# Woolworths AU Product Search & Specials Scraper (`diopside/woolworths-au-products`) Actor

Woolworths Australia products with prices, unit prices, specials, barcodes (GTIN), ratings, categories and images — by search, category, current specials or stockcode (with nutrition and ingredients). Passes Akamai bot protection; JSON output.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/diopside/woolworths-au-products.md
- **Developed by:** [DIOPSIDE AI](https://apify.com/diopside) (community)
- **Categories:** E-commerce, Other, Agents
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $1.00 / 1,000 product records

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

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

## What's an Apify Actor?

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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.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

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For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## 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](https://apify.com/diopside/coles-au-products).
- **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

```json
{
  "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.

# Actor input Schema

## `searchTerms` (type: `array`):

Keywords to search, e.g. milk, weet-bix, tim tam. One listing per term.

## `categoryUrls` (type: `array`):

Woolworths browse pages, e.g. https://www.woolworths.com.au/shop/browse/dairy-eggs-fridge/milk (or dairy-eggs-fridge/milk, or just milk).

## `specials` (type: `boolean`):

Pull every department's current specials (thousands of items — set maxItemsPerQuery accordingly).

## `productIds` (type: `array`):

Individual products by Woolworths stockcode (888140) or product URL. Detail records include ingredients, allergens, nutrition and country of origin.

## `maxItemsPerQuery` (type: `integer`):

Cap per search term / category / specials listing. 0 = no cap.

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Woolworths uses Akamai bot protection. Apify datacenter proxies work with this actor's browser fingerprint; if you see 'blocked', switch to RESIDENTIAL with country AU.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "searchTerms": [
    "milk",
    "bread"
  ],
  "categoryUrls": [],
  "specials": false,
  "productIds": [],
  "maxItemsPerQuery": 100,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `products` (type: `string`):

All product records. Append ?format=csv for CSV.

## `datasetUrl` (type: `string`):

The default dataset.

# 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 = {
    "searchTerms": [
        "milk",
        "bread"
    ],
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": true
    }
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("diopside/woolworths-au-products").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 = {
    "searchTerms": [
        "milk",
        "bread",
    ],
    "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": True },
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("diopside/woolworths-au-products").call(run_input=run_input)

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

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

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "searchTerms": [
    "milk",
    "bread"
  ],
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}' |
apify call diopside/woolworths-au-products --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,diopside/woolworths-au-products"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/VBBvQsgzY9gMs8aOm/builds/adYEbIrmPZpmi3Opr/openapi.json