Australia Catalogue Specials - Weekly Deals by State

Current catalogue specials from Australian retailers for any state or territory, normalized into one clean schema. Pull the weekly Woolworths and Coles specials, or search every catalogue in a state for a product: Woolworths, Coles, IGA, Kmart, Target, Bunnings Warehouse, Myer, Priceline, Dan Murphy's and more, in a single run.

This actor reads Salefinder's public catalogue pages. It is HTTP-first: no browser, no proxies, no login. Catalogues differ by state, so you pick a state and get the catalogues that run there.

What you get

One record per catalogue item:

{
  "dealId": 679211168,
  "query": "coffee",
  "state": "NSW",
  "region": "SYDNEY, 2000",
  "name": "Moccona Freeze Dried Classic Coffee 200g",
  "retailer": "Woolworths",
  "currentPrice": 14,
  "originalPrice": 23.6,
  "saving": 9.6,
  "currency": "AUD",
  "priceText": "$14.00 each",
  "saleStory": "40% off, Save $9.60",
  "unitPriceText": "$7 per 100g",
  "category": "Food and beverage > Groceries > Drinks",
  "catalogueId": 67921,
  "catalogueName": "Weekly Catalogue NSW",
  "validFrom": "2026-09-23",
  "validTo": "2026-09-29",
  "imageUrl": "https://dduhxx0oznf63.cloudfront.net/images/thumbs/ipad/679211168_b81852e0b6ad432.jpg",
  "url": "https://www.salefinder.com.au/67921/food-and-beverage/groceries/drinks/moccona-freeze-dried-classic-coffee-200g/679211168/",
  "source": "Salefinder public catalogue pages",
  "fetchedAt": "2026-09-23T20:37:29.673Z"
}

currentPrice, originalPrice and saving are numbers in AUD where the catalogue gives them. priceText keeps the raw price ($14.00 each, Any 2 for $14.00, $25.49 pack (6)), saleStory keeps the promo line (1/2 Price, Save $8.40, Was $3.00, Save $1.50) and unitPriceText keeps the unit price, so nothing is lost. validFrom/validTo are the catalogue's run dates. query is the search term that matched, or null when you did not search.

Inputs

• state (required): NSW, VIC, QLD, WA, SA, TAS, ACT or NT.
• retailers: only read these retailers' catalogues (e.g. Woolworths, Coles, Kmart, Dan Murphy's). Case and punctuation do not matter, so dan murphys works too. With several retailers, maxItems is shared evenly between them. Empty = every retailer with a current catalogue in the state.
• queries: keep only items whose name contains every word of a term (coffee, chocolate, instant coffee). Words match the start of a word in the item name, so egg finds Eggs. Empty = every item in the matching catalogues.
• maxItems: cap on deal records for the whole run (default 200).
• onlyWithPrice: skip items that show no price (default true).
• includeOldCatalogues: also read range catalogues that started more than 60 days ago (default false). See the FAQ.

Coverage

Tested on 23 September 2026 in all eight states and territories. Every one returned deals.

• Salefinder listed 52-61 catalogues per state (old range catalogues included) from 23-26 retailers.
• Retailers that returned deal records in our tests: Woolworths, Coles, IGA, Kmart, Target, Bunnings Warehouse, Myer, Priceline, Dan Murphy's, Officeworks, Bed Bath N' Table, Soul Pattinson, Good Price Pharmacy Warehouse, Direct Chemist Outlet and Toymate.
• Also listed: Amcal, Angus & Coote, Autobarn, Discount Drug Stores, IGA Liquor, Lombard, Pharmacist Advice, Pharmacy Best Buys, Prouds, Tyres and More and healthylife.
• Big W and ALDI had no current catalogue on Salefinder in any state in the week tested.
• A Woolworths weekly catalogue held 308 items in NSW that week.

Use cases

• Price comparison apps: this week's coffee specials at Woolworths, Coles and IGA side by side
• Deal alerts: run once a week, diff against last week, notify on a target price
• Meal-planning and budgeting tools: pull the week's grocery specials for a state
• Market and CPG research: track promo depth (half price, multi-buy, % off) by brand, retailer and state over time
• AI agents: ask "what coffee is on special at Woolworths in Victoria" through the standby API endpoint

API / Standby mode for AI agents

Call the actor as a synchronous HTTP endpoint:

GET /?state=NSW&q=coffee&retailer=woolworths&maxItems=50

Returns { count, deals: [...] }. Repeat q or retailer, or separate values with commas, for several. An invalid state returns HTTP 400 and is not charged.

Base URL: https://gratifying-graph--australia-catalogue-specials.apify.actor. Add your Apify API token as ?token=YOUR_TOKEN or an Authorization: Bearer YOUR_TOKEN header.

In our tests a call for one retailer answered in about 9 seconds. The same call again within 30 minutes came back from cache in milliseconds. A search across every retailer in a state reads every catalogue first (about 2 minutes in our batch test), so pass retailer when you need a fast answer.

Speed

Measured locally:

• One or two retailers, with or without search terms: 5-45 seconds.
• A search term across every retailer in a state: about 2 minutes (TAS: 62 page reads, 107 seconds).

The actor reads Salefinder one page at a time with a short pause between pages, so larger runs take longer rather than hitting the site harder.

Pricing

Pay per event:

Event	Price
Actor start	$0.0005
Per deal record	$0.002
API call (standby)	$0.02

Measured example: chocolate and coffee specials at Woolworths and Coles in NSW returned 39 deals, $0.0785 per run. In the week tested, Woolworths and Coles catalogues ran Wednesday to Tuesday, so one run a week catches each new catalogue: about $0.34 a month. The default input (20 deals) costs $0.0405. A full Woolworths weekly catalogue (308 items in NSW) costs up to about $0.62.

FAQ

Where does the data come from? Salefinder (salefinder.com.au) catalogue pages - the same catalogues the retailers publish for shoppers. The actor reads logged-out, public, non-personal data only. Salefinder's pages are public and served without a login. This actor reads them politely: one request at a time with a short pause.

Are these in-store shelf prices? No. These are catalogue special prices for the stated validity window. Regular shelf prices are not part of catalogue data. Some catalogues show member prices: for Dan Murphy's, currentPrice is the headline price and the non-member price stays in saleStory (e.g. Non-Member: $21.95 Each).

Why do I need a state? Catalogues are regional. Woolworths publishes a separate weekly catalogue per state (e.g. Weekly Catalogue NSW, Weekly Catalogue QLD), and the retailers differ by state: in the week tested, Dan Murphy's was listed in NSW, VIC, QLD, WA and SA but not in TAS, ACT or NT. The actor reads the catalogues Salefinder shows for the state capital. Some retailers name these METRO catalogues (e.g. Coles Catalogue NSW METRO).

How are multi-buy prices handled? currentPrice is the price per item and priceText keeps the offer. Example from a real record: priceText Any 2 for $14.00, saleStory Save $4.00 gives currentPrice 7, saving 4 and originalPrice null. saving is the amount printed in the catalogue. originalPrice is only filled when the catalogue shows a Was price or a single-item saving, so it is never guessed for multi-buys.

Why are some prices null? Some catalogue items carry no price on the page, for example 35% off Blackmores Selected Products or homewares listed without a price. With onlyWithPrice on (the default) they are skipped. Turn it off to keep them; the offer stays in name or saleStory.

How do search terms match? Against the item name, word by word. milk finds Oak Flavoured Milk 600mL and also Cadbury Dairy Milk Block Chocolate. Use two words (flavoured milk) to narrow it.

What are old range catalogues? Salefinder keeps some range catalogues listed for years, for example Officeworks books from 2022 marked valid to 2030. Their prices are old, so by default the actor skips catalogues that started more than 60 days ago. Turn on includeOldCatalogues to read them. Some current range catalogues also carry a far-off end date (Bunnings Warehouse October 2026 is marked valid to 2030-09-24); validTo keeps the date as published.

Canada or the US? Use the sibling actors Canada Grocery Deals and US Grocery Deals - similar record shape, by postal code and ZIP code.

CSV export? Every Apify dataset exports as CSV, JSON, Excel, or via API.

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