# ALDI Product Scraper (`piotrv1001/aldi-product-scraper`) Actor

Scrape ALDI Australia products and Special Buys: name, brand, price, unit price, size, on-sale date, offer shelf and category. Search by keyword, paste category URLs or download the whole catalogue of 3,000+ products. Built for price tracking. Export to JSON, CSV or Excel.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/piotrv1001/aldi-product-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [FalconScrape](https://apify.com/piotrv1001) (community)
- **Categories:** E-commerce, Automation, Developer tools
- **Security:** Limited permissions
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 1 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $1.00 / 1,000 products

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

### 🛒 ALDI Product Scraper

Scrape the **ALDI Australia catalogue and Special Buys** from aldi.com.au without an account. The **ALDI Product Scraper** returns each product's price, unit price, size, on-sale date, offer shelf and category, and can download every product ALDI lists. Use it as an ALDI API alternative or a source for grocery price comparison.

### 🎯 Use Cases

- Download the full ALDI Australia catalogue with prices as JSON, CSV or Excel
- List ALDI Special Buys with their on-sale dates before they reach stores
- Follow the Lower Prices, Super Savers and Limited Time Only shelves
- Compare ALDI prices with Coles and Woolworths using the sister actors
- Keep an ALDI price list up to date with a weekly schedule

### ✨ Features

- **The whole catalogue**: over 3,000 products in one run
- **Special Buys with dates**: `offerText` shows "On Sale Wed 04 Nov", and products not on sale yet are marked unavailable
- **Offer shelves on every row**: whichever search finds a product, it says whether it is on Lower Prices, Super Savers or Limited Time Only
- **Your sort and brand filter kept**: paste a search or category URL with them
- **One row shape across shops**: Coles, Woolworths and ALDI actors share the same field names, so their output can go in one table
- **Fair billing**: each product is charged once per run, and rows without a price are never charged

### 🛠️ How It Works

1. **Enter keywords or paste URLs** from aldi.com.au. Clear the keywords and tick **Whole catalogue** for everything ALDI lists, or tick **Specials only** for its offers.
2. **Set the limit**: how many products for each keyword or URL. The default is 50.
3. **Run the Scraper** and download the results as JSON, CSV or Excel, or pull them through the API.

### ⚙️ Input

| Field | What it does |
| --- | --- |
| **Search keywords** | Products to search, one per line. |
| **Category, specials or search URLs** | Pages from aldi.com.au. |
| **Specials only** | Keep only products on special. With no keywords or URLs, returns everything on special. |
| **Whole catalogue** | Also get every product ALDI lists. Raise the limit to match. |
| **Max products per search** | Stop after this many products for each keyword or URL. Default 50. |

```json
{
    "queries": [
        "chocolate"
    ],
    "categoryUrls": [
        "https://www.aldi.com.au/products/dairy-eggs-fridge/k/960000000"
    ],
    "maxItems": 200
}
```

A product found by two of your searches is saved and charged once, under the first search that found it. With an empty input the actor searches for "milk".

### 💰 Pricing

You pay per product saved, plus a small fee for each run.

| Event | Price |
| --- | --- |
| Product | $0.001 |
| Actor start (`apify-actor-start`) | $0.00005 |

- 50 products: $0.05005
- 1,000 products: $1.00005
- 5,000 products: $5.00005

Set a maximum charge on a run and it stops there. Only the rows you received are charged.

### 📦 Sample Output Data

```json
{
    "id": "000000000000199822",
    "retailer": "ALDI",
    "name": "Organic Extra Virgin Olive Oil 500ml",
    "brand": "OH SO NATURAL ORGANIC",
    "url": "https://www.aldi.com.au/product/oh-so-natural-organic-organic-extra-virgin-olive-oil-500ml-000000000000199822",
    "image": "https://dm.apac.cms.aldi.cx/is/image/aldiprodapac/product/jpg/scaleWidth/500/ce18a1c2-0a82-4534-88d3-a83ebab3db92/oh-so-natural-organic-organic-extra-virgin-olive-oil-500ml",
    "price": 7.99,
    "wasPrice": null,
    "currency": "AUD",
    "unitPrice": 1.6,
    "unit": "100 ml",
    "size": "500 ml",
    "onSpecial": true,
    "offerText": "Lower Prices",
    "available": true,
    "category": "Pantry > Oils & Vinegars",
    "barcode": null,
    "store": "national",
    "source": "all specials",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-11-01T08:08:24.562Z"
}
```

`unitPrice` and `unit` are the shop's comparison price, such as $1.65 per 1L. `source` is the keyword or URL that found the product. `wasPrice` and `barcode` are always empty: ALDI shows neither. `brand` is empty for some fresh products, and `size` and the unit price are empty for about one product in five and `category` for about one in eight, where ALDI does not state them.

### 📅 ALDI Catalogue and ALDI Special Buys

New Special Buys go on sale on Wednesdays and Saturdays, so run it weekly to keep an ALDI price list or twice a week to catch every Special Buy. Set it up with Apify **Schedules**, then send each run's rows to Google Sheets, Zapier, Make, n8n or your own webhook through the Apify integrations.

### 🤖 Use with AI agents (MCP)

This actor works as a tool in Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and other MCP clients through the Apify MCP server (`https://mcp.apify.com`). A minimal input an agent can copy:

```json
{ "queries": ["milk"], "maxItems": 20 }
```

### ❓ FAQ

**Does ALDI have an official API?**
ALDI Australia does not offer a public self-serve product API, as far as we can tell. This actor is the practical alternative: no key, no approval, and the catalogue comes as ready rows.

**Do I need a ALDI account?**
No. The actor reads what any visitor sees, with no login.

**Which store are the prices from?**
ALDI shows one catalogue for the whole country when no store is selected, and that is what the actor returns (`store` is `national`). In our checks prices matched in four regions, with one difference at one store, so store selection is not offered.

**Why is a field empty?**
`wasPrice` and `barcode` are always empty: ALDI shows neither. `brand` is empty for some fresh products, and `size` and the unit price are empty for about one product in five and `category` for about one in eight, where ALDI does not state them.

**Are there limits?**
ALDI sells in store only, so `available` cannot tell you about shelf stock: it says the product is listed and its on-sale date has passed.

**What counts as on special at ALDI?**
ALDI does not print was prices. `onSpecial` is true for products on its Lower Prices, Super Savers and Limited Time Only shelves and for Special Buys with an on-sale date, and `offerText` says which.

### 🔗 Related Scrapers

- [Coles Product Scraper](https://apify.com/piotrv1001/coles-product-scraper): the same fields from Coles, for price comparison
- [Woolworths Product Scraper](https://apify.com/piotrv1001/woolworths-product-scraper): the same fields from Woolworths, for price comparison

# Actor input Schema

## `queries` (type: `array`):

Products to search on ALDI, one per line. Leave empty to use only the URLs below.

## `categoryUrls` (type: `array`):

Pages from aldi.com.au: a category (/products/.../k/...) or a search, with the sort and brand filter you set there.

## `specialsOnly` (type: `boolean`):

Keep only Special Buys with an on-sale date and products on the Lower Prices, Super Savers and Limited Time Only shelves. With no keywords or URLs, returns all of them.

## `allProducts` (type: `boolean`):

Also get every product ALDI lists. Raise the limit below to the size you want: the catalogue holds over 3,000 products.

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Stop after this many products for each keyword or URL.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "queries": [
    "milk"
  ],
  "categoryUrls": [
    "https://www.aldi.com.au/products/dairy-eggs-fridge/k/960000000"
  ],
  "specialsOnly": false,
  "allProducts": false,
  "maxItems": 50
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

No description

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "queries": [
        "milk"
    ],
    "maxItems": 50
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("piotrv1001/aldi-product-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "queries": ["milk"],
    "maxItems": 50,
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("piotrv1001/aldi-product-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "queries": [
    "milk"
  ],
  "maxItems": 50
}' |
apify call piotrv1001/aldi-product-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,piotrv1001/aldi-product-scraper"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/yt0dTtbD0vhiZlK21/builds/kBluVFT5kP0hOLmCq/openapi.json