Coles Scraper — prices, specials, stock and nutrition (Australia)

Get product data from Coles as a clean table: current price, was-price, specials and multibuys, unit price, stock at a chosen store, and (optionally) barcode, ingredients, allergens and nutrition.

Use it for price monitoring, weekly specials lists, grocery comparison apps, nutrition databases or market research.

What you can scrape

You want	Fill in
Products for a few search words ("milk", "tim tam")	Search terms
A list of products you already know	Coles product numbers (e.g. 8150288) or Barcodes (e.g. 9300601186945)
A category, a product page, a search page	Coles links (paste any coles.com.au/browse/…, /product/…, /search… or /on-special link)
Everything on special this week (about 8,000 products)	tick Every product on special
Only half price, multibuy or online-only specials	tick Every product on special and pick Kind of special
One department's specials	Coles links: coles.com.au/on-special/bakery (any department)
The rest of a run that stopped at its cost limit	Continue from earlier results: pick that run's dataset
What changed since last week: price drops, new and ended specials, stock	tick Track changes (and Only changes), then schedule the run
The whole Coles range (about 25,000 products)	tick Full catalogue
Prices and stock at your local store	Store IDs or Postcodes
Coles store addresses, phone numbers and trading hours	tick Store directory

Track changes (price monitoring)

Tick Track changes and every row says what changed since the previous run with the same Tracking name:

change	Meaning
new	Not in the previous run (for a specials run: newly on special)
priceDown / priceUp	Price moved; previousPrice and priceChange say by how much
specialStarted / specialEnded	Went on or came off special
backInStock / outOfStock	Availability at that store changed
removed	Coles no longer has the product
notSoldAtStore	Coles has the product but no price for it at that store
unchanged	Nothing changed (left out with Only changes, and not charged)

changes lists all of them when more than one applies (e.g. ["specialEnded", "priceUp"]).

No guessing. Coles' listings shift while they are being read, so a product missing from this week's listing is not reported as gone from its absence alone. The scraper asks Coles for that product's price now and reports what it finds, e.g. specialEnded with the new price, and inListing: false. If Coles cannot be asked, the product is kept and checked on the next run instead.

The first run saves the baseline (every row new). Schedule the same task weekly, e.g. every Wednesday for the new specials, and each run compares with the last. The saved state lives in your own Apify storage, as a key-value store called coles-tracking-<name>. The Changes view in the dataset shows the change columns first.

Test on 2026-10-20, 282 online-only specials: the baseline run, then a run with two changes planted in the saved state. It returned exactly those two (a $1 price drop, and a product whose special had ended, confirmed with Coles at its real price of $4.95), and left out the 281 unchanged without charging for them. A third run returned none.

Barcodes

Coles' website cannot search by barcode, so this scraper carries an index of about 22,800 Coles barcodes, built from Coles' own product data and refreshed monthly. The index only says which product to fetch: the scraper then checks that Coles still gives that product the same barcode, and outputs it only if it does. Barcodes that are not found are listed in RUN_SUMMARY → lookups with the reason, and are not charged.

About 9% of Coles products (mostly fresh produce, and some imported and loose items) have no barcode in Coles' data, so they can only be found by product number. A product added after the last index refresh is not found by barcode until the next one.

Why this one

• It tells you when something went wrong. Every run saves a RUN_SUMMARY with pages fetched, blocked, retried and failed, and how many products each search or category returned compared with what Coles said it had. A run that cannot get the data fails with a reason. It does not return an empty table and call it a success.
• It gets whole listings. Coles' website shows at most 4,992 products for any one listing. Larger ones, such as the weekly specials or the Pantry department, are read twice, sorted by price low-to-high and high-to-low, and joined. In our test this got 7,960 of the 7,962 specials Coles listed.
• Prices for a specific store. Coles prices differ by store. In our test the same Tim Tam pack cost $6.00 online, $6.30 in Alice Springs and $6.42 in Karratha. Give a store number, or a postcode and the nearest store is used.
• Allergens split for you: allergensContains, allergensMayContain, allergensFreeFrom.
• Pay once per product. Continue from earlier results skips everything already in the datasets you pick, without charging for it. A run cut short by its cost limit can be finished later, and a weekly run can fetch only what is new.
• Multibuys worked out: "Pick any 3 for $7.95" gives multiBuyQuantity: 3, multiBuyTotal: 7.95, multiBuyPricePerItem: 2.65.

Input

Field	What it does
Search terms	Words as you would type them in the Coles search box.
Coles links	Category, product, search or specials links.
Coles product numbers	The number at the end of a product link. Fetched 24 per request, so a list of thousands is quick. These rows have no stockQuantity (Coles does not give it this way); everything else is the same. A product Coles does not sell at the chosen store comes back with an empty price and isAvailable: false.
Barcodes	EAN/UPC barcodes. Each row has matchedBarcode. See "Barcodes" below.
Every product on special	All products on special or multibuy this week.
Kind of special	With the box above: all specials, or only half price, multibuy or online only. Coles does the filtering, so the run reads and charges only those (on 2026-10-20: about 1,950 half price, 1,940 multibuy, 280 online only).
Full catalogue	Every department. Tobacco is excluded. Large run.
Only products on special	Keep only rows on special or multibuy. You are not charged for the rows skipped.
Store IDs	Coles store numbers, e.g. 313 from coles.com.au/find-stores/coles/wa/karratha-313. Each store returns its own rows. Empty = Coles' online prices.
Postcodes	Each postcode adds its nearest Coles store. Stores per postcode (1-10) adds more.
Store directory	Adds one row per store: address, phone, location, trading hours. All 877 stores, or only the stores picked above.
Include barcode, ingredients, allergens and nutrition	Opens each product's page. Slower, and charged as an extra event.
Max products per search term / link	Default 100. Does not apply to specials or the full catalogue, which return everything your run's cost limit allows.
Max products in total	Stops the run after this many rows. 0 = no limit.
Continue from earlier results	One or more datasets from earlier runs. Products and stores already in them are skipped and not charged.
Track changes	Compare with the previous run of the same tracking name. See above. Not together with Continue from earlier results.
Tracking name	One per kind of run, e.g. weekly-specials. Letters, digits and dashes.
Only changes	With Track changes: leave out unchanged products, which are not charged.

Example input — this week's specials at the Coles nearest to Carlton, VIC:

{
  "specials": true,
  "postcodes": ["3053"]
}

Output

One row per product per store. A real row from a test run on 2026-10-17:

{
  "productId": 2976853,
  "name": "Sea Salt Snack Crackers",
  "brand": "Sunbites",
  "size": "105g",
  "description": "SUNBITES SEA SALT SNACK CRACKERS WITH QUINOA SHARE PACK:.:105 GRAM",
  "price": 1.65,
  "wasPrice": 3.3,
  "isOnSpecial": true,
  "promotionType": "SPECIAL",
  "specialType": "PERCENT_OFF",
  "priceDescription": "1/2 Price",
  "saveAmount": 1.65,
  "savePercent": 50,
  "multiBuyOffer": null,
  "multiBuyQuantity": null,
  "multiBuyTotal": null,
  "multiBuyPricePerItem": null,
  "unitPrice": 1.57,
  "unitMeasure": "100g",
  "comparablePrice": "$1.57/ 100g",
  "isAvailable": true,
  "stockQuantity": 505,
  "availabilityType": "InStoreAndOnline",
  "isSponsored": true,
  "category": "Chips, Chocolates & Snacks",
  "subCategory": "Crackers & Rice Cakes",
  "aisle": "Flavoured Snacks",
  "retailLimit": 20,
  "url": "https://www.coles.com.au/product/sunbites-sea-salt-snack-crackers-105g-2976853",
  "imageUrl": "https://cdn.productimages.coles.com.au/productimages/2/2976853.jpg",
  "recordType": "product",
  "hasDetails": false,
  "storeId": null,
  "source": "search: biscuits",
  "position": 8,
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-17T21:53:32+00:00"
}

With Include barcode, ingredients, allergens and nutrition the same row also has:

{
  "barcode": "9310015247262",
  "ingredients": "Wholegrain Cereals (74%) (Corn 45%, Wheat 28%, Oats 1%), Sunflower Oil and/or Canola Oil, Quinoa (3.5%), Sugar, Rice (1.5%), Salt, Antioxidants (Tocopherols, Ascorbic Acid, Rosemary Extract, Citric Acid).",
  "allergens": "Contains Gluten, Milk, Soy, Wheat",
  "allergensContains": [
    "Gluten",
    "Milk",
    "Soy",
    "Wheat"
  ],
  "allergensMayContain": [],
  "allergensFreeFrom": [],
  "dimensions": "133.00 x 170.00 x 49.00 mm",
  "longDescription": "A Wholesome Adventure Companion Embark on a flavourful journey with Sunbites Sea Salt Crackers for your next adventure. Whether you're conquering the great o...",
  "countryOfOrigin": "Packaged in Australia from 100% Australian ingredients",
  "servingsPerPackage": "4.20",
  "servingSize": "25g",
  "nutrition": {
    "Per Serving": {
      "Energy": "498 kJ",
      "Energy (Cal)": "119 Cal",
      "Protein": "1.9 g",
      "Fat - Total": "5.5 g",
      "Fat - Saturated": "0.5 g",
      "Fat - Transfat": "0.0 g",
      "Fat - Polyunsaturated": "1.0 g",
      "Fat - Monounsaturated": "3.9 g",
      "Carbohydrate": "15.5 g",
      "Sugars - Total": "0.8 g",
      "Dietary Fibre": "1.8 g",
      "Sodium": "109 mg",
      "Potassium": "63 mg"
    },
    "Per 100g/ml": {
      "Energy": "1990 kJ",
      "Energy (Cal)": "476 Cal",
      "Protein": "7.6 g",
      "Fat - Total": "21.8 g",
      "Fat - Saturated": "1.7 g",
      "Fat - Transfat": "0.2 g",
      "Fat - Polyunsaturated": "7.3 g",
      "Fat - Monounsaturated": "12.2 g",
      "Carbohydrate": "61.8 g",
      "Sugars - Total": "3.1 g",
      "Dietary Fibre": "7.4 g",
      "Sodium": "434 mg",
      "Potassium": "252 mg"
    }
  },
  "hasDetails": true
}

Download as JSON, CSV, Excel or HTML, or read it through the Apify API.

Pricing

You pay per row, plus Apify's small start fee per run.

Event	Price
Product row	$0.99 per 1,000
Product details (barcode, ingredients, allergens, nutrition)	$0.50 per 1,000, on top of the product row
Store row (store directory)	$0.99 per 1,000

Examples: this week's specials (about 8,000 rows) costs about $7.90. The full catalogue (about 25,000 rows) costs about $25. 500 products with details cost about $0.75. Set Maximum cost per run in the run options to cap what any one run can charge.

On Apify's free plan: the free plan gives US$5 of credit a month, and Apify caps every run at the credit you have left. A full specials run (about $7.90) is more than that, so it stops after roughly the first 5,000 products. The run still shows as Succeeded; its status message says it stopped early. To get every special anyway: pick one Kind of special (half price alone is about $1.95), or give one department's specials link (coles.com.au/on-special/bakery), When you have more credit, start another run with Continue from earlier results set to the first run's dataset: it skips the products you already have and charges only for the rest. (Coles changes its specials every Wednesday, so finish within the same week.)

How long it takes

Measured on test runs:

Run	Rows	Time
This week's specials	7,960	about 3 minutes
Full catalogue	25,035	about 11 minutes
200 search results with details	200	under 1 minute

Limits — read before you rely on it

• Coles changes its website without notice. When it does, runs will fail loudly instead of returning wrong data, and the scraper will be fixed. Please report a failed run in the Issues tab.
• Stock (isAvailable, stockQuantity) is what Coles shows online for that store, not a shelf count.
• The store directory and postcode lookup are built in and refreshed monthly. A brand-new store may be missing until the next refresh. You can still use it by its store number.
• Australian residential proxies are needed. Coles blocks most other addresses. This is the default setting, and its cost is included in the price.

Is it legal?

This scraper reads only publicly shown product and price information. It does not log in or collect personal data. You are responsible for how you use the data and for checking it suits your use and local law. If you're unsure, ask a lawyer.

Credits

Postcode locations: GeoNames postal code data, licensed under CC BY 4.0. This scraper is not affiliated with or endorsed by Coles Group.