Home Hardware Australia Product & Price Scraper

Extract structured product, price, stock, category, and item data from Home Hardware Australia. The Actor is designed for Apify Console users, API integrations, MCP tools, data pipelines, and AI agents that need deterministic operations and machine-readable outputs.

What you can get

• Product search — keyword search with pagination and relevance/price sorting.
• Category products — real products whose breadcrumbs verify the requested category.
• Exact item details — resolve one product by SKU/ID, slug, or full Home Hardware URL.
• Category discovery — live category taxonomy when available, with an explicit bounded breadcrumb-derived fallback if the complete taxonomy is temporarily unavailable.
• Search capabilities — supported sort options plus live brand/category facets when available; degraded capability records are explicit rather than empty successes.
• Backend probe — a typed diagnostic Dataset row that checks the buyer-critical product backend.

Product records include IDs, slugs, names, brands, barcodes/APNs when available, category breadcrumbs, prices, stock/availability, image URLs, source URLs, and currency: "AUD".

AI and automation

Every Dataset row includes stable metadata:

• record_type: product, category, search_filters, or probe
• operation: operation that produced the row
• source: homehardware
• country: AU
• retrieved_at: UTC retrieval timestamp
• product rows also include currency: AUD

The Actor defines Apify input, output, Dataset, and OUTPUT key-value schemas so API/MCP/AI clients can discover both inputs and result locations.

Operation selection

Goal	operation	Main input
Find products by text	search	query
Browse one category	category	category_name
Fetch one exact product	item	item_id, slug, or url
Discover category names/slugs	categories	none
Discover sort/facet capabilities	search_filters	none
Check live backend connectivity	probe	none

Quick examples

Search products

{"operation":"search","query":"drill","page":1,"page_size":10,"sort":"relevance"}

Browse Tools

{"operation":"category","category_name":"Tools","page":1,"page_size":10,"sort":"relevance"}

Fetch exact product by ID

{"operation":"item","item_id":"3449444"}

Fetch the same product by slug

{"operation":"item","slug":"macsim-clever-tool-metal-drill-bits-pre-drill-12g"}

Fetch the same product by URL

{"operation":"item","url":"https://www.homehardware.com.au/macsim-clever-tool-metal-drill-bits-pre-drill-12g"}

Discover categories

{"operation":"categories"}

Discover search filters

{"operation":"search_filters"}

Probe backend

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

Input reference

• operation — search (default), category, item, categories, search_filters, or probe.
• query — required for search.
• category_name — required for category; use names/slugs returned by categories.
• item_id, slug, url — for item, provide at least one exact identifier.
• page — 1-based page number.
• page_size — 1-100 products per page.
• sort — relevance, price_asc, or price_desc.
• proxy — auto (recommended), apify, direct, or custom.
• customProxyUrl — encrypted custom proxy credential when proxy=custom.
• proxyCountry — two-letter proxy country code; AU is recommended for explicit Apify proxy mode.
• includeRaw — include bounded raw diagnostics in the OUTPUT summary.

Output

The default Dataset is the primary structured result.

Product rows

Typical fields include record_type, operation, retrieved_at, source, country, currency, id, slug, name, brand, barcode, category, product_category, breadcrumbs, price, discount_price, current_price, availability, in_stock, source_url, images, description, price_info, and attributes.

Fields the upstream source does not expose for a particular product can be null or omitted.

Category rows

Category discovery rows include a category name, optional slug/count metadata, discovery, and taxonomy_complete.

• taxonomy_complete=true means a live taxonomy/facet source was obtained.
• taxonomy_complete=false means a bounded truthful category set was derived from live product breadcrumbs because the complete taxonomy surface was unavailable.

Search filter rows

record_type=search_filters rows contain capability metadata under attributes.filters, including sort options and available brand/category facets. If live facets are unavailable, explicit fallback metadata such as facet_data_status=temporarily_unavailable is returned instead of a misleading empty product success.

Probe rows

record_type=probe rows contain backend status and bounded diagnostic metadata.

Run summary

The OUTPUT key-value record contains operation status, Dataset row count, errors, supported operations, generation time, and optional bounded raw payload when includeRaw=true.

Reliability model

Home Hardware surfaces are intermittently protected in Apify cloud. In auto mode the Actor uses the proven Apify Web Unblocker route for buyer-facing operations, with bounded concurrent hedges and route diversity. Real product rows win over isolated zero-result responses. Search, category, item, category discovery, and filter discovery use live API fallbacks and fail honestly if no trustworthy result can be obtained.

For broad top-level categories such as Tools, if the broad upstream query times out, the Actor can use a bounded narrow live-product seed and emits only products whose returned breadcrumbs explicitly contain the requested category.

Pricing and trial access

• Actor start: $0.005
• Dataset item: $0.0004
• Free/trial users are limited to 20 Actor runs per UTC day. Paid users are not subject to this free/trial guard.

Limitations

• This Actor is unofficial and is not affiliated with Home Hardware.
• Upstream APIs, anti-bot behavior, taxonomy, prices, and stock can change without notice.
• Some source fields may be unavailable for individual products.
• Search/filter facet availability can vary independently from product search availability.
• Category discovery explicitly signals whether a complete taxonomy or a bounded live fallback was returned.

Responsible use

Use the Actor in accordance with applicable laws and relevant website/platform terms.