Foodland, Thrifty Foods, IGA & FreshCo Scraper — Canada
Pricing
from $0.75 / 1,000 results
Prices, promotions and full nutrition panels for 150,000 products across four Canadian grocery banners. Compare the same SKU between stores.
Matched against the product name in the page address, e.g. milk, bread, coffee. Accents, capitals and punctuation don't matter (québon finds Quebon and Québon), and a term with several words, such as chips ahoy, finds products that contain all of them, in any order. Any term can match. Each word is matched anywhere in the name, so short words catch more than you expect ('com' matches 'compliments'); products where the word stands on its own come first. Names are mostly in English; common French grocery words (lait, fromage, biscuits) also find their English word. Every match is listed, free, under Storage → MATCHES. Leave empty to walk the whole catalogue.
[]Product pages to fetch, copied from the address bar of foodland.ca, thriftyfoods.com, iga.ca or freshco.com (English or French). The run fetches exactly these and reads no product list, so it is the most reliable way to get products you already know. Search terms are then not used. Store numbers and postal codes work as usual: each page is priced at the chosen stores of its own banner.
[]A Canadian postal code, such as H3C 2M2, or just its first three characters (H3C). The run prices products at the nearest store of each selected banner that has stores in that province, and every row shows that store and its distance. Distances are measured from the middle of the postal area. Ignored if you enter store numbers below.
With a postal code: how many of the nearest stores of each banner to price, from 1 to 10. Maximum products is shared between all of them.
Instead of a postal code, the store numbers to price at, such as 8093 (IGA Duke, Montréal) or 9778 (FreshCo Jane & Finch, Toronto); up to 10, from any of the four banners. Every run saves the full store list, with each store's banner, as STORES under the Storage tab. Only products a store has its own price for are returned, so you are never charged for another store's price. Leave both this and the postal code empty to get the prices each website shows by default; the storeId column then says which store each price came from. Maximum products is the total across all stores.
[]Total products across ALL banners and stores — this is your spend ceiling, not a per-banner figure. The budget is divided evenly between the banners you pick, or between the stores when you choose stores. The four catalogues hold about 150,000 products combined.
Adds calories, fat, sodium, protein and the rest of the panel where the banner publishes it.
Lower this if you see failures. Higher is faster but heavier on the site.