Walmart Category Scraper: Prices, Stock & Ratings

Walmart Category Scraper turns walmart.com category pages into clean listing rows: each product's title, price, stock status, rating, review count, sponsored flag, position on the page and link. Use it to track prices across a category, watch which products rank where, or build an assortment list, then download the rows as JSON, CSV or Excel, or read them through the Apify API.

This actor is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by Walmart Inc.

What does Walmart Category Scraper do?

Give it one or more walmart.com category pages (URLs starting https://www.walmart.com/browse/). It reads each page, follows the category's next pages up to your page limit, and saves one row per product tile.

• Category pages only. Search pages (/search), product pages (/ip/) and other sites are rejected before any request is made, with a message naming the path.
• US walmart.com. It runs through Apify's residential proxy in the US by default. Prices and stock on walmart.com depend on the shopper's location, so the values you get may differ from what you see in your own browser.
• Sponsored rows are left out by default. Turn on Include sponsored rows to keep them, marked sponsored: true.
• Each product once per run, even across categories. A product already saved is dropped, and not charged, when it shows up again on a later page or in another of your categories; its row keeps the first position it was seen at. (A rare platform migration can still repeat a few rows; see the limits below.)

What data can it extract?

One row per product, with these fields:

Field	Example	Notes
id	"16044016485"	Walmart's item id. A product appears once per run (see the limits below)
title	"Example 50 in Class 4K Smart TV"	As listed
price	158.0	The single current price. Empty (null) when the page shows none
currency	"USD"	Empty exactly when price is
availability	"in_stock"	in_stock, out_of_stock or unknown
rating	4.4	Average stars, 0 to 5. Empty for items without reviews
reviewCount	1873	Number of reviews
sellerName	"Walmart.com"	Only with Include seller name; empty otherwise
sponsored	false	true for an ad tile
url	"https://www.walmart.com/ip/example/16044016485"	The product page, without tracking parameters
position	7	Position of the tile on its category page
sourceUrl	"https://www.walmart.com/browse/...?page=2"	The category page the row came from
scrapedAt	"2026-10-09T12:00:00Z"	When the row was read (UTC)

Not collected: product descriptions or specifications, images, review texts or reviewer names, seller addresses or contact details, variants, delivery promises, or anything behind a login or a cart.

How to use it

1. Open a category on walmart.com in your browser, for example Electronics > TVs > All TVs, and copy its URL from the address bar. It must start with https://www.walmart.com/browse/: department pages (/cp/...) aren't accepted, so open a subcategory until the address shows /browse/.
2. Paste it into Category URLs. Add more categories if you like, up to 100.
3. Set Max rows, the most rows you want (and pay for) across all categories, and Max pages per URL.
4. Click Start. When the run finishes, open the Output tab to view the rows or download them.

To track prices over time, save the input as a task and run it on a schedule; each run gives a fresh snapshot with its own scrapedAt time.

Input

Input	Default	Notes
Category URLs	required (the form is prefilled with a TV category)	1 to 100 walmart.com category pages. A page= in a URL is the first page read
Max rows	100	Rows saved (and charged) across all URLs, 1 to 10,000
Max pages per URL	10	1 to 50
Include seller name	off
Include sponsored rows	off
Proxy	Apify residential, US	With datacenter proxy or no proxy, Walmart will likely block most pages

How much does it cost?

You pay per row saved, plus a tiny fee per run; Apify's platform usage (compute, proxy) is included in that price. The price per 1,000 rows depends on your Apify Store discount tier, which follows your Apify plan:

Apify plan	Price per 1,000 rows
Free	$4.50
Starter	$3.50
Scale	$2.75
Business	$2.00

• Per run: a start fee of $0.00005 (5 cents per 1,000 runs). Memory is capped at 1 GB, so it is charged once.
• Never charged: blocked or empty pages, repeated products (except in the rare migration case below), sponsored rows that were left out, and anything beyond Max rows.
• Example: 1,000 rows on the Starter plan cost $3.50 plus $0.00005.
• Free plan: Apify's free plan includes $5 of usage a month, which at $4.50 per 1,000 is about 1,100 rows.
• Your limit is respected. If you set a maximum cost per run, the actor stops saving rows when it is reached.

Limits and how blocks are handled

• Blocked pages are reported, not charged. If Walmart answers a page with a block or a bot check, the actor tries that page at most 4 times, each on a fresh IP, after a short pause. It never solves or interacts with a challenge. Pages it gave up on are listed in the run's BLOCKED_URLS record, and the RUN_SUMMARY record counts pages, attempts and blocks. When Walmart redirects a page away from the category pages, the log names where it was sent (the host and path only, never the query string or fragment), and RUN_SUMMARY counts those destinations (the first 20 distinct ones each by name, any later new one under (other)).
• Partial page changes are flagged. If Walmart changes its pages so that some products can't be read, shows product tiles of a kind the actor doesn't know or in a second list, or no longer gives a usable count of the category's pages (none, or one lower than the page's own number), the run still succeeds with the rows it could read. Its status message then says "layout drift", the log names each affected page, and RUN_SUMMARY counts the products and tiles it couldn't read and the pages without a usable page count. Without one, the actor doesn't guess further pages of that category.
• Repeated products are dropped, not charged. Walmart sometimes shows a product again on a later page of the same category, and categories overlap. The actor pushes each product once per run, across all your category URLs, and RUN_SUMMARY counts the repeats by page number, beside the rows each page number offered.
• The run stops early when Walmart refuses it. If most recent attempts were blocked, the actor stops instead of spending more. A run that could read no page at all ends as failed.
• Page depth. Walmart reports up to about 25 pages for a large category, but pages near or past that number can come back empty. The actor stops a category at its first empty page.
• Polite by design. At most 3 requests at a time and 20 a minute, which you can't raise.
• Runs survive a server move. If Apify moves a run to another server, the actor saves its progress in the run's CRAWL_STATE record and carries on from it. It is built not to save or charge a row twice, but an interruption at the wrong moment, or a failed save just before it, can still push and charge some rows again (usually at most one page's). If the restart doesn't come, the run fails and can be resurrected to continue.

What it doesn't do

• No keyword search. It reads category pages only; walmart.com's robots.txt disallows /search.
• No ZIP code or store choice. Rows reflect what a US visitor on the proxy's location sees.
• US only. Not walmart.ca or other Walmart sites.
• Listing fields only. No product-page details such as specifications, variants, UPCs, review texts or seller offers, and no was-price, brand or image fields.

FAQ

Why are some prices different from what I see on walmart.com?

Walmart shows prices and stock for the shopper's location and store. The actor runs from a US residential IP chosen by the proxy, so its location is not yours.

Why did I get fewer rows than Max rows?

The category may have fewer products than that, its later pages may be empty, sponsored rows are left out by default, and repeats are dropped. Pages Walmart blocked are listed in BLOCKED_URLS; RUN_SUMMARY gives the counts.

Can I use it without the residential proxy?

You can, but Walmart will likely block most pages from datacenter IPs or no proxy, and blocked pages give no rows.

Can I use it through the API or with other tools?

Yes. Like any Apify actor, you can start it and read its dataset through the Apify API and client libraries, run it on a schedule, and connect it to Apify's integrations, such as webhooks, Make, Zapier or Google Sheets.

Is it legal to scrape Walmart?

The actor collects only what a logged-out visitor can see on public category pages, and no personal data unless you turn on Include seller name. Whether your use is lawful depends on what you do with the data and where you are; see below.

Your responsibility

You are responsible for how you use the data you collect, including compliance with walmart.com's terms and the laws that apply to you. The data comes as it was shown on walmart.com at the time of the run, without any guarantee that it is accurate, complete or up to date. Walmart is a trademark of Walmart Inc.; this actor is independent of it.