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Market Categories Scraper
parseforge/market-categories-scraper
E-commerce
Scrapes product categories from Market.com, returning each category name, URL, and subcategories. Export to CSV, JSON, Excel, or XML.
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- 2
- Monthly active
- 1
- Total runs
- 14
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- Last modified
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Overview
Market Categories Scraper
Scrape product categories from Market.com, up to a million per run. Every category comes with its name, URL, and subcategories. No login or API key. Export to CSV, JSON, Excel, or XML.
Market.com is a product comparison site that organizes thousands of products into categories like Dash Cams, Keyboards, and more. But manually browsing and copying those categories is slow and error-prone. This scraper reads the homepage navigation and returns every category and subcategory in a clean, structured dataset.
| Who uses it | What they scrape Market.com for |
|---|---|
| E-commerce analysts | Which product categories Market.com lists for competitive benchmarking |
| SEO specialists | The category structure to inform their own site taxonomy |
| Data scientists | A clean list of categories for training product classification models |
| Market researchers | The breadth of product categories available on a major comparison site |
What it does
This Actor collects product categories from Market.com by crawling the homepage navigation, and returns each category as a flat row with its name and URL.
- 🖥️ Homepage crawl: Starts from the Market.com homepage and extracts all visible category links.
- 🔗 Custom start URL: Point the scraper at any Market.com page to extract its category navigation.
- 📦 Bulk export: Get results as CSV, JSON, Excel, or XML for direct use in spreadsheets or databases.
Results export to CSV, JSON, Excel, or XML, or straight from the API.
What you can do with Market.com data
📊 Benchmark competitor category structures.
An e-commerce manager runs the scraper monthly to see how Market.com organizes its product categories and spots new categories added by competitors.
🔍 Build a product taxonomy for your store.
A web developer uses the scraped category list as a starting point to design the navigation for a new online store.
📈 Train a product classification model.
A data scientist feeds the category names and URLs into a machine learning pipeline to automatically classify products from other sources.
📋 Monitor category changes over time.
A market researcher runs the scraper weekly and compares the output to track when Market.com adds or removes product categories.
Why choose this scraper
| What you get | |
|---|---|
| Category name | The display name of the product category as shown on Market.com |
| Category URL | The direct link to that category page on Market.com |
| Subcategories | Any child categories nested under the parent, listed as a comma-separated string |
Configure the run
Drive the Actor from the default homepage or a custom Market.com URL. The scraper reads the navigation tree and returns only the categories it finds, so you get a clean list every time. The Input tab lists every parameter.
A first run with the defaults:
{
"startUrl": "https://www.market.com",
"maxItems": 10
}
A larger pull:
{
"startUrl": "https://www.market.com",
"maxItems": 200
}
Pricing
Pay-per-result: $0.0045 per result collected. You pay only for the results written to your dataset.
| Results collected | Approximate cost |
|---|---|
| 100 results | $0.45 |
| 1,000 results | $4.50 |
| 10,000 results | $45.00 |
New Apify accounts start with $5 in free credit.
Free users
Free-plan runs return up to 10 results as a preview. Upgrade your Apify plan to collect up to 1,000,000 results per run.
Run it
- Create a free Apify account with $5 in credit.
- Open the Market Categories Scraper.
- Set your inputs and any filters, then click Start.
- Export the results as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML from the Dataset tab.
Run it programmatically through the Apify API (run-sync-get-dataset-items) or the ApifyClient for JavaScript and Python.
Use with AI agents (MCP)
Give an AI agent live access to Market.com through the Model Context Protocol. Add the Actor to Claude, Cursor, or any MCP client:
claude mcp add --transport http apify "https://mcp.apify.com?tools=parseforge/market-categories-scraper"
Then prompt it in plain language to run the scraper and read back the results.
Troubleshooting
Why am I getting no results?
Check that the start URL is a valid Market.com page. The scraper only extracts categories from the navigation tree; if the page has no navigation, no results will be returned.
The scraper returns fewer categories than I expected.
Market.com may load some categories dynamically via JavaScript. This scraper reads the initial HTML; if categories are loaded later, they may not be captured. Try increasing the max items or using a different start URL.
Can I scrape product details inside each category?
No. This scraper only extracts the category names and URLs. For product-level data, you would need a different scraper that visits each category page.
The run fails with a timeout error.
Market.com may be slow or blocking the request. Reduce the max items or try again later. If the issue persists, contact support.
FAQ
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What data does this scraper return? | It returns each product category found on the Market.com homepage navigation, including the category name, its URL, and any subcategories nested under it. |
| Do I need an API key or login? | No. Market.com is publicly accessible, and the scraper reads the HTML directly without any authentication. |
| Can I scrape more than the homepage? | Yes. You can set a custom start URL to any Market.com page, and the scraper will extract the category navigation from that page. |
| How many categories can I scrape? | Free users get a preview of up to 10 items. Paid users can scrape up to 1,000,000 items per run. |
| What export formats are supported? | You can export the results as CSV, JSON, Excel, or XML. |
| Does the scraper follow pagination on category pages? | No. This scraper focuses on the category navigation tree itself, not the products within each category. |
| Is this scraper allowed by Market.com? | Scraping public data for personal or research use is generally acceptable, but you should review Market.com's terms of service and robots.txt before running large-scale scrapes. |
| Can I scrape subcategories? | Yes. The scraper captures any subcategories listed under a parent category in the navigation. |
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🆘 Need help? Email parseforge@protonmail.com with your run ID, your input, and what you expected.
⚠️ Disclaimer. This Actor is unofficial and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Market.com. It collects only publicly available data. You are responsible for using the collected data in compliance with the source's terms of service and applicable data-protection laws, including GDPR, CCPA, and PIPL. Do not use it to collect personal data unlawfully.
Input
| Field | Type | What it does | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| startUrl | string | The Market.com URL to start crawling. The homepage navigation is the default starting point. | https://www.market.com |
| maxItems | integer | Free users: Limited to 10 items (preview). Paid users: Optional, max 1,000,000 | 10 |
Pricing
from $4.07 per 1,000 results
| Charged for | What it is | Price each |
|---|---|---|
| result | Single result in the default dataset. | $0.00407 to $0.0045 |
Tiered: the lower figure is the price on a higher Apify plan. Billing and the free credit live on Apify.
API
One POST returns the dataset directly. Same shape for every scraper in the library, so swapping the slug is the only change.
curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/parseforge~market-categories-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=$APIFY_TOKEN" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"helloWorld": 123
}' Examples
Input that runs as-is.
{
"helloWorld": 123
} Reviews
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Issues
We build and maintain this scraper, so a problem with it comes to us. Report it on the Apify listing and the thread stays attached to the scraper where the next person can find it: open an issue.
Broken and urgent, or you would rather not post in public? Write to parseforge@protonmail.com and it reaches the people who wrote it.