🛒 Takealot Product Scraper

Track competitor pricing, monitor stock, and extract product data from South Africa's #1 online retailer — in minutes.

Takealot is South Africa's largest e-commerce platform, with over R14.9B in annual revenue and millions of products across thousands of categories. This actor gives you instant, structured access to any Takealot search or category — ready to download as JSON, CSV, or Excel.

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🌍 What You Get

Run once. Get any Takealot search result as a clean, structured dataset.

Feature	Supported
🔍 Search any query	✅ Yes
🏷️ Filter by brand	✅ Yes
💰 Filter by price range	✅ Yes
📊 Sort by price, rating, or newest	✅ Yes
📦 Stock availability	✅ Yes
🏬 Per-warehouse stock (CPT/JHB/DBN)	✅ Yes
💸 Original price + discount %	✅ Yes
⭐ Rating + review count	✅ Yes
🖼️ Product images	✅ Yes
🌐 No login or API key required	✅ Yes

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📊 Sample Output

Here's what a typical record looks like:

{
  "plid": 99450324,
  "title": "HP 250 RT G9 Intel Celeron N150 8GB DDR4 256GB NVMe SSD 15.6\" FHD Notebook",
  "subtitle": "HP 250 | Designed for everyday business tasks",
  "brand": "HP",
  "product_url": "https://www.takealot.com/hp-250-rt-g9-intel-celeron-n150-8gb-ddr4-256gb-nvme-ssd-15-6-fhd/PLID99450324",
  "image_url": "https://media.takealot.com/covers_images/93e5da4a51e44735aaf286dc64de7737/s-380.file",
  "current_price": 5999,
  "listing_price": 6999,
  "saving_percent": "14%",
  "price_display": "R 5,999",
  "rating": 4.6,
  "review_count": 77,
  "in_stock": true,
  "stock_status": "In stock",
  "is_imported": false,
  "warehouses": ["CPT", "JHB"],
  "estimated_delivery": "Get it Tomorrow, 8am - 7pm",
  "offer_id": 225375450,
  "tsin": 100925871,
  "is_preorder": false,
  "badges": ["14% off"],
  "image_count": 5
}

Every record includes 22 fields — pricing, stock, ratings, warehouse availability, and a direct link to the product.

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💼 What Can You Build With This?

📈 Competitor Price Tracking Marketplace sellers can monitor competitor pricing daily, identify undercuts, and adjust offers automatically.

🏬 Stock & Inventory Intelligence Track which products are running low across CPT/JHB/DBN warehouses. Identify pre-order opportunities.

🔍 Product Research for Sellers Find which products are best-rated, which categories are underserved, and where to position new SKUs.

📰 Retail Analytics & Journalism Track inflation, brand presence, and category trends across South Africa's largest retailer.

🎯 Marketing & Brand Monitoring Track how brands rank in Takealot search results, monitor review counts, and benchmark against competitors.

💡 Deal Aggregators Build a price comparison app or deal-tracking service powered by fresh Takealot data.

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⚙️ How To Use It

Step 1 — Set your search

{
  "search_query": "laptop",
  "brand": "HP",
  "price_min": 5000,
  "price_max": 15000,
  "sort": "price_low_to_high",
  "max_results": 500
}

Input	Required	Description
search_query	✅ Yes	Any search term (e.g. "laptop", "iphone", "samsung tv")
brand	No	Filter to a specific brand (e.g. "HP", "Apple", "Samsung")
price_min	No	Minimum price in ZAR
price_max	No	Maximum price in ZAR
sort	No	relevance, price_low_to_high, price_high_to_low, best_sellers, newest, top_rated
max_results	No	Default 500, max 10,000

Step 2 — Hit Start

Products stream into your dataset in real time as pages are scraped.

Step 3 — Export your data

Download as JSON, CSV, or Excel with one click. Pipe it into your database, BI tool, or pricing engine.

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🛠️ Under The Hood

• Built with Python + httpx — calls Takealot's internal JSON API directly
• No browser automation, no Playwright — fast and cheap
• Uses Apify residential proxies (ZA) for reliable, unblocked access
• Cursor-based pagination handled automatically
• Records stream to the dataset as they're found — no waiting for the full run

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📝 Notes

• All prices in ZAR (South African Rand)
• Brand filter is case-sensitive — must match Takealot exactly (e.g. "HP" not "hp")
• Some products show "From R X,XXX" when they have multiple variants — listing_price may be null in that case
• Takealot has ~3M+ products across all categories — this actor handles any search query

⚠️ Legal

This actor collects publicly available product data. Use responsibly and ensure compliance with applicable laws in your jurisdiction.

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Made with ❤️ from Windhoek, Namibia 🇳🇦 — because African e-commerce data should be accessible to everyone.