VkusVill Price & Stock Monitor

Scrapes the VkusVill grocery catalogue (vkusvill.ru) by category — product name, price, customer rating, review count, brand and stock — and tracks how prices and availability change between runs.

Runs on Apify's cheap datacenter proxy. No browser, no residential proxy, no CAPTCHA solving.

What you get

One row per product:

store, productId, name, brand, price, currency, available, rating, reviewsCount, description, image, url, categoryName, categoryPath, scrapedAt

Every field is populated on every row in normal operation — a sample run returned 72/72 products with all 15 fields filled, including a 4.6 rating off 644 reviews per item.

Monitor mode

Each row also gets changeType, previousPrice, priceLow30, priceHigh30, firstSeenAt, lastConfirmedAt.

changeType	Means
new	First time this product was seen in this scope
price_up / price_down	The price moved
stock_change	Availability flipped
out_of_stock	Was in the catalogue before and has now vanished from it
unchanged	Nothing moved

About out_of_stock: a product that leaves the listing has gone out of stock or been delisted. It is reported once (carrying its last known name, URL and price), then dropped from the snapshot. This detection is skipped whenever the run did not cover every category in full — cut short by the time budget, the cost cap, Max results, or a category that returned nothing — because then "missing" would just mean "not reached". The log says so when that happens.

Turn on Output only changed products to drop unchanged rows — you then pay for and read only what actually moved. History keeps updating for everything either way.

Input

Field	What it does
Category URLs	Categories to scrape. Paste from the browser (https://vkusvill.ru/goods/sladosti-i-deserty/) or just the slug.
Crawl all categories	Discover categories from VkusVill's sitemap (35 top-level categories) instead of listing them.
Category filter	With the sitemap crawl: keep only categories whose URL contains this text. Note the slugs are transliterated — dairy is molochnye-produkty-yaytso, not moloko.
Max categories from sitemap	Safety cap for the sitemap crawl.
Max pages per category	24 products per page; the Actor stops on its own when a category ends.
Max results	Global cap. 0 = no limit.
Monitor mode / Output only changed	Change-tracking, described above.

Notes & limits

• The listing is the data source. VkusVill marks every product card up with schema.org microdata (itemprop attributes), which the Actor reads card by card — no product pages are fetched, which is what keeps it cheap.
• Pagination is ?PAGEN_1=N. The more obvious ?page=N is silently ignored by the site and returns page 1 again, so anything built on it would re-scrape the same 24 products.
• One national catalogue. VkusVill's sitemaps only ever expose the msk set and the category pages carry no city selector, so there is no per-city or per-store price dimension to configure — unlike some other Russian chains.
• The Actor honours your Maximum cost per run: it stops when the cap is reached and says so, instead of scraping pages the platform would discard.
• If a category yields nothing, it is reported in the log and saved to the EMPTY_CATEGORIES record rather than passing silently.