Maskota MX Pet Product Catalog Scraper

Scrape the complete product catalog from Maskota.com.mx — Mexico's largest pure-play online pet retailer. Maskota is Shopify-hosted, making this actor exceptionally reliable and maintainable: all data is fetched from the standard Shopify product JSON endpoint (/products/<handle>.json) rather than brittle HTML selectors.

What data does it collect?

Each record represents one Shopify product and includes:

Field	Description
handle	Shopify URL slug (unique product identifier)
product_name	Full product title
product_url	Canonical product page URL
product_id	Numeric Shopify product ID
category	Shopify product_type (e.g. Alimento, Accesorio)
brand / vendor	Brand/manufacturer
price_mxn	Price in MXN (first/default variant)
compare_at_price_mxn	Original price before promotion (MXN)
currency	Always MXN
in_stock	null — not available via public Shopify JSON endpoint
variants	Variant summary: id|title|price|compare_at|sku (double-pipe between variants)
tags	Product tags, pipe-separated (e.g. PERRO|ADULTO|ALIMENTO)
target_species	Inferred: perros, gatos, aves, peces, or pequeños-animales
target_life_stage	Inferred: adulto, cachorro, or senior
target_breed_size	Inferred: pequeña, mediana, grande, miniatura, or todas
description_text	Plain-text product description (HTML stripped)
images	Product image URLs, pipe-separated
scraped_at	ISO 8601 timestamp of the scrape

Input

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
maxItems	integer	10	Maximum number of products to scrape. Set to a large number (e.g. 2000) to scrape the full catalog (~1,300 products).

Use cases

• MSRP monitoring — track Maskota's retail prices against your brand's dealer pricing agreements
• Catalog coverage — map which SKUs are listed by Mexico's leading pet e-tailer
• Promotional analysis — identify products with active compare_at_price discounts
• LATAM market research — compare product mix and brands against Cobasi (Brazil) and US pet retail actors
• SEO/merchandising — analyse the tag taxonomy and category structure

Notes

• The Shopify public product JSON endpoint does not expose inventory levels. in_stock is null for all records. If stock availability is required, consider pairing this actor with a Shopify storefront API approach.
• The actor walks sitemap.xml → sitemap_products_*.xml to discover all product URLs, then fetches each /products/<handle>.json in parallel batches of 10. Full catalog runs complete in under 5 minutes at the default 512 MB memory.
• The full catalog is approximately 1,300 products across dogs, cats, birds, fish, and accessories.