# MercadoLibre Scraper - Products, Prices & Sellers | $3/1K (`bovi/mercadolibre-scraper`) Actor

Scrape MercadoLibre product listings across all Latin-American sites (MLA Argentina, MLB Brazil, MLM Mexico, MLC Chile, MCO Colombia & more). Returns title, price, original price, currency, condition, seller, free shipping, category, attributes, location, permalink & images per item. No API key.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/bovi/mercadolibre-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Vitalii Bondarev](https://apify.com/bovi) (community)
- **Categories:** Other, MCP servers
- **Features:** Limited permissions
- **Stats:** 117 total users, 16 monthly users, 25.2% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: 1.00 out of 5 stars

## Pricing

from $2.91 / 1,000 listings

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

## What's an Apify Actor?

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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.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

## 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.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## MercadoLibre Scraper

Scrape product listings from [MercadoLibre](https://www.mercadolibre.com) — Latin America's #1 online marketplace — across **every country site** in one actor: Mexico (MLM), Argentina (MLA), Brazil (MLB / MercadoLivre), Chile (MLC), Colombia (MCO), Peru, Uruguay, and more. This **MercadoLibre scraper** returns rich, structured data per product — title, price, original price, currency, condition, seller, free shipping, category, attributes, location, permalink, and images — with **no API key, no OAuth, and no login**. Pay per result at **$3.00 per 1,000 listings**.

### MercadoLibre product data this scraper returns

Each listing record contains the fields most teams need for pricing, sourcing, and market research:

| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| `item_id` | MercadoLibre item ID (e.g. `MLM1234567890`) |
| `title` | Product title |
| `price` | Current selling price |
| `original_price` | Strikethrough / "before" price |
| `currency_id` | Currency (MXN, ARS, BRL, CLP, COP, …) |
| `discount_pct` | Discount percentage (computed) |
| `available_quantity` | Units available |
| `sold_quantity` | Units sold |
| `condition` | `new` or `used` |
| `rating` | Average star rating (0–5) when shown |
| `reviews_count` | Number of reviews when shown |
| `installments` | Financing string when shown (e.g. "12x sin interés") |
| `seller_id` / `seller_nickname` | Seller identity |
| `seller_reputation` | Seller reputation level when shown |
| `free_shipping` | Whether the listing offers free shipping |
| `listing_type` | Listing tier when present |
| `category_id` | MercadoLibre category ID |
| `attributes` | Brand, model, and other item attributes |
| `location_state` / `location_city` | Item location |
| `permalink` | Canonical product URL |
| `thumbnail` / `pictures` | Image URLs |
| `site` / `country` | Source site (MLM/MLA/…) and country code |
| `parse_confidence` / `warnings` | Data-quality score + drift flags |
| `scraped_at` | ISO-8601 scrape timestamp |

### How to scrape MercadoLibre in any country

Pick a **country site** and a search query, and the actor does the rest. It paginates the storefront automatically and pushes one clean record per product.

- `site` — `MLM` (Mexico, default), `MLA` (Argentina), `MLB` (Brazil), `MLC` (Chile), `MCO` (Colombia), and 13 more.
- `sites` — **scrape several countries in one run.** A list of site IDs; every query runs against each one (e.g. compare a price across Mexico, Argentina and Brazil at once). Leave empty to use the single `site`.
- `query` — a single search term, like the MercadoLibre search bar.
- `queries` — a list of searches run in sequence (batch competitive research).
- `itemUrls` — specific product URLs or IDs for price monitoring.
- `sellerUrls` — seller / official-store pages.

```json
{
  "site": "MLM",
  "query": "iphone 15",
  "maxResults": 50
}
```

Compare one query across three countries in a single run:

```json
{
  "sites": ["MLM", "MLA", "MLB"],
  "query": "iphone 15",
  "maxResults": 50
}
```

### MercadoLibre data: use cases

- **Price monitoring** — track price, discount, and stock changes for competitor SKUs across countries.
- **Market research** — survey a category's pricing landscape, brand mix, and seller fragmentation.
- **Arbitrage sourcing** — find discounted, high-demand items to resell across LATAM marketplaces.
- **Seller intelligence** — profile sellers by reputation, range, and free-shipping policy.
- **Repricing & feeds** — feed normalized MercadoLibre prices into a repricer or BI dashboard.

### Multi-country coverage (MLA, MLB, MLM, MLC, MCO and more)

One actor, all 18 of MercadoLibre's marketplaces. The `site` input selects a single storefront; the `sites` input scrapes **several countries in one run**, routing each through a residential IP **in its own country** so every result reflects what a local shopper actually sees. Brazil (MercadoLivre, `lista.mercadolivre.com.br`, Portuguese) is fully supported alongside the Spanish-language sites — including its special domain and subdomain, which single-language scrapers get wrong. Run one query across MX + AR + BR and get a clean, side-by-side price comparison without launching three separate jobs.

### Why this MercadoLibre scraper is reliable

MercadoLibre's public API is now OAuth-gated and rejects anonymous requests, and its storefront blocks datacenter IPs on search. This actor handles both realities: it reads the storefront's embedded **polycard JSON** with a structural-HTML fallback, and it routes through **Apify Residential Proxy** in the target country (no external proxy account, no key to paste — proxy cost is already included in the per-result price). A built-in `parse_confidence` score and `warnings` list flag silent structure drift, so you catch breakage before it pollutes your dataset.

#### A three-layer parser that keeps working when the page changes

Marketplaces reshuffle their markup constantly, and most scrapers break the day they do. This one is built as a **guarded fallback chain**, each layer emitting a `parse_confidence` score:

1. **Polycard JSON** (primary) — the structured product objects embedded in the page. Fast and complete.
2. **Deep state walk** (B-plan) — if MercadoLibre renames the results wrapper key, the parser walks the embedded state tree and finds the largest array of product-shaped objects anywhere in it. A key rename no longer blinds the scraper.
3. **Structural HTML** (last resort) — when no JSON is present at all, it parses the result grid using stable structural anchors (`ui-search-layout__item`, `poly-card`, `andes-money-amount`), not brittle hashed CSS classes.

On top of that, the actor **detects access interstitials** (the "account verification" / verification pages) and rotates to a fresh residential IP before retrying, and it **never charges you for empty or low-confidence records** — a broken parse produces no garbage in your dataset and no charge on your bill. After the existing path is refused, the managed-access service can fetch a page within per-run request limits. If a whole run is blocked, it fails loudly instead of handing you a silent empty dataset.

### Pricing

Pay Per Result: **$3.00 per 1,000 listings** ($0.003 per record). You only pay for clean records the actor actually pushes. Platform/proxy usage is billed to your own Apify account at standard rates.

### Frequently asked questions

**Do I need a MercadoLibre account or API key?** No. The actor reads the public storefront — no login, no OAuth, no token.

**Which countries are supported?** All MercadoLibre sites: Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, and the Central-American sites — selected via the `site` input.

**Do I need a proxy?** Yes for search — MercadoLibre blocks datacenter IPs. The actor defaults to Apify Residential Proxy in the site's country; just leave the proxy input on its default. It is billed to your Apify account.

**Can I look up specific products?** Yes — pass product URLs or item IDs (e.g. `MLM1234567890`) in `itemUrls`.

**What does `parse_confidence` mean?** `1.0` means all critical fields parsed cleanly. Records below `0.5`, or missing both an ID and a price, are dropped before the dataset — you are never charged for them. Check `warnings` for the specific drift codes.

**Why is there no monthly fee?** This actor is pure pay-per-result — you pay only for listings actually delivered. There is no rental or subscription on top.

### Integrations

Built for e-commerce sellers and market researchers tracking pricing, competitors, and demand across Latin America — the JSON/dataset output drops into the tools you already run, no glue code:

- **n8n / Make / Zapier** — trigger a run or pipe every new dataset item into 500+ apps (Google Sheets, Airtable, Slack, HubSpot, your database) with no code: [n8n](https://docs.apify.com/platform/integrations/n8n), [Make](https://docs.apify.com/platform/integrations/make), [Zapier](https://docs.apify.com/platform/integrations/zapier).
- **Webhooks** — fire your own endpoint the moment a run finishes, to push results straight into your pipeline ([docs](https://docs.apify.com/platform/integrations/webhooks)).
- **MCP server** — expose this actor as a tool to Claude, Cursor, or any [MCP client](https://mcp.apify.com) so an AI agent can pull this data mid-conversation ([guide](https://blog.apify.com/how-to-use-mcp/)).
- **API & SDKs** — fetch the dataset as JSON, CSV, or Excel through the Apify REST API or the Python / JS SDKs.

See all [Apify integrations](https://apify.com/integrations).

### Disclaimer

MercadoLibre is a public marketplace. This actor accesses the same publicly visible storefront pages any shopper can browse, and extracts only publicly available listing data.

### More scrapers from our toolkit

Building a data pipeline? These actors pair well with this one — each runs on your own Apify account with the same pay-per-result pricing, no subscription:

- [Olx Listings](https://apify.com/bovi/olx-listings)
- [Poshmark Listings](https://apify.com/bovi/poshmark-listings)
- [Shopify Products Scraper](https://apify.com/bovi/shopify-products-scraper)
- [Tiktok Shop Scraper](https://apify.com/bovi/tiktok-shop-scraper)
- [Uber Eats Menu Scraper](https://apify.com/bovi/ubereats-menu)
- [Vinted Marketplace](https://apify.com/bovi/vinted-marketplace)

Chain any of them together from the **Integrations** tab (the *Run succeeded* trigger) to build a multi-step workflow — one actor's output feeds the next.

### Usage statistics

This Actor creates a small, content-free summary at the end of each run. It is used only to monitor reliability and improve this Actor. A copy is saved as `USAGE_STATS` in your own Apify key-value store, so you can see the exact record created for your run.

Set `disableUsageStats` to `true` in the input to opt out. Nothing is sent then; your `USAGE_STATS` record only says that statistics were disabled.

Only these fields are recorded:

- schema version, Actor name and build number;
- UTC start and finish hour (not a precise timestamp);
- run duration, number of results and time to the first result, each as a coarse range;
- whether the result was empty, the end status, and an error type from a fixed list;
- memory setting and counts of charged events;
- names of the input fields you set, never their values;
- the selected option for input fields that offer a fixed list of choices (for example a sort order).

We do not collect input text, search terms, URLs, domains, usernames, email addresses, names, proxy credentials, tokens, scraped records, output items, raw error messages, stack traces, or hashes of any of those values. Records are kept for no longer than 13 months, used only as aggregated operational statistics, and never sold or shared.

#### Additional fields (Phase 2)

This Actor also records your Apify user ID, whether Apify marks the account as paying, the size range of list inputs, the selected country when the input offers a fixed list of countries, and one category from a fixed Actor taxonomy. We use these fields only for aggregate reliability, repeat-use and cross-Actor analysis; reports suppress any cell with fewer than five distinct users.

The same `disableUsageStats: true` input flag turns these fields off too. The user ID is removed after 13 months; we do not export, sell, share, or attempt to re-identify this data.

#### Run-outcome signals (v2)

To learn whether a run did what it was asked to do, the record also holds a few more coarse ranges and yes/no flags. None of them contains content:

- the result limit you asked for (a range, when the input has one) and what share of it was delivered;
- results delivered per input item you listed (a range);
- output quality as ranges: how fully the result fields were filled, the share of rows that look like errors, the share of duplicate rows, and how many different fields appeared. These are counted in memory while results are saved; no result content is kept;
- how the run was started (console, API, schedule, webhook, another Actor);
- how it ended: stopped by you, timed out, reached the requested limit, stopped by the charge limit, and how many times the platform moved the run;
- if this Actor reports it: how many items to process worked or failed (ranges) and one failure reason from a fixed list;
- a short code made from the names of the input fields you set, never their values.

#### Repeat-run fingerprint (v2)

When your Apify user ID is recorded (see above), the record also holds an 8-character one-way code made from your input (proxy settings left out) and this Actor's name. It only lets us see that the same account ran the same input again soon after an unsatisfying run; we never see the input itself. It is stored only in the database, never published, and reports use it in aggregate with the same five-user minimum. It is the one exception to the statement above that no hashes are collected, and `disableUsageStats: true` turns it off.

# Actor input Schema

## `site` (type: `string`):

Which MercadoLibre country site to scrape. Determines the storefront, currency, language, and the proxy country. Ignored when 'Country sites (multi)' is set.

## `sites` (type: `array`):

Scrape SEVERAL MercadoLibre countries in ONE run — every query runs against each site you list (e.g. compare iPhone prices across Mexico, Argentina & Brazil at once). Use MercadoLibre site IDs: MLM, MLA, MLB, MLC, MCO, MLU, MPE, MLV, MEC, MBO, MGT, MPA, MRD, MPY, MNI, MHN, MSV, MCR. Leave empty to use the single 'Country site' above.

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

A single search query to run on the chosen MercadoLibre site (e.g. 'iphone 15', 'notebook gamer', 'zapatillas nike'). Works like the MercadoLibre search bar. Use 'queries' for multiple searches.

## `queries` (type: `array`):

List of search queries to run in sequence. Each query is scraped independently up to Max results. Use this for batch competitive research or catalog monitoring.

## `itemUrls` (type: `array`):

List of MercadoLibre product URLs (https://articulo.mercadolibre.com.mx/MLM-...) or raw item IDs (e.g. MLM1234567890) to look up directly. Use for price monitoring of specific SKUs.

## `sellerUrls` (type: `array`):

List of MercadoLibre seller or official-store URLs to scrape as listing pages.

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

Maximum listings to return per query. MercadoLibre returns ~48 per page; the actor paginates automatically. Keep this low to control cost.

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

MercadoLibre blocks datacenter IPs on search, so an Apify RESIDENTIAL proxy in the site's country is REQUIRED for reliable results. Leave default to auto-select RESIDENTIAL in the matching country. No external proxy account needed — proxy cost is already included in the per-result price.

## `disableUsageStats` (type: `boolean`):

See the README Usage statistics section for details.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "site": "MLM",
  "query": "iphone",
  "maxResults": 50,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ]
  },
  "disableUsageStats": false
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

Dataset containing Mercadolibre Scraper records (title, price, discount_pct, condition, rating, reviews_count, installments, free_shipping, seller_nickname, permalink, scraped_at, parse_confidence).

# 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 = {
    "site": "MLM",
    "query": "iphone",
    "maxResults": 50,
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": true,
        "apifyProxyGroups": [
            "RESIDENTIAL"
        ]
    }
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("bovi/mercadolibre-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 = {
    "site": "MLM",
    "query": "iphone",
    "maxResults": 50,
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": True,
        "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"],
    },
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("bovi/mercadolibre-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 '{
  "site": "MLM",
  "query": "iphone",
  "maxResults": 50,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ]
  }
}' |
apify call bovi/mercadolibre-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,bovi/mercadolibre-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/x6PkfZ3eCA2OHUqjE/builds/Ka5rLNz89TML5jRJ0/openapi.json