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Size up a dropshipping niche by profiling the Shopify stores already selling in it: catalogue depth, price band, product types and vendors, plus whether each store is still shipping new products. Filter by keyword, country and catalogue size to scope a market before entering it.
**You pay once per store delivered.** Stores that fail your filters are free. Non-Shopify domains,
dead domains, frozen stores and bot-walled sites are free. There is no run-start fee, and a run
that finds nothing costs nothing.
***
### Why this one
Returns one row per **store**, not per product - the level a niche decision is actually made at. Price band, product types, vendor mix and catalogue depth tell you what a niche looks like from the inside, and the activity date tells you how many of its stores are still genuinely trading.
***
### How to research a dropshipping niche
Set `keywords` to the niche and let it profile the stores already selling there. You get price
band, product types, vendor mix and catalogue depth per store, plus how recently each one shipped
a product — which tells you how much of the niche is real and how much is abandoned.
***
### What comes back
Every run returns one row per store:
| Field | What it tells you |
|---|---|
| `storeId`, `myshopifyDomain`, `domain`, `storeUrl` | The store's permanent ID and both of its addresses |
| `name`, `description` | What the store calls itself |
| `productCount`, `collectionCount`, `sizeBand` | How big the catalogue is, before you contact anyone |
| `country`, `province`, `city`, `currency`, `shipsToCountries` | The market the store declares for itself |
| `isActive`, `daysSinceLastProduct`, `newestProductAt` | Whether the store is still trading, or died three years ago |
| `priceMin`, `priceMax`, `priceAverage`, `vendors[]`, `productTypes[]` | Price band and catalogue mix |
| `themeName`, `themeStoreId`, `apps[]` | The theme it runs and the apps it has installed |
This listing runs lean by default. Switch on **Include contact details** and **Include launch-era estimate** to add the rest — same engine, same per-store price.
Nothing is invented to fill a column. A field the store does not publish returns `null`, because a
guessed value is worse than no value.
#### Measured coverage
Real numbers from a 25-store run, not estimates:
| Field | Present on |
|---|---|
| Theme | **100%** |
| Active in the last year | **60%** |
| Installed apps detected | **44%** |
***
### Default settings
Clicking **Start** with the defaults runs exactly this:
```json
{
"discoverStores": true,
"maxStores": 50,
"maxStoresScanned": 400,
"includeCatalog": true,
"includeContacts": false
}
```
Change any of it. The full filter set — `countries`, `minProducts`, `maxProducts`,
`activeWithinDays`, `launchedWithinDays`, `keywords`, `excludeKeywords` — is available on every
run, and anything a filter rejects is free.
***
### What you are charged for
One charge per **store record delivered**. Nothing else.
Always free: stores that fail your filters, domains that are not Shopify stores, dead and parked
domains, frozen and deleted stores, sites behind a bot wall, every `error` and `diagnostics` row,
the second sighting of a store already charged in the run, and a run that returns nothing. There is
no run-start fee.
`maxStores` caps what you pay for, `maxCostUsd` stops the run before a hard ceiling, and
`maxStoresScanned` bounds how far a narrow filter searches.
***
### Setup
**Apify Proxy is required** — it is selected by default. Datacenter proxy is enough; residential is
not needed. Runs without a proxy return almost nothing.
***
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Same engine, pointed at a different job:
- [myshopify Domain List Scraper - Store Handles & URLs](https://apify.com/vonsensey/myshopify-store-domain-list-scraper)
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***
### Unofficial
This is an **unofficial** tool. It is **not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Shopify
Inc.** "Shopify" is a trademark of Shopify Inc. and is used here only to describe what the tool
works with. It reads only what a store publishes publicly on its own storefront — nothing private,
nothing behind a login.
### Use it from n8n, MCP, the API or a schedule
Built to be called by a workflow, not only from the Store form. The Actor is `vonsensey/shopify-dropshipping-stores-niche-research-scraper`; every snippet below sends `{}`, which runs the defaults shown on the form — replace it with your own input.
#### n8n
Install the **Apify** community node (`@apify/n8n-nodes-apify` under *Settings → Community Nodes*, or search "Apify" on n8n Cloud). Add **Apify → Run Actor** with Actor `vonsensey/shopify-dropshipping-stores-niche-research-scraper` and your input JSON, then **Apify → Get Dataset Items** on the run's `defaultDatasetId` and pipe the rows anywhere. For scheduled runs, the **On new Apify Event** trigger fires when a run of this Actor finishes.
#### MCP (Claude, Cursor, VS Code, any MCP client)
```json
{
"mcpServers": {
"apify": {
"url": "https://mcp.apify.com?tools=vonsensey/shopify-dropshipping-stores-niche-research-scraper",
"headers": {
"Authorization": "Bearer