Instacart Scraper: Store Prices, Deals & Stock by ZIP

For grocery price analysts, brands and comparison services monitoring the price a shopper sees at a particular Instacart store. About $0.005 per delivered product, or $0.10 for 20 products, plus the minimum $0.00005 Actor start charge. No Instacart login, account cookies or retailer API key is required.

Collect US and Canadian Instacart delivery prices from searches, product IDs, product links, store collections and deals pages. Select retailers such as Costco, Safeway, Sprouts, Publix, ALDI, Walmart or Loblaws and supply ZIP or postal codes. Every row identifies the retailer, Instacart shop, physical retailer location and requested postal zone. Availability depends on which stores serve that location.

What you get

The output uses the same core field names as the grocery price scraper family. A readable verdict comes first. One product at one store is one price observation; repeated matches within that run are delivered and charged once.

Field	Meaning
verdict	Product, current price, store and relevant sale or stock signal.
retailer, country, currency	Store banner, US or CA, and USD or CAD.
storeId, storeName, location	Instacart shop ID, retailer name and requested ZIP or postal code.
productId, sku, gtin	Instacart product ID, published external SKU and barcode when supplied. Missing identifiers stay null.
title, brand, size	Source product name, brand and package label.
price, regularPrice, onSale	Current displayed price, published struck-through price and sale comparison.
promoText, promoType	Published offer wording and a plain classification.
promoStart, promoEnd	Published promotion dates. Start dates are commonly unavailable.
memberPrice, memberProgram	Explicit loyalty price and program label, when shown publicly.
unitPrice, unitOfMeasure	Published numeric unit price and its unit, including each, fl oz or 100g.
inStock, stockLevel	Source availability and numeric quantity if supplied. Numeric shelf quantity normally remains null.
rating, reviewCount	Supplied product review aggregates.
category, url, imageUrl, scrapedAt	Category, public product link, image and UTC observation time.

Instacart extras include instacartRetailer, retailerSlug, shopId, retailerId, retailerLocationId, postalCode, zoneId, serviceType, storeAddress, inStockLikelihood, stockLabel, priceString, unitPriceString, offers, isDeal, priceRequiresMembership, requestedLocations, sourceType and sourceUrl. Optional details contains public product detail data. Optional availableRetailers checks the product at other selected shops.

The overview dataset view shows title, current and regular price, promotion, member price, unit price, stock and store. The deals view emphasizes offer fields. The details view exposes the common schema and retailer extras for export. Free explanatory rows have recordType: "NOTE"; delivered products have recordType: "PRODUCT".

Understand the price and the offer

These are Instacart prices. They can differ from the retailer's in-store prices. Taxes, delivery fees, tips, account-specific offers and checkout eligibility are outside the advertised product price.

price is the displayed product price at the resolved shop and postal zone. regularPrice retains an explicit source comparison price; it is not invented by repeating the current price. Weighted products can show estimated package prices, so keep soldBy, isEstimatedPrice and the source unit-price text.

Coupons and spend or quantity offers remain separate. A “Spend $25, save $5” offer does not subtract $5 from each product. Each offers entry preserves its source label, clipping state where supplied, expiry text, quantity limits, minimum purchase and written conditions. No coupon is clipped and no cart is changed.

A private cloud deals test on 3 November 2026 returned five products with five product charges. One Ferrero Rocher item showed $16.78, a $21.28 regular price, “$4.50 off; limit 5” and an expiry of 2026-11-16T03:00:00-05:00, with the condition “or while supplies last.” A Colgate offer also included a separate spend promotion. Conditions remain separate from checkout totals.

When a row has multiple offers, promoEnd is the earliest published expiry and promoEndConditions keeps each original expiry statement. Use the individual offers to reason about eligibility. A missing start date, barcode, member price, rating or stock quantity remains null. UPC coverage is sparse; this Actor does not derive barcodes from product IDs or package pictures.

Start in three steps

1. Enter retailer slugs and US ZIPs or full Canadian postal codes.
2. Add search terms, collection links or exact product IDs and set the product limits.
3. Run, check SUMMARY for source coverage, then export JSON, CSV or Excel.

The prefill searches milk at Costco for ZIP 10001 with a 20-product cap. A private cloud run delivered 20 unique products with 20 accepted charges and no source failures in 33.8 seconds. A Toronto test delivered ten Costco products in 30.2 seconds. Two larger cloud runs delivered 1,100 products across three stores and 1,091 across four stores, with matching product charges, no duplicates and no source failures.

Inputs

Input	Example and behavior
searchTerms	["milk", "coffee"], searched at each selected shop.
startUrls	HTTPS collection, product, search, flyer or store links. A store link browses its departments.
productIds	["31895"], the number at the start of a public product URL.
locations	["10001", "94105", "M5V 3L9"]. Empty uses the site's visitor default location.
storeIds	Exact Instacart shop IDs, verified within the selected postal zone. Pair these with locations for recurring work.
retailers	Store slugs such as costco, safeway, sprouts, publix or loblaws. Defaults to Costco when no store links or IDs are supplied.
maxItemsPerSearch	New observations per source and store; default 20, maximum 1,000.
maxItems	Global product/store cap; default 20, maximum 10,000.
dealsOnly	Keep source sales, promotions and explicit member prices.
includeDetails	Add public product metadata through extra requests, with no additional product fee.
availableRetailers	Check whether the product is carried by other selected shops at the same postal code. Adds requests.
proxyConfiguration	Optional custom proxy settings. Default datacenter routing precedes country-matched residential retries.

Canadian costco and walmart selections resolve to costco-canada and walmart-canada; exact Canadian slugs are also accepted. Canadian coordinates use the postal-area centre, while the full postal code selects the delivery zone. US coordinates use the ZIP centre. Store discovery does not promise street-address delivery eligibility.

A two-country comparison:

{
  "retailers": ["costco", "walmart"],
  "searchTerms": ["milk", "coffee"],
  "locations": ["10001", "M5V 3L9"],
  "maxItemsPerSearch": 10,
  "maxItems": 80
}

A category example:

{
  "startUrls": ["https://www.instacart.com/store/costco/collections/produce"],
  "locations": ["94105"],
  "maxItemsPerSearch": 100,
  "maxItems": 100
}

For exact monitoring, use productIds: ["31895"], retailers: ["costco"] and locations: ["10001", "94105"]. A product not carried at a selected shop is excluded free. Product URLs do not override the run's postal selection. Verify the website's selected ZIP before manually comparing a page.

Real output example

Selected fields from the 3 November 2026 ZIP 10001 cloud run:

{
  "retailer": "Costco",
  "country": "US",
  "currency": "USD",
  "storeId": "968",
  "retailerLocationId": "284",
  "location": "10001",
  "productId": "22165660",
  "title": "Kirkland Signature Organic A2 Whole Milk, Half Gallon, 3-count",
  "price": 18.03,
  "regularPrice": null,
  "unitPrice": 0.09,
  "unitOfMeasure": "fl oz",
  "inStock": true
}

Pricing and spending limits

A product at two stores is two observations. Overlapping searches and URLs at one shop produce one observation. Notes, summaries, duplicates, failed requests, unavailable products and empty results have no product charge. There is no default dataset-row fee or separate detail event.

Products	Base	Bronze	Silver	Gold
20	$0.10	$0.095	$0.09	$0.08
100	$0.50	$0.475	$0.45	$0.40
1,000	$5.00	$4.75	$4.50	$4.00

Add the minimum $0.00005 start charge. Base price is $0.005 per product, Bronze $0.00475, Silver $0.0045 and Gold $0.004. Apify's maximum total charge controls spending. The Actor checks capacity before more product delivery, stops cleanly at the limit and records the decision in SUMMARY.

Monitor prices every day

Save a task with stable product IDs, retailer slugs, postal codes and shop IDs. In Apify Console, create a schedule, select that task, choose the recurring schedule and timezone, then connect the completed-run webhook to your database or workflow.

Join observations using country + storeId + productId, with scrapedAt as the timestamp. Keep current price, regular price, loyalty price and coupon conditions separate. Every scheduled run fetches a fresh observation and charges for products delivered in that run. Historical backfill is unavailable.

SUMMARY includes products, resolved stores, deals found, duplicates, source outcomes, free failures and spending-limit status. Inspect freeFailures and outcomes before accepting a run as a complete snapshot. A run can deliver useful partial coverage while clearly identifying a failed source. Missing stores and refused requests are distinguished.

API and automation

Start a run with your own Apify token, then fetch its dataset and SUMMARY:

curl -X POST \
  'https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/moggedhq~instacart-price-scraper/runs' \
  -H 'Authorization: Bearer YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"searchTerms":["milk"],"retailers":["costco"],"locations":["10001"],"maxItems":20}'

from apify_client import ApifyClient
client = ApifyClient("YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN")
run = client.actor("moggedhq/instacart-price-scraper").call(
    run_input={"searchTerms": ["coffee"], "locations": ["M5V 3L9"], "maxItems": 20}
)
rows = list(client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items())

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';
const client = new ApifyClient({ token: process.env.APIFY_TOKEN });
const run = await client.actor('moggedhq/instacart-price-scraper').call({
  searchTerms: ['milk'], retailers: ['costco'], locations: ['10001'], maxItems: 20
});
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();

Filter recordType when importing the dataset into Make, Zapier, n8n, Sheets or webhooks.

Use with AI agents (MCP)

Connect your agent to https://mcp.apify.com. Ask for Instacart grocery prices at specific retailers and ZIPs, regular prices, unit prices, stock and offer expiry dates. Supply a product cap. Ask the agent to inspect SUMMARY, preserve nulls and distinguish coupon conditions from current price. Use exact product IDs for a repeated basket, then compare snapshots in your own database.

Reliability and limits

Requests are sequential within each run, paced two seconds apart. Retries use fresh anonymous visitor sessions. Default datacenter routing comes first; residential retries match the country. The scraper never imports account cookies, logs in, solves a CAPTCHA or uses a paid unblocking service.

The site's own public data calls provide prices. Product item IDs must match the selected physical retailer location before delivery. Saved source snapshots, dataset rows and acknowledged charge receipts survive a reboot. Delivery and charging are serial; recovery reconciles saved rows against authoritative charge counts. Ambiguous billing evidence stops further charges.

Search reads one public result batch per term and store. Collections return at most 1,000 IDs each; exhaustive catalog coverage is not promised. The per-source cap is a ceiling. Store links browse departments; overlap remains free. Unavailable retailers, historical prices and personalized offers are excluded.

Optional availability comparisons report only selected stores at the same postal code. productCarried: null means that check was unavailable. The public source's stock labels are likelihood signals rather than audited shelf quantities. Details and barcodes can remain null.

Postal coordinates come from Zippopotam.us, with source postal data credited to GeoNames under CC BY 4.0. Instacart's public postal autocomplete is a fallback. Product prices and stock come from Instacart, not from the coordinate provider.

FAQ

Are these the prices inside Costco or another physical store? They are Instacart's displayed delivery prices for the resolved shop. A retailer may use different prices in store.

Can I choose a physical branch? Supply its Instacart shop ID with the postal location. Rows also identify the physical retailerLocationId and public address.

Are coupons applied? No. Published offer labels, dates, limits and clipping conditions are collected separately. Checkout eligibility depends on the shopper and basket.

Why are UPC, start date or member price null? The public source did not publish a verified value for that product. IDs and prices are never used to manufacture a barcode or promotion date.

What happens with bad input? Parseable invalid input produces free explanatory notes and SUMMARY. Apify can reject schema-invalid input before a run starts; neither path adds a product charge.

Does this give me all stores in North America? It supports public Instacart stores serving the requested postal locations. Coverage must be checked in each run's resolved stores and source outcomes.

This independent Actor has no affiliation with Instacart or the retailers named here.