Screwfix UK Product & Store Scraper (Unofficial)

Scrape Screwfix UK products, categories, filters, and stores with normalized output for price monitoring, product research, market research, availability, offers, and retail workflows.

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

Proxy behavior

This actor uses the shared Apify proxy contract used across the workspace. screwfix_uk is expected to work in direct mode first, with proxy fallback if the site starts blocking cloud runs.

Supported operations

• probe
• categories
• stores
• store
• 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.

• probe Required: none Optional: includeRaw

• categories Required: none Optional: includeRaw

• stores Required: none Optional: storeQuery, page, limit, includeRaw

• store Required: storeCode or storeSlug or storeUrl 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: productId or productSlug or productUrl Optional: includeRaw

Example inputs

These starter examples were validated locally against the live site.

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

{
  "operation": "search",
  "query": "spanner",
  "page": 1,
  "limit": 24,
  "sort": "relevance_desc",
  "includeRaw": false
}

{
  "operation": "category",
  "categoryId": "cat830704",
  "categorySlug": "c/tools/cat830704",
  "categoryUrl": "https://www.screwfix.com/c/tools/cat830704",
  "page": 1,
  "limit": 24,
  "sort": "top_sellers_desc",
  "includeRaw": false
}

{
  "operation": "item",
  "productId": "979HF",
  "productSlug": "p/dewalt-drill/979hf",
  "productUrl": "https://www.screwfix.com/p/dewalt-drill/979hf",
  "includeRaw": false
}

{
  "operation": "stores",
  "storeQuery": "London",
  "page": 1,
  "limit": 24,
  "includeRaw": false
}

{
  "operation": "store",
  "storeCode": "TA4",
  "storeSlug": "stores/TA4/aberdare",
  "storeUrl": "https://www.screwfix.com/stores/TA4/aberdare",
  "includeRaw": false
}

{
  "operation": "search_filters",
  "query": "spanner",
  "categoryId": "cat830704",
  "categorySlug": "c/tools/cat830704",
  "categoryUrl": "https://www.screwfix.com/c/tools/cat830704",
  "includeRaw": false
}

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

Output

• Dataset: normalized products, categories, stores, or structured filter rows depending on the operation
• Key-value store OUTPUT: run summary with source, operation, success, total, errors, proxy, and monetization

Limitations

• Store search is directory-based text matching (no geospatial nearest-store ranking)
• Review summary available on product detail, but individual review rows not extracted
• Category taxonomy is top-level from header navigation plus discovered filters (no full deep browse tree export)