bol.com Products, Offers & Reviews Scraper

Extract public bol.com product records for price, availability, seller, offer, rating, and review monitoring across the Netherlands and Belgium marketplaces.

Use the Actor as a bol data source for one-time catalog research or scheduled marketplace comparisons. It accepts product searches and public product URLs, then writes one normalized product record per result to the default dataset.

What does this bol.com scraper do?

The Actor opens bol.com through a location-matched Netherlands or Belgium residential browser session. It reads server-rendered search cards and enriches products from public structured data on each product page.

A result can include:

• stable bol.com product ID and EAN;
• product and selected variant title;
• current price, advice/list price, and currency;
• stock availability and current seller;
• brand, description, color, material, and images;
• aggregate rating and total review count;
• public product or variant offers exposed by bol.com;
• up to six public review samples;
• search query, marketplace, rank, source URL, and extraction time.

No login, buyer account, checkout, order, or private customer data is accessed.

Who is this Actor for?

• Marketplace analysts comparing assortment, prices, and stock between bol.com NL and BE.
• Brands and manufacturers checking how products and variants appear in search.
• Retail operators creating scheduled product-price and availability snapshots.
• Review researchers combining aggregate ratings with the public review samples exposed on product pages.
• Data engineers sending structured bol products to a spreadsheet, warehouse, BI tool, webhook, or API workflow.

Why use it for marketplace monitoring?

Direct requests to bol.com are commonly challenged. This Actor manages a sticky, country-matched residential browser session and rotates the complete session after an explicit block. It also blocks images, fonts, video, and other unnecessary binary resources to limit transfer and runtime.

The output uses stable field names for repeat runs. That makes it practical to compare price, availability, seller, rating, and reviewCount over time outside the Actor.

How to get started

1. Open the Actor input page.
2. Enter one or more queries, add bol.com startUrls, or use both.
3. Select the NL or BE marketplace for query searches.
4. Keep includeDetails enabled when you need EAN, descriptions, offers, and review samples.
5. Set maxItems to the maximum unique products you want.
6. Run the Actor and open the Products dataset view.
7. Export JSON, CSV, Excel, XML, or RSS, or connect the dataset through the Apify API.

A small first run is recommended before increasing the limit.

Input parameters

Field	Type	Default	Purpose
queries	string array	['laptop']	Searches products on the selected marketplace.
startUrls	URL array	empty	Public bol.com product or search URLs.
marketplace	NL or BE	NL	Selects the query URL and matching proxy country. A URL's own /nl/ or /be/ path takes precedence.
maxItems	integer, 1–500	20	Maximum unique product records across all inputs.
includeDetails	boolean	true	Visits each product page for EAN, description, structured offers, ratings, and reviews.
maxReviews	integer, 0–6	6	Maximum public review samples kept per product.

Provide at least one non-empty query or bol.com URL. Other domains are rejected before browsing.

Search products in the Netherlands

{
  "queries": ["laptop"],
  "marketplace": "NL",
  "maxItems": 5,
  "includeDetails": true,
  "maxReviews": 3
}

This route returns ranked search products and enriches each accepted item from its product page.

Extract one bol.com product URL

{
  "queries": [],
  "startUrls": [
    {
      "url": "https://www.bol.com/nl/nl/p/lenovo-ideapad-slim-3-16arp10-laptop-16-inch-ryzen-7-16gb-1tb/9300000251047023/"
    }
  ],
  "marketplace": "NL",
  "maxItems": 1,
  "includeDetails": true,
  "maxReviews": 6
}

Direct URL mode is useful when another system already stores bol.com product IDs or URLs.

Output fields

Every default-dataset row is a product object. Arrays remain in the same row so common exports and integrations need no dataset joins.

Field	Meaning
productId, ean	bol.com product ID and EAN when available.
title, brand, description	Product identity and public description.
url, marketplace, query, rank	Source and discovery context.
price, listPrice, currency	Current and advice prices.
availability, seller	Current stock signal and merchant.
rating, reviewCount	Aggregate public review metrics.
imageUrl, images, color, material	Catalog attributes exposed by the page.
offers	Public product/variant offer objects exposed in structured data.
reviews	Up to maxReviews public review samples.
scrapedAt	UTC extraction timestamp.

Source fields can be null when bol.com does not expose them for a product.

Output example

A current local product-page run returned the following shape:

{
  "productId": "9300000251047023",
  "ean": "0199274041410",
  "title": "Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 3 16ARP10 - Laptop - 16 inch - Ryzen 7 - 16GB/1TB",
  "brand": "Lenovo",
  "url": "https://www.bol.com/nl/nl/p/lenovo-ideapad-slim-3-16arp10-laptop-16-inch-ryzen-7-16gb-1tb/9300000251047023/",
  "marketplace": "NL",
  "query": null,
  "rank": null,
  "price": 669,
  "listPrice": null,
  "currency": "EUR",
  "availability": "InStock",
  "seller": "bol",
  "rating": 4.8,
  "reviewCount": 21,
  "offers": [
    {
      "productId": "9300000251047023",
      "price": 669,
      "currency": "EUR",
      "availability": "InStock",
      "condition": "NewCondition",
      "seller": "bol"
    }
  ],
  "reviews": [
    {
      "title": "Complete, vlotte laptop",
      "rating": 5,
      "publishedAt": "2024-10-30"
    }
  ],
  "scrapedAt": "2026-07-30T00:00:00.000Z"
}

Values can change between runs because bol.com is a live marketplace.

How much does it cost to scrape bol.com products?

The Actor uses pay-per-event pricing:

• a one-time Actor start event currently costs $0.00525 per run;
• each unique Product scraped event uses tiered pricing; the current BRONZE price is $0.020225 per product;
• details, offer arrays, and review samples have no separate event charge.

At the current BRONZE rates, 1 product costs about $0.0255, 10 products about $0.2075, and 100 products about $2.0278. Higher subscription tiers receive the lower item prices shown by Apify before a run starts. Platform usage and proxy economics are incorporated into the Actor pricing workflow; always use the current Console estimate as the authoritative rate.

Schedule price and offer monitoring

Apify schedules can run the same Task hourly, daily, or weekly. Keep a stable input and compare records by productId between datasets.

A typical workflow is:

1. Create a Task with known URLs or a focused query.
2. Schedule it at an interval suitable for the business decision.
3. Send the completed-run dataset to a warehouse or automation platform.
4. Compare price, availability, seller, rating, and reviewCount with the prior snapshot.
5. Alert only on meaningful changes in the downstream system.

The Actor returns snapshots; it does not itself store price history or send alerts.

Use the Apify API

Replace APIFY_TOKEN with a token that can run the Actor.

cURL

curl -X POST \
  "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/automation-lab~bol-com-scraper/runs?token=APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"queries":["laptop"],"marketplace":"NL","maxItems":5,"includeDetails":true}'

JavaScript

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: process.env.APIFY_TOKEN });
const run = await client.actor('automation-lab/bol-com-scraper').call({
  queries: ['laptop'],
  marketplace: 'NL',
  maxItems: 5,
  includeDetails: true,
  maxReviews: 3,
});
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
console.log(items);

Python

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient(token="APIFY_TOKEN")
run = client.actor("automation-lab/bol-com-scraper").call(run_input={
    "queries": ["koffiezetapparaat"],
    "marketplace": "BE",
    "maxItems": 5,
    "includeDetails": True,
    "maxReviews": 2,
})
items = client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).list_items().items
print(items)

Connect through MCP

Add the Actor to Claude Code:

claude mcp add --transport http apify \
  "https://mcp.apify.com?tools=automation-lab/bol-com-scraper"

Claude Desktop setup, Cursor setup, and VS Code setup can use the same remote MCP server configuration:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "apify": {
      "url": "https://mcp.apify.com?tools=automation-lab/bol-com-scraper"
    }
  }
}

Example prompts:

• “Search bol.com NL for five laptops and compare price, rating, and stock.”
• “Extract this bol.com product URL and summarize its offer and public review samples.”
• “Run the Belgium coffee-machine Task and return a table sorted by rating.”

Integrations and exports

The default dataset works with Apify webhooks, Google Sheets, Make, Zapier, Airbyte, Keboola, and custom API consumers. Export it as JSON for nested offers and reviews; CSV and Excel serialize nested arrays and may require downstream expansion.

Use productId as the primary comparison key. EAN can be missing or can differ between product variants, so it should not be the only deduplication key.

Limits and failure behavior

• bol.com can change its anti-bot behavior, markup, or structured data without notice.
• The Actor uses Netherlands or Belgium residential traffic and does not expose an unmeasured datacenter fallback.
• A blocked session is rotated up to three times. Exhaustion fails the run instead of returning a misleading empty success.
• Public product structured data exposes up to six review samples, not necessarily every review.
• offers contains offers that bol.com exposes in product structured data. It is not a guarantee of every seller visible through every interactive account or checkout surface.
• Search ranking, sponsored placement, prices, seller, availability, and review totals can change at any time.
• Search pagination stops when no new stable product IDs are found or the requested limit is reached.
• The maximum input limit is 500 products per run; use focused Tasks for repeat monitoring.

Responsible use and legality

This Actor processes public product and review information. Use it only for lawful purposes and follow bol.com's terms, applicable database rights, copyright rules, and data-protection law.

Reviews can contain public display names and user-written text. Collect only what your use case needs, secure exported datasets, and do not use review data to identify, profile, harass, or contact individuals. The Actor intentionally excludes accounts, orders, checkout, buyer profiles, and personal contact enrichment.

Troubleshooting

The run failed after residential session rotations.

Retry later with a smaller focused input. Persistent failures usually indicate a changed challenge or page shape; inspect the run log before scheduling another paid run.

A field is null.

The source did not expose that field for the selected product or search card. Enable includeDetails for EAN, full descriptions, structured offers, and review samples.

I received fewer products than maxItems.

maxItems is a ceiling, not a promised count. Results can be deduplicated, a source can be exhausted, or a search can return fewer unique products.

Why are there only six reviews?

The current public product structured data exposes a bounded sample. reviewCount still reports the aggregate total when available.

Related Automation Lab Actors

• Amazon Product Scraper for product, offer, rating, and marketplace research on Amazon.
• eBay Product Scraper for active eBay listings, seller details, auctions, and Buy It Now data.

Choose a source-specific Actor when the monitored catalog is on that marketplace; keep datasets separate and normalize them downstream when comparing multiple sources.

FAQ

Does this Actor require my bol.com account?
No. It accesses public product and search surfaces without login.

Can it search both the Netherlands and Belgium?
Yes. Set marketplace to NL or BE. Direct URLs follow their own marketplace path.

Does it download product images?
No. It returns public image URLs while blocking image binaries during extraction.

Does it track changes automatically?
It produces current snapshots. Use an Apify Task schedule and compare datasets in your preferred storage or automation tool.

Are offer and review arrays separately charged?
No. They are included in the single Product scraped event when includeDetails is enabled.