Sainsbury's UK Grocery Scraper

Sainsbury's UK Grocery Scraper

Sainsbury's UK Grocery Scraper extracts grocery products from Sainsbury's Groceries by search term, with prices, Nectar prices, offers, unit prices, pack size, brand, EAN barcode, ratings, categories, descriptions, and images for every product.

Search Sainsbury's for any list of products, sort by price or rating, keep only offers if you want, and get the regular price and the Nectar price as separate numbers, ready for price comparison and basket tracking.

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Apify Actor parsebird/sainsburys-scraper scrapes grocery products from Sainsbury's (sainsburys.co.uk, UK). Call it with the apify-client package: client.actor("parsebird/sainsburys-scraper").call(run_input={"queries": ["baked beans", "whole milk"], "maxResultsPerQuery": 20}). Inputs: queries (array of search terms, as typed in the Sainsbury's search box), maxResultsPerQuery (int 1-5000, default 20), sortBy ("relevance","price_asc","price_desc","rating"; default "relevance"), offersOnly (bool, default false; only offers and Nectar prices), includeDetails (bool, default true; adds exact brand, zone, department, main category, breadcrumbs, description, all images), productUrls (array of {url}: Sainsbury's product URLs or search result URLs), proxyConfiguration (object, optional). Output: one dataset item per product per search term with store, query, position, productId, sainId, ean, eans, name, brand, price, regularPrice, nectarPrice, unitPrice, unitPriceMeasure, unitSize, onOffer, offerDescription, offers (description, isNectar, type, originalPrice, startDate, endDate, url, promotionId), labels, isAvailable, isAlcoholic, rating, reviewCount, zone, department, mainCategory, categories, breadcrumbs, description, imageUrl, images, productUrl, scrapedAt. Prices are in GBP. API docs: https://apify.com/parsebird/sainsburys-scraper/api. Get a token: https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations

What is Sainsbury's UK Grocery Scraper?

Sainsbury's UK Grocery Scraper is a data extraction tool for Sainsbury's grocery prices and products. Sainsbury's is one of the UK's biggest supermarket chains, and its online grocery shop lists everything from baked beans to wine with prices, Nectar prices, and offers. The Actor works as a Sainsbury's API alternative: you enter search terms and get clean JSON product records instead of copying prices by hand.

The easiest way to try it: open the Input tab, keep the prefilled search terms baked beans, whole milk, and sourdough, and click Start. You get 30 products with full details in about 10 seconds.

What can Sainsbury's UK Grocery Scraper do?

• 🔍 Search Sainsbury's by keyword: run many search terms in one go, each scraped separately and tagged with its query.
• 💷 Get every price you need: the shelf price, the regular price, the Nectar price, and the unit price (per kg, per litre, or each).
• 🏷️ Track offers: Nectar prices, multibuys, and meal deals with the offer text, type, original price, and start and end dates.
• ↕️ Sort like the website: by relevance, price low to high, price high to low, or rating, and keep only products on offer if you want.
• 📦 Get product data: brand, EAN barcode, pack size, rating and review count, availability, alcohol flag, categories, zone, department, breadcrumbs, description, and full-size images.
• 🔗 Scrape URLs directly: paste Sainsbury's product URLs or search result URLs.

On the Apify platform you also get scheduled runs, a full REST API, integrations with Make, Zapier, n8n, Google Sheets, Slack, and webhooks, and export to JSON, CSV, Excel, XML, or HTML.

What data can you extract from Sainsbury's?

Field	Description
name / brand	Product name and brand (for example "Heinz", "Sainsbury's")
price	Price shown on Sainsbury's in GBP. When a Nectar price applies, this is the Nectar price
regularPrice / nectarPrice	Regular shelf price and the Nectar price (empty when there is no Nectar price)
unitPrice / unitPriceMeasure	Price per unit for the shown price, for example 9.06 per kg
unitSize	Pack size from the product name, for example 4 x 415g, 2L, 70cl
onOffer / offerDescription / offers	Whether there is an offer, the offer text, and each offer's type, original price, and dates
labels	Price labels such as "LOW EVERYDAY PRICE" or "ALDI PRICE MATCH*"
ean / productId	EAN barcode and Sainsbury's product ID
rating / reviewCount	Average customer rating and number of reviews
isAvailable / isAlcoholic	Availability and alcohol flag
zone / department / mainCategory / breadcrumbs / categories	Where the product sits in the Sainsbury's shop
description	Short product description
imageUrl / images	Main image and all product images in full size
productUrl	Direct link to the product on sainsburys.co.uk
query / position	Search term and the product's position in the results

How to scrape Sainsbury's

1. Open Sainsbury's UK Grocery Scraper and click Try for free.
2. Enter your Search terms, one per line, such as baked beans, whole milk, or sourdough.
3. Set Max products per search term.
4. Optionally pick Sort by, turn on Only products on offer, or turn off Include product details for a faster run.
5. Click Start, then download the results from the Output tab as JSON, CSV, Excel, XML, or HTML, or fetch them through the API.

To track prices over time, add the run to a schedule, for example every morning, and compare the datasets.

Input example

{
    "queries": ["baked beans", "whole milk", "sourdough"],
    "maxResultsPerQuery": 10
}

Cheapest wine offers first, search results only:

{
    "queries": ["wine"],
    "maxResultsPerQuery": 200,
    "sortBy": "price_asc",
    "offersOnly": true,
    "includeDetails": false
}

All input parameters:

Parameter	Type	Required	Default	Description
queries	array	Yes*	—	Search terms, as you would type them on sainsburys.co.uk
maxResultsPerQuery	integer	No	20	Maximum products per search term (1–5,000)
sortBy	string	No	relevance	relevance, price_asc, price_desc, or rating
offersOnly	boolean	No	false	Only products with an offer or Nectar price
includeDetails	boolean	No	true	Add exact brand, zone, department, main category, breadcrumbs, description, and all images
productUrls	array	No	—	Sainsbury's product URLs or search result URLs
proxyConfiguration	object	No	no proxy	Optional. The Actor switches to Apify Proxy by itself if Sainsbury's blocks requests

* Add at least one search term or one URL.

Output example

{
    "store": "sainsburys",
    "query": "chocolate",
    "position": 3,
    "productId": "8230856",
    "sainId": "na4b48jk",
    "ean": "8445291524545",
    "name": "KitKat 2 Finger Milk Chocolate Biscuit Bar Multipack 8 x 20.7g",
    "brand": "KitKat",
    "price": 1.5,
    "regularPrice": 2.2,
    "nectarPrice": 1.5,
    "unitPrice": 9.06,
    "unitPriceMeasure": "per kg",
    "unitSize": "8 x 20.7g",
    "onOffer": true,
    "offerDescription": "Buy 1 for 1.5",
    "offers": [
        {
            "description": "Buy 1 for 1.5",
            "isNectar": true,
            "type": "SIMPLE_FIXED_PRICE",
            "originalPrice": 2.2,
            "startDate": "2026-11-04T00:00:00Z",
            "endDate": "2026-11-24T00:00:00Z",
            "url": "https://www.sainsburys.co.uk/gol-ui/promo-lister/10771467",
            "promotionId": "10771467"
        }
    ],
    "isAvailable": true,
    "isAlcoholic": false,
    "rating": 4.84,
    "reviewCount": 345,
    "zone": "Snacks, sweets and treats",
    "department": "Chocolate",
    "mainCategory": "Single bar chocolate",
    "categories": ["Chocolate bars", "Chocolate biscuit bars", "Vegetarian & plant based"],
    "breadcrumbs": ["Snacks, sweets and treats", "Chocolate", "Chocolate bars"],
    "description": "Two crispy wafer fingers covered with milk chocolate (66%)",
    "imageUrl": "https://assets.sainsburys-groceries.co.uk/gol/8230856/image.jpg",
    "images": [
        "https://assets.sainsburys-groceries.co.uk/gol/8230856/1/2365x2365.jpg",
        "https://assets.sainsburys-groceries.co.uk/gol/8230856/2/2365x2365.jpg",
        "https://assets.sainsburys-groceries.co.uk/gol/8230856/3/2365x2365.jpg"
    ],
    "productUrl": "https://www.sainsburys.co.uk/gol-ui/product/kitkat-2-finger-milk-chocolate-biscuit-bar-multipack-8-x-20-7g",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-11-03T11:41:08.246Z"
}

Use cases

• 💷 Price monitoring: track Sainsbury's prices and Nectar prices for your products every day.
• 🛒 Supermarket price comparison: compare Sainsbury's with Tesco, Lidl, and other retailers by EAN barcode or unit price.
• 🏷️ Promotion tracking: see which brands run Nectar prices, multibuys, and meal deals, and for how long.
• 📈 Brand and category analysis: measure assortment, ratings, and price ranges by brand or department.
• 🍽️ Shopping and recipe apps: price a basket of ingredients with up-to-date Sainsbury's prices.
• 🤖 AI agents: give an LLM structured, current grocery prices through the API or MCP.

How it works

1. For each search term, the Actor reads the Sainsbury's product search, 60 products per page, in the sort order you chose.
2. It turns each result into a flat record: prices, unit price, offers, labels, rating, EAN, and categories. The pack size is read from the product name.
3. With Include product details on, it opens each product's data, 5 at a time, for the exact brand, zone, department, breadcrumbs, description, and images.
4. It stops at Max products per search term or the end of the results, and skips duplicates within a search term.
5. Each product is saved to the dataset and charged as it is collected, so the run stops as soon as your spending limit is reached.

How much does it cost to scrape Sainsbury's?

Sainsbury's UK Grocery Scraper uses pay-per-event pricing. You pay per product saved to the dataset. Compute and traffic are included in the event price, so they are not billed separately.

Event	Price per event	Price per 1,000
product-scraped (Free plan)	$0.00299	$2.99
product-scraped (Bronze plan)	$0.00279	$2.79
product-scraped (Silver plan)	$0.00259	$2.59
product-scraped (Gold plan)	$0.00239	$2.39

One event is one product in the dataset, with or without details. A small platform Actor start fee also applies per run. For example, 10 search terms with 20 products each (200 products) cost about $0.60 on the Free plan. Apify's free plan includes monthly platform credit you can use for this Actor.

Python and JavaScript API examples

Python (apify-client):

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN>")
run = client.actor("parsebird/sainsburys-scraper").call(run_input={
    "queries": ["baked beans", "whole milk", "sourdough"],
    "maxResultsPerQuery": 20,
})
for p in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(p["query"], "|", p["name"], "|", p["price"], "|", p.get("nectarPrice"), "|", p["unitPrice"], p["unitPriceMeasure"])

JavaScript (apify-client):

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: '<YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN>' });
const run = await client.actor('parsebird/sainsburys-scraper').call({
    queries: ['baked beans', 'whole milk', 'sourdough'],
    maxResultsPerQuery: 20,
});
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((p) => console.log(p.query, p.name, p.price, p.nectarPrice, p.unitPrice, p.unitPriceMeasure));

Find all endpoints on the API tab.

FAQ

Do I need a Sainsbury's account or Nectar card? No. The Actor reads the product data Sainsbury's shows to every visitor of its online grocery shop. You don't need to log in.

What is the difference between price, regularPrice, and nectarPrice? price is the price Sainsbury's shows for the product. When a Nectar price applies, Sainsbury's shows the Nectar price as the main price, so price and nectarPrice are the same and regularPrice is the price without Nectar. When there is no Nectar price, price and regularPrice are the same and nectarPrice is empty.

Why does an offer have a start date in the future? startDate and endDate are the dates Sainsbury's gives for the offer. Sainsbury's sometimes shows an offer price on the website before its listed start date, and the Actor returns the dates as provided.

How many products can I scrape? Up to 5,000 per search term, limited by how many products Sainsbury's returns for that search. For example, "chocolate" returned 1,603 products and "cheese" 401 in our tests.

Why is the brand sometimes empty? With Include product details on (the default), the brand comes from the product data and is almost always filled. With details off, the Actor matches the product name against the brand filter Sainsbury's shows for the search, which covers the main brands only.

How is unitSize found? Sainsbury's doesn't publish the pack size as a separate field, so the Actor reads it from the end of the product name (for example 4 x 415g or 70cl). Loose items like bananas have no size.

Are prices the same in every store? The Actor returns the online grocery prices from sainsburys.co.uk. Prices in physical stores can differ.

Can I schedule the scraper and connect it to other tools? Yes. Use Apify schedules to run it daily or weekly, and connect the results to Google Sheets, Slack, Make, Zapier, n8n, or your own system through integrations, webhooks, or the API.

Something does not work or a field is missing. Open an issue on the Issues tab with your input and run ID, and we will look into it.

Is it legal to scrape Sainsbury's?

The Actor collects only public product and price information that Sainsbury's shows to every visitor of its online shop. It does not collect personal data. Check that your use of the data complies with Sainsbury's terms and the laws that apply to you. For more background, read Apify's article Is web scraping legal? and consult a lawyer if you are unsure about your use case.

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