apify-product-lookup

1# Apify product lookup
2 
3A model answers product questions from training data that was fixed months ago, or by
4reading a page as prose with no product fields. This skill routes the question to a hosted
5Actor that reads retailer pages on request and returns structured records: price, currency,
6stock, rating, image URLs, and a link.
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8Written by a product marketing manager at Apify. It calls
9[E-commerce Scraping Tool](https://apify.com/apify/e-commerce-scraping-tool), a paid
10first-party Apify Actor, so weigh the framing accordingly. Everything below is what
11testing against the live Actor returned, including where it does not work.
12 
13## Setup
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15The MCP endpoint is `https://mcp.apify.com`. Appending
16`?tools=apify/e-commerce-scraping-tool` narrows the server to this one Actor, which makes
17tool selection more reliable when product data is the only job. Authentication is OAuth on
18first use for interactive clients, or a bearer token for unattended ones. An Apify account
19is required and the Actor is paid, billed per run started plus per product returned.
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21## Pick the input before calling
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23| The question | Input to send |
24|---|---|
25| About a specific page the user gave you | `detailsUrls: [{"url": "..."}]` |
26| "Find me an X under $Y" with no URL | `keyword` plus `marketplaces` |
27| "Compare X across stores" | `keyword` plus several `marketplaces` |
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29Always send `maxProductResults` and `additionalProperties: true`. Without the second,
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