Coles & Woolworths Grocery Price Scraper

Get product prices, specials, unit prices, stock and barcodes from Coles and Woolworths, Australia's two largest supermarkets, in one clean, normalised dataset. Search by keyword, crawl categories, look up product URLs or pull the weekly specials. Schedule it and get only the prices that changed since the last run. Export to JSON, CSV or Excel, or use it through the API, integrations and AI agents.

Independent tool. Not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by Coles Group or Woolworths Group.

What does the Coles & Woolworths Grocery Price Scraper do?

• 🛒 Both chains, one schema. Every product has the same fields whether it comes from Coles or Woolworths: price, wasPrice, unitPrice + unitPriceUnit (normalised to 1L, 100g, 1kg, 1ea…), isOnSpecial, isHalfPrice, promoType, promoText, multibuy deals, inStock, category path, barcode, storeId and the product URL. Prices are numbers in AUD.
• 🔎 Four ways in: keyword search, category (aisle) URLs, product URLs, and the specials catalogue (all specials or half price only).
• 🏪 Per-store Coles pricing. Prices differ by store and region; pick any of Coles' ~870 stores.
• 📉 Price-change monitoring. Turn on monitoring and each run outputs only products that are new, changed or removed since the previous run, with previousPrice, priceChange and priceChangePct.
• 🏷️ Barcodes (GTIN/EAN). Always included for Woolworths; optional for Coles listings.
• 🛡️ Built for reliability. Plain-HTTP JSON (no browser), session rotation, automatic retries, and loud failure when a site changes, so you never silently get an empty dataset.

Why use it?

• Coles and Woolworths in one run, one schema: the same fields for both chains, ready to compare.
• Unit prices normalised for comparison: 1L, 100g, 1kg, 1ea.
• "What changed since last run" built in: new, changed and removed products, with the price delta.
• Specials normalised: half price, % off, multibuy and price drops in one promoType field.
• Pick the Coles store whose prices you want.
• Low start fee: $0.005 per run.

Use cases

• Price-comparison apps and deal sites. Feed Coles vs Woolworths prices and weekly specials into your app.
• FMCG brands and category managers. Track your own and competitors' shelf prices, promotion cadence ("half price every 4th week") and pack-size changes.
• Analysts, economists and journalists. Measure grocery inflation, specials depth and "shrinkflation" over time with scheduled snapshots.
• Researchers. Build unit-price datasets across categories and regions (public health, nutrition pricing).
• AI agents. Give an assistant live Australian grocery prices ("cheapest 2L milk at Coles vs Woolworths this week").

How to use it

1. Click Try for free.
2. Enter one or more search keywords (e.g. milk), and/or paste category or product URLs, and/or choose a specials mode.
3. Keep both supermarkets selected, or pick one.
4. Click Start. Download the results as JSON, CSV, Excel or HTML, or read them through the API.

Example input

{
  "chains": ["coles", "woolworths"],
  "searchQueries": ["milk", "coffee beans"],
  "specials": "halfPrice",
  "categoryUrls": ["https://www.coles.com.au/browse/dairy-eggs-fridge/milk"],
  "maxItemsPerSource": 100,
  "colesStoreId": "313"
}

📅 Schedule it: weekly specials and price-change alerts

Coles and Woolworths change their specials every Wednesday. A typical monitoring setup:

1. Create a Task with your watch list, e.g. {"searchQueries": ["nappies", "coffee beans"], "specials": "halfPrice", "monitorPriceChanges": true, "monitorKey": "weekly-watchlist", "maxItemsPerSource": 200}.
2. Add a Schedule that runs it every Wednesday at 07:00 Australia/Sydney (cron 0 7 * * 3).
3. Connect an integration (email, Slack, Google Sheets, Zapier, Make or a webhook) to the run's dataset.

Each run then delivers only what changed: new specials, price drops and rises, and products that disappeared, with changeType, previousPrice, priceChange and priceChangePct. Unchanged products are checked for a small fee but not written. Use a different monitorKey for each watch list.

Input

Field	Type	Description	Example
chains	array	Supermarkets to search and pull specials from. URLs are routed by domain.	["coles", "woolworths"]
searchQueries	array	Product keywords, as a shopper would type them.	["milk", "coffee beans"]
specials	string	none, all (every discounted product) or halfPrice.	"halfPrice"
categoryUrls	array	Category (aisle) pages from either site.	["https://www.woolworths.com.au/shop/browse/dairy-eggs-fridge/milk"]
productUrls	array	Specific product pages (always include the barcode).	["https://www.coles.com.au/product/coles-full-cream-milk-3l-8150288"]
maxItemsPerSource	integer	Products per source (one keyword on one chain, one category, or one chain's specials). Default 100.	100
maxItems	integer	Overall cap for the run; 0 = none.	500
colesStoreId	string	Coles store number or store page URL. Empty = Coles' default online store.	"313"
includeDetails	boolean	Add barcodes to Coles listing results (one extra request per Coles product).	true
monitorPriceChanges	boolean	Output only new, changed and removed products since the last run with the same monitor key.	true
monitorKey	string	Name of the saved snapshot to compare against.	"weekly-dairy"
outputUnchanged	boolean	In monitoring mode, also write unchanged products.	false
proxyConfiguration	object	Proxy for Coles, and the fallback for Woolworths. Defaults to Apify residential proxy in Australia (included in the price).	{"useApifyProxy": true, "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"], "apifyProxyCountry": "AU"}

Output

Each dataset item is one product at one store. The Products, Specials and Price changes views show the most useful columns. Example records:

[
  {
    "chain": "coles",
    "productId": "1492374",
    "name": "Coca-Cola Zero Sugar Soft Drink Multipack Bottles 300ml",
    "brand": "Coca-Cola",
    "size": "12 Pack",
    "barcode": null,
    "url": "https://www.coles.com.au/product/coca-cola-zero-sugar-soft-drink-multipack-bottles-300ml-12-pack-1492374",
    "imageUrl": "https://cdn.productimages.coles.com.au/productimages/1/1492374.jpg",
    "price": 12,
    "wasPrice": 24,
    "currency": "AUD",
    "unitPrice": 3.33,
    "unitPriceUnit": "1L",
    "unitPriceText": "$3.33/ 1L",
    "isOnSpecial": true,
    "isHalfPrice": true,
    "promoType": "halfPrice",
    "promoText": "1/2 Price",
    "savingsAmount": 12,
    "multibuyQuantity": null,
    "multibuyPrice": null,
    "inStock": true,
    "category": "Drinks",
    "subCategory": "Soft Drinks",
    "categoryPath": ["Drinks", "Soft Drinks", "Soft Drink Cans"],
    "storeId": "7674",
    "source": "specials",
    "sourceQuery": "halfPrice",
    "position": 1,
    "scrapedAt": "2026-09-29T21:30:12.418Z",
    "changeType": null,
    "previousPrice": null,
    "priceChange": null,
    "priceChangePct": null
  },
  {
    "chain": "woolworths",
    "productId": "971011",
    "name": "OxyShred Energy Drink Passionfruit Cans",
    "brand": "OxyShred",
    "size": "355mL x 4 pack",
    "barcode": "810095635700",
    "url": "https://www.woolworths.com.au/shop/productdetails/971011/oxyshred-energy-drink-passionfruit-cans",
    "imageUrl": "https://cdn1.woolworths.media/content/wowproductimages/large/971011.jpg",
    "price": 16,
    "wasPrice": null,
    "currency": "AUD",
    "unitPrice": 11.27,
    "unitPriceUnit": "1L",
    "unitPriceText": "$11.27 / 1L",
    "isOnSpecial": true,
    "isHalfPrice": false,
    "promoType": "multibuy",
    "promoText": "3 for $30.00 - $7.04/1L",
    "savingsAmount": null,
    "multibuyQuantity": 3,
    "multibuyPrice": 30,
    "inStock": true,
    "category": "Drinks",
    "subCategory": "Sports & Energy Drinks",
    "categoryPath": ["Drinks", "Sports & Energy Drinks", "Energy Drinks"],
    "storeId": "1101",
    "source": "search",
    "sourceQuery": "energy drink",
    "position": 4,
    "scrapedAt": "2026-09-29T21:30:14.071Z",
    "changeType": "changed",
    "previousPrice": 18,
    "priceChange": -2,
    "priceChangePct": -11.11
  }
]

A SUMMARY record in the run's key-value store lists products per chain, the stores used, sources that returned nothing, products or categories not found, and any failures.

Pricing

Pay-per-event: you pay only for what you get. The proxy and platform costs are included.

Event	Free	Bronze	Silver	Gold	Platinum	Diamond
Actor start (once per run)	$0.005	$0.005	$0.004	$0.003	$0.003	$0.003
Product saved	$0.0015	$0.0013	$0.0011	$0.0009	$0.0009	$0.0009
Coles barcode enrichment (optional, per Coles product)	$0.001	$0.0008	$0.0006	$0.0005	$0.0005	$0.0005
Unchanged product checked (monitoring mode)	$0.0005	$0.0004	$0.0003	$0.00025	$0.00025	$0.00025

Cost examples (Free plan prices):

• Default input (milk on both chains, 10 products each): $0.005 + 20 × $0.0015 = $0.035.
• 1,000 products: ≈ $1.51.
• Weekly monitoring of a 500-product watch list where 60 products change: $0.005 + 60 × $0.0015 + 440 × $0.0005 = ≈ $0.32 per week.

Set Maximum cost per run in the run options and the Actor stops cleanly when it is reached.

FAQ

How fresh are the prices? They are fetched live from coles.com.au and woolworths.com.au when the Actor runs. Specials change every Wednesday.

Which store are the prices for? Every record carries the storeId its price applies to. Coles prices are for the store you set in colesStoreId, or Coles' default online store. Woolworths prices are for Woolworths' national default online store. The Actor keeps Woolworths on that store for every run, so scheduled comparisons stay consistent. Some fresh and regional products are priced differently, or only ranged, in other regions.

Why is barcode empty for some Coles products? Coles listings do not include barcodes. Turn on Add Coles barcodes, or use product URLs.

Why is price null? The product is currently unavailable and the supermarket shows no price. We never invent values: missing data is null.

Does it log in or use my account? No. It only reads public product pages. There is no login, no CAPTCHA solving and no personal data.

Is it legal? This Actor extracts only publicly available product and price data. It does not extract private user data. Your results may still contain personal data, which is protected by GDPR and other regulations. Do not scrape personal data unless you have a legitimate reason. If you are unsure, consult your lawyers. The supermarkets' website terms restrict use of their sites; you are responsible for how you use the data. Keep volumes reasonable.

Can I use it from an AI agent or MCP client? Yes. Every input and output field is described in the schema, and the Actor is callable through the Apify API and Apify's MCP server.

Limitations

• Woolworths regional store selection is not supported yet: Woolworths prices are for its national default online store (reported in storeId). Coles store selection is fully supported.
• Woolworths Everyday Market (third-party marketplace) listings are excluded; they are not supermarket prices.
• Search results follow each site's own relevance order and fuzzy matching, so a nonsense keyword can still return a few loosely related products.
• Monitoring compares prices and promotions only. Stock changes are reported in inStock but do not count as a "change". Category listings also rotate a few sponsored cross-placements and ranged items between runs (about 0.4% in our tests); these show up as new or removed.
• "Removed" products are reported only when the run covered every source completely (no limits hit, no failures).
• ALDI and IGA are not covered.

Changelog

See the ./CHANGELOG.md.

Support

Found a bug, or need a feature (another supermarket, Woolworths store pinning, nutrition data)? Open an issue on the Issues tab. We reply within 48 hours.