Costco Product Scraper | US CA MX UK Prices & Search

Scrape Costco product listings, keyword search, categories, Hot Buys, product detail pages, warehouse locations, and reviews — then download structured multi-market data as Excel, CSV, or JSON.

Use this Actor as a practical Costco product data API for price monitoring, assortment research, and competitor tracking across Costco ecommerce markets. Choose a country, pick a mode, set limits, and get Dataset rows with prices, ratings, dual IDs (itemId / sku), and product URLs.

• Scrape Costco keyword search, category browse, specialty topics (Hot Buys / What’s New / warehouse-only / grocery), category trees, product detail pages (PDP), warehouse locations, and product reviews
• Cover US · CA · MX · UK · AU · JP · KR · TW ecommerce hosts (not membership-only warehouse apps)
• Extract price, currency, title, itemId, sku, brand, rating, review count, availability, zip/warehouse context
• Optional PDP enrich on listings (enrichDetails, off by default) to backfill dual IDs and prices
• Export to Excel / CSV / JSON, or connect Make, n8n, Zapier, Python, or the Apify API
• Pay per event — Actor start + each Dataset result; platform usage is included (you do not pay separate Apify compute on top)

Unofficial tool. This Actor is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Costco Wholesale. It collects publicly reachable shopping surfaces and does not place orders, checkout, or access private member accounts. Same Day, Business Delivery, Pharmacy, Travel, and Photo apps are out of scope. China (CN) is not included in this version.

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What does the Costco Product Scraper do?

Costco Product Scraper lets you extract structured product and location data from Costco ecommerce sites without running your own anti-bot browser fleet. Give it a keyword, category URL/slug, specialty topic, product URL / itemId, or zip for warehouses, then start a run.

Under the hood, the Actor:

1. Validates your input (market, mode, keyword / category / product / topic, filters)
2. Enforces free-tier caps when you are on a free Apify plan
3. Calls a managed Cloud Run worker (costco-com) that opens Costco (egress + orchestrator CDP, Bright Data browser failover)
4. Parses listing cards (DOM / Next data) and PDP JSON-LD (dual itemId vs sku)
5. Pushes Dataset rows ready for Excel / CSV / JSON export
6. Writes RUN_SUMMARY (and ERROR_SUMMARY on failure) to the key-value store

You run it like any other Apify Actor — schedule it, call it from the API, or plug it into automations.

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What Costco data can I extract?

Data	Keyword search	Category / Specialty	Product detail	Warehouses	Reviews	Category tree
itemId / URL	✅	✅	✅	—	✅*	—
Title	✅	✅	✅	name*	✅*	name
Price / currency	✅	✅	✅	—	—	—
JSON-LD sku (dual ID)	✅*	✅*	✅	—	—	—
Rating / review count	✅*	✅*	✅	—	rating	—
Brand / availability	✅*	✅*	✅	—	—	—
Zip / warehouse context	✅	✅	✅	✅	—	—
Review text / author	—	—	—	—	✅*	—
Category slug / path	—	✅	—	—	—	✅

*When present on the page or after enrichDetails / Bazaarvoice best-effort. Reviews may return a soft note row when passkeys are missing.

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Why scrape Costco?

Costco is a major warehouse-club retailer with distinct ecommerce catalogs by country. Teams scrape Costco for price monitoring, competitive analysis, and assortment research:

• Monitor Costco.com / Costco.ca / Costco.com.mx / Costco.co.uk (and AU/JP/KR/TW) prices and Hot Buys
• Track itemId vs sku dual IDs, ratings, and PDP availability
• Map category trees and specialty merchandising pages (grocery, warehouse-only)
• Pull warehouse location rows by zip for geo context
• Feed BI dashboards, pricing tools, or AI agents with structured Costco rows

Compared with US-only Costco Actors that only accept a search URL or only PDP links, this Actor covers keyword + category + specialty topics + category tree + PDP + warehouses + reviews across eight markets in one input surface.

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How to scrape Costco products (no code required)

1. Create a free Apify account
2. Open Costco Product Scraper
3. Choose a browseCountry: US, CA, MX, UK, AU, JP, KR, or TW
4. Choose a mode: keywordSearch, categoryBrowse, specialtyBrowse, categoryTree, productDetail, warehouseLocations, or productReviews
5. Enter a keyword, categoryUrl / categorySlug, topic, or productUrl / itemId
6. (Optional) Set zip, dept, sort, enrichDetails, maxResults
7. Click Start and download the Dataset as JSON, CSV, Excel, or JSONL

Start with maxResults: 5–10 to verify the query, then scale up.

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How much does it cost to scrape Costco?

This Actor uses pay-per-event pricing. You are charged for:

Event	Price
Actor Start (apify-actor-start)	$0.005 per start
Result (apify-default-dataset-item)	$3.00 / 1,000 results ($0.003 each)

Platform usage costs are included — you do not pay separate Apify compute/proxy usage for this Actor on top of the event prices above (User pays platform usage costs = No).

Example cost estimates

Results collected	Approx. event cost*
100	~$0.31
1,000	~$3.01
10,000	~$30.01

*Assumes one Actor start at default memory billing for start events, plus $0.003 per Dataset item. Exact start billing can scale with allocated memory (one start event per GB, minimum one).

Free plan limits

On a free Apify plan, this Actor enforces developer limits of 10 runs and 200 results per run. Upgrade to a paid Apify plan for unlimited runs (event prices still apply).

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Input examples

Keyword search (US)

{
  "mode": "keywordSearch",
  "browseCountry": "US",
  "keyword": "paper towels",
  "maxResults": 5,
  "maxPages": 1,
  "enrichDetails": false
}

Keyword search (Mexico)

{
  "mode": "keywordSearch",
  "browseCountry": "MX",
  "keyword": "cafe",
  "maxResults": 20,
  "maxPages": 1,
  "enrichDetails": false
}

Specialty / Hot Buys

{
  "mode": "specialtyBrowse",
  "browseCountry": "US",
  "topic": "hotBuys",
  "maxResults": 30,
  "maxPages": 1
}

Category browse

{
  "mode": "categoryBrowse",
  "browseCountry": "US",
  "categorySlug": "grocery-household",
  "maxResults": 30
}

Product detail (PDP)

{
  "mode": "productDetail",
  "browseCountry": "US",
  "productUrl": "https://www.costco.com/p/-/kirkland-signature/100334021"
}

Warehouse locations

{
  "mode": "warehouseLocations",
  "browseCountry": "US",
  "zip": "98101",
  "maxResults": 20
}

Product reviews

{
  "mode": "productReviews",
  "browseCountry": "US",
  "itemId": "10024438",
  "maxResults": 20
}

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Output example

Listing row (search / category):

{
  "itemId": "4000376434",
  "sku": null,
  "url": "https://www.costco.com/p/-/ninja-crispi-portable-air-fryer/4000376434",
  "title": "Ninja Crispi 5-in-1 Portable Glass Air Fry Cooking System",
  "price": 119.99,
  "currency": "USD",
  "rating": 4.7,
  "browseCountry": "US",
  "sourceSurface": "keywordSearch",
  "enginePath": "brightdata_browser+dom",
  "platform": "usbc"
}

PDP rows may include sku (JSON-LD), brand, availability, images, and nested pdp after enrich. Review rows may include reviewId, text, author, submissionTime.

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Coverage matrix

Dimension	Scope
Markets	US costco.com · CA costco.ca · MX costco.com.mx · UK costco.co.uk · AU · JP · KR · TW
Platforms	US/CA Next (/s?keyword=) · MX/UK Hybris (/search?text=)
Modes	keywordSearch · categoryBrowse · specialtyBrowse · categoryTree · productDetail · warehouseLocations · productReviews
Pagination	currentPage (usbc) · page (sap)
Waived	Same Day / Business / Pharmacy / Travel / Photo apps; CN; member-only price deltas

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Tips for better Costco scrapes

• Prefer specific keywords (kirkland paper towels) over single generic words
• Use browseCountry that matches the host: US/CA are Next /s?keyword=; MX/UK/AU/JP/KR/TW are Hybris /search?text=
• Leave enrichDetails off until you need JSON-LD sku / cleaner PDP prices (costs more navigations)
• Set zip when inventory or warehouse context matters
• Keep maxResults at 5–10 on first runs; scale after a green Dataset

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Integrations

• Apify API / client — start runs and pull Dataset items programmatically
• Schedules — daily/weekly price monitors
• Webhooks — notify your backend when a run finishes
• Make / n8n / Zapier — no-code pipelines into Sheets, Slack, or CRM

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FAQ

Is this an official Costco API?
No. It scrapes publicly reachable Costco ecommerce pages. It is not affiliated with Costco.

Why do itemId and sku differ?
Costco URLs often use an itemId / item number that is not the same as the JSON-LD sku. This Actor keeps both when available.

Do I need my own proxies?
No for normal Store runs. The worker provides egress (WORKER_PROVIDES_PROXY=1). Free-tier run/result caps still apply on free Apify plans.

Can I scrape Same Day or Pharmacy?
Those are separate Costco apps / hosts and are waived in this Actor.

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Support

Questions or feature requests: open an issue on the Actor page or contact the developer via Apify Console.