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The category is detected from the trailing numeric id in the URL.", "items": { "type": "string" } }, "productUrls": { "title": "Product URLs or PLIDs", "type": "array", "description": "Direct Takealot product URLs or bare PLIDs, e.g. https://www.takealot.com/.../PLID66383997 or PLID66383997. Note: stock/discount for direct URLs are best-effort (see docs).", "items": { "type": "string" } }, "maxItemsPerQuery": { "title": "Max items per query", "minimum": 1, "maximum": 10000, "type": "integer", "description": "Maximum number of product records to return per search query or category. Each record is one billed result. Note: on the free Apify plan each run is capped at 100 results total regardless of this value; paying users are uncapped.", "default": 100 }, "includeOtherOffers": { "title": "Include other marketplace offers", "type": "boolean", "description": "Populate the marketplace flag and other-offers count from the product's offer list. No extra requests (data comes from the product-detail call). Note: Takealot doesn't expose a seller display name, so sellerName/buyBoxWinner stay null. Ignored when Fast mode is on (these fields are detail-only).", "default": false }, "searchSummaryOnly": { "title": "Fast mode — search summary only (cheaper)", "type": "boolean", "description": "Skip the per-product detail request and return only the fields available from the search/category listing. This skips the detail call entirely — in testing ~25× fewer bytes at a full page, so much cheaper — but omits categoryPath and the marketplace / offer-count fields (those come from the detail page). Keeps price, discount, stock, rating, review count, brand and image. Has no effect on direct Product URLs / PLIDs, which always fetch the detail page. Off by default (full detail).", "default": false }, "proxyConfiguration": { "title": "Proxy configuration", "type": "object", "description": "Proxy settings. By default the actor uses Apify datacenter proxies — available on every plan (including Free), near-zero cost, and reliable against Takealot's open API. On a paid plan that includes residential proxies you can select South African RESIDENTIAL here for extra resilience; that uses exactly your selection.", "default": { "useApifyProxy": true } }, "maxConcurrency": { "title": "Max concurrency (advanced)", "minimum": 1, "maximum": 50, "type": "integer", "description": "Maximum simultaneous requests. 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