Argos UK Product Search & Catalog (Unofficial)

Search Argos UK products and fetch category, filter, search, and item data in normalized output.

This is an unofficial actor and is not affiliated with Argos.

Proxy behavior

This actor uses a bounded cheapest-first access ladder. It first tries a TLS-impersonated HTTP request and, when Argos returns an Akamai block, retries the SSR document with real Chrome. The browser is limited to two sessions per source page and is not fanned out across every product in a listing.

The actor exposes auto, direct, and apify connection modes. auto is direct-first and initializes a bounded GB residential Apify proxy fallback; proxy traffic is used only if the direct edge fails. When every bounded attempt is blocked the run returns a structured error instead of empty or fabricated products.

Supported operations

• categories
• search_filters
• search
• category
• item

Operation guide

The Apify Console form shows the union of all supported fields, so the visible inputs do not change when you switch operation. Use the guide below to know which fields are required.

• categories Required: none Optional: includeRaw
• search_filters Required: none Optional: query, categoryId, categorySlug, categoryUrl, includeRaw
• search Required: query Optional: page, limit, sort, includeRaw
• category Required: categoryId or categorySlug or categoryUrl Optional: page, limit, sort, includeRaw
• item Required: itemId or productId or itemSlug or url Optional: includeRaw

Example inputs

These starter examples were validated locally against the live site.

{
  "operation": "categories",
  "includeRaw": false
}

{
  "operation": "search",
  "query": "drill",
  "page": 1,
  "limit": 12,
  "sort": "relevance_desc",
  "includeRaw": false
}

{
  "operation": "category",
  "categoryId": "30049",
  "categorySlug": "browse/technology/laptops-and-pcs/laptops/c:30049",
  "categoryUrl": "https://www.argos.co.uk/browse/technology/laptops-and-pcs/laptops/c:30049/",
  "page": 1,
  "limit": 12,
  "sort": "relevance_desc",
  "includeRaw": false
}

{
  "operation": "item",
  "itemId": "8910415",
  "productId": "8910415",
  "itemSlug": "product/8910415",
  "url": "https://www.argos.co.uk/product/8910415",
  "includeRaw": false
}

{
  "operation": "search_filters",
  "query": "drill",
  "categoryId": "30049",
  "categorySlug": "browse/technology/laptops-and-pcs/laptops/c:30049",
  "categoryUrl": "https://www.argos.co.uk/browse/technology/laptops-and-pcs/laptops/c:30049/",
  "includeRaw": false
}

Output

• Dataset: normalized products or structured category/filter rows
• Key-value store OUTPUT: run summary with source, operation, success, total, errors, proxy, and monetization