# Farmacias Guadalajara (MX) — Products & Prices (`rastriq/farmacias-guadalajara-scraper`) Actor
Extract products, prices, stock and images from Farmacias Guadalajara, Mexico's largest pharmacy chain. Supports category pages, search results and direct product URLs. Returns name, price, brand, stock status, images and more.
- **URL**: https://apify.com/rastriq/farmacias-guadalajara-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [ScrappingLatam](https://apify.com/rastriq) (community)
- **Categories:** E-commerce, Automation, Developer tools
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, NaN bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet
## Pricing
from $3.00 / 1,000 results
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/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event
## What's an Apify Actor?
Actors are a software tools running on the Apify platform, for all kinds of web data extraction and automation use cases.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.
Actors are written with capital "A".
## How to integrate an Actor?
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The best way to integrate Actors is as follows.
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```bash
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```
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```bash
pip install apify-client
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# README
## Farmacias Guadalajara Scraper
Extract **products, prices, stock status and images** from [Farmacias Guadalajara](https://www.farmaciasguadalajara.com), 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
```json
{
"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:
```json
{
"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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# Actor input Schema
## `startUrls` (type: `array`):
Paste one or more Farmacias Guadalajara category URLs. Find them by browsing farmaciasguadalajara.com and copying the URL of any product section.
## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):
Maximum number of listings to collect. Each listing = one row in your dataset.
💡 Use 50–200 for a quick test.
## `maxConcurrency` (type: `integer`):
How many pages to process simultaneously. Keep at 3 for stability.
## `navigationTimeoutSecs` (type: `integer`):
How long to wait for each page to load before skipping it.
## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):
Residential proxy is strongly recommended — without it the site may block the scraper.
## Actor input object example
```json
{
"startUrls": [
{
"url": "https://www.farmaciasguadalajara.com/medicamentos/analgesicos"
},
{
"url": "https://www.farmaciasguadalajara.com/vitaminas-y-suplementos/multivitaminicos"
}
],
"maxItems": 200,
"maxConcurrency": 3,
"navigationTimeoutSecs": 60,
"proxyConfiguration": {
"useApifyProxy": true,
"apifyProxyGroups": [
"RESIDENTIAL"
]
}
}
```
# 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 '' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
token: '',
});
// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
"startUrls": [
{
"url": "https://www.farmaciasguadalajara.com/medicamentos/analgesicos"
},
{
"url": "https://www.farmaciasguadalajara.com/vitaminas-y-suplementos/multivitaminicos"
}
],
"maxItems": 200,
"proxyConfiguration": {
"useApifyProxy": true,
"apifyProxyGroups": [
"RESIDENTIAL"
]
}
};
// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("rastriq/farmacias-guadalajara-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 '' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("")
# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
"startUrls": [
{ "url": "https://www.farmaciasguadalajara.com/medicamentos/analgesicos" },
{ "url": "https://www.farmaciasguadalajara.com/vitaminas-y-suplementos/multivitaminicos" },
],
"maxItems": 200,
"proxyConfiguration": {
"useApifyProxy": True,
"apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"],
},
}
# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("rastriq/farmacias-guadalajara-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)
# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
print(item)
# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start
```
## CLI example
```bash
echo '{
"startUrls": [
{
"url": "https://www.farmaciasguadalajara.com/medicamentos/analgesicos"
},
{
"url": "https://www.farmaciasguadalajara.com/vitaminas-y-suplementos/multivitaminicos"
}
],
"maxItems": 200,
"proxyConfiguration": {
"useApifyProxy": true,
"apifyProxyGroups": [
"RESIDENTIAL"
]
}
}' |
apify call rastriq/farmacias-guadalajara-scraper --silent --output-dataset
```
## MCP server setup
```json
{
"mcpServers": {
"apify": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"mcp-remote",
"https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=rastriq/farmacias-guadalajara-scraper",
"--header",
"Authorization: Bearer "
]
}
}
}
```
## OpenAPI specification
```json
{
"openapi": "3.0.1",
"info": {
"title": "Farmacias Guadalajara (MX) — Products & Prices",
"description": "Extract products, prices, stock and images from Farmacias Guadalajara, Mexico's largest pharmacy chain. Supports category pages, search results and direct product URLs. Returns name, price, brand, stock status, images and more.",
"version": "0.1",
"x-build-id": "WcXe8VFjED3pZbZea"
},
"servers": [
{
"url": "https://api.apify.com/v2"
}
],
"paths": {
"/acts/rastriq~farmacias-guadalajara-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items": {
"post": {
"operationId": "run-sync-get-dataset-items-rastriq-farmacias-guadalajara-scraper",
"x-openai-isConsequential": false,
"summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for its completion, and returns Actor's dataset items in response.",
"tags": [
"Run Actor"
],
"requestBody": {
"required": true,
"content": {
"application/json": {
"schema": {
"$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
}
}
}
},
"parameters": [
{
"name": "token",
"in": "query",
"required": true,
"schema": {
"type": "string"
},
"description": "Enter your Apify token here"
}
],
"responses": {
"200": {
"description": "OK"
}
}
}
},
"/acts/rastriq~farmacias-guadalajara-scraper/runs": {
"post": {
"operationId": "runs-sync-rastriq-farmacias-guadalajara-scraper",
"x-openai-isConsequential": false,
"summary": "Executes an Actor and returns information about the initiated run in response.",
"tags": [
"Run Actor"
],
"requestBody": {
"required": true,
"content": {
"application/json": {
"schema": {
"$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
}
}
}
},
"parameters": [
{
"name": "token",
"in": "query",
"required": true,
"schema": {
"type": "string"
},
"description": "Enter your Apify token here"
}
],
"responses": {
"200": {
"description": "OK",
"content": {
"application/json": {
"schema": {
"$ref": "#/components/schemas/runsResponseSchema"
}
}
}
}
}
}
},
"/acts/rastriq~farmacias-guadalajara-scraper/run-sync": {
"post": {
"operationId": "run-sync-rastriq-farmacias-guadalajara-scraper",
"x-openai-isConsequential": false,
"summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for completion, and returns the OUTPUT from Key-value store in response.",
"tags": [
"Run Actor"
],
"requestBody": {
"required": true,
"content": {
"application/json": {
"schema": {
"$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
}
}
}
},
"parameters": [
{
"name": "token",
"in": "query",
"required": true,
"schema": {
"type": "string"
},
"description": "Enter your Apify token here"
}
],
"responses": {
"200": {
"description": "OK"
}
}
}
}
},
"components": {
"schemas": {
"inputSchema": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"startUrls": {
"title": "🔗 Category URLs to scrape",
"type": "array",
"description": "Paste one or more Farmacias Guadalajara category URLs. Find them by browsing farmaciasguadalajara.com and copying the URL of any product section.",
"default": [
{
"url": "https://www.farmaciasguadalajara.com/medicamentos/analgesicos"
},
{
"url": "https://www.farmaciasguadalajara.com/vitaminas-y-suplementos/multivitaminicos"
}
],
"items": {
"type": "object",
"required": [
"url"
],
"properties": {
"url": {
"type": "string",
"title": "URL of a web page",
"format": "uri"
}
}
}
},
"maxItems": {
"title": "💯 Max results",
"minimum": 1,
"maximum": 50000,
"type": "integer",
"description": "Maximum number of listings to collect. Each listing = one row in your dataset.
💡 Use 50–200 for a quick test.",
"default": 200
},
"maxConcurrency": {
"title": "⚡ Parallel browsers",
"minimum": 1,
"maximum": 10,
"type": "integer",
"description": "How many pages to process simultaneously. Keep at 3 for stability.",
"default": 3
},
"navigationTimeoutSecs": {
"title": "⏱️ Page timeout (seconds)",
"minimum": 10,
"maximum": 300,
"type": "integer",
"description": "How long to wait for each page to load before skipping it.",
"default": 60
},
"proxyConfiguration": {
"title": "🔌 Proxy",
"type": "object",
"description": "Residential proxy is strongly recommended — without it the site may block the scraper."
}
}
},
"runsResponseSchema": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"data": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"id": {
"type": "string"
},
"actId": {
"type": "string"
},
"userId": {
"type": "string"
},
"startedAt": {
"type": "string",
"format": "date-time",
"example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z"
},
"finishedAt": {
"type": "string",
"format": "date-time",
"example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z"
},
"status": {
"type": "string",
"example": "READY"
},
"meta": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"origin": {
"type": "string",
"example": "API"
},
"userAgent": {
"type": "string"
}
}
},
"stats": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"inputBodyLen": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 2000
},
"rebootCount": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
},
"restartCount": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
},
"resurrectCount": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
},
"computeUnits": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
}
}
},
"options": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"build": {
"type": "string",
"example": "latest"
},
"timeoutSecs": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 300
},
"memoryMbytes": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 1024
},
"diskMbytes": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 2048
}
}
},
"buildId": {
"type": "string"
},
"defaultKeyValueStoreId": {
"type": "string"
},
"defaultDatasetId": {
"type": "string"
},
"defaultRequestQueueId": {
"type": "string"
},
"buildNumber": {
"type": "string",
"example": "1.0.0"
},
"containerUrl": {
"type": "string"
},
"usage": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
},
"DATASET_READS": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
},
"DATASET_WRITES": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
},
"KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
},
"KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 1
},
"KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
},
"REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
},
"REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
},
"DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
},
"DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
},
"PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
},
"PROXY_SERPS": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
}
}
},
"usageTotalUsd": {
"type": "number",
"example": 0.00005
},
"usageUsd": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
},
"DATASET_READS": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
},
"DATASET_WRITES": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
},
"KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
},
"KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": {
"type": "number",
"example": 0.00005
},
"KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
},
"REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
},
"REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
},
"DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
},
"DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
},
"PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
},
"PROXY_SERPS": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
}
}
}
}
}
}
}
}
}
}
```