City Mall Myanmar — Browse Categories Across Yangon & Mandalay

Purpose

Browse and extract the product catalog of citymall.com.mm — Myanmar's online department store covering groceries, fresh produce, beverages, electronics, fashion, beauty, pet supplies, home appliances and more. The skill walks the category taxonomy, sets a delivery township (Yangon or Mandalay or anywhere else in Myanmar) so the inventory is correctly scoped, and pulls structured product cards (name, price in MMK Kyat, image URL, seller, product detail URL). Read-only — no cart, no checkout, no account.

When to Use

• A user wants to enumerate everyday-retail categories available for delivery in Yangon or Mandalay.
• A user wants product listings, prices, or brand assortment for a leaf category (Rice, Mobile Phones, Pet Feeding, Beauty/Cosmetics, etc.) scoped to a specific township.
• A user wants to compare which products / sellers are deliverable to Yangon vs Mandalay vs other regions (the catalog narrows per township).
• A user wants to confirm whether a long-tail product category (electronics, fashion, automotive, books) is sold on citymall.com.mm.

Workflow

1. Force English — navigate to https://www.citymall.com.mm/citymall/en/. The bare https://www.citymall.com.mm/ 302-redirects to /citymall/my/ (Burmese). Always use the explicit /en/ path; the EN toggle in the header does not always switch the storefront if you arrived from /my/.

2. Set delivery township BEFORE listing products — without this, the catalog falls back to a partial nationwide view and products are silently filtered out at the basket. Two equivalent paths:

   a. UI flow — click "Enter Township" in the top header. A modal dialog opens with two dependent dropdowns: CITY* (15 Myanmar states/regions, including Yangon and Mandalay) and TOWNSHIP* (populated after the city is picked). Pick city → pick township → click ADD (first time) or CHANGE (when re-editing). The page reloads with the new scope.

   b. Cookie shortcut — set citymall-township=T{N} directly. Each township has a numeric T# ID assigned by the server after selection. Examples observed:

   • T2 = Yangon - Bahan
   • T77 = Mandalay - Chanmyathazi
   • The state itself uses letter codes (YGNR = Yangon, MDY = Mandalay) in the CITY* select element but is not separately cookied; the township code alone is sufficient for scoping.

   To enumerate all T# codes, walk the city → township combinations via the modal (the township <select> options have value="T{N}" attributes; capture them on the fly). There is no public endpoint that returns the full city→township→T-code mapping.

3. Top-level category taxonomy — the homepage mega-menu (button labelled Categories) renders 18 top-level cards. The site uses two parallel URL schemes that resolve to the same category:

   • Modern (id-prefix): https://www.citymall.com.mm/citymall/en/c/id{HHHHHH} where each 3-digit group is one level of hierarchy. E.g. id01001001 = Grocery (id01) → Basic Grocery (id01001) → Rice (id01001001).
   • Legacy (slugged): https://www.citymall.com.mm/citymall/en/Categories/{Top-Slug}/{Sub-Slug}/{Leaf-Slug}/c/id{HHHHHH} — auto-generated from c/id... redirect, includes URL-encoded %26 for &.

   Confirmed top-level categories and their id codes (you can hit any of these directly):

   Name	id code	Notes
   Basic Grocery	id01001	Rice, Oil, Cream & Milk, Sugar, Soup, Noodle, Condiments, Baking Needs…
   Beverage	id01002	Tea, Coffee, Milk, Ready Drink, Fruit Juice, Cordial, Water
   Dairy, Bakery & Frozen	id02	Fresh Milk, Yogurt, Cheese, Eggs, Bakery, Frozen Product
   Fresh	id03	Vegetable & Flowers, Fruit, Poultry, Meat, Seafood, Frozen Meat
   Home & Living Lifestyle	id05	Parent of Tech & Electronics, Pet Essentials, Cleaning, Automotive subtrees
   Pet Essentials	id05010	Pet Feeding, Apparel, Furniture, Health & Grooming, Toys, Litter Box
   Tech & Electronics	id05011	Living-Room/Laundry/Air/Kitchen Appliances, Mobile Phones, Computer, Camera, Wearable
   Cleaning	id05012	Tissue, Household Cleaner, Laundry, Air Freshener, Pest Control
   Automotive	id07001	Automotive Parts & Accessories
   Fashion	id08	Men, Women, Unisex, Children Fashion (1,018+ SKUs as of capture)
   Sports & Activities	id08005	Football, Basketball, Swimming, Hiking, Cycling, Martial Arts
   Beauty & Personal Care	id10	Facial, Cosmetics, Oral, Body, Hair, Nail Care
   Breakfast & Snacks	id01004	Jam, Cereals, Snacks, Chocolate, Biscuit
   Health & Wellness	id11001	OTC Medicine, Prescription, Vitamins, Traditional, Lifestyle
   Mom, Baby & Toys	id12	Baby Nutrition, Diapers, Bath, Pregnancy Nutrition, Toys
   Media, Books & Stationery	id13	Music, Movies, Books, Musical Instruments, Stationery
   Religious	id14	Religious items, Donation Accessories
   Seasonal	id14001	Holiday/festival campaigns

   The legacy sitemap at https://www.citymall.com.mm/citymall/my/sitemap.xml lists older 4-digit numeric category codes (e.g. c/1101 for Rice). Those still resolve via 301 to the new id-prefix codes but are no longer canonical — prefer the id form.

4. List products in a leaf category — navigate to the leaf URL (e.g. https://www.citymall.com.mm/citymall/en/c/id01001001 for Rice). The DOM is server-rendered (SAP Hybris) so browse get markdown body returns the full product grid synchronously after browse wait load. Each product card is a sequence in the markdown:

   ![{name}]({thumb_image_url})
   [{name}](/citymall/en/Categories/.../p/{sku}) 
   {weight}
   {price} Ks
   Sold by {seller_short_code}
   

   The simplest extraction regex (Node):

   const re = /!\[([^\]]+)\]\(([^)]+)\)\s*\n*\s*\[ ([^\]]+)\]\(([^)]+\/p\/[^)]+)\)[\s\S]{0,200}?([0-9,]+ Ks)[\s\S]{0,200}?Sold by ([A-Z][^\n]+)/g;
   

   Headers near the top contain {N} Results Found (the total count for this category × township). Filter facets visible in the sidebar: Brands, Merchant, Sub-Merchant (City Baby Club, City Mart, Market Place, Neighborhood, Ocean), Delivery (Express, Same Day, Standard), Price Range, COD available checkbox.

5. Open a product detail page — append the /p/{sku} path. The SKU format is cmhl_{10-digit}_{1} for first-party (CMHL) items; third-party items use the seller's own SKU. SKU is URL-encoded in markdown as cmhl%5F1000000000076%5F1.

6. Compare Yangon vs Mandalay — set township to a Yangon township, hit a category, capture Results Found and product list. Then update township to a Mandalay township, refresh same URL. Observed differences:

   • Result counts shrink in Mandalay (Rice: 28 in Yangon-Bahan → 24 in Mandalay-Chanmyathazi).
   • Prices are identical for the same SKU.
   • Top sellers narrow: CMHL is universal; third-party sellers like Yangon Development Company Lim and many Market Place sub-merchants appear only for Yangon townships.

Browser fallback

There is no public REST/JSON API. The endpoint paths /rest/v2/citymall/... and /occ/v2/citymall/... exist (SAP Hybris OCC) but all redirect to //v2/... (note double slash) and return HTML SPA fallbacks; direct JSON requests are not exposed to anonymous clients. The browser flow above IS the canonical path.

Site-Specific Gotchas

• Default language is Burmese. https://www.citymall.com.mm/ 302-redirects to /citymall/my/. Always navigate explicitly to /citymall/en/ to get English; clicking the EN header toggle from a /my/ page sometimes does not switch storefronts (it can land on /citymall/my/ again with English-mixed text). The cookie _citymallLanguageCookie=en pins the choice once set.

• Township is required for an accurate catalog. Without citymall-township set, results show a nationwide superset; many items will appear available but get rejected at checkout because the seller does not ship to the unspecified location. Always set the township first.

• The T# township codes are opaque server-issued IDs, not derived from name or position. T2 happens to be Bahan and T77 happens to be Chanmyathazi, but there is no documented mapping — enumerate on the fly by walking the modal's CITY→TOWNSHIP <select> options and reading the value= attribute.

• robots.txt is restrictive: Crawl-delay: 10, Request-rate: 1/10, Visit-time: 04:00-08:45 UTC (i.e. ~10:30 AM – 3:15 PM Myanmar time, which is the off-peak window). It also explicitly blocks /cart, /checkout, /my-account. Honour the delay between category fetches if you are walking the full taxonomy — 10 seconds between successive browse open / browse get markdown calls. Stealth + residential proxy were used in the verified run and the site served all pages without challenge; reducing rate further is unnecessary.

• Two URL schemes coexist: legacy /citymall/en/Categories/.../c/{4-or-6-digit-numeric} (from sitemap.xml) and modern /citymall/en/c/id{HHHHHH} (from the live mega-menu). They 301-redirect into each other but the modern id form is the only one the SPA emits; prefer it.

• Tech & Electronics has no top-level standalone URL — in the mega-menu the parent link is # (JS-only expand). Its children (id05011001 = Mobile Phones, id05011002 = Computer, etc.) are reachable, and the synthetic parent URL https://www.citymall.com.mm/citymall/en/c/id05011 DOES resolve and shows a 337-item rollup (under the legacy slug Categories/Home-%26-Living-Lifestyle/Electronics).

• Citymall is a multi-seller marketplace, not just a self-fulfilling grocer. Sold by CMHL = City Mart Holdings (first-party). Third-party sellers visible in extraction include Yangon Development Company Lim, Belkin, and dozens of "Market Place" sub-merchants. Sellers may have township restrictions independent of the catalog (i.e. a product card may render but ADD TO CART is disabled for some townships).

• Prices are listed in MMK Kyat with format {X,XXX} Ks (comma-thousands, lowercase trailing Ks with a single space). Always parse with \d{1,3}(?:,\d{3})* Ks — no currency symbol prefix. Some bulk grocery items show weight on a separate line (5.0 Kilo, 400.0 Gram) above the price.

• Image URLs are CDN-hosted on Azure Blob Storage under https://cmhlprodblobstorage1.blob.core.windows.net/sys-master-cmhlprodblobstorage1/.... The thumbnail variant ends with _Default-WorkingFormat_110Wx110H; strip that suffix to get the full-resolution master image.

• Customer-service hours are 7:00 AM – 8:30 PM Myanmar time (per footer). Site availability outside those hours is identical, but if a user wants to call the listed numbers (09-765424332 / 09-765439378 / 09-765439379) they should respect the window.

• No public JSON API — confirmed. The Hybris OCC endpoints (/rest/v2/..., /occ/v2/...) all redirect to //v2/... and return HTML, not JSON, for anonymous clients. Don't waste time probing them; use the markdown extraction off browse get markdown body instead.

• The product URL contains a URL-encoded SKU (/p/cmhl%5F1000000000076%5F1 where %5F = _). When reconstructing product URLs, encode the SKU's underscores.

Expected Output

{
  "domain": "citymall.com.mm",
  "scope": {
    "city": "Yangon",
    "township": "Bahan",
    "township_id": "T2",
    "language": "en"
  },
  "top_level_categories": [
    { "name": "Basic Grocery", "id_code": "id01001", "url": "https://www.citymall.com.mm/citymall/en/c/id01001" },
    { "name": "Beverage", "id_code": "id01002", "url": "https://www.citymall.com.mm/citymall/en/c/id01002" },
    { "name": "Dairy, Bakery & Frozen", "id_code": "id02", "url": "https://www.citymall.com.mm/citymall/en/c/id02" },
    { "name": "Fresh", "id_code": "id03", "url": "https://www.citymall.com.mm/citymall/en/c/id03" },
    { "name": "Home & Living Lifestyle", "id_code": "id05", "url": "https://www.citymall.com.mm/citymall/en/c/id05" },
    { "name": "Pet Essentials", "id_code": "id05010", "url": "https://www.citymall.com.mm/citymall/en/c/id05010" },
    { "name": "Tech & Electronics", "id_code": "id05011", "url": "https://www.citymall.com.mm/citymall/en/c/id05011" },
    { "name": "Cleaning", "id_code": "id05012", "url": "https://www.citymall.com.mm/citymall/en/c/id05012" },
    { "name": "Automotive", "id_code": "id07001", "url": "https://www.citymall.com.mm/citymall/en/c/id07001" },
    { "name": "Fashion", "id_code": "id08", "url": "https://www.citymall.com.mm/citymall/en/c/id08" },
    { "name": "Sports & Activities", "id_code": "id08005", "url": "https://www.citymall.com.mm/citymall/en/c/id08005" },
    { "name": "Beauty & Personal Care", "id_code": "id10", "url": "https://www.citymall.com.mm/citymall/en/c/id10" },
    { "name": "Breakfast & Snacks", "id_code": "id01004", "url": "https://www.citymall.com.mm/citymall/en/c/id01004" },
    { "name": "Health & Wellness", "id_code": "id11001", "url": "https://www.citymall.com.mm/citymall/en/c/id11001" },
    { "name": "Mom, Baby & Toys", "id_code": "id12", "url": "https://www.citymall.com.mm/citymall/en/c/id12" },
    { "name": "Media, Books & Stationery", "id_code": "id13", "url": "https://www.citymall.com.mm/citymall/en/c/id13" },
    { "name": "Religious", "id_code": "id14", "url": "https://www.citymall.com.mm/citymall/en/c/id14" },
    { "name": "Seasonal", "id_code": "id14001", "url": "https://www.citymall.com.mm/citymall/en/c/id14001" }
  ],
  "leaf_category_example": {
    "name": "Rice",
    "id_code": "id01001001",
    "url": "https://www.citymall.com.mm/citymall/en/c/id01001001",
    "results_found": 28,
    "filters_available": ["Brands", "Merchant", "Sub-Merchant", "Delivery", "Price Range", "COD available"]
  },
  "sample_products": [
    {
      "name": "Nursery Paw San Hmwe Rice 5KG",
      "weight": "5.0 Kilo",
      "price_mmk": 18000,
      "price_text": "18,000 Ks",
      "sold_by": "CMHL",
      "thumb_image_url": "https://cmhlprodblobstorage1.blob.core.windows.net/sys-master-cmhlprodblobstorage1/h1d/hda/8979317653534/cmhl_1000000000076_1_hero.jpg_Default-WorkingFormat_110Wx110H",
      "product_url": "https://www.citymall.com.mm/citymall/en/Categories/Grocery/Basic-Grocery/Rice/Paw-San-Hmwe-Rice/Nursery-Paw-San-Hmwe-Rice-5KG/p/cmhl%5F1000000000076%5F1",
      "sku": "cmhl_1000000000076_1"
    },
    {
      "name": "Belkin HDMI Cable Silver Plate 2M Black F3Y020bt2M",
      "category": "Tech & Electronics",
      "price_mmk": 45000,
      "price_text": "45,000 Ks",
      "sold_by": "Belkin",
      "product_url": "https://www.citymall.com.mm/citymall/en/Categories/Home-%26-Living-Lifestyle/Electronics/.../p/..."
    },
    {
      "name": "Chacca's Pet Haven Chicken Bone Meal Powder",
      "category": "Pet Essentials",
      "price_mmk": 15000,
      "sold_by": "Market Place sub-merchant"
    }
  ],
  "yangon_vs_mandalay_comparison": {
    "category_tested": "Rice (id01001001)",
    "yangon_bahan": { "township_id": "T2", "results_found": 28 },
    "mandalay_chanmyathazi": { "township_id": "T77", "results_found": 24 },
    "price_delta": "none — identical prices for shared SKUs",
    "catalog_overlap": "Mandalay is a strict subset of the Yangon catalog for Rice; Yangon-only sellers (Market Place, Neighborhood, Ocean sub-merchants) drop out"
  },
  "coverage_confirmation": {
    "fresh_produce": "present — Fresh (id03) covers Vegetable & Flowers, Fruit, Poultry, Meat, Seafood, Frozen",
    "beverages": "present — Beverage (id01002): Tea, Coffee, Ready Drink, Fruit Juice, Water",
    "electronics": "present — Tech & Electronics (id05011), 337 items in Mandalay-Chanmyathazi, includes Mobile Phones, Tablets, Computer Components, Camera, Wearable",
    "fashion": "present — Fashion (id08), 1,018+ items covering Men/Women/Unisex/Children",
    "beauty": "present — Beauty & Personal Care (id10): Facial, Cosmetics, Oral, Body, Hair, Nail",
    "pet_supplies": "present — Pet Essentials (id05010), 180 items: Pet Feeding, Apparel, Furniture, Toys, Litter",
    "home_appliances": "present — under Tech & Electronics → Living Room / Laundry / Air & Cooling / Kitchen Appliances",
    "books_media": "present — Media, Books & Stationery (id13)"
  },
  "session_cookies_relevant": {
    "citymall-township": "T{N} — set after township modal submit; SCOPES INVENTORY",
    "_citymallLanguageCookie": "en | my — pins storefront language"
  }
}

For a category where all sub-merchants withdraw delivery to the chosen township the page renders successfully but Results Found reads 0 Results Found and the product grid is empty — emit { "results_found": 0, "sample_products": [] } rather than treating it as an error.