Farmacias del Ahorro Product Prices Scraper

Export farmacias del ahorro products for recurring Mexican retail price and assortment snapshots. Start with keyword searches, canonical product URLs, or both. Each dataset row contains a SKU, original Spanish title, assigned categories, image URL, source URL, current MXN catalog price, and an old price when the regular price is higher.

This Actor targets fahorro.com, not ahorro.com. It collects public online catalog observations, not branch inventory, prescription guidance, medical advice, or personalized offers.

Who is this for?

• Retail analysts comparing public Mexican pharmacy catalog prices.
• Category teams checking product assortment by SKU.
• Data engineers building scheduled catalog snapshots in a spreadsheet or warehouse.

Why use this Actor?

Get typed numeric prices rather than parsing formatted currency strings. Combine a known-SKU watchlist with keyword discovery in one run, deduplicated globally by SKU. Explicit product URLs are handled first so known products receive the shared result budget before broader searches.

The Actor uses the store's public catalog API without downloading images or launching a browser. Image links are included, not image files. It does not require a store account or proxy configuration.

Getting started

1. Open the Input tab.
2. Enter a keyword such as paracetamol, or add a canonical product URL.
3. Choose maxItems, the global unique-product cap.
4. Run the Actor and inspect Products in Output.
5. Download the dataset as JSON, CSV, Excel, or another Apify-supported format.

A minimal search input:

{"queries":["paracetamol"],"maxItems":10}

For a known product:

{
  "startUrls":[{"url":"https://www.fahorro.com/tempra-500-mg-adultos-paracetamol-caja-10-tabletas.html"}],
  "maxItems":1
}

Input parameters

Field	Meaning
queries	Up to 50 nonempty search strings, each at most 200 characters. Whitespace is trimmed and duplicate strings removed.
startUrls	Up to 100 canonical HTTPS product URLs on fahorro.com or www.fahorro.com. Root-level product-name.html paths only; no query strings or fragments.
maxItems	Global unique-SKU cap, 1–10000; default 10. Zero and unlimited are unsupported.

Provide at least one query or product URL. Empty input and unsupported fields fail with a clear error. URL inputs use exact URL-key lookup; category/search URLs are not accepted.

Search relevance is determined by the store, not a local exact-title, whole-word, or substring filter. Multiple searches are combined (ANY) in order. Their results may include related products. There is no guarantee of a minimum number per query. Explicit URLs consume the budget first; query terms do not filter those explicitly requested products.

Extracted data

Field	Type	Meaning
sku	string	Store product identifier; global deduplication key.
title	string	Original catalog title.
categories	string[]	Assigned category names, not ordered breadcrumbs.
imageUrl	string or null	Catalog thumbnail link.
url	string	Canonical store product URL.
price	number	Public primary final catalog price.
oldPrice	number or null	Regular price only when greater than current price.
currency	string	Always MXN.
scrapedAt	string	Observation timestamp in ISO format.

Example observed product; prices and categories may change:

{
  "sku":"7501095452116",
  "title":"Tempra 500 mg Adultos Paracetamol caja 10 tabletas",
  "categories":["Landings","Farmacia","Dolor y Fiebre","Te Queremos Protegido","Vive sin Dolor","Dolor y fiebre adulto"],
  "imageUrl":"https://production-media.fahorro.com/media/catalog/product/7/5/7501095452116_4.jpg?optimize=medium&bg-color=255,255,255&fit=bounds&height=&width=",
  "url":"https://www.fahorro.com/tempra-500-mg-adultos-paracetamol-caja-10-tabletas.html",
  "price":76,
  "oldPrice":null,
  "currency":"MXN",
  "scrapedAt":"2026-10-27T21:05:21.151Z"
}

How much does it cost to extract Farmacias del Ahorro product prices?

Pay per event: a $0.003 start fee per run, plus a product event for each delivered unique product. The BRONZE product price is $0.00208 per product. Product event prices by Apify spend tier are FREE $0.002392, BRONZE $0.00208, SILVER $0.0016224, and GOLD/PLATINUM/DIAMOND $0.001248. Examples at BRONZE: 1 product costs $0.00508; 10 cost $0.0238; 100 cost $0.211. These examples exclude any separate platform charges that apply to your account.

Duplicates, nonexistent products, and valid empty searches have no product event charge. A valid empty search still incurs the start fee. Malformed input is rejected before the start charge. A failed run may retain already exported rows and their charges. Use the global product limit and Apify's maximum-charge setting to control collection.

Limits and price interpretation

Prices describe the online public catalog at observation time. They are not checkout quotes, local stock, delivery promises, medical recommendations, or historical prices. A null oldPrice means the regular price was not greater than the current price; it does not establish that no promotion exists.

Search coverage follows the store's catalog and ranking. Products can move between pages during a run. Duplicate SKUs are removed, but this cannot guarantee a frozen complete catalog. The Actor stops at source exhaustion, the result cap, the charge cap, or the platform runtime limit.

Failure behavior and troubleshooting

Transient network errors, HTTP 429 and server errors receive at most two retries with bounded backoff. Permanent HTTP/GraphQL errors, invalid prices and non-JSON responses fail rather than pretending that extraction succeeded. No paid proxy fallback is silently enabled.

If a query returns no results, try a common store keyword. Missing product URL keys return no row. If a formerly working URL stops matching, copy the canonical product URL from the store again. If the source API changes, the run fails with diagnostics; any existing rows are partial results, not proof of complete collection.

The SUMMARY key-value record reports saved products, request attempts, retries and response bytes for successful runs.

Integrations

Schedule repeated runs in Apify, export each dataset to a spreadsheet or warehouse, and join observations on sku. Compare price, oldPrice and category membership downstream. The Actor itself does not calculate changes, keep historical state, send price alerts, or monitor continuously.

Use Apify webhooks, Make, Zapier or a custom API consumer to process successful runs. Keep full exports in storage; fetch only bounded slices for interactive analysis.

API examples

Start a run with cURL, using your own Apify token:

curl -X POST 'https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/automation-lab~farmacias-ahorro-product-prices/runs' \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $APIFY_TOKEN" -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"queries":["paracetamol"],"maxItems":10}'

JavaScript:

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';
const client = new ApifyClient({token: process.env.APIFY_TOKEN});
const run = await client.actor('automation-lab/farmacias-ahorro-product-prices').call({queries:['paracetamol'], maxItems:10});
const {items} = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems({limit:10});
console.log(items);

Python:

import os
from apify_client import ApifyClient
client = ApifyClient(os.environ['APIFY_TOKEN'])
run = client.actor('automation-lab/farmacias-ahorro-product-prices').call(run_input={'queries':['paracetamol'],'maxItems':10})
print(client.dataset(run['defaultDatasetId']).list_items(limit=10).items)

The start endpoint returns run metadata, not product rows. Follow that run to completion and then read its default dataset.

MCP integration

Select this Actor explicitly:

claude mcp add --transport http apify \
  'https://mcp.apify.com?tools=automation-lab/farmacias-ahorro-product-prices'

Equivalent Claude Desktop, Cursor, and VS Code configuration (use your client's HTTP MCP configuration syntax):

{"mcpServers":{"apify":{"url":"https://mcp.apify.com?tools=automation-lab/farmacias-ahorro-product-prices"}}}

Configure authentication through your client's supported Apify authorization flow. Example prompt: “Collect up to 10 paracetamol product prices from Farmacias del Ahorro and show SKU, title and MXN price.”

Discover actual tool names and argument schemas using scoped tools/list. Actor selection also adds run/data helper tools; it does not expose exactly one tool. Read-only discovery is not authorization to start or abort runs.

For an authorized invocation, start once and retain its run ID and storage IDs. call-actor waits at most 45 seconds (waitSecs, default 30). If pending, follow the same run with get-actor-run, using 2/4/8-second backoff capped at 10 seconds and a 120-second total deadline. Set client timeout above server wait plus transport margin. Never start a replacement just because polling timed out; report a pending/uncertain run instead.

After success, fetch get-dataset-items using the returned default dataset ID, explicit fields, limit and offset. Example consumer budget: 20 rows per page, at most 100 source rows and 64 KiB serialized UTF-8 content admitted to model context, whichever comes first. Enforce byte limits host-side, including oversized pages/rows, and disclose omissions. If your client cannot intercept responses, do not claim a hard byte guarantee. Advance source offsets, report truncation and next offset, and keep full exports outside model context. Failed runs may contain partial data. No numeric token-saving claim is made.

Legality and privacy

Use public catalog data responsibly and follow applicable site terms and law. This Actor is independent of Farmacias del Ahorro and is not endorsed by the store. Do not use catalog prices as treatment advice or infer medical availability.

No AI model processes input or scraped products at runtime. Apify hosts datasets and logs under your account's storage retention settings; delete runs/datasets through Apify to remove stored exports. There is no cross-run cache. Use the Store issue tab to contact support about extraction problems.

Failed operations send sanitized diagnostic input, exceptions and Actor/build/run IDs to our private GlitchTip service for repair. Secret fields and URL query strings are removed; reports are retained for 30 days.

FAQ

Does it report branch stock or prescription requirements? No. Those are outside the output contract.

Does oldPrice show yesterday's price? No. It is the current regular catalog price when higher than the current final price. Save separate runs for history.

Can I combine URLs and keywords? Yes. URLs are processed first and all results share one global SKU cap.

Can I scrape ahorro.com? No. Only fahorro.com product URLs are accepted.

Support

Report extraction errors through this Actor's Apify Store issue tab. Include a run link, the public query or product URL and what you expected. Do not include API tokens or private medical information.

Related workflows

For this store's SKU price snapshots this Actor is standalone. Use Apify's dataset exports and scheduling for recurring comparisons; no unrelated source is included in this Actor.