Sainsbury's Scraper - UK Grocery Prices, Nectar Offers & EAN

Scrape Sainsbury's online groceries (UK) without a login: product name, price, unit price with measure, Nectar price and every offer with its start and end date, was price, EAN barcode, availability, customer rating and reviews count, categories, labels such as Chilled or New, and the product image. Search by keyword, read whole categories, or paste product links. Turn on details for the description, important information, full category path and all product images.

For price-monitoring and price-comparison tools, FMCG brands and category managers tracking shelf prices and promotions, retail analysts following UK grocery inflation, and anyone who needs Sainsbury's prices with barcodes as clean rows.

Sainsbury's scraper at a glance

• Price: US$ 2.50 per 1,000 products on the Free plan, plus US$ 0.003 per run; product details US$ 1.00 per 1,000 extra
• Search, category or product link: keywords, any category page (/c:<number>) and single product pages
• Offers done properly: Nectar price flag, offer text, type, start and end dates, the was price, and the original unit price
• EAN barcodes on every product, ready to match against other retailers
• Filters: price range, only products on offer, and the site's sort orders (relevance, price, rating)
• Fast: 60 products per page, about 120 products with full details in under a minute
• No login, no browser. Wrong links and empty searches return free error rows

Quick start

{
  "searchQuery": ["oat milk"],
  "maxItems": 50
}

A whole category, cheapest first, offers only:

{
  "startUrls": ["https://www.sainsburys.co.uk/gol-ui/groceries/hot-drinks-soft-drinks-and-water/c:1019463"],
  "sortBy": "price-asc",
  "onlyOnPromotion": true,
  "maxItems": 0
}

Product links with details:

{
  "startUrls": ["https://www.sainsburys.co.uk/gol-ui/product/cravendale-filtered-fresh-semi-skimmed-milk-2l-fresher-for-longer"],
  "includeDetails": true
}

Input

Field	What it does
searchQuery	Search terms, one per line.
startUrls	Category pages (/c:<number>), product pages or search result pages on sainsburys.co.uk.
maxItems	Cap per search term or category (60 per page). 0 = all. Default 50.
sortBy	relevance, price-asc, price-desc or rating.
minPrice, maxPrice	Price range in GBP.
onlyOnPromotion	Only products with a current offer.
includeDetails	Also read each product page (description, category path, images).
proxyConfiguration	Apify Proxy by default.

Field names used by other Sainsbury's tools (queries, maxResultsPerQuery, categoryUrls, productUrls) are accepted too, so an existing Task or integration keeps working after you switch.

Example output

A real row from a run of 23 Oct 2026 with details on (important information shortened):

{
  "type": "product",
  "productId": "3216620",
  "name": "Cravendale Filtered Fresh Semi Skimmed Milk 2L Fresher for Longer",
  "url": "https://www.sainsburys.co.uk/gol-ui/product/cravendale-filtered-fresh-semi-skimmed-milk-2l-fresher-for-longer",
  "price": 2.0,
  "currency": "GBP",
  "unitPrice": 1.0,
  "unitMeasure": "1ltr",
  "originalUnitPrice": 1.33,
  "wasPrice": 2.65,
  "onPromotion": true,
  "nectarPrice": true,
  "promotions": [
    {
      "text": "Buy 1 for 2",
      "type": "SIMPLE_FIXED_PRICE",
      "group": "simple",
      "nectar": true,
      "startsAt": "2026-10-08T23:00:00Z",
      "endsAt": "2026-10-27T00:00:00Z",
      "originalPrice": 2.65,
      "url": "https://www.sainsburys.co.uk/gol-ui/promo-lister/10771663"
    }
  ],
  "available": true,
  "eans": ["5000181024043"],
  "rating": 4.6879,
  "reviewsCount": 330,
  "categories": [{"id": "12431", "name": "Fresh milk"}, {"id": "461873", "name": "Dairy"}],
  "category": "Fresh milk",
  "labels": ["Chilled"],
  "imageUrl": "https://assets.sainsburys-groceries.co.uk/gol/3216620/image.jpg",
  "description": "Pasteurised, homogenised, semi-skimmed, fresh filtered milk",
  "categoryPath": ["Hot drinks, soft drinks & water", "Milk & milk drinks", "Fresh milk"],
  "images": ["https://assets.sainsburys-groceries.co.uk/gol/3216620/1/2365x2365.jpg"],
  "sourceUrl": "https://www.sainsburys.co.uk/gol-ui/groceries/hot-drinks-soft-drinks-and-water/c:1019463",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-23T13:46:05Z"
}

What data the Sainsbury's scraper returns

Field	What it is
productId, sainId, name, url	The product and its page
price, currency	Shelf price in GBP
unitPrice, unitMeasure, originalUnitPrice	Price per unit (litre, kg, each) and the unit price before the offer
wasPrice, onPromotion, nectarPrice, promotions	Offer details: text, type, Nectar, start and end, original price, offer page
available	In stock online
eans	EAN barcodes
rating, reviewsCount	Customer rating and number of reviews
categories, category, labels, badges	Categories and labels (Chilled, New, Frozen...)
isAlcoholic, isSponsored, productType, searchRank	Flags and position in the list
imageUrl	Main image
description, details, importantInformation, categoryPath, images	With includeDetails on
sourceUrl	The search, category or link that found the product

Fields that are empty for a product are left out of its row.

Pricing

Pay per event, no monthly fee.

Event	Free plan price
Product delivered	US$ 0.0025 (US$ 2.50 per 1,000)
Product details (only with includeDetails)	US$ 0.001 (US$ 1.00 per 1,000)
Actor start	US$ 0.003 per run

Job	Cost at the Free plan price
50 products for one search	about US$ 0.13
A category of 1,000 products	about US$ 2.50
1,000 products with details	about US$ 3.50

Error rows, duplicates and products removed by your filters are never charged.

Errors

errorCode	Meaning
INVALID_URL	The link is not a Sainsbury's product, category or search page
NOT_FOUND	The product does not exist or is no longer sold
NO_RESULTS	No products for this search or category
INVALID_INPUT	A value in the input is not valid
BLOCKED	The site did not answer after several tries; run again
NOT_REACHED	The run stopped (time, spending limit) before this source

Integrations, scheduling and AI agents

• Schedules: run a Task daily on your categories to track price changes and when Nectar offers start and end.
• Export to JSON, CSV, Excel or HTML from the dataset, or read it through the Apify API.
• Make, n8n, Zapier and webhooks: push price drops to Google Sheets, Slack or your pricing tool.
• AI agents: the Actor works through the Apify MCP server, so an agent can ask "which oat milks are on Nectar offer at Sainsbury's this week and what is the price per litre?" and get structured rows back.

FAQ

Which links work? Category pages (the link ends in /c: and a number), product pages (/gol-ui/product/...) and search result pages.

Are prices for a specific store? They are the online groceries prices Sainsbury's shows to a visitor without a postcode.

What is the Nectar price? A lower price for Nectar card holders. nectarPrice is true when the offer is a Nectar offer, and the offer row has its dates.

Does it need a Sainsbury's account? No.

Is it legal to scrape Sainsbury's? The Actor reads public product listings without logging in and collects no personal data. You are responsible for how you use the data.

Limitations

• Nutrition tables and ingredients that the site shows only as images are not collected.
• Delivery slots and store stock by postcode are not collected.

If this Actor saves you time, a short review on the Store page helps other people find it.

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Changelog

• 23 Oct 2026, 0.1: first release. Search, categories and product links, Nectar offers with dates, EAN, rating, details.

This Actor collects only publicly available data. Independent tool, not affiliated with J Sainsbury plc.