BasketWatch MCP Server — Irish Grocery Data for AI Agents

A hosted Model Context Protocol server that gives your AI agent live Irish supermarket data — shelf prices, unit prices, promotions, loyalty-card prices and week-over-week price changes across Aldi, Tesco, SuperValu and Dunnes Stores.

~47,000 Irish supermarket SKUs, ~16,000 on promotion at any time, refreshed nightly across all four retailers. Now queryable directly from Claude, Cursor, Windsurf or any MCP client.

This Actor runs in Standby mode: it's always-on at a stable URL and you connect to it over Streamable HTTP. You're billed per tool request — no subscription, no API key to manage. Apify handles auth and billing.

What your agent can do

Eight grocery-aware tools:

Tool	What it does
status	Cross-retailer freshness snapshot — SKU counts, last-scrape dates, run status
search_products	Find products by name in one or all stores
compare_price_across_stores	One-call comparison across all 4 supermarkets
get_promotions	Products currently on offer at a given store
recent_price_changes	Week-over-week price movements
newly_added_products	New listings in a configurable lookback window
removed_products	Delistings / range cuts
list_products	Paginated catalogue dump for walking the full assortment

Example questions:

• "Where can I buy Heinz Baked Beans cheapest this week?"
• "Build me a €40 weekly grocery list across the 4 supermarkets."
• "Which products got cheaper at Tesco this week?"
• "What promotions are running on chocolate at Dunnes right now?"

Connect your MCP client

The server lives at your Standby URL:

https://<your-username>--basketwatch-mcp.apify.actor/mcp

Authenticate with your Apify token via the Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_TOKEN> header (or the ?token= query param where your client requires it).

Claude Desktop / Cursor / Windsurf

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "basketwatch": {
      "url": "https://<your-username>--basketwatch-mcp.apify.actor/mcp",
      "headers": {
        "Authorization": "Bearer <YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Restart the client; "basketwatch" appears as an available MCP server. Ask it "What's the cheapest 1L of milk in Ireland?" and it'll use the tools automatically.

Pricing

Pay-per-event: one charge per successful tool request. Failed calls (network/API errors) are not billed. See the Pricing tab on this Store listing for the current per-request rate and any Apify subscription-tier discounts.

Need bulk exports or higher cadence (daily / real-time) instead of agent-style lookups? The full BasketWatch data API is sold separately — email info@basketwatchireland.com.

Data freshness

• All four retailers refresh every night.
• Rows carry a scrape_date so the agent knows when each price was captured.

Not affiliated

BasketWatch is not affiliated with Aldi Ireland, Tesco Ireland, Musgrave SuperValu or Dunnes Stores. Data is collected from publicly available sources for lawful market research and price comparison.