# Jumia + Kilimall Price Comparator (`wafspaul/my-actor-1`) Actor Search Jumia Kenya and Kilimall for the same keyword in one run and get back a unified, comparable dataset with price, rating, and seller info from both platforms. - **URL**: https://apify.com/wafspaul/my-actor-1.md - **Developed by:** [paul wafs](https://apify.com/wafspaul) (community) - **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks - **User rating**: No ratings yet ## Pricing from $6.00 / 1,000 results This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events. Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event ## What's an Apify Actor? Actors are web data automations that power AI and operations. They run on the Apify platform to scrape websites, process data, connect APIs, and automate workflows. In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours, and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store. In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server. Actors are written with capital "A". ## How to integrate an Actor? If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects. You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready. The best way to integrate Actors is as follows. - **AI agents and MCP clients** — the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/integrations/mcp.md) at `https://mcp.apify.com` (remote, streamable HTTP, OAuth on first use). - **Agentic workflows and local Actor development** — [Agent Skills](https://apify.com/.well-known/agent-skills/index.json) with the [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md): `npm install -g apify-cli`, then `apify login`. - **JavaScript/TypeScript projects** — the official [JS/TS client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md): `npm install apify-client`. - **Python projects** — the official [Python client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md): `pip install apify-client`. - **Any other language** — the [REST API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2.md). For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below. For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt). # README ## Jumia + Kilimall Price Comparator (Kenya) Search **Jumia Kenya** and **Kilimall** for the same keyword in one run and get back a single, comparable dataset — same fields for both platforms, so you can sort, filter, and compare prices side by side without stitching together two separate scrapers. Unlike single-platform Jumia scrapers (there are many on the Store), this Actor answers the question Kenyan shoppers actually ask: *"where's this cheaper — Jumia or Kilimall?"* ### What you get One row per product, with identical fields regardless of platform: | Field | Description | |---|---| | `platform` | `jumia` or `kilimall` | | `query` | The search keyword that found this product | | `id` | Platform's internal product ID (Jumia SKU / Kilimall listing ID) | | `title` | Product title | | `brand` | Brand name (Jumia only — Kilimall doesn't expose this in search results) | | `price` | Current price in KES | | `oldPrice` | Original/pre-discount price in KES, if any | | `discountPercent` | Discount percentage, if any | | `currency` | Always `KES` | | `rating` | Average star rating (0–5) | | `reviewCount` | Number of reviews | | `sellerType` | e.g. "Jumia Express", "Marketplace seller", "Fulfilled By Kilimall" | | `categoryPath` | Breadcrumb category path (Jumia only) | | `url` | Direct link to the product page | | `image` | Product image URL | | `scrapedAt` | ISO timestamp of collection | **Sample output (JSON):** ````json { "platform": "jumia", "query": "phone", "id": "KU056MP5J2OACNAFAMZ", "title": "RUIOO S25 Ultra Android Smartphone 8GB + 128GB 6.8 inches", "brand": "Ruioo", "price": 10050, "oldPrice": 13400, "discountPercent": 25, "currency": "KES", "rating": 3.5, "reviewCount": 90, "sellerType": "Jumia Express", "categoryPath": "Phones & Tablets > Mobile Phones > Smartphones > Android Phones", "url": "https://www.jumia.co.ke/ruioo-ruioo-s25-ultra-android-smartphone-8gb-128gb-6.8-inches-327386343.html", "image": "https://ke.jumia.is/unsafe/fit-in/300x300/filters:fill(white)/product/34/3683723/1.jpg", "scrapedAt": "2026-09-09T14:00:00.000Z" } ``` ## How to use it 1. Enter one or more **search keywords** (e.g. `iphone 13`, `office chair`). 2. Choose which **platforms** to include — both by default. 3. Optionally adjust **max results per keyword per platform** and **max pages**. 4. Click **Start**. ### Input ```json { "searchQueries": ["iphone 13", "gaming laptop"], "platforms": ["jumia", "kilimall"], "maxItemsPerQuery": 80, "maxPagesPerQuery": 3 } ``` ## Use cases - **Price comparison shopping** — find the cheapest listing for a product across Kenya's two biggest online marketplaces in one search. - **Market research & brand monitoring** — track how a product or brand is priced and rated across platforms. - **Reseller/arbitrage research** — spot price gaps between Jumia and Kilimall for the same item. - **Dashboards & alerts** — schedule daily runs and pipe results into Google Sheets or Slack to track price movements over time. ## How it works (for the curious) Both Jumia and Kilimall embed their search results as structured JSON directly in the page's HTML (Jumia via window.__STORE__, Kilimall via a Nuxt __NUXT_DATA__ payload) rather than requiring a real browser. This Actor reads that embedded data directly, which makes it fast and cheap. ## Automate it Schedule this Actor to run daily or weekly for your tracked keywords, and connect the dataset to Google Sheets, Slack, Make, or n8n to get notified when prices drop. ## Pricing This Actor is paid per event (per product result). No browser rendering is used, so platform compute overhead is minimal — most of what you pay covers the residential proxy traffic needed to reliably reach Jumia. ## A note on reliability Kilimall results are consistently reliable — every tested run returned complete data with no blocking. Jumia uses active bot-detection that can intermittently block some requests, even through residential proxies. This isn't unique to this Actor — every Jumia scraper on the Store deals with the same protection. In practice this means: - Most runs return the majority of requested Jumia pages, but occasionally a page fails and is skipped rather than retried indefinitely. - The Actor uses residential proxies and automatic retries to maximize success, but a small percentage of Jumia requests may still return zero results in a given run. - Kilimall data in the same run is unaffected by Jumia's blocking. If you need guaranteed complete Jumia coverage for a specific run, re-running with a fresh set of proxy sessions often recovers any pages that failed the first time. ## FAQ Why do Jumia and Kilimall results look different in field coverage? Each platform exposes different data in its search results. Jumia includes brand and full category path; Kilimall includes seller fulfillment tags. Fields not available on a platform are returned as null. How fresh is the data? Each run fetches live search results at the moment of execution. Is this legal? The Actor collects publicly available product listing data displayed on each platform's own search pages. Something broken? Open an issue in the Issues tab. # Actor input Schema ## `searchQueries` (type: `array`): Keywords to search for, e.g. iphone 13, office chair. ## `platforms` (type: `array`): Which platform(s) to include in this run. ## `maxItemsPerQuery` (type: `integer`): Stop collecting once this many items have been saved for a keyword+platform. ## `maxPagesPerQuery` (type: `integer`): How many result pages to fetch per keyword per platform. ## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`): Apify Proxy is recommended so requests are not blocked. ## Actor input object example ```json { "searchQueries": [ "phone" ], "platforms": [ "jumia", "kilimall" ], "maxItemsPerQuery": 80, "maxPagesPerQuery": 3, "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": true, "apifyProxyGroups": [ "RESIDENTIAL" ] } } ```` # Actor output Schema ## `results` (type: `string`): No description # API You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup. ## JavaScript example ```javascript import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client'; // Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token // Replace the '' with your token const client = new ApifyClient({ token: '', }); // Prepare Actor input const input = { "searchQueries": [ "phone" ] }; // Run the Actor and wait for it to finish const run = await client.actor("wafspaul/my-actor-1").call(input); // Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any) console.log('Results from dataset'); console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`); const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems(); items.forEach((item) => { console.dir(item); }); // 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs ``` ## Python example ```python from apify_client import ApifyClient # Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token # Replace '' with your token. client = ApifyClient("") # Prepare the Actor input run_input = { "searchQueries": ["phone"] } # Run the Actor and wait for it to finish run = client.actor("wafspaul/my-actor-1").call(run_input=run_input) # Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any) print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}") for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items(): print(item) # 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start ``` ## CLI example ```bash echo '{ "searchQueries": [ "phone" ] }' | apify call wafspaul/my-actor-1 --silent --output-dataset ``` ## MCP server setup ```json { "mcpServers": { "apify": { "type": "http", "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,wafspaul/my-actor-1" } } } ``` The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer ` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations). ## OpenAPI specification Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/oFygNoOXhK9ActcKM/builds/YheZ4z7wXgFeH774Q/openapi.json