Shein Catalog Scraper

Shein Catalog Scraper: product ids, titles and images for 13 storefronts, no prices

Pick a Shein storefront and you get its public catalogue as rows: product id, full title, product link, image link and Shein's own date stamp. Germany alone lists 5,271,135 products, and one run can take up to 100,000 of them. There are no prices, no stock and no sizes in it, on any storefront, and no setting that adds them.

🔍 What Shein Catalog Scraper does

It reads the catalogue Shein publishes for each storefront and hands it over one entry per row. If you need Shein prices, this is the wrong purchase however cheap the rows are. If you need the list itself, every product id and title on a storefront or every listing whose title says "cargo", this is what it does.

Shein splits a storefront's catalogue into files of 12,000 entries. The files do not overlap (file 1 and file 221 were checked and share none of their ids), so startFile lets you walk the whole catalogue across several runs without repeating yourself. Every row names the file it came from.

The run stops the moment it has the rows you asked for, even halfway through a file. A 12,000-row run took nine seconds in testing.

Filters work on entries as they are read, because there is no search behind a catalogue file. A narrow filter therefore reads a lot and delivers a little. That costs time, not money, since you only pay for rows delivered, and maxSitemapFiles puts a limit on how far it hunts.

updatedSince is not a change feed. Shein re-stamps the whole catalogue at once, not each product when it changes. On 2026-09-20 two files read end to end were 12,000 of 12,000 on one date, and every file in the index carried it. So the date says when Shein last regenerated the catalogue. Set it to yesterday and you may get everything; set it to tomorrow and you get nothing. A run can also come back with today's date and yesterday's side by side, though inside one file the date is always the same. To see what really changed, pull the ids and compare them with your last pull.

📥 What you give it

{
  "region": "de",
  "maxItems": 200,
  "titleContains": ["cargo"],
  "maxSitemapFiles": 10
}

📤 What you get back

A real row from a real run on the German storefront:

{
  "ok": true,
  "recordType": "catalogEntry",
  "region": "de",
  "contentType": "products",
  "productId": "87740328",
  "title": "Suitcases",
  "url": "https://de.shein.com/Suitcases-p-87740328.html",
  "imageUrl": "https://img.ltwebstatic.com/v4/j/spmp/2025/05/23/c8/174797332031d410969cc879219609176ffc61bd82_square.jpg",
  "lastmod": "2026-09-29",
  "changefreq": "daily",
  "sourceSitemap": "sitemap-products-1.xml",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-09-30T02:32:29.470Z",
  "price": null
}

🧾 Reading the output

To keep only real rows, filter on recordType equal to catalogEntry. Filtering on ok: true is not enough, because the sample row carries it too. The sample appears only when a run has no storefront chosen, and shows the shape of a row rather than live data.

Each note carries an errorCode, a short error and a details line saying what happened.

▶️ How to run it

1. Open Shein Catalog Scraper and click Try for free. 2. Choose a Storefront. 3. Set Maximum rows. Start small, 200 is plenty for a first look. 4. To narrow it down, add words under Only titles containing one of these words. 5. Click Start, then download the dataset as JSON, CSV or Excel.

💰 How much does it cost?

$0.20 per 1,000 rows, flat on every Apify plan, with no volume tiers. One catalogue file's worth of rows, 12,000 of them, comes to $2.40.

Not charged: the sample row, every note, rows your filters drop, and any file that fails or comes back empty. A run that matches nothing charges for no rows at all. If you set a maximum cost for the run, it stops there and says so, rather than going over.

💡 What people use it for

• Keeping a list of every product id on a storefront and comparing it week to week. Ids that appear

are new listings, ids that vanish are gone.

• Pulling every listing whose title mentions a word, like cargo or linen, across a storefront.
• Counting how often a style, material or fit turns up in product titles.
• Collecting product links and images for a set of listings you then check by hand.

🚧 What it does not do

• No prices. Not on any row, any setting or any storefront.
• No stock, sizes, colours, ratings, reviews or seller data either. The catalogue says what

exists, not what it costs or whether it is in stock.

• Thirteen storefronts, mostly European. There is no US, Mexican, Brazilian, Indian, Canadian,

Australian or Japanese storefront in the list, and no setting that adds one.

• lastmod cannot tell you what changed. It is one date stamped across the whole catalogue.
• No translation. Titles come in the storefront's own language.
• One run is one storefront. Four storefronts means four runs.
• An entry is not proof a product is for sale. A listing leaving the catalogue is the only sign

you get that it went away.

🧭 Which fashion and retail scraper do you need?

❓ Questions people ask

Can I get Shein prices from this? No. Not with a setting, a different storefront or your own servers. The catalogue carries no price.

How many products are there? Germany lists 440 files, 5,271,135 products. The UK has slightly more and Turkey the fewest, at 307 files. The 13 storefronts hold about 60 million between them.

How do I pull a whole storefront? Run it repeatedly, moving startFile forward. The sourceSitemap on your last row tells you how far the previous run got.

How do I find what changed since last week? Compare this week's ids with last week's. updatedSince cannot do it, for the reason above.

Do I need an account or an API key? No. The catalogue is public.

Is this legal? It reads a catalogue Shein publishes openly, with no login. Apify's write-up on the legality of web scraping is a good starting point. We are not lawyers.

🆘 If something breaks

Open the Issues tab on the actor page and send the input you used and the run ID. The note rows in the dataset usually name the file and the reason already.