Carrefour MAF Grocery Scraper

What does Carrefour MAF Grocery Scraper do?

Carrefour MAF Scraper extracts structured product data from Carrefour Majid Al Futtaim markets such as Carrefour UAE, including English or Arabic product text, current prices, currencies, categories, availability, product URLs, images, market metadata, optional detail fields, and basket line totals. It supports keyword search, pasted search/category/product URLs, price filters, sorting, controllable result limits, detail enrichment, incremental tracking, and notifications.

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Key features

• 🔍 Keyword search — search Carrefour MAF products with query; pass a JSON array to run several product searches in one dataset.
• 🌎 7-market coverage — choose one market with market or pass several with markets to scrape multiple countries in one run. Pasted Carrefour URLs still define their own market, and language requests English or Arabic product text where available.
• 🔗 Paste-mode — paste Carrefour MAF product, search or category URLs; search/category URLs are fetched with their original filters and paginated with currentPage.
• 🛍️ Shopping-basket monitor — monitor a shopping basket by productIds or productUrls and optional quantities; output includes line totals for basket-level tracking.
• 💰 Current Carrefour MAF prices — each row includes current price, currency, availability and purchase limits when Carrefour exposes them.
• 🛒 Category filters — Scope discovery with category URLs, Carrefour MAF category IDs or category text filters.
• 🏷️ Product metadata — rows include product ID, seller, brand, category path, image, product URL and market metadata when available.
• 📦 Compact product output — keep only core product, price, availability, basket and image fields.
• 🔔 Notifications — Send product alerts to Telegram, Discord, Slack, WhatsApp or a generic webhook, with optional change-only notifications.
• ♻️ Incremental mode — track a product search over time and emit changeType rows.

What data can you extract from carrefouruae.com?

Each result includes Core product fields (listingId, productId, gtin, sku, mpn, cdbase, metiRef, and facilityId, and more) and detail fields when enrichment is enabled (description, descriptionText, descriptionHtml, descriptionMarkdown, and productBenefits). In standard mode, all fields are always present — unavailable data points are returned as null, never omitted. In compact mode, only core fields are returned.

Enable detail enrichment in the input to get richer fields such as full descriptions where the source provides them.

Input

The main inputs are a search keyword and a result limit. Additional filters and options are available in the input schema.

Key parameters:

• productIds — Track a basket by GTIN, product ID or product URL. Pair with quantities for line totals. (default: [])
• productUrls — Carrefour MAF product URLs to scrape directly, e.g. https://www.carrefouruae.com/mafuae/en/p/1872989. (default: [])
• categoryUrls — Carrefour MAF category or search URLs. Filters and sort parameters are preserved. (default: [])
• startUrls — Paste product, search or category URLs. Product URLs are scraped directly; search/category URLs keep filters and sort parameters. (default: [])
• query — Product search keywords. Use one term like "milk" or a JSON array such as ["milk","rice"]. (default: "")
• market — Single Carrefour MAF market. Use Markets below to scrape several markets in one run. (default: "mafuae")
• markets — Optional list of markets to scrape in one run, e.g. mafuae, mafsau, mafegy. Overrides Market for generated query, category ID and basket scopes. (default: [])
• language — Request English or Arabic product text. Pasted /en/ or /ar/ URLs override this per URL. (default: "en")
• categories — Local category filter after fetch. Use terms such as "Dairy", "Electronics", "Fresh Food" or "Baby". (default: [])
• rayonIds — Advanced MAF category IDs used as category routes, e.g. F21600000 for Dairy & Eggs on UAE. (default: [])
• quantities — Optional per-product quantities, e.g. {"1872989": 2}. (default: {})
• maxResults — Maximum product rows to push. Use 0 for all rows in the selected scope. (default: 50)
• ...and 31 more parameters

Input examples

Basic search — Keyword-driven search with a result cap.

→ Full payload per result — all standard fields populated where the source provides them.

{
  "query": "milk",
  "maxResults": 50
}

Incremental tracking — Only emit products that changed since the previous run with this stateKey.

→ First run builds the baseline state. Subsequent runs emit only records that are new or whose tracked content changed. Set emitUnchanged: true to include unchanged records as well.

{
  "query": "milk",
  "maxResults": 200,
  "incrementalMode": true,
  "stateKey": "milk-tracker"
}

Compact output for AI agents — Return only core fields for AI-agent and MCP workflows.

→ Small payload with the most important fields — ideal for piping into LLMs without token overhead.

{
  "query": "milk",
  "maxResults": 50,
  "compact": true
}

Output

Each run produces a dataset of structured product records. Results can be downloaded as JSON, CSV, or Excel from the Dataset tab in Apify Console.

Example product record

{
  "listingId": "f5886984a57d94d173613dde781b8af6ef3fb718cb4e754a9dbd5fc1f118b8bc",
  "productId": "1872989",
  "gtin": "1872989",
  "sku": "1872989",
  "facilityId": "0000",
  "facilityServiceId": "SLOTTED",
  "title": "Savushkin 1% Fat Cottage Cheese 200g",
  "name": "Savushkin 1% Fat Cottage Cheese 200g",
  "brand": "savushkin",
  "entityName": "savushkin",
  "breadcrumbs": [
    "Home",
    "Categories",
    "Savushkin 1% Fat Cottage Cheese 200g"
  ],
  "location": "mafuae",
  "description": "Shop Savushkin 1% Fat Cottage Cheese 200g online now at Carrefour UAE. Buy Fresh Food in Dubai, & more. Enjoy best prices, FREE & fast delivery, & easy returns",
  "descriptionText": "Shop Savushkin 1% Fat Cottage Cheese 200g online now at Carrefour UAE. Buy Fresh Food in Dubai, & more. Enjoy best prices, FREE & fast delivery, & easy returns",
  "price": 15.79,
  "priceText": "AED 15.79",
  "priceValue": 15.79,
  "regularPrice": 15.79,
  "regular_price": 15.79,
  "priceCurrency": "AED",
  "currency": "AED",
  "purchaseMin": 1,
  "quantity": 1,
  "linePrice": 15.79,
  "basketKey": "basket",
  "listingType": "FOOD",
  "url": "https://www.carrefouruae.com/mafuae/en/soft-cheese-cottage/savushkin-cottage-1-200g/p/1872989",
  "portalUrl": "https://www.carrefouruae.com/mafuae/en/soft-cheese-cottage/savushkin-cottage-1-200g/p/1872989",
  "canonical_url": "https://www.carrefouruae.com/mafuae/en/soft-cheese-cottage/savushkin-cottage-1-200g/p/1872989",
  "attributes": {
    "market": "mafuae",
    "countryCode": "AE",
    "countryName": "United Arab Emirates",
    "offerId": "offer_carrefour_",
    "sellerName": "Carrefour",
    "serviceTypes": [
      "SLOTTED"
    ],
    "isSoldByWeight": false,
    "brandCode": "04365"
  },
  "sellerName": "Carrefour",
  "searchQuery": "product-url",
  "contentQuality": "full",
  "detailFetched": true,
  "scrapedAt": "2026-07-01T22:57:27.477Z",
  "scraped_at": "2026-07-01T22:57:27.477Z",
  "source": "carrefour-maf",
  "contentHash": "3e4d0a37ce87c6d9bc015f69dbacc08d69896f3174a9617ea906a8c89835d754"
}

Incremental fields

When incremental mode is on, each record also carries:

• changeType — one of NEW, UPDATED, UNCHANGED, REAPPEARED, EXPIRED. Default output covers NEW / UPDATED / REAPPEARED; set emitUnchanged: true or emitExpired: true to opt into the others.
• isRepost, repostOfId, repostDetectedAt — populated when a new listing matches the tracked content of a previously expired one. Set skipReposts: true to drop detected reposts from the output.

How to scrape carrefouruae.com

1. Go to Carrefour MAF Grocery Scraper in Apify Console.
2. Enter a search keyword.
3. Set maxResults to control how many results you need.
4. Enable includeDetails if you need full descriptions.
5. Click Start and wait for the run to finish.
6. Export the dataset as JSON, CSV, or Excel.

Use cases

• Extract product data from carrefouruae.com for market research and competitive analysis.
• Track pricing trends across regions and categories over time.
• Monitor new and changed products on scheduled runs without processing the full dataset every time.
• Feed structured data into AI agents, MCP tools, and automated pipelines using compact mode.
• Export clean, structured data to dashboards, spreadsheets, or data warehouses.
• Benchmark seller / dealer reputation using rating fields.

How much does it cost to scrape carrefouruae.com?

Carrefour MAF Grocery Scraper uses pay-per-event pricing. You pay a small fee when the run starts and then for each result that is actually produced.

• Run start: $0.01 per run
• Per result: $0.002 per product record

Example costs:

• 10 results: $0.03
• 25 results: $0.06
• 100 results: $0.21
• 200 results: $0.41
• 500 results: $1.01

Example: recurring monitoring savings

These examples compare full re-scrapes with incremental runs at different churn rates. Churn is the share of products that are new or whose tracked content changed since the previous run. Actual churn depends on your query breadth, source activity, and polling frequency — the scenarios below are examples, not predictions.

Example setup: 200 results per run, daily polling (30 runs/month). Event-pricing examples scale linearly with result count.

Churn rate	Full re-scrape run cost	Incremental run cost	Savings vs full re-scrape	Monthly cost after baseline
5% — stable niche query	$0.41	$0.03	$0.38 (93%)	$0.90
15% — moderate broad query	$0.41	$0.07	$0.34 (83%)	$2.10
30% — high-volume aggregator	$0.41	$0.13	$0.28 (68%)	$3.90

Full re-scrape monthly cost at daily polling: $12.30. First month with incremental costs $1.28 / $2.44 / $4.18 for the 5% / 15% / 30% scenarios because the first run builds baseline state at full cost before incremental savings apply.

Platform usage (compute and proxies) is billed separately by Apify based on actual consumption. Incremental runs consume less on result processing, though fixed per-run overhead stays the same.

FAQ

How many results can I get from carrefouruae.com?

The number of results depends on the search query and available products on carrefouruae.com. Use the maxResults parameter to control how many results are returned per run.

Does Carrefour MAF Grocery Scraper support recurring monitoring?

Yes. Enable incremental mode to only receive new or changed products on subsequent runs. This is ideal for scheduled monitoring where you want to track changes over time without re-processing the full dataset.

Can I integrate Carrefour MAF Grocery Scraper with other apps?

Yes. Carrefour MAF Grocery Scraper works with Apify's integrations to connect with tools like Zapier, Make, Google Sheets, Slack, and more. You can also use webhooks to trigger actions when a run completes.

Can I use Carrefour MAF Grocery Scraper with the Apify API?

Yes. You can start runs, manage inputs, and retrieve results programmatically through the Apify API. Client libraries are available for JavaScript, Python, and other languages.

Can I use Carrefour MAF Grocery Scraper through an MCP Server?

Yes. Apify provides an MCP Server that lets AI assistants and agents call this actor directly. Use compact mode, descriptionMaxLength, a single descriptionFormat, and excludeEmptyFields to keep payloads manageable for LLM context windows.

Is it legal to scrape carrefouruae.com?

This actor extracts publicly available data from carrefouruae.com. Web scraping of public information is generally considered legal, but you should always review the target site's terms of service and ensure your use case complies with applicable laws and regulations, including GDPR where relevant.

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