Farmacias Guadalajara Scraper

Extract products, prices, stock status and images from Farmacias Guadalajara, Mexico's largest pharmacy chain (3,500+ stores, ~$4.5B revenue).

What it does

• Scrapes category pages, search results and direct product URLs
• Returns: product name, brand, SKU, price (MXN), original/list price, discount %, stock status, image URLs, category path and more
• Handles the site's JavaScript rendering automatically (Playwright)
• Uses VTEX Catalog API when available for fast bulk extraction
• Falls back gracefully to XHR interception → JSON-LD → DOM parsing

Use cases

• Price monitoring — track price changes across competitor categories
• Inventory analysis — identify out-of-stock patterns
• Market research — catalog a complete product category with prices
• Price comparison — benchmark against Farmacias Benavides, Chedraui Salud, Walmart Farmacias

Input

Field	Type	Required	Default	Description
startUrls	string[]	✅	—	Category, search or product URLs
maxItems	integer	—	1 000	Max products to scrape
maxConcurrency	integer	—	3	Parallel browser tabs
navigationTimeoutSecs	integer	—	60	Page load timeout
proxyConfiguration	object	—	MX Residential	Proxy settings

Example input

{
    "startUrls": [
        "https://www.farmaciasguadalajara.com/medicamentos/analgesicos",
        "https://www.farmaciasguadalajara.com/bebes/bebe-panales",
        "https://www.farmaciasguadalajara.com/search?q=omeprazol"
    ],
    "maxItems": 500,
    "maxConcurrency": 3
}

Output

Each item in the dataset represents one product:

{
    "sku": "1234567",
    "name": "Aspirina 500mg 20 Tabletas",
    "brand": "Bayer",
    "price": 45.90,
    "original_price": 59.00,
    "currency": "MXN",
    "discount_percent": 22,
    "description": "Analgésico y antipirético...",
    "stock_status": "in_stock",
    "quantity_available": 100,
    "image_url": "https://imgfg.vtexassets.com/...aspirin.jpg",
    "images": ["https://imgfg.vtexassets.com/...aspirin.jpg"],
    "category": ["Medicamentos", "Analgésicos"],
    "url": "https://www.farmaciasguadalajara.com/aspirina-500mg-20-tabletas/p",
    "scraped_at": "2026-04-29T12:00:00.000Z"
}

Performance & cost

Category size	Approx. time	Memory
50 products	~1 min	2 GB
500 products	~8 min	2 GB
5 000 products	~60 min	4 GB

Category pages using the VTEX API are significantly faster than scraping individual product pages.

Proxy requirements

Farmacias Guadalajara may rate-limit datacenter IPs. MX Residential proxies are strongly recommended for reliable runs. The Actor auto-selects them when running on the Apify platform.

Legal & compliance

This Actor extracts publicly available product and pricing data. Data is collected in compliance with the site's robots.txt. Users are responsible for ensuring their use complies with applicable laws and terms of service.

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