Auchan France Scraper

Pull product data from Auchan.fr -- the French hypermarket/grocery chain's full storefront: food, drinks, household goods and general merchandise. Search by keyword with brand and "on offer" filters, or paste product/search/category links directly. Every record includes the current price scoped to your chosen drive/click&collect/delivery point, a genuine strike-through was-price and discount % whenever a product is genuinely on offer, unit price, stock/availability, images, and Auchan's own native shopper rating and review feed.

Why This Scraper?

• Real, store-scoped prices. Auchan.fr only shows prices once a drive/click&collect point or delivery address is chosen, exactly like the site's own "Choisir vos courses" flow -- this scraper reproduces that with a postal code you provide, so prices and stock match what a real shopper at that address would see.
• Was-price captured only when it's real. Auchan runs genuine promotions with a real prior price -- this scraper reads the site's own strike-through price element per item and only ever sets a was-price/discount when it's genuinely present and higher than the current price. Full-price items get null, never a fabricated markdown.
• Loyalty cashback kept separate from a real discount. Auchan's "Avantages Waaoh" badge is a loyalty rewards-points percentage, not a price cut -- it is surfaced under its own loyaltyCashbackPercent field so it can never be mistaken for a genuine promotion.
• Real shopper reviews, not a third-party vendor. Ratings and reviews come from Auchan's own on-site review widget (overall rating, star-by-star breakdown, per-review author/date/rating/title/body), included on request.
• Unit pricing included. The site's own €/kg or €/L unit price is read directly, never guessed from a pack size.
• Two ways in. Keyword search with brand/offer filters and sort, or paste any product, search, or category link.
• Optional export to your apps. Send results into Notion, Linear, Airtable, or any Apify MCP connector alongside the dataset.
• Resume and recurring updates. Turn on Incremental mode to get only NEW, UPDATED, and REAPPEARED products on every scheduled run, or resume one specific interrupted crawl with resumeFromRunId.

A note on store scope and product detail

Auchan.fr's whole catalogue is scoped to a chosen store/delivery point -- this scraper resolves one from the postal code/city you provide (postalCode) the same way the site's own picker does, before any search or product fetch. If a postal code can't be resolved to a real address, identity fields (title, brand, images, rating) still populate but price/stock may come back empty rather than fabricated. The product card already carries price, was-price, unit price, rating and one image; the genuinely additive per-product fetch is the detail page's full category breadcrumb, EAN, complete image gallery and native review feed -- turned on with fetchDetails (always on for a pasted product URL).

Data You Get

Field	Example value
productId / title	1e83a750-95a1-463d-a817-89b67188b8d1, AUCHAN Lait demi-écrémé UHT
brand / category / categoryPath	AUCHAN, Laits, boissons végétales, oeufs, ["Produits laitiers, oeufs, fromages", "Laits, boissons végétales, oeufs", "Lait demi-écrémé"]
productUrl / images	https://www.auchan.fr/auchan-lait-demi-ecreme-uht/pr-C1177774, full-resolution image list
price / currency	6.42, EUR
wasPrice / discountAmount / discountPercent	12.15, 3.65, 30.0 (only when genuinely on offer)
isOnSpecial / loyaltyCashbackPercent	true, 10.0 (Waaoh loyalty cashback, kept separate from a real discount)
packSize / unitPrice / unitOfMeasure	"6x1L", 1.07, "€/L"
availability / deliveryPromise / stock	"InStock", "Dans mon drive", 78
averageRating / reviewCount	4.6, 256
ean	3428274060013
reviews	null by default, full feed with fetchDetails: true

Sample shape: values above are illustrative placeholders, not from a live product.

How to Use

1. Keyword search (default):

{
  "mode": "search",
  "postalCode": "75001",
  "searchTerm": "lait",
  "maxItems": 20
}

2. Offers only, biggest discount first, home delivery instead of drive:

{
  "mode": "search",
  "postalCode": "69001",
  "deliveryMode": "shipping",
  "specialsOnly": true,
  "sortBy": "BIGGEST_DISCOUNT",
  "maxItems": 50
}

3. One brand, with full detail and reviews:

{
  "mode": "search",
  "postalCode": "75001",
  "searchTerm": "lait",
  "brand": "LACTEL",
  "fetchDetails": true,
  "maxItems": 20
}

4. Paste product / search / category links directly:

{
  "mode": "url",
  "postalCode": "75001",
  "urls": [
    "https://www.auchan.fr/lactel-lait-demi-ecreme-bio-uht/pr-C1177205",
    "https://www.auchan.fr/oeufs-produits-laitiers/cremerie-oeufs-laits/ca-n0101"
  ],
  "maxItems": 50
}

Input Parameters

Parameter	Type	Description
mode	string	search or url.
postalCode	string	French postal code or city used to resolve a drive/click&collect/delivery point, exactly like the site's own picker. Applies to every mode.
deliveryMode	string	drive (drive/click&collect, default) or shipping (home delivery).
searchTerm	string	Keyword against Auchan's own search index (search mode only).
brand	string	Exact brand name to keep, as shown on the site (search mode only); best-effort match against the site's own brand facet.
specialsOnly	boolean	Keep only products on a genuine current promotion (search mode only).
sortBy	string	RELEVANCE, PRICE_ASC, PRICE_DESC, UNIT_PRICE_ASC, UNIT_PRICE_DESC, BIGGEST_DISCOUNT, BESTSELLERS, TOP_RATED, BRAND_ASC, or BRAND_DESC (search mode only).
urls	array	Product, search, or category listing URLs to scrape (url mode only).
fetchDetails	boolean	Fetch the full breadcrumb/EAN/image gallery and native review feed. Always on for a pasted product URL.
maxPages	integer	Cap on search result pages fetched; empty = unlimited.
maxItems	integer	Cap on total products returned; 0 = unlimited.
resumeFromRunId	string	Continue one specific previous run/dataset: products already collected there are skipped, so this run only appends new products. For recurring daily monitoring of the same search, use Incremental mode instead -- see "Resume and recurring updates" below.
incrementalMode	boolean	Daily/recurring monitoring of this same search. First run returns everything as NEW; later runs return only NEW/UPDATED/REAPPEARED by default. See "Resume and recurring updates" below.
stateKey	string	Optional name for a monitoring campaign, so its incremental state stays stable or is deliberately shared. Auto-derived from postal code, delivery mode, search/URL and filter settings when left empty.
emitUnchanged	boolean	Incremental mode only. Also return products unchanged since the last run, marked UNCHANGED. Adds and bills extra rows you already have.
emitExpired	boolean	Incremental mode only. Also return products from a previous run no longer found, marked EXPIRED, once a run has fully scanned the search (not capped, not a resume). Adds and bills extra synthetic rows.
proxy	object	Apify Proxy configuration used to route requests. The default works out of the box.
mcpConnectors	array	Optional MCP connectors to export results into (Notion, Linear, Airtable, Apify).
notionParentPageUrl	string	Notion connector only: page under which item pages are created.
maxNotifyListings	integer	Cap on items exported to each connector per run. Does not affect the dataset.

Output Example

{
  "productId": "1e83a750-95a1-463d-a817-89b67188b8d1",
  "title": "AUCHAN Lait demi-écrémé UHT",
  "brand": "AUCHAN",
  "packSize": "6x1L",
  "productUrl": "https://www.auchan.fr/auchan-lait-demi-ecreme-uht/pr-C1177774",
  "price": 6.42,
  "currency": "EUR",
  "unitPrice": 1.07,
  "unitOfMeasure": "€/L",
  "wasPrice": null,
  "discountAmount": null,
  "discountPercent": null,
  "isOnSpecial": false,
  "loyaltyCashbackPercent": 10.0,
  "availability": "InStock",
  "deliveryPromise": "Dans mon drive",
  "deliveryChannel": "PICK_UP",
  "stock": 78,
  "averageRating": 4.6,
  "reviewCount": 256,
  "images": ["https://cdn.auchan.fr/media/sample/PRIMARY_0x0/B2CD/"],
  "categoryPath": ["Produits laitiers, oeufs, fromages", "Laits, boissons végétales, oeufs"],
  "category": "Laits, boissons végétales, oeufs",
  "ean": "3428274060013",
  "reviews": {
    "averageRating": 4.4,
    "reviewCount": 39,
    "ratingBreakdown": { "5": 25, "4": 10, "3": 1, "2": 0, "1": 3 },
    "items": [
      { "reviewId": "1216547230", "author": "Sample Shopper", "date": "03/04/26", "rating": 5.0, "title": "Excellent rapport qualité prix", "body": "Sample review text.", "verifiedPurchase": true }
    ]
  }
}

Sample shape: values above are illustrative placeholders, not from a live product.

Incremental mode only. When incrementalMode is on, every returned record also carries:

Field	Description
changeType	NEW | UPDATED | UNCHANGED | REAPPEARED | EXPIRED
changedFields	Top-level fields that changed since last seen; non-empty only for UPDATED
firstSeenAt	When this product was first observed by this monitoring campaign
lastSeenAt	When this product was last observed

Resume and recurring updates

There are two different things here -- pick the one that matches what you're doing:

Need	Use
A crawl stopped and should continue	resumeFromRunId
Run the same search every day and receive only changes	incrementalMode
Keep separate daily campaigns for similar searches	distinct stateKey values
Run a normal full snapshot	leave both off

Resume (resumeFromRunId) continues one specific interrupted or previous large crawl: paste a run ID or dataset ID and this run skips products already collected there, returning only the remaining new products.

Incremental mode (incrementalMode) is for a schedule (for example, daily): the actor remembers the previous run of the same search by itself, so you never paste a run ID. The first run returns everything as NEW. Later runs return only NEW, UPDATED, and REAPPEARED products by default -- duplicates and unchanged products are suppressed (and not charged). Turn on emitUnchanged or emitExpired only when you also want those rows returned (and billed for). State is isolated per postal code, delivery mode, search/URL and detail-mode setup automatically -- Auchan scopes the price itself to the postal code/delivery point, so two different drive points are always tracked separately; set stateKey to name or deliberately share a monitoring campaign.

Scheduled-run example -- same search, run daily:

Day 1 (first run ever for this search):

{ "mode": "search", "postalCode": "75001", "searchTerm": "lait", "incrementalMode": true }

→ every product comes back with "changeType": "NEW".

Day 2 (the schedule fires again, identical input):

{ "mode": "search", "postalCode": "75001", "searchTerm": "lait", "incrementalMode": true }

→ products whose price/promotion/stock/etc. changed come back as "changeType": "UPDATED" with changedFields listing what changed, brand-new products come back as "changeType": "NEW", products that vanished and came back come back as "changeType": "REAPPEARED" -- and products that are still there, unchanged, are not returned at all (suppressed, not charged) unless emitUnchanged is on.

A note on was-price and loyalty cashback

wasPrice/discountAmount/discountPercent/isOnSpecial are only ever set when Auchan's own strike-through price element is genuinely present and higher than the current price -- most full-price items simply carry no was-price, reported honestly rather than invented. This is a completely separate signal from loyaltyCashbackPercent, which reflects Auchan's "Avantages Waaoh" loyalty rewards-points percentage on a purchase -- it never affects the price you pay at checkout and is never folded into the discount fields.

One quirk worth knowing: when sorting by price (PRICE_ASC/PRICE_DESC), Auchan ranks a genuinely discounted item by its reference/list price (wasPrice), not the discounted price you'll actually pay -- so the returned order can look slightly out of sequence against price alone for an on-offer item. This is the site's own ranking behavior, not a scraper defect.

Send results into your apps (MCP connectors)

Optionally pipe results into the apps you already use through Model Context Protocol (MCP) connectors. Authorize a connector once under Apify, Settings, Integrations, then select it in the mcpConnectors field. Each connector receives a condensed, human-readable summary per product (title plus key fields), while the complete record always stays in the Apify dataset. For Notion, set notionParentPageUrl to the page the item pages should be created under, and use maxNotifyListings to cap how many items are exported per connector per run. Supported connectors: Notion, Linear, Airtable, and Apify. Leave the field empty to skip; it never changes the dataset output.