data protection

This Actor retrieves publicly available data only. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by Shopify Inc. or any store you retrieve data from. All trademarks belong to their owners and are used only to describe compatibility.

Vee provides tools only; you are fully responsible for how you use them and the results. The tool is provided as is, without warranty, and Vee gives no legal advice. You are fully responsible for your use of the data: comply with the terms of service, robots.txt, copyright and database rights of the sites you target, and with all applicable law, including data protection laws (GDPR, UK GDPR and similar). Product titles, descriptions and images are copyrighted by the merchant unless the merchant says otherwise. Check each store's terms: many merchants prohibit automated access. Have a lawful basis before you store or reuse any personal data, minimise it and delete it when no longer needed, and do not use it for unsolicited contact. Do not republish copyrighted text or images without permission, and do not use this Actor to copy product copy or images to another shop. Vee does not collect or keep your inputs or results; they stay in your Apify account. Vee reserves the right to change or withdraw the Actor if a site owner objects. Get your own legal review before commercial use. To raise a concern, open an issue on this Actor's Issues tab on Apify.

Support

Questions, a bug or a feature request? Open an issue on this Actor's Issues tab on Apify and we will reply there.