Mercado Libre Deals & Best Sellers Scraper

Mercado Libre Scraper: the deals page and the best-seller lists, as rows

Pick one of nine Mercado Libre sites and get one row per listing off two pages the site publishes to everyone: Ofertas, the deals board, and Más vendidos, the best-seller lists. Each deal row carries the price now, the price before, the discount, instalments, shipping, the seller or brand on the card, its rating and the sold count, with a link and a photo.

There is no keyword box. Mercado Libre's search, item and catalog pages want a signed-in account, so "iphone 15" is not something this can answer. It reads the two open pages, nothing else.

🛒 What Mercado Libre Scraper does

Deals. 48 a page, in the order the site shows them, narrowed by the filters the deals page itself offers: a top-level category, lightning deals or the deal of the day, a price range, instalment terms, free shipping, and Full. One set of filters reaches about 1,048 deals and then the page stops, however many it claims to have. Argentina's counted 11,246 on 13 September 2026. The status message tells you when you have hit that wall, and a category or a price band opens the rest.

Best sellers. The lists on the Más vendidos page: up to 20 products per category, for the six to ten categories Mercado Libre chooses to put there. Argentina's had 103 products in six lists, Brazil's 154 in ten. That page takes no filters. A category ID keeps only its list, when the page carries one.

Nine sites: Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Chile, Colombia, Peru, Uruguay, Ecuador and Venezuela. Venezuela publishes no best-seller page, so it is deals only there.

📥 What you give it

{
  "country": "AR",
  "sources": ["deals"],
  "category": "MLA1051",
  "maxPrice": 500000,
  "freeShipping": true,
  "maxItems": 200
}

If the deals page does not recognise a filter value it quietly shows everything instead. The run checks that each filter you set actually got applied. When one did not, you get no rows, nothing is charged, and the status message names the filter. Nobody should pay for the whole board because a category ID had a typo in it.

📤 What you get back

A real deal row from a recent run, with the photo URL cut short:

{
  "source": "deals",
  "country": "AR",
  "siteId": "MLA",
  "itemId": "MLA2692124128",
  "productId": "MLA57692573",
  "userProductId": "MLAU3347695717",
  "title": "Combo Hidrolavadora Aspiradora Electrica Alta presion Trent HLT307 + VC19K Amarillo 50hz",
  "price": 159365,
  "currency": "ARS",
  "originalPrice": 457354.91,
  "discountPercent": 65,
  "installmentsCount": 6,
  "installmentAmount": 35854,
  "installmentsInterestFree": false,
  "freeShipping": true,
  "fullFulfillment": true,
  "shippingText": "Llega gratis mañana",
  "seller": "TRENT",
  "officialStore": true,
  "rating": 4.9,
  "soldText": "+5mil vendidos",
  "soldAtLeast": 5000,
  "promotion": "deal_of_the_day",
  "highlight": "OFERTA DEL DÍA",
  "dealEndsAt": null,
  "bestSellerRank": null,
  "categoryId": null,
  "categoryName": null,
  "leafCategoryId": null,
  "position": 1,
  "page": 1,
  "url": "https://www.mercadolibre.com.ar/combo-hidrolavadora.../p/MLA57692573",
  "thumbnail": "https://http2.mlstatic.com/D_Q_NP_2X_639539-MLA109280515034...",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-09-20T19:01:40.776Z"
}

Best-seller rows carry less than deal rows. That page prints no seller, rating, sold count, shipping text or instalments, so those fields come back null.

🧾 Reading the output

Run it with no country and you get the one sample row, a real Argentine deal, so you can see the shape before committing to anything.

There are no diagnostic rows. The run's status message carries the reasons: why it stopped, whether you reached the 1,048-deal wall, any page that would not load, any filter the site did not apply, and how many rows were skipped or seen twice. RUN_REPORT in the key-value store holds the same thing broken down per source, per page and per filter.

▶️ How to run it

1. Open Mercado Libre Scraper and click Try for free. 2. Pick a Country. 3. Under What to read, choose deals, best sellers or both. 4. Add a Category ID or a price range if you want a slice rather than the whole board, set Maximum listings, then click Start. 5. Download the dataset as JSON, CSV or Excel, or read it from the Apify API.

💰 How much does it cost?

$0.75 per 1,000 listings. Flat on every Apify plan, no volume tiers.

You pay per listing row delivered. A deal that did not match your filters, a listing the site showed twice, a page that would not load, a run where the site ignored a filter, and the sample row are all free.

💡 What people use it for

• Watching a category's discounts day by day, on a schedule, and keeping the ones that repeat.
• Tracking a brand's own deals by filtering on its category and matching seller.
• Pulling the best-seller lists once a week to see what moves in and out of the top 20.
• Comparing the same catalog product across countries, since productId is per site but the title

and photo line up.

• Finding lightning deals as they appear, with Deal type set and the run scheduled hourly.

🚧 What it does not do

• No keyword search and no sorting. The deals page offers neither, so rows come in Mercado

Libre's order.

• No seller ID, reputation, item condition or location. These cards do not print them.
• Best sellers carry fewer fields, because that page shows fewer.
• About 1,048 deals per filter set. Splitting by category or price band is the way past it.
• Only the lists the hub page shows. A single category's own best-seller page is not readable.
• Prices are a snapshot. Lightning deals often end within hours, and dealEndsAt says when.
• Card order differs between visitors, so two runs of the same filters can disagree on position.
• One country per run.
• The deals board can reshuffle mid-run, so a deal moving between pages may be seen twice, which

is dropped, or missed.

🧭 Which marketplace scraper do you need?

❓ Questions people ask

How do I get only phones on sale in Brazil? Country BR, category MLB1051.

Why fewer deals than the page claims? The board stops at about 1,048 for one filter set. Split the run by category or by price band.

Can I get the lightning deals every morning? Yes. Schedule it with Deal type on lightning deals. Each run returns what is on the board at that moment.

Can I search for a product? No. Search results need an account, so they are not covered here.

Which countries have best sellers? All of them except Venezuela, which publishes deals only.

Is scraping Mercado Libre legal? These are public pages. Mercado Libre's terms of use restrict automated collection and reuse, so read them against what you plan to do. Apify's write-up on scraping and the law is a starting point, and we are not lawyers.

🆘 If something breaks

Open the Issues tab on the actor page. Send the run ID, the country and the filters you used. The status message usually names the problem on its own.