# Autodoc.co.uk Scraper - Low-cost💲🚘🚗🇬🇧 (`delectable_incubator/autodoc-co-uk-scraper---low-cost`) Actor

Scrape automotive product data from Autodoc 🚗🔧🔎 with a powerful e-commerce scraper.

Extract product names, brands, article numbers, prices, ratings, and product URLs.

Ideal for price monitoring, competitor analysis, and building structured automotive datasets at scale 📊🚀

- **URL**: https://apify.com/delectable\_incubator/autodoc-co-uk-scraper---low-cost.md
- **Developed by:** [Prime Scrape](https://apify.com/delectable_incubator) (community)
- **Categories:** E-commerce, Lead generation, Developer tools
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, NaN bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $0.00005 / actor start

This Actor is paid per event and usage. You are charged both the fixed price for specific events and for Apify platform usage.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

Actors are a software tools running on the Apify platform, for all kinds of web data extraction and automation use cases.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.
Actors are written with capital "A".

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.
The best way to integrate Actors is as follows.

In JavaScript/TypeScript projects, use official [JavaScript/TypeScript client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js.md):

```bash
npm install apify-client
```

In Python projects, use official [Python client library](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python.md):

```bash
pip install apify-client
```

In shell scripts, use [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md):

````bash
# MacOS / Linux
curl -fsSL https://apify.com/install-cli.sh | bash
# Windows
irm https://apify.com/install-cli.ps1 | iex
```bash

In AI frameworks, you might use the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/platform/integrations/mcp.md).

If your project is in a different language, use the [REST API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2.md).

For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt).


# README

<p align="center"> <img src="https://i.ibb.co/jkNS73wX/readme.png" alt="Autodoc Product Scraper - PrimeScrape" width="100%"> </p>

---

### Autodoc Product Listings Scraper 🚗🔧📊

The Autodoc Product Listings Scraper is a fast, reliable, and scalable automation tool designed to extract structured automotive product listings directly from autodoc.co.uk.

It transforms e-commerce product catalogs into clean, structured datasets ready for price monitoring, competitor analysis, automotive research, and data-driven applications.

---

### Autodoc Product Listings Scraper 🧠📈🛒

This scraper automatically extracts structured product data from autodoc.co.uk using search or category URLs.

Ideal for e-commerce analysts, automotive professionals, developers, and data scientists working with product intelligence and pricing datasets.

---

### 🎯 What This Scraper Does

Simply provide one or more autodoc.co.uk URLs and the number of products to extract, and the scraper will automatically collect structured data.

✅ Extracts product listings from autodoc.co.uk

✅ Supports search & category URLs

✅ Handles “Load more” pagination automatically

✅ Extracts detailed product specifications

✅ Collects pricing, ratings & images

✅ Clean and analytics-ready datasets

✅ Ideal for monitoring, automation & AI use cases

---

### 📊 Data Extracted

🧾 Product Fields

| Field                            | Description                  |
| -------------------------------- | ---------------------------- |
| 🆔 `articleId`                   | Product article ID           |
| 🔢 `genericId`                   | Generic ID                   |
| 🏷 `genericName`                 | Generic product name         |
| 🏢 `brandNo`                     | Brand reference number       |
| 🔧 `articleNumber`               | Article number               |
| 🛒 `name`                        | Product name                 |
| 📝 `nameSubtitle`                | Subtitle / short description |
| 💰 `price`                       | Product price                |
| 💱 `currency`                    | Currency                     |
| 📦 `pricePerUnit`                | Price per unit               |
| 🏷 `rrpPrice`                    | Recommended retail price     |
| 🔻 `discountPct`                 | Discount percentage          |
| 📦 `availability`                | Stock status                 |
| 🚚 `deliveryDate`                | Estimated delivery           |
| 🏪 `soldBy`                      | Seller                       |
| ⭐ `rating`                       | Product rating               |
| 🗳 `reviewCount`                 | Number of reviews            |
| 🛢 `capacity`                    | Capacity                     |
| ⚙️ `saeViscosityGrade`           | SAE viscosity                |
| 📊 `acea`                        | ACEA spec                    |
| 📊 `api`                         | API spec                     |
| 🏭 `manufacturerRecommendations` | Manufacturer recommendations |
| 🛢 `oil`                         | Oil type                     |
| 🧩 `productLine`                 | Product line                 |
| 🔢 `ean`                         | EAN code                     |
| 📦 `packingType`                 | Packaging                    |
| 🔧 `condition`                   | Product condition            |
| ➕ `extraSpecs`                   | Additional specs             |
| 🔗 `productUrl`                  | Product page                 |
| 🖼 `brandImageUrl`               | Brand image                  |
| 🖼 `productImageUrl`             | Product image                |



---

### 🛠 How to Use

1️⃣ Configure Input

Provide your Autodoc URLs:

````

{
"urls": \[
"https://www.autodoc.co.uk/spares-search?keyword=Brake%20disc",
"https://www.autodoc.co.uk/spares-search?keyword=engine%20oil"
],
"maxItemsPerUrl": 50
}

```

2️⃣ Run the Actor

• Open autodoc.co.uk search or category pages

• Extract product listings and specifications

• Structure and clean the dataset

• Stop when maxItemsPerUrl limit is reached


3️⃣ Export the Dataset

Download your results in multiple formats:

✅ JSON

✅ CSV

✅ Excel

✅ XML

✅ HTML


---

### ⚙️ Input Configuration

#### 📥 Input Example

```

{
"urls": \[
"https://www.autodoc.co.uk/spares-search?keyword=filters"
],
"maxItemsPerUrl": 100
}

```



#### Input Fields

| Field            | Type    | Description                     |
| ---------------- | ------- | ------------------------------- |
| `urls`           | array   | Autodoc search or category URLs |
| `maxItemsPerUrl` | integer | Max products to extract per URL |

---


### 📤 Output Example

```

{
"articleId": "1656288",
"genericName": "Brake disc",
"name": "BREMBO Prime Brake disc",
"price": "15.49",
"currency": "£",
"availability": "In stock",
"rating": "4.0",
"reviewCount": "30",
"productUrl": "https://www.autodoc.co.uk/brembo/1656288",
"productImageUrl": "https://media.autodoc.de/360\_photos/1656288/h-preview.jpg"
}

````

---

### 📊 Output explanation

| Field          | Description   |
| -------------- | ------------- |
| `articleId`    | Product ID    |
| `genericName`  | Category      |
| `name`         | Product name  |
| `price`        | Price         |
| `availability` | Stock status  |
| `rating`       | Rating        |
| `reviewCount`  | Reviews count |
| `productUrl`   | Product link  |


---


### 🌍 Why Use This Scraper? 

📊 Price Monitoring — Track product prices and discounts

🛒 E-commerce Intelligence — Analyze competitors

🚗 Automotive Data — Build structured parts datasets

🤖 AI & Data Science — Train recommendation models

⚙️ Automation — Schedule recurring scraping

📈 Data Pipelines — Power dashboards & analytics

---

### ⚠️ Disclaimer

This tool is an independent solution and is not affiliated with or endorsed by autodoc.co.uk.

---

### 💸 Pricing

This scraper runs on a **pay per events subscription model**.

You only pay for **successful runs**.

💳 **Price:** $9.99 / 1000 results

---

### Related Actors 

If you're interested in jobs scraping solutions, explore more tools:

(Coming soon)

---

### 📬 Support

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Leave a 5-star rating if you like this tool

---

### 🌍 PrimeScrape

Built for scalable web data extraction & automation

Contact for custom scraping solutions or enterprise requests via Apify or by email.

# Actor input Schema

## `urls` (type: `array`):

List of autodoc.co.uk search/category URLs to scrape.

Examples:
• https://www.autodoc.co.uk/spares-search?keyword=Brake%20disc
• https://www.autodoc.co.uk/spares-search?keyword=ridex-plus
• https://www.autodoc.co.uk/engine-oil

The scraper clicks 'Load more' automatically until maxitems is reached or no Load more button is found.

⚠️ URLs must be from autodoc.co.uk.
## `maxitems` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of products to collect per URL.

The scraper stops when maxitems is reached or no more results are available.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "urls": [
    "https://www.autodoc.co.uk/v2/spares-search?keyword=air%20filter%20ridex",
    "https://www.autodoc.co.uk/car-accessories/car-mats"
  ],
  "maxitems": 40
}
````

# Actor output Schema

## `overview` (type: `string`):

No description

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "urls": [
        "https://www.autodoc.co.uk/v2/spares-search?keyword=air%20filter%20ridex",
        "https://www.autodoc.co.uk/car-accessories/car-mats"
    ],
    "maxitems": 40
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("delectable_incubator/autodoc-co-uk-scraper---low-cost").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "urls": [
        "https://www.autodoc.co.uk/v2/spares-search?keyword=air%20filter%20ridex",
        "https://www.autodoc.co.uk/car-accessories/car-mats",
    ],
    "maxitems": 40,
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("delectable_incubator/autodoc-co-uk-scraper---low-cost").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "urls": [
    "https://www.autodoc.co.uk/v2/spares-search?keyword=air%20filter%20ridex",
    "https://www.autodoc.co.uk/car-accessories/car-mats"
  ],
  "maxitems": 40
}' |
apify call delectable_incubator/autodoc-co-uk-scraper---low-cost --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "mcp-remote",
                "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=delectable_incubator/autodoc-co-uk-scraper---low-cost",
                "--header",
                "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
            ]
        }
    }
}

```

## OpenAPI specification

```json
{
    "openapi": "3.0.1",
    "info": {
        "title": "Autodoc.co.uk Scraper - Low-cost💲🚘🚗🇬🇧",
        "description": "Scrape automotive product data from Autodoc 🚗🔧🔎 with a powerful e-commerce scraper. \n\nExtract product names, brands, article numbers, prices, ratings, and product URLs. \n\nIdeal for price monitoring, competitor analysis, and building structured automotive datasets at scale 📊🚀",
        "version": "0.0",
        "x-build-id": "4bX7eA3bEnqNKwsU6"
    },
    "servers": [
        {
            "url": "https://api.apify.com/v2"
        }
    ],
    "paths": {
        "/acts/delectable_incubator~autodoc-co-uk-scraper---low-cost/run-sync-get-dataset-items": {
            "post": {
                "operationId": "run-sync-get-dataset-items-delectable_incubator-autodoc-co-uk-scraper---low-cost",
                "x-openai-isConsequential": false,
                "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for its completion, and returns Actor's dataset items in response.",
                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
                ],
                "requestBody": {
                    "required": true,
                    "content": {
                        "application/json": {
                            "schema": {
                                "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                "parameters": [
                    {
                        "name": "token",
                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
                        },
                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
                    }
                ],
                "responses": {
                    "200": {
                        "description": "OK"
                    }
                }
            }
        },
        "/acts/delectable_incubator~autodoc-co-uk-scraper---low-cost/runs": {
            "post": {
                "operationId": "runs-sync-delectable_incubator-autodoc-co-uk-scraper---low-cost",
                "x-openai-isConsequential": false,
                "summary": "Executes an Actor and returns information about the initiated run in response.",
                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
                ],
                "requestBody": {
                    "required": true,
                    "content": {
                        "application/json": {
                            "schema": {
                                "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                "parameters": [
                    {
                        "name": "token",
                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
                        },
                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
                    }
                ],
                "responses": {
                    "200": {
                        "description": "OK",
                        "content": {
                            "application/json": {
                                "schema": {
                                    "$ref": "#/components/schemas/runsResponseSchema"
                                }
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        },
        "/acts/delectable_incubator~autodoc-co-uk-scraper---low-cost/run-sync": {
            "post": {
                "operationId": "run-sync-delectable_incubator-autodoc-co-uk-scraper---low-cost",
                "x-openai-isConsequential": false,
                "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for completion, and returns the OUTPUT from Key-value store in response.",
                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
                ],
                "requestBody": {
                    "required": true,
                    "content": {
                        "application/json": {
                            "schema": {
                                "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                "parameters": [
                    {
                        "name": "token",
                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
                        },
                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
                    }
                ],
                "responses": {
                    "200": {
                        "description": "OK"
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    },
    "components": {
        "schemas": {
            "inputSchema": {
                "type": "object",
                "required": [
                    "urls",
                    "maxitems"
                ],
                "properties": {
                    "urls": {
                        "title": "Autodoc Search URLs 🔍",
                        "type": "array",
                        "description": "List of autodoc.co.uk search/category URLs to scrape.\n\nExamples:\n• https://www.autodoc.co.uk/spares-search?keyword=Brake%20disc\n• https://www.autodoc.co.uk/spares-search?keyword=ridex-plus\n• https://www.autodoc.co.uk/engine-oil\n\nThe scraper clicks 'Load more' automatically until maxitems is reached or no Load more button is found.\n\n⚠️ URLs must be from autodoc.co.uk.",
                        "items": {
                            "type": "string"
                        }
                    },
                    "maxitems": {
                        "title": "Maximum products per URL 📄",
                        "type": "integer",
                        "description": "Maximum number of products to collect per URL.\n\nThe scraper stops when maxitems is reached or no more results are available.",
                        "default": 40
                    }
                }
            },
            "runsResponseSchema": {
                "type": "object",
                "properties": {
                    "data": {
                        "type": "object",
                        "properties": {
                            "id": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "actId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "userId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "startedAt": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "format": "date-time",
                                "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z"
                            },
                            "finishedAt": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "format": "date-time",
                                "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z"
                            },
                            "status": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "example": "READY"
                            },
                            "meta": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "origin": {
                                        "type": "string",
                                        "example": "API"
                                    },
                                    "userAgent": {
                                        "type": "string"
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "stats": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "inputBodyLen": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 2000
                                    },
                                    "rebootCount": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "restartCount": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "resurrectCount": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "computeUnits": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "options": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "build": {
                                        "type": "string",
                                        "example": "latest"
                                    },
                                    "timeoutSecs": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 300
                                    },
                                    "memoryMbytes": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 1024
                                    },
                                    "diskMbytes": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 2048
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "buildId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "defaultKeyValueStoreId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "defaultDatasetId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "defaultRequestQueueId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "buildNumber": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "example": "1.0.0"
                            },
                            "containerUrl": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "usage": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATASET_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATASET_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 1
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "PROXY_SERPS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "usageTotalUsd": {
                                "type": "number",
                                "example": 0.00005
                            },
                            "usageUsd": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATASET_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATASET_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "number",
                                        "example": 0.00005
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "PROXY_SERPS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    }
                                }
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }
}
```
