BestBuy.com Extractor Actor

An Apify actor for scraping product data, reviews, Q&A, and other content from BestBuy.com.

Overview

This actor extracts structured data from BestBuy.com. You can provide product SKUs, search terms, or direct URLs to scrape information like product details, customer reviews, questions and answers, videos, and user-submitted images.

Key Features

• Multi-format input: Accepts product SKUs, search queries, or direct BestBuy URLs.
• Targeted data extraction: Use a simple query syntax (BBQL) to specify exactly which data sections to scrape (e.g., /reviews, /questions).
• Comprehensive output: Returns structured JSON data including product info, pricing, availability, ratings, media, and user-generated content.
• Configurable limits: Control the number of results per query with the limit parameter.

How to Use

Configure the actor run using input parameters. The main parameter is query, an array of strings defining what to scrape.

Basic Input Examples

Scrape a single product by SKU:

{
  "query": ["6578185"]
}

Scrape multiple products:

{
  "query": ["6578185", "6575099", "6575096"]
}

Scrape using a direct product page URL:

{
  "query": ["https://www.bestbuy.com/site/example-product/123456.p"]
}

Using BBQL (BestBuy Query Language)

Extend a basic SKU or URL to target specific data sections.

Format: [SKU or URL]/[SECTION]

Example: Scrape the first 100 reviews for a product

{
  "query": ["6578185/reviews"],
  "limit": 100
}

Input Parameters

Output

The actor outputs a structured JSON object for each processed item. The exact fields depend on the data section scraped (/info, /reviews, etc.).

A typical product info (/info) output includes:
* sku, name, brand
* price, salePrice, availability
* description, specifications
* images, videos
* rating, reviewCount
* questionsAnswers

Review data (/reviews) includes:
* rating, title, text
* author, date
* verifiedPurchase, helpfulVotes

The dataset is available in the Apify platform in JSON, CSV, and other formats.