🛒 Coles Scraper: Australia Grocery Prices, Specials & Stores (no login)

Export Coles Australia (coles.com.au) products with shelf price, was-price, unit price, half-price and multibuy specials, stock and aisle, for any search term, category, the specials list or single products, and for the stores you name. Switch on details for barcode, ingredients, allergens and nutrition. A built-in watch tells you which prices went up or down since your last run. No login, no cookies, no browser and no proxy setup. Export to JSON/CSV/Excel, run on a schedule, call via API, or connect to Make, Zapier or n8n.

What a run costs: from November 8, 2026, $0.001 per product on the Free plan, down to $0.00085 from Gold. Product page details add $0.0005 per product ($0.000425 from Gold), only when you switch them on. A list without results, an unknown store number and the unchanged products a watch leaves out cost nothing. There is no start fee beyond Apify's $0.00005. Until November 8 the price this listing carried before applies: $0.0025 per product, and details are not charged.

🔎 What is the Coles Scraper?

It reads the same data the coles.com.au pages load in your browser: 48 products per search or category page, the whole specials list (about 7,000 products), and a product's page when you want its label data. Prices on Coles depend on the store, so every row says which store it is for.

What data does it extract?

• Prices: shelf price, was-price, saving, unit price and unit (per kg, per L, each), the comparable price text as shown
• Specials: on special or not, kind of special (for example half price or multibuy), the offer text ("Pick any 2 for $5"), multibuy quantity and unit price, online-only specials
• Stock and limits: in stock at the store, how it is sold (in store and online), most items per order, most items at the special price
• Placement: department, category, online aisle, shelf aisle when Coles gives it, sponsored placements marked
• Details (optional): barcode (GTIN), ingredients, allergens, dietary notes, storage, country of origin, nutrition table per serving and per 100 g or mL, all images
• Watch: previous_price from your last run and price_change (new, same, up, down) on every row

How it differs from the other Coles Actors

On the leading Coles Actors' listings (October 2026)	This Actor
Start fees of $0.005 to $0.008 per run on several of them, which adds up on small scheduled checks	$0.00005 start event; you pay per product
Product details sold as part of a larger record or not at all	Details are a switch, $0.0005 per product
Store prices on some, national prices only on others	Every row has store_id, and you can name as many stores as you like
Price watches that compare whatever the run happens to reach	The watch compares only as deep as the previous run read, so a deeper run does not call old products "new"

An unknown store number is checked before any list is read, named in the status message and not charged. Ad tiles are dropped and sponsored products are marked.

⬇️ Input

Field	Type	What it does
searchTerms	array	Words to search, one list per term
startUrls	array	Coles links: category (/browse/...), specials (/on-special, filters kept), search (/search/products?q=), product (/product/...-1234567) or a bare product id
onSpecial	boolean	Adds the whole specials list
storeIds	array	Coles store numbers, e.g. 0584. Empty: the store coles.com.au picks for a new visitor
maxItems	integer	Products per list and store (default 20, up to 30,000)
includeDetails	boolean	Adds barcode, ingredients, allergens and nutrition
onlyChanged	boolean	Saves only new and changed prices since your last run

Example input

{
  "searchTerms": ["tim tams", "oat milk"],
  "startUrls": ["https://www.coles.com.au/on-special?filter_Special=halfprice"],
  "storeIds": ["0584"],
  "maxItems": 200,
  "includeDetails": false,
  "onlyChanged": false
}

⬆️ Output

{
  "product_id": "8150288",
  "name": "Full Cream Milk",
  "brand": "Coles",
  "description": "COLES FULL CREAM MILK 3L",
  "size": "3L",
  "url": "https://www.coles.com.au/product/coles-full-cream-milk-3l-8150288",
  "price": 4.95,
  "was_price": null,
  "save_amount": null,
  "unit_price": 1.65,
  "unit_measure": "1l",
  "comparable_price": "$1.65/ 1L",
  "on_special": false,
  "special_type": null,
  "offer": null,
  "available": true,
  "availability_type": "InStoreAndOnline",
  "retail_limit": 20,
  "promotional_limit": 12,
  "department": "Dairy, Eggs & Fridge",
  "category": "Milk",
  "aisle_name": "Full Cream Milk",
  "image_url": "https://cdn.productimages.coles.com.au/productimages/8/8150288.jpg",
  "sponsored": false,
  "store_id": null,
  "previous_price": null,
  "price_change": "new",
  "source_type": "search",
  "source_url": "https://www.coles.com.au/search/products?q=milk",
  "position": 1,
  "has_details": false,
  "scraped_at": "2026-10-25T21:31:23+00:00"
}

With details on, a row also carries gtin, ingredients, allergens, dietary, storage, country_of_origin, long_description, serving_size, servings_per_package, nutrition and images. A SUMMARY record in the run's key-value store lists what was read, what was empty and why the run stopped.

🤖 For AI agents

No credential is needed. Copy this input and change the terms:

{"searchTerms": ["milk"], "maxItems": 20}

Every input is optional; an empty input searches "milk". Rows come back as JSON through run-sync-get-dataset-items.

💡 Use cases

• 🏷️ Price monitoring: schedule a daily run with onlyChanged and get only the prices that moved
• 🧾 Specials feeds: export the half-price and multibuy list every Wednesday for a deals site or newsletter
• 🗺️ Store comparison: read the same basket at several stores and compare by store_id
• 🥗 Product data: barcodes, ingredients, allergens and nutrition for a food app or a catalogue

⚖️ Limits, plainly

• Coles itself ends a search after the results it finds; a category or the specials list goes to its last page.
• Store numbers are not looked up for you: give the four-digit number of the store.
• The watch is kept per account and store in a key-value store named coles-price-watch. A run that is moved to another server keeps its rows, but prices read before the move are compared again next time.
• Coles turns away datacenter addresses, so the Actor reads through Australian residential connections, included in the price.
• Measured from our server: 20 products in 4 seconds, 448 products from four lists and two stores with details in under three minutes.

❓ FAQ

Do I need a Coles account or cookies? No. The Actor reads what any visitor of coles.com.au sees.

Which store are prices for when I give none? The store coles.com.au assigns to a new visitor; store_id is then empty.

How do I get only price changes? Set onlyChanged to true and run on a schedule. The first run saves everything as new; later runs save only up, down and newly listed products.

Are half-price specials included? Yes. special_type says which kind, offer holds the text, and the specials link with ?filter_Special=halfprice reads only half-price products.

What happens with an unknown store number? It is checked before any list is read, skipped, named in the status message and not charged.

Does it read Woolworths or ALDI? No, Coles only.

How fast is it? About 48 products per request, one to two seconds each. Details add one request per product, four at a time.

Is it legal? It reads publicly visible product and price data, no personal data. Check Coles' terms for your use and do not overload the site; the Actor reads one list at a time.

Can I call it from my code? Yes, through the Apify API or any Apify integration, and every run can be scheduled.

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