# OTTO.de Product Scraper (`truenorth/otto-product-search`) Actor

Extract product names, prices, brands, ratings, availability, and URLs from OTTO.de search results.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/truenorth/otto-product-search.md
- **Developed by:** [TrueNorth](https://apify.com/truenorth) (community)
- **Categories:** E-commerce
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

$2.50 / 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/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event

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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## OTTO.de Product Scraper

Extract clean OTTO.de product data for price monitoring, product research, assortment tracking, and competitor analysis. Enter a search query or OTTO.de listing URL and receive structured JSON/CSV-ready product records with names, prices, brands, ratings, availability, images, and product URLs.

### Key Features

- Search query support for `https://www.otto.de/suche/<query>/`
- Direct OTTO.de search/category/listing URL support
- Pagination via the `page` query parameter
- Deduplication by `variationId` and product URL
- Normalized absolute product and image URLs
- Price, currency, availability, condition, rating, and review count extraction
- Apify proxy configuration support
- CSV/JSON/Excel-ready dataset output
- Clean structured data for downstream analytics and AI workflows

### How it Works

1. Enter an OTTO.de search query or one or more OTTO.de listing URLs.
2. Choose `maxItems`, `maxPages`, and proxy settings.
3. Run the Actor and download results as JSON, CSV, Excel, or consume them through the Apify API.

When both `query` and `startUrls` are supplied, `query` takes precedence. Start URLs must use HTTPS and the `otto.de` or `www.otto.de` host. `maxItems` is a global limit across all pages and start URLs; duplicate variation IDs or product URLs are emitted once.

### Input Example

```json
{
  "query": "laptop",
  "maxItems": 100,
  "maxPages": 3,
  "requestDelaySecs": 1,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}
```

You can also use direct listing URLs:

```json
{
  "startUrls": [
    { "url": "https://www.otto.de/suche/laptop/" }
  ],
  "maxItems": 100,
  "maxPages": 3
}
```

### Output Sample

```json
{
  "searchQuery": "laptop",
  "page": 1,
  "position": 1,
  "name": "Example 14-inch laptop computer",
  "brand": "bvate",
  "price": 269.99,
  "currency": "EUR",
  "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock",
  "condition": "https://schema.org/NewCondition",
  "ratingValue": 4.5,
  "reviewCount": 3,
  "variationId": "S09GM0DJU69F",
  "productUrl": "https://www.otto.de/p/bvate-2026-14-zoll-laptop-computer-S09GM0DJ/?variationId=S09GM0DJU69F",
  "imageUrl": "https://i.otto.de/i/otto/cea1cf4f-9eeb-4937-ad49-dafc7ca530dd?$responsive_ft2$",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-06-22T13:28:25.266Z"
}
```

### AI & LLM Integration

The Actor outputs structured product records that can be loaded into BI tools, vector databases, RAG pipelines, pricing agents, product-matching workflows, and LLM-based market research systems. Product names, prices, ratings, URLs, and availability fields are ready for enrichment, summarization, trend analysis, and competitor monitoring.

### Notes and Limitations

OTTO.de currently exposes product data in server-rendered JSON-LD on public search/listing pages. Apify Proxy is enabled by default; set `proxyConfiguration.useApifyProxy` to `false` for local runs without it. Bot-protection/challenge responses fail explicitly, as does a run where every requested first page contains no products. Empty later pagination pages stop that listing normally.

# Actor input Schema

## `query` (type: `string`):

Search term used to build https://www.otto.de/suche/<query>/.

## `startUrls` (type: `array`):

OTTO search or category/list URLs to crawl directly. Used when query is empty.

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of unique products to emit.

## `maxPages` (type: `integer`):

Maximum pages per query or start URL.

## `requestDelaySecs` (type: `number`):

Delay between paginated requests.

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Apify proxy configuration.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "startUrls": [
    {
      "url": "https://www.otto.de/suche/laptop/"
    }
  ],
  "maxItems": 100,
  "maxPages": 1,
  "requestDelaySecs": 1,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `products` (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 '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "startUrls": [
        {
            "url": "https://www.otto.de/suche/laptop/"
        }
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("truenorth/otto-product-search").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 '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = { "startUrls": [{ "url": "https://www.otto.de/suche/laptop/" }] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("truenorth/otto-product-search").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "startUrls": [
    {
      "url": "https://www.otto.de/suche/laptop/"
    }
  ]
}' |
apify call truenorth/otto-product-search --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "mcp-remote",
                "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=truenorth/otto-product-search",
                "--header",
                "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
            ]
        }
    }
}

```

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/rHLvDQtN8L4uUTikn/builds/Rvb584mlMWK3NsJqe/openapi.json