# Coles Product Scraper (`piotrv1001/coles-product-scraper`) Actor

Scrape Coles Australia products and specials: name, brand, price, was price, unit price, size, half-price and multi-buy offers, availability and category. Search by keyword or paste category URLs, or get every product on special. Built for price tracking. Export to JSON, CSV or Excel.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/piotrv1001/coles-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

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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

### 🛒 Coles Product Scraper

Scrape **Coles specials, half-price offers and product prices** from coles.com.au without an account. The **Coles Product Scraper** returns each product's price, was price, unit price, size, offer text, availability and category. Use it as a Coles price tracker, a Coles API alternative or a source for grocery price comparison.

### 🎯 Use Cases

- Pull Coles specials this week as a clean table instead of reading the catalogue
- Track Coles half-price deals: paste `https://www.coles.com.au/on-special?filter_Special=halfprice` and alert on new ones
- Build a Coles price history with a daily or weekly schedule
- Compare Coles vs Woolworths prices on the same keywords with the sister actor
- Monitor brands and categories for price moves and multi-buy offers

### ✨ Features

- **All Coles specials**: tick Specials only with no keywords and the run walks every department
- **Past the result ceiling**: Coles lists about 5,000 products per listing, so specials and big categories are split into sub-categories automatically and repeats are removed
- **Offer text as shown on the shelf**: "1/2 Price", "Buy 2 for $6", "save $3.00"
- **Your filters kept**: paste a search, category or specials URL with its brand filter, sort and page
- **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 coles.com.au. Clear the keywords and tick **Specials only** to get everything on special.
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 coles.com.au. |
| **Specials only** | Keep only products on special. With no keywords or URLs, returns everything on special. |
| **Max products per search** | Stop after this many products for each keyword or URL. Default 50. |

```json
{
    "queries": [
        "milk",
        "bread"
    ],
    "categoryUrls": [
        "https://www.coles.com.au/browse/dairy-eggs-fridge/milk"
    ],
    "specialsOnly": true,
    "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": "6164463",
    "retailer": "Coles",
    "name": "Original Crackers",
    "brand": "Ritz",
    "url": "https://www.coles.com.au/product/ritz-original-crackers-227g-6164463",
    "image": "https://productimages.coles.com.au/productimages/6/6164463.jpg",
    "price": 1.75,
    "wasPrice": 3.5,
    "currency": "AUD",
    "unitPrice": 0.77,
    "unit": "100g",
    "size": "227g",
    "onSpecial": true,
    "offerText": "1/2 Price",
    "available": true,
    "category": "Chips, Chocolates & Snacks > Crackers & Rice Cakes > Crackers & Crispbreads",
    "barcode": null,
    "store": "7674",
    "source": "all specials",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-11-01T08:04:17.349Z"
}
```

`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. `barcode` is always empty: Coles does not show barcodes in its listings. `wasPrice` is empty unless the shop prints one; some specials and multi-buys have none, and those still carry `onSpecial` and usually `offerText`.

### 📅 Coles Price Tracker and Coles Specials

Coles specials change every Wednesday, so a weekly Wednesday run is the usual price tracker; run daily if you follow price moves closely. 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 Coles have an official API?**
Coles does not offer a public self-serve API for shelf prices, as far as we can tell. This actor is the practical alternative: no key, no approval, and you get the shelf price, offer text and unit price in one row.

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

**Which store are the prices from?**
Prices are the ones coles.com.au shows a visitor with no store selected, and every row names that store in `store` (currently `7674`). Choosing another store is not offered: nothing we could set changed the prices in our checks.

**Why is a field empty?**
`barcode` is always empty: Coles does not show barcodes in its listings. `wasPrice` is empty unless the shop prints one; some specials and multi-buys have none, and those still carry `onSpecial` and usually `offerText`.

**Are there limits?**
One Coles search shows at most about 5,000 products. A search that reaches that limit says so in the run status: use category URLs for the rest. Specials and category URLs are split automatically, so they are not limited this way.

**How do I get all Coles specials this week?**
Clear the keywords, tick **Specials only** and set the limit to 10,000. Coles had about 7,900 products on special when we tested, and the run reaches them through the departments.

### 🔗 Related Scrapers

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

# Actor input Schema

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

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

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

Pages from coles.com.au: a category (/browse/...), the specials page (/on-special) or a search, with any filters and sort you set there.

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

Keep only products on special. With no keywords or URLs, returns every product on special at Coles.

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

Stop after this many products for each keyword or URL.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "queries": [
    "milk"
  ],
  "categoryUrls": [
    "https://www.coles.com.au/on-special",
    "https://www.coles.com.au/browse/dairy-eggs-fridge/milk"
  ],
  "specialsOnly": 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/coles-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/coles-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/coles-product-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,piotrv1001/coles-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/sAsqIx2XU9beVlAxz/builds/OIdaTjgvKx0cq84tO/openapi.json