# Deichmann Scraper — German Shoe Prices & Stock (`studio-amba/deichmann-scraper`) Actor

Scrape product data from deichmann.com, Europe's largest shoe retailer. Extract names, brands, prices, sizes, stock levels, and images via Deichmann's own product search API.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/studio-amba/deichmann-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Studio Amba](https://apify.com/studio-amba) (community)
- **Categories:** E-commerce
- **Features:** Limited permissions
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $1.20 / 1,000 result scrapeds

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

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# README

## Deichmann Scraper

Pull product data from deichmann.com, Europe's largest shoe retailer with stores across roughly 24 countries. This scraper pulls directly from Deichmann's own product search API, so it returns clean, structured data -- brand, price, per-size stock, images -- without any HTML parsing.

### How to scrape Deichmann data

Give the actor a search term in German (e.g. `"sneaker"`, `"stiefel"`, `"laufschuhe"`) and it queries Deichmann's search endpoint directly, paginating until it hits `maxResults` or runs out of matching products. There's nothing to configure beyond the search term -- no category URLs to hunt down, no pagination logic to babysit.

Under the hood, Deichmann's storefront (built on the SCAYLE headless-commerce platform) calls an unauthenticated JSON API at `api.deichmann.com` for every search and category browse. This actor talks to that same API directly instead of rendering pages and parsing HTML, which makes it faster and far less likely to break when Deichmann tweaks its frontend markup.

If you don't provide any input, it defaults to searching for `"sneaker"` as a demo.

### Input

| Field | Type | Description |
|-------|------|-------------|
| `searchQuery` | string | Search term, in German (e.g. `"stiefel"`, `"sandalen"`, `"sportschuhe"`) |
| `maxResults` | integer | Cap on number of products returned (default: 100) |
| `proxyConfiguration` | object | Apify proxy settings. Deichmann's product API has no anti-bot protection, so the default Apify proxy is sufficient -- no residential proxy needed |

### What you get back

| Field | Type | Example |
|-------|------|---------|
| `name` | string | `"Rieker Damen Hochschaftstiefel Schwarz"` |
| `brand` | string | `"Rieker"` |
| `price` | number | `89.95` |
| `originalPrice` | number | null | `39.99` (only set when the item is discounted) |
| `currency` | string | `"EUR"` |
| `discount` | string | null | `"-30%"` |
| `sku` | string | `"RI93157-00"` |
| `productId` | string | `"m02512576_02512578_02512579"` |
| `inStock` | boolean | null | `true` (null only if the source omits stock data) |
| `stockLevel` | integer | null | `242` (total units across all sizes) |
| `url` | string | Full product page URL |
| `imageUrl` | string | Primary product image |
| `imageUrls` | array | All product images |
| `category` | string | null | `"Classic high boot"` |
| `sizes` | array | Per-size stock: `[{"size": "41", "inStock": true, "stockQuantity": 7}]` |
| `scrapedAt` | string | ISO timestamp |

### Sample output

```json
{
  "name": "Skechers Sneaker-Socken Weiß",
  "brand": "Skechers",
  "price": 9.99,
  "originalPrice": null,
  "currency": "EUR",
  "discount": null,
  "sku": "02512578",
  "productId": "m02512576_02512578_02512579",
  "inStock": true,
  "stockLevel": 242,
  "url": "https://www.deichmann.com/de-de/p/skechers-5x-sneaker-socken-weiss-101233",
  "imageUrl": "https://asset.deichmann.com/images/f_auto,q_auto,w_800/02512578_1/img",
  "imageUrls": [
    "https://asset.deichmann.com/images/f_auto,q_auto,w_800/02512578_1/img",
    "https://asset.deichmann.com/images/f_auto,q_auto,w_800/02512578_2/img"
  ],
  "category": "Sneaker sock",
  "sizes": [
    { "size": "39-42", "inStock": true, "stockQuantity": 158 }
  ],
  "scrapedAt": "2026-08-24T09:19:04.134Z"
}
```

### Use cases

- **Price monitoring** -- track Deichmann's own price and discount changes over time on the styles you sell against.
- **Stock tracking** -- `sizes` gives you per-size availability, useful for spotting which sizes sell out fastest.
- **Assortment research** -- see which brands and shoe categories Deichmann is pushing, and at what price points.
- **Market comparison** -- Deichmann's low-price positioning makes it a useful reference point when benchmarking footwear pricing across the German market.

### Coverage

v1 covers the German storefront (`deichmann.com/de-de`) -- Germany is Deichmann's flagship market and the site's own default locale. Deichmann runs the same storefront platform across roughly 24 country sites (Austria, Switzerland, the Benelux, Poland, Czechia, Spain, and more); other locales are a straightforward parameter change and may follow in a later version.

### Performance and cost

The scraper hits Deichmann's JSON API directly -- no browser rendering, no HTML parsing -- so it's fast. A run of 100 products typically completes in well under 10 seconds. This actor charges $0.02 per run (start fee, based on its 4 GB memory allocation) plus $0.002 per result -- a 100-product run costs about $0.22. Your run's usage cost only settles after the run reports SUCCEEDED -- checking cost mid-run will undercount it.

### Limitations

- German locale only in v1 (`de-de`). Other Deichmann-operated country sites aren't covered yet.
- Ratings and review counts aren't exposed by the search API, so they're not included in the output.
- The API's `X-Charybdis` header (a shop-configuration blob) was harvested from a live browsing session. It's static shop config, not a rotating secret, but if Deichmann ever regenerates it, requests will start failing until the actor is updated.
- Search is keyword-based, matching Deichmann's own on-site search. It does not accept direct product or category URLs.

### Related scrapers

If you're covering German fashion and footwear retail more broadly, also check out:

- [Intersport Scraper](https://apify.com/studio-amba/intersport-scraper) -- German sporting goods, including athletic footwear
- [Bergfreunde Scraper](https://apify.com/studio-amba/bergfreunde-scraper) -- outdoor gear and hiking footwear
- [Helly Hansen Scraper](https://apify.com/studio-amba/hellyhansen-scraper) -- outdoor apparel and footwear
- [Douglas Scraper](https://apify.com/studio-amba/douglas-de-scraper) -- German beauty and lifestyle retail

### Support

Found an issue or need a different locale covered? Open an issue on this actor's Apify Store page and we'll take a look.

# Actor input Schema

## `searchQuery` (type: `string`):

Search term to find products on deichmann.com (German, e.g. "sneaker", "stiefel", "laufschuhe")

## `maxResults` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of products to scrape

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

Apify proxy configuration. Deichmann's product API has no anti-bot protection (verified live), so the default Apify proxy is sufficient.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "searchQuery": "sneaker",
  "maxResults": 100,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}
```

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

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "searchQuery": "sneaker",
    "maxResults": 100,
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": true
    }
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("studio-amba/deichmann-scraper").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 = {
    "searchQuery": "sneaker",
    "maxResults": 100,
    "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": True },
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("studio-amba/deichmann-scraper").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 '{
  "searchQuery": "sneaker",
  "maxResults": 100,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}' |
apify call studio-amba/deichmann-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,studio-amba/deichmann-scraper"
        }
    }
}
```

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 <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` 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/bcDFH5fhn6xJjbNzH/builds/c5QsbpdkTF7AucTQq/openapi.json