Woolworths AU Product Search & Specials Scraper

Product data from woolworths.com.au — prices, unit prices, specials, GTIN barcodes, ratings, categories and images — by keyword search, category page, every department's current specials, or individual stockcode (with ingredients, allergens, nutrition and country of origin).

• Reads Woolworths' own JSON APIs, the same ones the website uses, so fields arrive typed and complete.
• Built to pass bot protection. Woolworths runs Akamai Bot Manager, which fingerprints the TLS handshake and rejects generic scrapers with Access Denied. This actor presents a real browser fingerprint and uses Apify proxy by default. If you ever see blocked in the status, switch the proxy to RESIDENTIAL with country AU.
• Barcodes on every listing record — match the same product across Coles, Aldi and others. Pairs with the Coles AU scraper.
• Deduplicated across your queries by stockcode.

vs other Woolworths scrapers

This niche is mostly healthy right now — the largest alternative, woolworths-au-product-search-catalog-unofficial (237 monthly users), reported 0% failed runs over the last 30 days, so this isn't a broken-incumbent story. The gap is data completeness: this actor is the only one that returns GTIN barcodes on every search/category/specials record (for matching the same product across Coles, Aldi and others), not just on a one-at-a-time stockcode lookup.

Input

field	default	notes
searchTerms	—	["milk", "weet-bix"] — one listing per term
categoryUrls	[]	https://www.woolworths.com.au/shop/browse/dairy-eggs-fridge/milk, dairy-eggs-fridge/milk, or just milk
specials	false	every department's current specials (thousands of items)
productIds	[]	stockcodes (888140) or product URLs — returns the detail record with nutrition
maxItemsPerQuery	100	per term / category / specials; 0 = all
proxyConfiguration	Apify proxy	keep on

Prices are for Woolworths' default online store; in-store price is included where it differs.

Output — one record per product

{
  "stockcode": 888140, "barcode": "9300633556150",
  "name": "Woolworths Full Cream Milk 3L", "short_name": "Woolworths Full Cream Milk",
  "brand": "Woolworths", "package_size": "3L",
  "price": 4.95, "price_was": null, "savings_amount": null,
  "on_special": false, "is_half_price": false, "promotion_type": null, "promotion_text": null, "member_price": false,
  "unit_price": 1.65, "unit_measure": "1L", "comparable_price": "$1.65 / 1L",
  "instore_price": 4.95, "instore_on_special": false,
  "unit": "Each", "unit_weight_g": 3090,
  "is_available": true, "is_in_stock": true, "is_online_only": false, "is_new": false, "is_sponsored": false,
  "rating_average": 4.6, "rating_count": 120,
  "category": "Dairy, Eggs & Fridge", "subcategory": "Milk", "aisle": "Full Cream Milk",
  "image_url": "https://cdn1.woolworths.media/content/wowproductimages/medium/888140.jpg",
  "url": "https://www.woolworths.com.au/shop/productdetails/888140/woolworths-full-cream-milk",
  "query": "search:milk",
  "scraped_at": "2026-09-18T10:30:00+00:00"
}

Detail records (from productIds) add ingredients, allergen_statement, country_of_origin and nutrition: [{name, per_serve, per_100g}].

Typical sizes

A search term returns 30–150 products; a category 50–500; all specials ~5,000+. A 3-term search with default caps runs in ~15 s.

Use cases

Price tracking and history, specials alerts, cross-retailer comparison by barcode, catalog enrichment, nutrition lookups, feeding dashboards and AI agents.

Pricing

Pay per product record. See the pricing tab.

Notes

Public product data only; no login, no personal data. Missing upstream values come back as null; queries that return nothing or get blocked are listed in the run status, never hidden.