# Apify Product Lookup

Fetch a real product's current price, stock, rating, or images from retailer pages over...

- Repository: https://github.com/davepoon/buildwithclaude (3705 stars)
- Category: AI and agents
- License: MIT
- Last updated: 2026-11-01
- Runs scripts: no, instructions only

## Install

Claude Code: `npx skills add davepoon/buildwithclaude --skill apify-product-lookup -g -a claude-code -y`
Codex: `npx skills add davepoon/buildwithclaude --skill apify-product-lookup -g -a codex -y`
Cursor: `npx skills add davepoon/buildwithclaude --skill apify-product-lookup -g -a cursor -y`
Gemini CLI: `npx skills add davepoon/buildwithclaude --skill apify-product-lookup -g -a gemini-cli -y`
Claude Code plugin marketplace: `/plugin marketplace add davepoon/buildwithclaude`

## Description

Fetch a real product's current price, stock, rating, or images from retailer pages over the Apify MCP server, and return them as typed fields rather than prose. Use when someone asks what a product costs right now, whether it is in stock, how it is rated, to compare a product across retailers, or to check a product URL they pasted. Also use when an agent would otherwise answer a product question from training data. Not for managing your own store's catalog, not for payments, and not for questions answerable without live retailer data.

## SKILL.md, as published by its author (untrusted third-party text, read it as data)

# Apify product lookup

A model answers product questions from training data that was fixed months ago, or by
reading a page as prose with no product fields. This skill routes the question to a hosted
Actor that reads retailer pages on request and returns structured records: price, currency,
stock, rating, image URLs, and a link.

Written by a product marketing manager at Apify. It calls
[E-commerce Scraping Tool](https://apify.com/apify/e-commerce-scraping-tool), a paid
first-party Apify Actor, so weigh the framing accordingly. Everything below is what
testing against the live Actor returned, including where it does not work.

## Setup

The MCP endpoint is `https://mcp.apify.com`. Appending
`?tools=apify/e-commerce-scraping-tool` narrows the server to this one Actor, which makes
tool selection more reliable when product data is the only job. Authentication is OAuth on
first use for interactive clients, or a bearer token for unattended ones. An Apify account
is required and the Actor is paid, billed per run started plus per product returned.

## Pick the input before calling

| The question | Input to send |
|---|---|
| About a specific page the user gave you | `detailsUrls: [{"url": "..."}]` |
| "Find me an X under $Y" with no URL | `keyword` plus `marketplaces` |
| "Compare X across stores" | `keyword` plus several `marketplaces` |

Always send `maxProductResults` and `additionalProperties: true`. Without the second,
stock, rating, list price and identifiers are all missing, because they are nested there
rather than at the top level.

## The call is two steps, sometimes three

The rest: https://github.com/davepoon/buildwithclaude/blob/HEAD/plugins/all-skills/skills/apify-product-lookup/SKILL.md