Instacart Scraper | Grocery Products Prices US & CA

Scrape Instacart grocery shops, storefronts, collections, product details, hubs, SEO categories, delivery ETA, and keyword search across the United States and Canada — then download structured data as Excel, CSV, or JSON.

Use this Actor as a practical Instacart grocery data API for price monitoring, retailer assortment research, and competitive tracking. Choose a market (us / ca), pick a mode, set limits, and get Dataset rows with shopId, retailerSlug, productId, guest preview prices, availability, and product URLs.

• Scrape nearby Instacart retailers, storefront shelves, collections (produce, beverages, frozen…), DiscoverNav catalogs, hubs (deals, alcohol, pharmacy…), SEO categories, product detail / batch enrich, delivery ETA, and keyword search
• Cover Instacart.com (US) and Instacart.ca (Canada) including optional French (fr-CA) language for Quebec
• Extract shopId · retailerId · retailerLocationId · productId · priceString · availability · ETA · collectionSlug · product URL
• Optional PDP enrich (enrichDetails / mode=enrich) and collection pagination (maxPages)
• 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 Instacart. It collects publicly reachable guest shopping surfaces and does not access Instacart+ / member login pricing, place orders, add items to cart, or checkout.

Free Apify-plan users (developer policy): 10 runs / 200 results per run.

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What does the Instacart Scraper do?

Instacart Scraper lets you extract structured grocery retailer and product data from Instacart without running your own anti-bot browser fleet. Give it a ZIP/postal + city preset, a retailer slug (e.g. Costco, Sprouts), a collection / hub / category, a product URL, or a search keyword, then start a run.

Under the hood, the Actor:

1. Validates your input (market, mode, retailer / collection / product / query)
2. Enforces free-tier caps when you are on a free Apify plan
3. Calls a managed scrape backend that opens Instacart with residential egress + stealth browser
4. Reads session GraphQL / JSON-LD / DOM product cards (guest preview prices)
5. Pushes Dataset rows ready for Excel / CSV / JSON export
6. Writes INPUT_ECHO, 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 Instacart data can I extract?

Data	nearMe / retailers	Storefront	Collection	Search	Product / enrich	Hub / category	ETA
shopId / retailerSlug	✅	✅	✅*	✅*	✅*	✅*	✅
Product name / productId	—	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅*	—
Guest price (priceString)	—	✅*	✅*	✅*	✅*	✅*	—
Availability / image	—	✅*	✅*	✅*	✅*	✅*	—
Collection / hub slug	—	✅*	✅	—	—	✅	—
Delivery ETA	✅*	—	—	—	—	—	✅*
Product URL	—	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅*	—

*When present on the page or after GraphQL / enrichDetails. ETA depends on Instacart returning accurate retailer ETAs for the postal code.

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Why scrape Instacart?

Instacart aggregates major grocery retailers (Costco, Kroger banners, Walmart, Sprouts, and many local chains) with location-aware prices and availability. Teams scrape Instacart for:

• Grocery price monitoring across ZIP codes and metros (SF, NYC, Toronto, Montreal…)
• Retailer assortment research by collection (produce, dairy, frozen, alcohol…)
• Competitive tracking vs warehouse clubs and supermarket banners
• Delivery ETA snapshots for ops / marketplace analytics
• Feeding BI dashboards, pricing tools, or AI agents with structured Instacart rows

Compared with keyword-only or storefront-only Instacart Actors on the Store, this Actor covers nearby shops + storefront + collections + discoverCollections + hubs + SEO categories + product enrich + search + ETA across US and Canada in one input surface.

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Features

Capability	What it means for you
Multi-market coverage	US (instacart.com) · CA (instacart.ca) · optional language=fr
City presets	sf nyc la chicago seattle austin miami denver · toronto vancouver montreal calgary ottawa
Retailer discovery	nearMe / discoverRetailers nearby shops for a postal code
Collections & nav	collection pagination + discoverCollections (DiscoverNav / known slugs)
Hubs & SEO categories	/store/hub/{slug} · /categories/{id}-{slug}
Product detail & batch	product · enrich · optional enrichDetails on listings
Search	Store or cross-retailer keyword search
ETA	includeEta or mode=eta when Instacart exposes accurate ETAs
Free-tier friendly	10 runs / 200 results for free Apify plans (developer policy)
Standby Live View	Lightweight health + OpenAPI; full scrapes still use normal runs

Out of scope: Instacart+ / member login pricing · add-to-cart · checkout.

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Example inputs

Nearby grocery shops

{
  "mode": "nearMe",
  "city": "nyc",
  "maxResults": 20,
  "includeEta": true
}

Costco produce collection (US)

{
  "mode": "collection",
  "country": "us",
  "city": "seattle",
  "retailerSlug": "costco",
  "collectionSlug": "produce",
  "maxResults": 40,
  "maxPages": 3
}

Discover store collections

{
  "mode": "discoverCollections",
  "city": "chicago",
  "retailerSlug": "costco",
  "maxResults": 30
}

Keyword search inside a retailer

{
  "mode": "search",
  "city": "austin",
  "retailerSlug": "costco",
  "query": "organic milk",
  "maxResults": 25
}

Canada collection (Vancouver)

{
  "mode": "collection",
  "city": "vancouver",
  "retailerSlug": "save-on-foods",
  "collectionSlug": "produce",
  "maxResults": 20,
  "maxPages": 2
}

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How to scrape Instacart (no code required)

1. Create a free Apify account
2. Open Instacart Scraper
3. Choose a mode (see table below)
4. Choose a country (us / ca) or a city preset
5. Fill retailer / collection / product / query fields for that mode
6. Click Start and download the Dataset as JSON, CSV, Excel, or JSONL

Start with maxResults: 5–15 to verify the query, then scale up.

Mode	Required inputs
nearMe / discoverRetailers	Optional city / postalCode · optional includeEta
storefront	retailerSlug
collection	retailerSlug + collectionSlug · optional maxPages
discoverCollections	retailerSlug
product	productId or productUrl
enrich	productIds / startUrls / productUrl
search	query · optional retailerSlug
hub	hubSlug (e.g. deals_tab, alcohol)
category	categoryId · optional categorySlug
eta	Optional city / postalCode
startUrls	Instacart storefront / collection / hub / category / product / search URLs

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How much does it cost to scrape Instacart?

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 on FREE/BRONZE)

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).

Discount tiers (per result)

Tier	$/1,000	per result
FREE*	$3.00	$0.003
BRONZE	$3.00	$0.003
SILVER	$2.60	$0.0026
GOLD	$2.20	$0.0022
PLATINUM	$2.00	$0.002
DIAMOND	$1.60	$0.0016

*Free Apify-plan users are also capped by the developer policy: 10 runs / 200 results per run.

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).

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Input

See the Input tab for the full schema. Common fields: mode, country, city, postalCode, retailerSlug, collectionSlug, hubSlug, categoryId, productId / productUrl / productIds, query, startUrls, enrichDetails, enrichLimit, includeEta, maxPages, maxResults.

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Output

Each Dataset item is a shop, product, collection, hub, category, suggestion, or ETA row. Typical product fields: itemType, productId, name, priceString, available, url, shopId, retailerSlug, collectionSlug, country, acquisition.

Key-value store (no internal backend URLs):

Key	When
INPUT_ECHO	Always — sanitized input + free-tier / proxy source flags
RUN_SUMMARY	Success or free-tier limit — counts, mode, warnings
ERROR_SUMMARY	Failure — safe error type + message

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Tips for better results

• Prefer a city preset or accurate postalCode — Instacart prices and shops are location-aware
• Start with a known retailer (costco, sprouts, banner slugs) before broad nearMe crawls
• Use discoverCollections to list nav slugs, then run collection with maxPages
• Set enrichDetails sparingly — each PDP costs time/results budget
• Canada: use city=montreal + language=fr when you need French UI context

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FAQ

Is this an official Instacart API?

No. It is an unofficial scraper for publicly reachable guest shopping pages.

Do you scrape Instacart+ member prices?

No. Member / login pricing and cart/checkout are out of scope.

Which countries are supported?

US and Canada only (Instacart’s public grocery markets for this product surface).

Can I schedule recurring price monitors?

Yes — use Apify Schedules or the API with a fixed postalCode / retailerSlug / collectionSlug.

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Legal & ethics

Use responsibly and comply with Instacart’s terms and applicable laws. Do not use this Actor for fraud, account takeover, or high-volume abuse. Data is provided as collected from public pages and may change without notice.

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