🛒 Aldi Scraper & Weekly Flyers (6 European Countries)

Extract Verified In-Store Leaflets, Supermarket Groceries & Online Assortment with 100% Real Shelf Prices

High-speed European retail intelligence engine for Aldi. Automatically extract verified in-store weekly leaflet promotions, supermarket grocery assortments, and catalog pricing across 6 European countries (Spain, Germany, France, Portugal, Netherlands, Poland) into a standardized, unified schema.

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🎯 Commercial Differentiation (B2B Value)

Most grocery scrapers rely on slow, heavy browser emulation (Playwright/Puppeteer) that repeatedly breaks or gets blocked by perimeter firewalls. Other scrapers rely on crowdsourced data with missing shelf prices and restrictive open-database licenses.

This Actor leverages direct, first-party intelligence pipelines (official Algolia DSN search endpoints and Next.js / iPaper digital flyer viewers) to deliver 100% verified shelf prices with sub-second latency:

Capability	Generic Scrapers	Aldi Enterprise Intelligence (This Actor)
In-Store Weekly Promotions (Leaflets & Special Deals)	❌ Unavailable	✅ Full Coverage (Promotional dates, discount %, and HD page scans)
Supermarket Assortment (Food, Cleaning, Cosmetics)	❌ Incomplete / Blocked	✅ Comprehensive (Fresh food, private labels, pack sizes, shelf prices)
Price Data Completeness	⚠️ Frequently null	✅ 100% Verified Shelf Prices (Zero null prices)
Anti-Bot Resilience	❌ Repeated HTTP 403/429	✅ Advanced Browser Fingerprint Spoofing & Session Rotation
Infrastructure Overhead	⚠️ Heavy (2GB+ RAM)	✅ Ultra-Lightweight (256MB – 512MB RAM container)
Data Licensing	⚠️ Restrictive Copyleft (ODbL)	✅ 100% First-Party Data (Clean for B2B & Commercial Use)
Visual Validation	❌ Raw text / JSON only	✅ High-Resolution Product Photos & In-Store Leaflet Scans

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🌍 Market Coverage

Seamlessly toggle between 6 regional Aldi operations with zero configuration:

Market	Domain	Primary Currency	Assortment Scope
Spain (ES)	aldi.es	EUR (€)	Weekly Leaflets, Supermarket Assortment (Península)
Germany (DE)	aldi-nord.de	EUR (€)	Weekly Leaflets & Supermarket Assortment
France (FR)	aldi.fr	EUR (€)	Weekly Leaflets & Supermarket Assortment
Portugal (PT)	aldi.pt	EUR (€)	Weekly Leaflets & Supermarket Assortment
Netherlands (NL)	aldi.nl	EUR (€)	Weekly Leaflets & Supermarket Assortment
Poland (PL)	aldi.pl	PLN (zł)	Weekly Leaflets & Supermarket Assortment

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🛡️ Enterprise-Grade Architecture & Resilience

• First-Party Algolia DSN Integration: Direct API queries with dedicated regional credentials for instant product data extraction without HTML scraping fragility.
• Next.js & iPaper Flipbook Decoders: Extracts digital leaflets directly from viewer settings (window.staticSettings), providing high-resolution page scans and OCR offer data.
• Advanced Browser Fingerprint Spoofing: Proprietary client TLS layer mimics genuine browser connection characteristics to bypass perimeter traffic inspection without the latency and memory overhead of headless browsers.
• Strict Data Integrity Contracts: Every extracted data point passes through schema-level sanitization (decimal normalization, HTML stripping, automated discount percentage calculation).
• Enterprise Security & Zero PII: Strict URL allowlisting protects against SSRF vulnerabilities. Extracts strictly public product catalog data; zero customer reviews, personal names, or account data are ever processed (GDPR compliant).

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⚡ Zero-Config Quick Start

1. Open this Actor on the Apify Console and click Start.
2. By default, it extracts a balanced sample of 100 products and 10 weekly flyer pages with verified prices, discounts, package sizes, and high-resolution photographs.
3. Export to JSON, CSV, or Excel, or inspect the live photo catalog in the Visual Overview tab.

Sample Input

{
  "country": "ES",
  "categories": ["weekly_flyers", "food", "cleaning", "cosmetics"],
  "searchQueries": ["milsani", "special", "gut bio", "esselt"],
  "maxItems": 100,
  "maxFlyerPages": 10
}

Sample Output Record

{
  "product_id": "872200",
  "name": "Leche entera sin lactosa",
  "brand": "MILSANI",
  "category_macro": "food",
  "subcategory": "Leche y bebidas vegetales",
  "price": 1.03,
  "currency": "EUR",
  "unit_price_text": "1.03 EUR / L",
  "package_size": "1 l unidad",
  "availability": "IN_STORE",
  "country": "ES",
  "source_vector": "web_catalog",
  "product_url": "https://www.aldi.es/producto/leche-entera-sin-lactosa-872200.html",
  "image_url": "https://s7g10.scene7.com/is/image/aldinord/8722_pack_0_0_es_es_leche_entera_sin_lactosa_2024_cw21",
  "valid_from": "2026-05-01",
  "valid_to": "2026-10-31",
  "scraped_at": "2026-10-15T15:00:00Z"
}

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💰 Pay-Per-Event (PPE) Pricing Model

Event	Price	Description
apify-actor-start	$0.01	Charged once per run to cover cold-start infrastructure.
apify-default-dataset-item	$0.0025	Per verified shelf product saved ($2.50 per 1,000 products).
flyer-page-processed	$0.005	Per processed weekly flyer page scan (HD scan + dates).

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🤝 Support & Maintenance

Need custom integrations, dedicated regional endpoints, or enterprise bulk volume? Contact support via the Apify Console.