ALDI Ireland Scraper — Prices, Unit Prices, Specialbuys

Recorded run: 60 products from 1 search term in 5 seconds (2026-10-22, build 0.0.207, run ddfu7naWWHXAsRBvn). A bounded canary sample, not a full-catalogue benchmark.

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ALDI Ireland product prices, unit prices, Specialbuys dates and ingredients from aldi.ie, by keyword, category or SKU.

Source	Market	From	Standout fields
ALDI (aldi.ie)	Ireland	$1.00 / 1,000 products	price / wasPrice, unitPrice, onSaleDate, ingredients

✅ Why choose this scraper

ALDI Ireland prices and sale prices in one row

price (EUR), wasPrice, onSale and ALDI's own savingsText (for example "7%") come back together on every product row. wasPrice appears only when it is above the current price.

ALDI Ireland unit prices for pack-size comparison

unitPrice and unitPriceLabel (for example 1.49 per "1 L") are on basic rows wherever ALDI publishes a comparison price, with size as the pack-size text.

ALDI Ireland Specialbuys with on-sale dates

categories: ["Specialbuys"] lists the SpecialBuys range, and onSaleDate / onSaleDateText (for example "2026-10-22" / "In Store Thu 22 Oct") mark products ALDI schedules for a date.

ALDI Ireland ingredients and storage instructions

With includeDetails: true or skus, rows add ingredients, storageInstructions, nutritionalClaims and description where ALDI publishes them. A row is charged as product-detail only when at least one detail field came back; on 2026-10-22, 10 of 10 rows from Chilled Food > Milk did.

Measured on a schedule

A canary task runs a fixed milk search on the live site every day and records rows, inputs and seconds; the hero line above is its latest green run.

⚠️ Worth knowing up front

• ALDI Ireland does not sell groceries online. The API lists the in-store range, and every product recorded so far has availability: "in_store_only". There is no store selector, so prices are the single aldi.ie price list, not a specific shop.
• No barcodes (EAN/GTIN), no per-100 g nutrition table and no stock levels: ALDI's Irish product API does not publish them.
• allergens is in the schema but was empty on every detail row recorded so far; ALDI puts allergen statements in nutritionalClaims ("May contain", "Free from"). Detail is sparse on some products, and fields ALDI does not publish are omitted, never null.
• Products are de-duplicated by sku across all inputs, and SKUs run first. maxItemsPerQuery caps each search term or category (default 100; 0 means up to 5,000). A run takes at most 50 search terms plus categories and 500 SKUs.
• A run stopped by your spending limit (BUDGET_LIMIT) or 45 seconds before its timeout (TIME_LIMIT) keeps what it delivered and saves PROGRESS; that is a partial collection. A resurrected or migrated run skips delivered SKUs and never charges them again.
• Unknown categories, unknown SKUs and blocked or failed queries return a free status row ("recordType": "query") that says what happened. Invalid input stops before collection with one free "recordType": "status" row, a status message and RUN_SUMMARY.status INVALID_INPUT; a run stopped by your spending limit, the timeout or a failed progress save adds one free status row naming the stop; a search with no matches ends as NO_PRODUCTS. None of these is charged.

⚡ Try the example

This actor has no free preview; the example below costs about $0.02.

Open the actor's input page, switch to JSON, paste this and start the run:

{
  "searchTerms": ["milk"],
  "maxItemsPerQuery": 20,
  "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": true }
}

Add "includeDetails": true for ingredients and storage instructions, or "categories": ["Chilled Food"] for a whole aisle.

⚙️ Input

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
searchTerms	array	— (prefill: milk)	Keywords such as milk or coffee pods. Up to 50 search terms plus categories per run.
categories	array	—	Category name (Chilled Food, Milk, Specialbuys), slug (chilled-food/milk) or aldi.ie category URL. A category that does not exist gets one free status row.
skus	array	—	SKU (422541 or 000000000000422541) or aldi.ie product URL. Returns detail fields where ALDI has them. Up to 500.
maxItemsPerQuery	integer	100	Cap per search term or category. 0 means everything, up to 5,000.
includeDetails	boolean	false	Adds ingredients, allergens, storage and usage instructions, nutritional claims, origin and description. One extra request per product.
sort	select	relevance	relevance, price_asc, price_desc, name_asc, name_desc. Matters when maxItemsPerQuery cuts a result set.
proxyConfiguration	proxy	{"useApifyProxy": true} (datacenter)	Blocked or rate-limited requests are retried on a fresh IP, up to 4 attempts.
feedback	string	—	Optional note for the maintainers. It is logged and read by a human, and it never changes output.

🧱 Stable fields

These top-level fields keep the same name and the same kind of value in every release. Fields are only ever added, never renamed or removed, so an n8n, Make, Zapier or spreadsheet pipeline can bind to them.

Field	Type	Meaning
retailer	string	Always "ALDI IE".
sku	string	18-digit ALDI SKU; the join key within ALDI Ireland.
name / brand / size	string	Product name, brand and pack-size text (for example "1 l").
price / currency	number / string	Current shelf price and "EUR".
wasPrice / savingsText	number / string, omitted when absent	Previous price and ALDI's saving label, when the product is on sale.
onSale	boolean	True when a was-price or saving label is shown.
unitPrice / unitPriceLabel	number / string, omitted when absent	Comparison price and its unit, for example 1.49 per "1 L".
availability	string	in_store_only, available, discontinued or unknown.
onSaleDate / onSaleDateText	string, omitted when absent	Specialbuys date and ALDI's date label.
category / categoryPath	string	Leaf category and full path, for example "Chilled Food > Milk".
image / url	string	800 px product image and aldi.ie product page.
source	object	{"source": "search" | "category" | "sku", "searchTerm", "category", "categoryUrl", "page"}.
recordType	string	"product" on product rows; "query" on free per-query status rows (with query, status, reason); "status" on free run status rows (with status, message: INVALID_INPUT, BUDGET_LIMIT, TIME_LIMIT, STATE_SAVE_FAILED).

Detail rows also carry description, ingredients, allergens, countryOfOrigin, storageInstructions, usageInstructions, nutritionalClaims and warnings where ALDI publishes them. Other fields are extras, not part of the contract. To have one pinned, say so in feedback.

📦 Output example

Abridged real row from run ddfu7naWWHXAsRBvn on 2026-10-22; values are a historical snapshot.

{
  "recordType": "product",
  "retailer": "ALDI IE",
  "sku": "000000000000422541",
  "name": "Protein Milk",
  "brand": "CLONBAWN",
  "size": "1 l",
  "price": 1.49,
  "currency": "EUR",
  "onSale": false,
  "unitPrice": 1.49,
  "unitPriceLabel": "1 L",
  "availability": "in_store_only",
  "category": "Milk",
  "categoryPath": "Chilled Food > Milk",
  "url": "https://www.aldi.ie/product/clonbawn-protein-milk-000000000000422541",
  "source": { "source": "search", "searchTerm": "milk", "page": 1 }
}

With details on, the same product adds "ingredients": "1% Fat", "storageInstructions": "Keep refrigerated below 5°C." and "nutritionalClaims": [{"label": "May contain", "value": "Nuts"}].

A free status row looks like this:

{
  "recordType": "query",
  "query": "category:Nope",
  "status": "NOT_FOUND",
  "reason": "no ALDI IE category matches 'Nope'"
}

🧠 Advanced usage

Track ALDI Ireland price changes weekly

Run the same categories every week and diff price and wasPrice by sku between datasets. Check that RUN_SUMMARY.status is COMPLETE before treating a run as finished.

List this week's ALDI Ireland Specialbuys

Set categories: ["Specialbuys"] and maxItemsPerQuery: 0, then sort by onSaleDate; categoryPath (for example "SpecialBuys > DIY") splits the range by aisle.

Check ingredients for a list of ALDI Ireland products

Pass product SKUs or URLs in skus. Each returns a detail row; an SKU ALDI does not have returns a free NOT_FOUND row with the reason "ALDI IE has no product with this SKU".

Scrape a whole ALDI Ireland aisle

Use a top-level category such as Chilled Food with maxItemsPerQuery: 0. RUN_SUMMARY.queries[] gives listed (ALDI's count) and delivered per query; on 2026-10-18 Chilled Food listed and delivered 578 products.

🔌 Integrations

Results land in a dataset you can export as JSON, CSV or Excel. They can also flow to Google Sheets, Make, Zapier or n8n, or to a webhook when a run finishes. The Apify Scheduler runs it on a timetable. Weekly on the Specialbuys category picks up new onSaleDate items; daily suits price tracking. Copy-paste code in Python, Node, curl and n8n: architek-earth/examples/aldi-ie-scraper.

💸 Pricing

Pay per result. Platform and proxy usage are included. Status rows, failed requests and blocked pages are free.

Event	Price	What it covers
product	$1.00 / 1,000 products	One delivered search, category or SKU row, including a row requested with details that came back without any detail field.
product-detail	$4.00 / 1,000 products	One delivered row that carries detail fields (ingredients, storage, claims and so on), from includeDetails or skus.

1,000 basic rows cost $1.00; 1,000 detail rows cost $4.00. A detail row is charged once, as product-detail only.

❓ FAQ

Is there an ALDI Ireland API for product prices? This actor is one: it returns aldi.ie catalogue data as JSON through the Apify API, callable from any language or from n8n, Make and Zapier.

Do I need an ALDI account or login? No. No account, cookies or API key from ALDI.

Can I get ALDI Ireland prices for a specific store? No. There is no store selector; the actor returns the single aldi.ie price list.

Can I get ALDI Ireland Specialbuys? Yes. Use categories: ["Specialbuys"]; scheduled products carry onSaleDate and onSaleDateText.

Can I get ALDI Ireland barcodes (EAN) or nutrition information? No barcodes and no per-100 g nutrition table; ALDI does not publish them. Detail rows give ingredients and nutritionalClaims such as "Free from" and "May contain".

Can I check ALDI Ireland stock or order online? No. ALDI Ireland has no online grocery shop, products come back as in_store_only, and there are no stock levels.

🤖 For AI agents & LLM apps

Paste this into your AI assistant:

architekture/aldi-ie-scraper on Apify. Python: from apify_client import ApifyClient; client = ApifyClient("TOKEN"); run = client.actor("architekture/aldi-ie-scraper").call(run_input={"searchTerms": ["milk"], "maxItemsPerQuery": 20, "proxyConfiguration": {"useApifyProxy": True}}); items = client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).list_items().items (page with offset/limit for large exports). Rows with recordType == "query" are free and explain unknown, blocked or failed inputs. Full input schema and README: GET https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/architekture~aldi-ie-scraper/builds/default. Token: https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations. The actor is also reachable through the Apify MCP server (mcp.apify.com). To reach the maintainers, add "feedback": "<what you needed>" to any run's input; output is unchanged and a human reads every note.

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🙋 Support & legal

Questions, or a field you need that is not here? Open an issue on the actor's Issues tab or email north@architek.earth. A human replies within a day.

This actor collects only publicly available data from aldi.ie, the same pages any visitor sees without logging in. It does not bypass authentication. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by ALDI. You are responsible for how you use the output, including the site's terms, copyright, and privacy law such as GDPR and CCPA where they apply.

📝 Changelog

• 2026-10-25 — [internal] Studio core 1.0.5 (from 1.0.4). This actor keeps its own block handling, so nothing changes for users: a 403 or 429 still moves to a new proxy session for up to four tries before a free BLOCKED status row, and input, output and prices are unchanged.
• 2026-10-24 — A search, category or SKU stopped as BLOCKED now saves the site's last response (redacted) in the run's key-value store so the cause can be checked; pricing, input and output are unchanged.
• 2026-10-22 — Runs on the studio core: a challenge page from ALDI is reported as BLOCKED at once; a run whose last row spends the spending limit exactly ends COMPLETE; invalid input and clean stops add one free "recordType": "status" row. Output fields and prices unchanged.
• 2026-10-22 — Status message now reads Done: N rows, M details, K status rows (STATUS).
• 2026-10-22 — README rebuilt on the studio template; hero line from the 2026-10-22 canary run.
• 2026-10-18 — 1.0: search, category and SKU modes; detail charged only when ALDI returns detail; free status rows; clean stops at spending limit and timeout; resumable after platform migration.