🔧 Ace Hardware Product Scraper

🚀 Extract product listings from Ace Hardware with prices, specifications, inventory status, store availability, and fulfillment options. Get 30+ fields per product from any category page.

🕒 Last updated: 2026-04-23

Whether you are a retail analyst tracking competitor pricing, an inventory manager monitoring stock availability, or a marketing team building product catalogs, this scraper collects structured product data from Ace Hardware category pages at scale. Filter by brand, browse any category, and include detailed product specifications.

No coding or manual browsing. Paste a category URL or enter a category path, click Start, and download your data as JSON, CSV, or Excel.

🎯 Target	Ace Hardware product category pages
🔎 Best for	Price monitoring, inventory tracking, product catalog building, competitor analysis

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📋 What it does

• Collects product names, current prices, MSRP, sale status, and catalog list prices from category pages
• Extracts inventory status, purchasability flags, in-store pickup availability, and delivery options
• Returns product specifications including dimensions, weight, UPC, manufacturer part numbers, and brand
• Supports brand filtering, optional detail page fetching for full specifications, and automatic pagination handling

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🎬 Demo

🚧 Coming soon

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⚙️ Input

Field	Type	Description
Start URL	string	URL of an Ace Hardware category page (e.g. https://www.acehardware.com/departments/hardware/nuts-and-bolts/carriage-bolts). Overrides Category Path.
Max Items	integer	Free users: limited to 10 items. Paid users: up to 1,000,000.
Include Product Details	boolean	Fetch full product info from individual detail pages. Slower but returns more complete specs.
Category Path	string	Category URL path (e.g. "hardware/nuts-and-bolts/carriage-bolts"). Used when Start URL is empty.
Brand Filter	string	Filter results to a specific brand (e.g. "Hillman", "Stanley").
Max Concurrency	integer	Number of parallel requests. Lower this if rate-limited. Default: 3.
Request Delay (ms)	integer	Milliseconds between requests. Default: 1000.

Example 1: Scrape a category URL

{
    "startUrl": "https://www.acehardware.com/departments/hardware/nuts-and-bolts/carriage-bolts",
    "maxItems": 50
}

Example 2: Filter by brand with details

{
    "startUrl": "https://www.acehardware.com/departments/hardware/nuts-and-bolts/carriage-bolts",
    "brand": "Hillman",
    "includeDetails": true,
    "maxItems": 20
}

⚠️ Good to Know: Enabling "Include Product Details" fetches individual product pages for full specifications and descriptions but takes longer. The scraper respects robots.txt and built-in delays. Free users are limited to 10 items per run.

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📊 Output

🧾 Schema

Each product includes up to 30+ data fields covering pricing, inventory, fulfillment options, specifications, and images.

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✨ Why choose this scraper

Feature	Details
30+ fields per product	Prices, specs, inventory, fulfillment, images, and more
Brand filtering built in	Filter results to specific brands without manual navigation
Sale and price tracking	Current price, MSRP, and sale status for each product
Inventory and fulfillment data	Stock status, in-store pickup, and delivery availability
Product specifications	Dimensions, weight, UPC, and manufacturer part numbers
Automatic pagination	Handles multi-page categories without extra configuration
Export as JSON, CSV, or Excel	Download structured data in the format you need

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📈 How it compares

Capability	This scraper	Manual browsing
Batch collection	Up to 1M products in one run	Browse 24 at a time
Price and MSRP capture	Structured in every record	Read from product cards
Inventory status	Included automatically	Check each product page
Brand filtering	One field to set	Navigate and filter manually
Specifications	Optional full detail page fetch	Click into each product
Export formats	JSON, CSV, Excel	Not available
Automated scheduling	Daily or weekly runs	Manual visits

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🚀 How to use

1. Create a free Apify account (includes $5 credit)
2. Search for Ace Hardware Scraper in the Apify Store
3. Paste a category URL or enter a category path, set your filters
4. Click Start and wait for results
5. Download your data as JSON, CSV, or Excel

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💼 Business cases

Use case	How it helps
Competitor price monitoring	Track prices and sale events across hardware product categories
Inventory management	Monitor stock availability to identify fast-moving products and plan reorders
Product catalog building	Collect names, images, descriptions, and specs for bulk import
Market analysis	Compare pricing, brands, and product availability across categories

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🌟 Beyond business use cases

Data like this powers more than commercial workflows. The same structured records support research, education, civic projects, and personal initiatives.

🎓 Research and academia Empirical datasets for papers, thesis work, and coursework Longitudinal studies tracking changes across snapshots Reproducible research with cited, versioned data pulls Classroom exercises on data analysis and ethical scraping	🎨 Personal and creative Side projects, portfolio demos, and indie app launches Data visualizations, dashboards, and infographics Content research for bloggers, YouTubers, and podcasters Hobbyist collections and personal trackers
🤝 Non-profit and civic Transparency reporting and accountability projects Advocacy campaigns backed by public-interest data Community-run databases for local issues Investigative journalism on public records	🧪 Experimentation Prototype AI and machine-learning pipelines with real data Validate product-market hypotheses before engineering spend Train small domain-specific models on niche corpora Test dashboard concepts with live input

🤖 Ask an AI assistant about this scraper

Open a ready-to-send prompt about this ParseForge actor in the AI of your choice:

• 💬 ChatGPT
• 🧠 Claude
• 🔍 Perplexity
• 🅒 Copilot

❓ Frequently Asked Questions

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🔌 Automating runs

Schedule the Ace Hardware Scraper to run daily or weekly for ongoing price and inventory monitoring. Connect with Make or Zapier to trigger runs based on external events. Pair with Google Sheets to maintain a live product database or Slack to alert your team when prices drop on tracked items.

🔌 Integrate with your tools

• Make - Automate product data workflows
• Zapier - Connect with 5,000+ apps
• Slack - Get notified about price changes
• Google Sheets - Export to spreadsheets
• Airbyte - Build data pipelines
• Webhooks - Trigger actions on run completion

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🆘 Need help?

Contact us through our support form to request a new scraper, report an issue, or propose a custom project.

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Disclaimer: This Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Ace Hardware or any of its subsidiaries. All trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners.