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RUN · 134 active pipelines · mercadolibre.com live

Mercado Libre data,
across all of LatAm.

We extract product listings, pricing signals, seller intelligence, shipping costs, reviews, and search rankings from Mercado Libre. Delivered as clean JSON, CSV, or Parquet to S3, BigQuery, or Snowflake on your cadence.

Products extracted
3.1M /day
Price updates
8.4M /24h
Review records
540K /run
Active pipelines
134
Uptime
99.95%
Data Dictionary

Every field we extract from mercadolibre.com

Structured, schema-consistent data across all major object types — delivered clean, typed, and ready to query.

Complete list of extractable fields for Product Listings objects from mercadolibre.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

item_idtitlebrandseller_idcategory_idsub_categoryconditionlisting_typepriceoriginal_pricecurrencydiscount_pctavailable_quantitysold_quantityratingreview_countquestions_countshipping_freeshipping_modefulfillment_typeaccepts_mercadopagoinstallmentsthumbnail_urlimage_urlspermalinkdate_createdlast_updated
product_listings
● 200 OK
"item_id": "MLA1234567890",
"title": "Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra 256GB",
"brand": "Samsung",
"condition": "new",
"price": 1849999.00,
"currency": "ARS",
"discount_pct": 18,
"sold_quantity": 4821,
"shipping_free": true,
"fulfillment_type": "MELI"
# item_idtitlebrandseller_idcategory_idsub_category
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Complete list of extractable fields for Pricing & Installments objects from mercadolibre.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

item_idpriceoriginal_pricediscount_pctcurrencyaccepts_mercadopagoinstallments_quantityinstallment_amountinstallment_rateinterest_freepromotion_typepromotion_labelprice_timestamp
pricing_& installments
● 200 OK
"item_id": "MLA1234567890",
"price": 1849999.00,
"original_price": 2249999.00,
"installments_quantity": 12,
"installment_amount": 154166.58,
"interest_free": true,
"promotion_type": "deal_of_the_day",
"price_timestamp": "2026-05-12T11:00:00Z"
# item_idpriceoriginal_pricediscount_pctcurrencyaccepts_mercadopago
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Complete list of extractable fields for Reviews & Ratings objects from mercadolibre.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

review_iditem_idreviewer_idstar_ratingreview_titlereview_bodyreview_datehelpful_votesverified_purchasecountryseller_response
reviews_& ratings
● 200 OK
"review_id": "MELI-REV-09182736",
"item_id": "MLA1234567890",
"star_rating": 5,
"verified_purchase": true,
"review_title": "Excelente producto, llegó antes de lo esperado",
"helpful_votes": 132,
"country": "AR"
# review_iditem_idreviewer_idstar_ratingreview_titlereview_body
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Complete list of extractable fields for Seller Data objects from mercadolibre.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

seller_idseller_nameseller_urlreputation_levelreputation_transactionspositive_pctneutral_pctnegative_pctpower_seller_statusmeli_pluscountryactive_listings_countsales_completedjoined_date
seller_data
● 200 OK
"seller_id": "184829201",
"seller_name": "tienda_oficial_samsung_ar",
"reputation_level": "platinum",
"positive_pct": 98.2,
"power_seller_status": "gold",
"active_listings_count": 2841,
"sales_completed": 184200
# seller_idseller_nameseller_urlreputation_levelreputation_transactionspositive_pct
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Capabilities

Everything you need from Mercado Libre — nothing you don't

Our Mercado Libre scraper handles every layer of the platform: product listings, dynamic pricing, installment plans, seller reputation, fulfillment data, and reviews — across all LatAm marketplaces from a single unified schema.

Full Product Data Extraction

Title, brand, condition, listing type, images, attributes, available and sold quantities — scraped at item level across all categories and marketplaces.

Price & Installment Tracking

Capture price, original price, discount, MercadoPago installment plans, interest-free financing terms, and promotional badges — timestamped per crawl.

Seller Reputation Intelligence

Reputation level (platinum/gold), positive feedback percentage, transaction count, power seller status, and full active listing portfolios.

Review & Rating Mining

Full review text, star ratings, helpful votes, verified purchase flags, seller responses, and country — paginated across all review pages.

Shipping & Fulfillment Data

Free shipping eligibility, shipping mode, Mercado Envíos fulfillment flag, and estimated delivery data — critical for competitive logistics benchmarking.

Search Ranking Tracking

Track organic vs sponsored position for any keyword across any country marketplace — with Gold Special and promotion badge capture.

Multi-Country Support

MercadoLibre.com.ar, .com.mx, .com.br, .com.co, .com.cl, .com.pe and 12 more country sites — unified schema with currency-normalised pricing.

Condition & Listing Type

New vs used condition, full/classic/free listing type classification, and deal-of-the-day status — for complete market structure analysis.

Scheduled + Streaming Modes

One-off bulk exports or continuous pipelines at hourly, daily, or custom cadences with change-detection diffing across your item set.

// engagement pipeline

From item ID to warehouse record

Brief in. Clean data out.

Define Scope
d 0

Provide item IDs, category URLs, keyword sets, or seller IDs. We design the extraction schema and country coverage together.

Pipeline Build
d 2–4

We configure Scrapy / Playwright crawlers, proxy rotation, session management, and anti-bot handling for Mercado Libre.

Validation & QA
d 4–6

Schema validation, price-outlier detection, currency normalisation checks, and sample review before full launch.

Delivery
ongoing

JSON / CSV / Parquet pushed to your S3 bucket, BigQuery dataset, or Snowflake stage on agreed cadence.

Under the hood

How our Mercado Libre pipeline handles the hard parts

Mercado Libre spans 18 countries with distinct currency systems, anti-bot layers, and page structures. Here's how we stay resilient across all of them.

pipeline-monitor · mercadolibre.com · live ● active
// fingerprinting
Identity rotation
TLS fingerprintrandomised
User-agentrotated
IP poolresidential
Challenges blocked0
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Page coverage
48,291 pages queued running
// observability
Pipeline health
99.9%
uptime
142ms
p99 lat
0.3%
null rate
2
alerts
Anti-bot layer
Country-matched residential proxies + fingerprint spoofing

Mercado Libre uses geo-aware bot detection — Argentine pages block non-Argentine IPs, Brazilian pages block non-Brazilian IPs. We maintain country-matched residential proxy pools for every supported marketplace, with realistic browser fingerprints and randomised request timing.

JavaScript rendering
Full Playwright execution for dynamic content

Pricing widgets, installment calculators, shipping estimators, and seller reputation panels are all JavaScript-rendered. We run full Playwright sessions to capture these — including interaction flows that trigger deferred data loads.

Schema stability
Multi-country selector strategy

Page structure differs subtly between MLA (Argentina), MLB (Brazil), MLM (Mexico), and other sites. We maintain per-country selector configurations with fallback chains so country-specific DOM changes don't cascade into pipeline failures.

Change detection
Only re-scrape what's changed

For large item catalogs, we maintain a hash index of last-seen values per field. Subsequent runs only push diffs — reducing compute cost and downstream processing. You get a clean changelog rather than full re-dumps.

Monitoring & alerting
24/7 pipeline health with anomaly detection

Every run emits structured logs to our observability stack. We alert on null-rate spikes, currency anomalies, schema drift, and coverage drops across all active country pipelines — and respond before you notice.

Applications

Who uses Mercado Libre data — and how

Teams across industries use mercadolibre.com data to build competitive products and smarter operations.

01
Price Intelligence & Repricing

Brands and sellers monitor competitor pricing, installment plan structures, and promotional windows across LatAm marketplaces to reprice and protect margin.

02
LatAm Market Entry Research

Companies entering Latin American markets use Mercado Libre data to map category sizes, dominant sellers, pricing norms, and demand signals before committing.

03
Seller & Distributor Intelligence

Brands track third-party seller activity, listing quality, pricing compliance, and reputation metrics to manage their distributor network across countries.

04
Consumer Electronics & FMCG Benchmarking

Category managers use sold quantity signals, price elasticity data, and review velocity to benchmark SKU performance and inform assortment decisions.

05
Demand Forecasting

Supply chain teams correlate sold quantity signals, listing creation rate, and price movement with sales velocity to improve regional procurement models.

06
Investor & Analyst Due Diligence

PE firms and analysts track category GMV proxies, seller growth curves, and review-to-rating trends to evaluate LatAm marketplace investments.

Why DataFlirt

"Mercado Libre is Latin America's largest marketplace — but its 18-country footprint and multi-currency structure makes it uniquely difficult to query without a dedicated pipeline."

Reliable Mercado Libre scraping requires country-matched residential proxies, dynamic JavaScript rendering for installment and shipping widgets, currency normalisation across 18 markets, and daily selector maintenance. DataFlirt absorbs that complexity so your team focuses on the intelligence — not the infrastructure.

Technical Spec

Mercado Libre scraper — technical capabilities

Everything supported by our mercadolibre.com scraper — rendered SPA elements, auth walls, rate-limit evasion and beyond.

JavaScript rendering
Full Playwright sessions — required for pricing widgets, installment panels, and shipping estimators
Supported
CAPTCHA bypass
Automated 2Captcha + CapSolver integration with fallback to manual queue
Supported
Country-matched proxies
Residential IPs from AR / BR / MX / CO / CL / PE and 12 more LatAm pools — rotated per request
Supported
Multi-country support
MLA, MLB, MLM, MLC, MLCo, MLP and 12 other country sites from a unified schema
Supported
Installment plan extraction
Full MercadoPago installment terms: quantity, amount, rate, and interest-free flag
Supported
Seller reputation scraping
Reputation level, feedback percentages, power seller status, and full listing portfolios
Supported
Review pagination
Full review corpus including all star-filter pages, not just the top visible reviews
Supported
Sponsored ad detection
Distinguishes organic vs sponsored placements in search result pages
Supported
Change detection (diffs)
Hash-based diff: only emit records with changed fields since last run
Supported
Logged-in exclusive pricing
Some loyalty or subscription-exclusive prices require authenticated MercadoPlus sessions
Partial
Infrastructure

Infrastructure powering the Mercado Libre pipeline

Open-source tooling on proven cloud infra — no vendor lock-in, full observability.

ScrapyPlaywrightPython 3.12RedisPostgreSQLApache AirflowAWS LambdaS3CloudWatch2CaptchaCapSolverResidential ProxiesDockerKubernetesGrafanaPrometheus
Scrapy + Playwright Stack

Scrapy handles crawl orchestration, deduplication, and retry logic. Playwright handles JavaScript rendering, cookie sessions, and dynamic panel interactions. Combined via scrapy-playwright middleware.

Country-Matched Proxy Infrastructure

We maintain residential ISP proxy pools for every LatAm country marketplace. Country-matching is critical for Mercado Libre — geo-mismatch triggers immediate bot detection.

Cloud-Native Orchestration

Pipelines run on AWS Lambda (burst) and ECS (sustained). Airflow handles scheduling, dependency management, and SLA alerting. All state stored in managed Postgres.

Output & Delivery

Your data, your destination

Data delivered to where your team already works — no new tooling required.

JSON
Newline-delimited or nested — schema versioned per run
CSV
Flat file with typed columns — Excel/Sheets compatible
Parquet
Columnar format for BigQuery, Snowflake, Athena
S3
Direct bucket delivery — compatible with any data lake
BigQuery
Streamed directly into your dataset with schema auto-detect
Webhook
HTTP POST per record for real-time downstream processing
Postgres
Upsert into your existing schema with conflict resolution
Snowflake
Stage + COPY INTO workflow — incremental or full-replace
// faq

Common questions.

About mercadolibre.com scraping, legality, and pipeline operations.

Ask us directly →
Is scraping Mercado Libre legal?

Scraping publicly available information from Mercado Libre is generally permissible under applicable law in India, the US, and the relevant LatAm jurisdictions — reinforced by public data access precedents. DataFlirt targets only public, non-authenticated product, pricing, and review data. We do not extract personal user data or circumvent authentication walls. We recommend clients review Mercado Libre's ToS and consult legal counsel for specific use cases.

Which Mercado Libre country sites do you support?

We support MercadoLibre.com.ar (Argentina), .com.br (Brazil), .com.mx (Mexico), .com.co (Colombia), .com.cl (Chile), .com.pe (Peru), .com.uy (Uruguay), .com.bo (Bolivia), .com.ec (Ecuador), .com.py (Paraguay), and .com.ve (Venezuela) — all from a unified schema with local currency retained.

How do you handle Mercado Libre's anti-bot detection?

The key challenge is geo-awareness: Mercado Libre's bot detection correlates IP geography with the country site being accessed. We use country-matched residential proxies, full Playwright sessions with realistic fingerprints, and request timing modelled on real user behaviour.

Can you extract installment and MercadoPago data?

Yes — including installment quantity, per-instalment amount, interest rate, and interest-free flags. This data requires JavaScript rendering to capture from the dynamic installment widget.

How fresh is the data?

Real-time pipelines achieve sub-60-minute latency for price and availability updates on a defined item set. Full catalog refreshes at daily cadence complete within a 6–10 hour window depending on scope and country coverage.

Can I get a sample dataset before committing?

Yes. We provide a sample run of up to 500 items per country site as part of the pre-engagement scoping process — so you can validate schema fit and data quality before signing any contract.

$ dataflirt scope --new-project --source=mercadolibre.com ready

Tell us what
to extract.
We do the rest.

20-minute scoping call. Pilot dataset within the week. Production within two. Whether you need a one-off LatAm catalog snapshot or a continuous cross-country price-monitoring feed — we scope, build, and operate the pipeline. Tell us what you need.

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