Switch Scraper at a glance
Switch Scraper is a ready-to-run Apify actor from abotapi for collecting web data. Its documented output includes record id, piece link, piece id, title and brand, which you can export as JSON, CSV or Excel or read through the Apify API. It costs $2.00 per 1,000 results on the Apify Free plan and from $1.60 on paid plans, with smaller per-run or optional feature charges listed on Apify.
- Runs on
- Apify cloud: console, API, schedules and integrations
- Data type
- Web data
- Pricing
- $2.00 per 1,000 results (Free plan), from $1.60 on paid plans
- Output
- Documented below · JSON, CSV, Excel
- Inputs
- 24 options
Scrape Switch designer handbag and jewelry rental listings by keyword, filter or URL. Extract product names, brands, retail values, member purchase prices, Core or Select membership tiers, availability and product images.
What Switch Scraper can do
- Three ways in. Keyword search across the catalog, filtered browse walks (brand, category, occasion, collection, tier, availability, sort), or pasted piece and catalog URLs.
- Everything on the card. Brand, category, collection, occasion, rental tier, retail value, member buy price, availability, favorite and restock-watch counts, description, condition and authenticity notes, and the lead image.
- Full gallery on request. With piece details on, every record also carries the complete image gallery from the piece's own page, plus fresh availability and prices.
- Watch the catalog. Incremental mode reports NEW, UPDATED and REAPPEARED pieces across scheduled runs, so a daily walk returns only what changed since last time.
- Resume big walks. An interrupted or capped crawl continues from where it stopped, without charging for pieces already collected.
- Depth without caps that surprise. Forward pagination walks the store's own pages to the natural end; the only binding cap is Max items.
Choose what to collect
These inputs let you configure Switch Scraper - Luxury Handbags, Jewelry & Rental Listings. Open the actor on Apify to enter your values and review the current options.
| Input | What it controls |
|---|---|
modestring · required | How to start the scrape. 'search' runs catalog searches with the filters below. 'url' processes the Switch URLs you paste: a piece URL returns that single piece in full, and a catalog or designer URL is paged like a browse, its own path deciding the scope. |
searchTermsarray | One or more things to search for, for example 'chanel flap bag', 'diamond studs', 'hermes'. Each term is scraped independently. Leave empty to browse the whole catalog. Search mode only. |
brandsarray | Restrict the walk to these designers, given as plain names ('Chanel', 'Hermes'), slugs ('chanel') or the store's brand ids. Several brands are allowed and combine with every other filter. Names are matched against the store's own designer list at run start; a name that matches nothing fails the run with the unmatched names listed. Search mode only. |
categoriesarray | Restrict the walk to these piece categories, by slug or name: handbags, necklaces, earrings, bracelets, rings, belts, brooches, other. Several are allowed. The store cannot combine keyword search with category filters, so when both are set the keyword decides and this filter is ignored for search walks (a clear note is logged). Search mode only. |
occasionsarray | Restrict the walk to pieces tagged for these occasions: everyday, festival, night-out, vacation, wedding. Several are allowed. Search mode only. |
shopstring | Restrict the walk to one of the store's own collections: fine, fashion, statement, everyday or vintage. Search mode only. |
tierstring | Restrict the walk to one membership tier. Core pieces carry an average retail value around $1,000; Select pieces around $4,000. 'any' sends no tier filter. Search mode only. |
Show 17 more inputs
| Input | What it controls |
|---|---|
availabilitystring | 'available' restricts the walk to pieces that are on the shelf right now (not checked out by another member). 'any' returns every catalog piece, checked out or not, with its availability field telling you which is which. Search mode only. |
sortstring | The store's own server-side ordering, sent with every page of every search walk: 'recommended' (most loved, the store default), 'newest', 'price-desc' (highest retail value first) or 'price-asc' (lowest first). A pasted URL decides its own ordering when it carries a sort parameter. Search mode only. |
urlsarray | Paste Switch URLs; every link shape the site uses is accepted. Piece links look like /product/chanel-matelasse-chain-flap-bag-1731355475. Catalog links look like /collections?search=chanel&page=2 (the page number starts that walk further in), /collections?brand=10&category=10&sort=PRICE_DESC, or designer pages like /collections/designer/chanel and /collections/designer/chanel/handbags. A pasted URL decides its own scope: a piece URL returns that one piece in full, a catalog or designer URL is paged forward from the page in the link. Site pages that are not catalog pages (home, membership, FAQ) are skipped with a note. |
minRetailValuenumber | Only keep pieces whose retail value is at least this amount, in US dollars. Applied to the rows this run reads. Applies in BOTH search mode and URL mode. |
maxRetailValuenumber | Only keep pieces whose retail value is at most this amount, in US dollars. Applied to the rows this run reads. Applies in BOTH search mode and URL mode. |
fetchDetailsboolean | Fetch each piece's own page for the full image gallery and to refresh availability, prices and favorite counts against the live listing. Slower, and charged once per record. Leave off for a fast crawl: every row still carries the card fields (title, brand, category, retail value, member buy price, tier, availability and the lead image). |
maxItemsinteger | The single cap on this run: stop after collecting this many records across all search terms and URLs. Set 0 for unlimited. |
maxPagesinteger | Safety bound on how many result pages to walk per search term or URL. Leave empty (0) for no page limit: the run then stops at Max items, not here. Does not impose a separate cap below Max items. |
resumeFromRunIdstring | Paste a previous run ID or dataset ID to continue a large crawl without returning or charging for records already collected there. Use this after an interrupted or capped run. For recurring monitoring of the same search, use Incremental mode below instead. |
incrementalModeboolean | Turn this on for daily or weekly recurring monitoring of the same catalog walk, for example a watch on one designer. The first run returns everything matching as NEW. Later runs normally return only NEW, UPDATED and REAPPEARED records. Availability flips, price moves and new pieces ARE reported as UPDATED or NEW: on a rental catalog that is the signal, not noise. Turn on Emit unchanged or Emit expired only when you also want those rows returned (and billed). State is kept separately per search, URL and filter setup; use State key to name or deliberately share a monitoring campaign. |
stateKeystring | Optional. Name this monitoring campaign to keep its state stable, or to deliberately share state across differently configured runs. Leave empty to let the actor derive a key automatically from the search terms, URLs and filters, so two different walks never mix state. |
emitUnchangedboolean | Off by default. Turn on to also return pieces that have not changed since the last run, marked UNCHANGED. This returns, and bills, extra rows you already have, so leave it off unless you specifically want a full snapshot every run. |
emitExpiredboolean | Off by default. Turn on to also return pieces that were present in a previous run but are no longer in the catalog, marked EXPIRED. Only produced once a run has fully scanned the tracked walk: not when Max items capped it, not when Resume was used, and not when the run was refused. This returns, and bills, extra synthetic rows, so leave it off unless you need expiry tracking. |
ignoreFieldsForChangesarray | Optional. Extra top-level field names to exclude from incremental change detection, on top of the built-in list (favoritesCount, notifyCount, updatedAt, inventoryUpdatedOn, imageUrls). Use when a field moves every run without the piece changing. |
mcpConnectorsarray | Optionally send results into the apps you already use, via Model Context Protocol (MCP) connectors. Authorize one under Apify, Settings, API and Integrations, then select it here. Notion gets a page per record; other connectors get a best-effort write or digest. Each connector receives a condensed summary per record, not the full record; the complete record always stays in the dataset. Leave empty to skip; this never changes the dataset output. Supported: Notion (https://mcp.notion.com/mcp), Linear (https://mcp.linear.app/sse), Airtable (https://mcp.airtable.com/mcp), Apify (https://mcp.apify.com). |
notionParentPageUrlstring | URL or id of the Notion page under which record pages are created. Required to enable the Notion export; ignored by other connectors. |
maxNotifyListingsinteger | Cap on records written to each connector per run. Does not affect the dataset. |
Fields in the output
The documented dataset includes the fields below. Availability can depend on the source page and selected mode.
recordIdRecord ID (text)urlPiece link (text)productIdPiece ID (text)titleTitle (text)brandBrand (text)categoryCategory (text)occasionOccasion (text)shopCollection (text)tierRental tier (text)retailValueRetail value (USD) (number)memberPurchasePriceMember buy price (USD) (number)currencyCurrency (text)Show 25 more fields
availabilityAvailability (text)isSoldOutChecked out (boolean)favoritesCountFavorites (number)notifyCountNotify watchers (number)isNewNew (boolean)isFeaturedFeatured (boolean)imageUrlImage (image)imageCountImages (number)dateAddedAdded (text)scrapedAtScraped at (text)slugSlug (text)skuSKU (text)brandSlugBrand slug (text)descriptionDescription (text)descriptionTextDescription text (text)conditionCondition note (text)authenticityAuthenticity note (text)imageUrlHoverHover image (image)imageUrlsGallery (text)metaTitleMeta title (text)updatedAtUpdated (text)changeTypeChange type (text)changedFieldsChanged fields (text)firstSeenAtFirst seen (text)lastSeenAtLast seen (text)Example output
An example from this actor’s documentation. Values are illustrative; this is not a fresh live result.
{
"recordId": "joinswitch:12201",
"url": "https://joinswitch.com/product/sample-chain-flap-bag-123",
"productId": "12201",
"slug": "sample-chain-flap-bag-123",
"title": "Sample Chain Flap Bag",
"brand": "Sample Designer",
"brandSlug": "sample-designer",
"category": "Handbags",
"occasion": "Everyday",
"shop": "Vintage",
"tier": "Select",
"retailValue": 7000,
"memberPurchasePrice": 5500,
"currency": "USD",
"availability": "available",
"isSoldOut": false,
"favoritesCount": 168,
"notifyCount": 95,
"description": "<li>Sample description line one.</li><li>Sample line two.</li>",
"descriptionText": "Sample description line one. Sample line two.",
"condition": "Condition note text appears here.",
"authenticity": "Authenticity note text appears here.",
"imageUrl": "https://img.example.com/sample-piece.png",
"imageUrlHover": "https://img.example.com/sample-piece-2.png",
"imageUrls": [
"https://img.example.com/sample-piece.png"
],
"imageCount": 2,
"sku": "12201",
"dateAdded": "2026-01-01 00:00:00",
"updatedAt": "2026-01-01 00:00:00",
"scrapedAt": "2026-01-01T00:00:00Z"
}Ways to use this data
- Resale and pricing analysts: track retail values and member buy prices across the designer rental market as a pricing signal.
- Personal shoppers and stylists: monitor availability of specific bags and jewelry pieces and get told when a piece is back on the shelf.
- Market researchers: quantify catalog composition by brand, category, collection and rental tier, and how it shifts month to month.
- Deal and drop watchers: schedule walks on a designer or collection and receive only the new or changed pieces.
- App and dashboard builders: feed a clean, filterable rental catalog into your own tooling via the dataset API.
Before you run
Start with a small input and check the resulting records against your expected fields. Source content and actor options can change; the current Apify listing is the reference for availability and pricing.
Questions about this actor
What data does Switch Scraper return?
The documented output for Switch Scraper includes record id, piece link, piece id, title, brand, category, occasion and collection. Availability of each field depends on the source page and the selected mode.
How much does Switch Scraper cost?
It costs $2.00 per 1,000 results on the Apify Free plan and from $1.60 on paid plans, with smaller per-run or optional feature charges listed on Apify. The Apify listing shows the current rate for every plan.
Can I get only new or changed pieces on a schedule?
Yes. Turn on Incremental mode (optionally with a State key to name the campaign). The first run classifies everything NEW; later runs return only NEW, UPDATED and REAPPEARED pieces, so a daily watch is cheap. Availability flips and price moves are reported as UPDATED on purpose.
Why did a run return fewer pieces than Max items?
The walk stops at the natural end of the results for your filters. A narrow filter set (one designer, one category) may simply have fewer pieces than the cap. Set Max items to 0 to walk everything the filters match.
Why did my run fail instead of returning an empty dataset?
If the catalog could not be read at all (a refused connection on every attempt), the run fails loudly instead of reporting an empty success: check the run log and try again shortly. A run that read the catalog and genuinely matched nothing succeeds quietly with zero items.
Can I use it with AI agents or MCP?
Yes. The dataset is plain JSON an agent can read, and the actor ships an MCP connector input so results can be written straight into Notion, Airtable, Linear or Apify from the same run.
