Dirk Scraper

Dirk Scraper extracts products from Dirk van den Broek (https://www.dirk.nl): prices, unit prices, deals (aanbiedingen) with their dates, next week's deals before they start, EAN barcodes on every product, Nutri-Score, organic flag, badges and categories. Every full run checks itself against Dirk's own product sitemap: the last one collected 7,666 of the sitemap's 7,670 products, the other 4 having no price, plus 4 products on sale that the sitemap does not list.

Price: $2.00 per 1,000 products. A full run reads all 7,670 products in about 2.5 minutes on Apify, with no proxy.

What does the Dirk Scraper extract?

Data	Fields	Filled in last full run
Identity	externalId, name, brand, ean, gtins	100% id, name and barcode, 94.0% brand
Size	sizeText, packCount, quantity, unit	100% size text, 99.9% parsed quantity and unit
Price	price, currency, unitPrice, unitPriceUnit	100% price, 99.1% unit price
Deals	promoPrice, promoText, promoType, promoStart, promoEnd	609 products on a deal (7.9%), all with dates
Product facts	organic, nutriScore, badges, soldByWeight	100% organic flag (276 organic), 12.2% Nutri-Score, 39.4% badges
Category	categoryPath, categoryIds, category	100%
Links	url, imageUrl	100% url, 99.6% image
Run	priceDate, searchTerm, scrapedAt	100%

Last full run: 2026-11-04, 7,670 products, 188 requests, all HTTP 200.

Who uses the Dirk Scraper?

• Price comparison sites load the full catalog and match it to Albert Heijn, Jumbo and other chains on ean, which every Dirk product has.
• Deal and folder apps publish next week's Dirk aanbiedingen on Monday or Tuesday, before the folder week starts, with nextWeek.
• Brand and category managers follow their products' price and deals at Dirk week by week.
• Retail and market analysts track a discounter's prices, private label (1 de Beste, 1,149 products) and deal share.
• Nutrition and health apps filter on nutriScore, organic and badges such as Beter Leven or MSC Vis.
• Developers who need a Dirk van den Broek product API without maintaining one call this actor from JavaScript, Python or REST.

How much does the Dirk Scraper cost?

Pay per event. You pay for products written to the dataset and a tiny start fee. Platform usage is included.

Event	Price
Product written to dataset	$0.002
Actor start	$0.00005 per run at the default 512 MB

Dirk Scraper cost examples

Scenario	Products	Cost
Small test, maxItems: 100	100	$0.20
Keyword search, keywords: ["halfvolle melk"]	37	$0.07
Barcode lookup, 100 barcodes in one run	up to 100	up to $0.20
This week's deals, onlyBonus: true	609	$1.22
Next week's deals, onlyBonus and nextWeek	476	$0.95
Full catalog	7,670	$15.34
Full catalog every week, 4 runs a month	30,680	$61.36

Product counts are from runs on 2026-11-04. Set maxItems to cap any run. Set the run's maximum charge in Apify to cap spend; the actor stops cleanly when it is reached and reports how many products it got.

How do you configure the Dirk Scraper?

Field	Type	Default	Meaning
keywords	array of strings	empty	Search for these words instead of reading the full catalog. At most 250 results a word.
eans	array of strings	empty	Look up these barcodes instead of reading the full catalog.
onlyBonus	boolean	false	Keep only products on a deal, in any mode.
nextWeek	boolean	false	Prices and deals as they will be on the coming Wednesday, instead of today's.
maxItems	integer	100000	Stop after this many products. The default covers the full catalog.
minItems	integer	1	Fail the run if fewer products were found.

With keywords and eans empty, the actor reads the full catalog.

How do you scrape the full Dirk van den Broek catalog with the Dirk Scraper?

Use it for a complete Dirk product list with prices and barcodes. Leave the input empty. The actor reads Dirk's 146 categories, then the products in Dirk's sitemap that no category lists, and fetches every product's barcode.

{}

How do you get next week's Dirk aanbiedingen with the Dirk Scraper?

Use it to publish or plan around next week's folder before it starts. Dirk's deal week runs Wednesday to Tuesday. With nextWeek, prices and deals are those of the coming Wednesday: on Wednesday 4 November the run returned 476 deals for 11 November, 360 of which had not started yet.

{
    "onlyBonus": true,
    "nextWeek": true
}

How do you get this week's Dirk aanbiedingen with the Dirk Scraper?

onlyBonus keeps products on a deal and works with every mode. On the full catalog it reads all products and stores those on a deal: 609 in the last run, each with its start and end date.

{
    "onlyBonus": true
}

How do you search Dirk by keyword with the Dirk Scraper?

Use it when you need a product group. One Dirk search runs per keyword; products Dirk does not price are left out. halfvolle melk returned 37 products. Dirk's search returns at most 250 results; the run summary marks such a search as capped.

{
    "keywords": ["halfvolle melk", "pindakaas"]
}

How do you look up Dirk products by EAN barcode with the Dirk Scraper?

Use it to check the price and deal of products you already know. A product is returned only when its own barcode matches. Leading zeros are optional: 8710506037166 and 08710506037166 find the same Johma salad. Dirk's own search finds a barcode only about 6 times in 10, so the barcodes it misses are looked up in the whole catalog: 3 barcodes, one of them missed by search, took 80 seconds. A barcode not in the catalog gives no item and expected: 0 in the run summary, so it is truly not on sale.

{
    "eans": ["8710506037166", "8716200094795"]
}

Which fields does the Dirk Scraper output?

Source: Dirk = Dirk's value unchanged. Derived = computed by this actor. Fixed = same in every item. Input = from your input. Missing values are null, never an empty string.

Field	Source	Meaning
chain	Fixed	Always dirk.
store	Fixed	Always null: the prices dirk.nl shows, the same for every visitor.
externalId	Dirk	Dirk product id, such as 4276.
ean	Dirk	Barcode, mostly EAN-13.
gtins	Derived	The barcode in a list, for the same field on other chains.
name	Dirk	Product name.
brand	Dirk	Brand.
sizeText	Dirk	Size as Dirk writes it, such as 500 g, 6 x 330 ml or 1 kg (ca. 6 stuks).
packCount	Derived	Units in a multipack, read from sizeText; 1 when not a multipack.
quantity	Derived	Size of one unit: 6 x 330 ml gives 330.
unit	Derived	Unit of quantity: g, kg, ml, cl, l, stuk, zakje, and so on.
price	Dirk	Regular price in EUR.
currency	Fixed	Always EUR.
unitPrice	Derived	Regular price per kg, litre or piece in EUR: Dirk gives none.
unitPriceUnit	Derived	Unit of unitPrice: kg, l or stuk.
promoPrice	Dirk	Deal price in EUR, when lower than price.
promoText	Dirk	The deal label: ACTIE, PROBEER PRIJS or VR, ZA & ZO actie.
promoType	Dirk	Dirk's label code: ACTIE, PROBEER_PRIJS or VR, ZA & ZO_actie.
promoLabels	Fixed	Always null on Dirk; kept for the same field on other chains.
promoStart	Dirk	First day of the deal, YYYY-MM-DD. Weekend deals give their Friday.
promoEnd	Dirk	Last day of the deal, YYYY-MM-DD.
organic	Dirk	true when Dirk shows its Biologisch logo.
nutriScore	Dirk	Nutri-Score A to E, from Dirk's Nutri-Score logo.
badges	Dirk	Dirk's product logos, such as Beter Leven 1, MSC Vis, Fairtrade or Op=Op.
soldByWeight	Dirk	true when the product is sold by weight.
categoryPath	Dirk	Department and group, such as Aardappelen, groente & fruit/Groente.
categoryIds	Dirk	Department id and group id.
category	Dirk	Department.
url	Dirk	Product page on dirk.nl.
imageUrl	Dirk	Product image.
inStock	Fixed	Always null: Dirk gives no stock information.
availabilityLabel	Fixed	Always null on Dirk.
priceDate	Derived	The day the prices apply to: today, or the coming Wednesday with nextWeek.
searchTerm	Input	The keyword or barcode that found the product; null in full-catalog mode.
scrapedAt	Fixed	Time the product was read, ISO 8601.

Dirk Scraper output example

{
    "chain": "dirk",
    "store": null,
    "externalId": "43411",
    "ean": "8710871183451",
    "gtins": ["8710871183451"],
    "name": "1 de Beste Hutspot",
    "brand": "1 de Beste",
    "sizeText": "500 g",
    "packCount": 1,
    "quantity": 500,
    "unit": "g",
    "price": 1.59,
    "currency": "EUR",
    "unitPrice": 3.18,
    "unitPriceUnit": "kg",
    "promoPrice": 0.99,
    "promoText": "ACTIE",
    "promoType": "ACTIE",
    "promoLabels": null,
    "promoStart": "2026-11-04",
    "promoEnd": "2026-11-10",
    "organic": false,
    "nutriScore": "A",
    "badges": ["NUTRI-SCORE A = GROEN", "1 DE BESTE (VERSIE 2018)", "Planet proof"],
    "soldByWeight": false,
    "categoryPath": "Aardappelen, groente & fruit/Groente",
    "categoryIds": ["1", "5"],
    "category": "Aardappelen, groente & fruit",
    "url": "https://www.dirk.nl/boodschappen/aardappelen-groente-fruit/groente/1-de-beste-hutspot/43411",
    "imageUrl": "https://web-fileserver.dirk.nl/artikelen/19407_1_247500_638306083404003645.png",
    "inStock": null,
    "availabilityLabel": null,
    "priceDate": "2026-11-04",
    "searchTerm": null,
    "scrapedAt": "2026-11-04T17:43:32.942Z"
}

How does the Dirk Scraper report on its run?

Every run saves a SUMMARY record in its key-value store. From the last full run:

{
    "mode": "catalog",
    "priceDate": "2026-11-04",
    "itemsPushed": 7670,
    "distinctIds": 7670,
    "productsRead": 7670,
    "sitemapProducts": 7670,
    "sitemapCollected": 7666,
    "sitemapNotOnSale": 4,
    "notInSitemap": 4,
    "barcodesMissing": 0,
    "stoppedAtChargeLimit": false,
    "blocked": false,
    "concurrencyReduced": false,
    "eanCatalogScan": false,
    "durationSec": 143,
    "requests": 188,
    "statusCodes": { "200": 188 },
    "errors": [],
    "retries": [],
    "categories": [{ "id": 1, "name": "Aardappelen, groente & fruit/Aardappelen", "collected": 35 }],
    "searches": []
}

Field	Meaning
itemsPushed, distinctIds	Products stored. Only products Apify accepted count.
productsRead	Distinct products on sale that were read, including those left out by onlyBonus, maxItems or your charge limit.
sitemapProducts	Products in Dirk's own product sitemap. Dirk publishes no other total.
sitemapCollected	Of those, products collected.
sitemapNotOnSale	Of those, products Dirk gives no price: not on sale.
notInSitemap	Products on sale that only a category lists.
barcodesMissing	Products whose barcode could not be read.
categories	Products on sale per category.
searches	In search mode, the products on sale found and collected per keyword or barcode; capped when Dirk's 250-result limit was reached.
stoppedAtChargeLimit	true when the run stopped at your maximum charge.
blocked	true when Dirk refused twice in a row (HTTP 403); the run then fails with the products it already had.
concurrencyReduced	true when Dirk answered 403 or 429; the actor then sends 1 request at a time instead of 2.
eanCatalogScan	true when Dirk's search missed a barcode and the catalog was read to find it.
statusCodes, retries, errors	Every HTTP status received, every retry with its reason, and requests that failed after 3 retries.

A full-catalog run is suspect when sitemapCollected + sitemapNotOnSale is below sitemapProducts, when barcodesMissing is above 0, when blocked or concurrencyReduced is true, or when statusCodes holds anything other than 200. Set minItems to make a bad run fail outright.

How does the Dirk Scraper compare to other Dirk scrapers?

	Dirk Scraper	incognito_mode/dirk-product-scraper	harvestedge/dutch-supermarkets-all-11
Price per 1,000	$2.00	from $4.00	$5.00
Full catalog	yes, default	yes, with maxItems raised from the default 500	no, keyword search
EAN barcode	yes, every product	not mentioned	no
Next week's deals	yes, nextWeek	no	no
Deal dates	yes, weekend deals included	yes	no
Nutri-Score, organic, badges	yes	not mentioned	no
Unit price	yes, computed	yes, parsed	yes
Keyword and barcode search	yes	no	keyword only
Completeness check	yes, against Dirk's sitemap	no	no
Proxy	none	Apify datacenter by default	not stated

Figures read from each actor's public page on 2026-11-04.

Things to know about Dirk data from the Dirk Scraper

• Dirk's deal week runs Wednesday to Tuesday. In the run of Wednesday 2026-11-04, 401 products had a deal from 4 to 10 November. Weekend deals (VR, ZA & ZO actie, 21 products) run Friday to Sunday, and their dates say so.
• Next week's deals are readable before Wednesday. On 4 November, 476 products had a deal for 11 November, 360 of them not on a deal yet. With nextWeek, a product Dirk will not price that day is left out.
• Dirk publishes no product total. The check is Dirk's product sitemap, and neither source is complete alone: in the last run, 5 products on sale were in the sitemap and in no category (such as Activia Kefir drink mango), and 4 were in a category and not in the sitemap. The actor reads both.
• Dirk gives no unit price. unitPrice is computed from the regular price and size. Dirk writes two litre sizes as millilitres (1,98 ml on Dr Pepper 6x330ml, 1,5 ml on a 1.5 l bottle); a millilitre size with decimals under 10 is read as litres, which changes exactly these two of 7,665 products checked. sizeText stays as Dirk writes it.
• Some deals have no lower price. 151 deals are products sold only during a promotion, at one price, such as Vleeschmeesters Actie angusburger: they have promoType and dates, and promoPrice is null.
• Dirk has no multi-buy deals. No 1+1 or 2 voor: every deal is a price.
• Some deals carry no label. 199 of 609: promoText is null and promoType is ACTIE.
• Prices are the ones dirk.nl shows. Dirk's system holds other price lists, but none can be matched to a shop, and dirk.nl uses one list whatever shop a visitor picks. So store is null.
• No stock information. A product with a price is on sale; inStock is always null.
• Dirk's search misses barcodes. It found 18 of 30 barcodes tried; Friesche Vlag Halvamel, on sale, was one it missed. The actor then looks in the whole catalog, so barcode lookups are complete but take about 80 seconds when search misses one.
• Short barcodes are Dirk's own codes. 7,460 barcodes are EAN-13 and 147 EAN-8; 62 fresh and weighed products have shorter in-store codes.
• Nutri-Score and organic come from Dirk's logos. 934 products show a Nutri-Score logo, 276 the Biologisch logo.

Is it legal to use the Dirk Scraper?

This actor reads publicly available data only. Dirk product data contains no personal data. It sends at most 2 requests at a time and does not bypass any login or paywall. You are responsible for how you use the data, including any terms that apply to you. See Apify's guide to web scraping legality.

Frequently asked questions about the Dirk Scraper

Can I get Dirk products as CSV or Excel?

Yes. Every run's dataset downloads as CSV, Excel, JSON or XML from Apify, or through the API.

How often should I run it?

Dirk's deals change every Wednesday. Run the full catalog once a week on Wednesday, and add a Monday or Tuesday run with onlyBonus and nextWeek to have the coming week's deals early.

Does it need proxies?

No. Requests go straight to Dirk, at most 2 at a time: the last full run got HTTP 200 on all 188. If Dirk answers 403 or 429, the actor goes to 1 request at a time; after a 403 it also pauses 60 seconds and tries once more, and a second 403 ends the run with blocked: true.

Can I schedule it and send results somewhere?

Yes. Use Apify Schedules, and a webhook or integration to send each run's dataset to your database, Google Sheets, Slack or Notion.

Does it work with the Apify API and SDK?

Yes. Any Apify client (JavaScript, Python, REST) can start the actor and read the dataset.

Can I get the Dirk aanbiedingen of next week?

Yes. Run with onlyBonus and nextWeek. The run of Wednesday 4 November returned 476 deals for Wednesday 11 November, 352 of them running 11 to 17 November.

Is there an official Dirk van den Broek API?

No public one. Dirk's website uses a GraphQL API that is not documented for outside use. This actor reads it for you and returns a stable set of fields, so you do not maintain the integration.

Is there a list of all Dirk products with prices?

Each full run produces one: 7,670 products in the last run, with price, unit price, barcode and category, downloadable as CSV, Excel or JSON.

Can I compare Dirk prices with Albert Heijn and Jumbo?

Yes. The Albert Heijn and Jumbo scrapers by Sleep Mode Systems output the same fields. Match on ean (Albert Heijn writes it with a leading zero, so compare without leading zeros) and compare unitPrice.

Does it give prices per Dirk shop?

No. It gives the prices dirk.nl shows, the same for every visitor. Dirk's system holds other price lists, but none can be matched to a shop.

Does it cover DekaMarkt?

No. DekaMarkt runs on the same platform with its own prices; the DekaMarkt Scraper by Sleep Mode Systems reads it, with the same fields and the same product ids.

Other scrapers by Sleep Mode Systems

Actor	What it extracts	Price per 1,000
Dirk Scraper	Dirk products: prices, next week's deals, EAN, Nutri-Score	$2.00	you are here
Albert Heijn Scraper	Albert Heijn products: prices, Bonus deals, EAN, Nutri-Score	$1.00
Jumbo Scraper	Jumbo products: prices, deals with dates, EAN, organic, shelf life	$1.50
PLUS Scraper	PLUS products: prices, deals with dates, EAN, Nutri-Score, vegan	$1.50
DekaMarkt Scraper	DekaMarkt products: prices, next week's deals, EAN, organic	$2.00
Hoogvliet Scraper	Hoogvliet products: prices, next week's deals, EAN, ingredients, vegan	$2.00
Vomar Scraper	Vomar products: prices, every EAN barcode, BIO, categories	$1.00
Poiesz Scraper	Poiesz products: prices, deals with dates, EAN, deposit, ingredients	$1.50
Ekoplaza Scraper	Ekoplaza products: prices, next week's deals, EAN, allergens, Ekoscope	$2.00
Aldi NL Scraper	Aldi products: prices, next week's deals, special buys, seals	$1.00

All of them share the same output fields, so you can combine their datasets directly. The Aldi NL Scraper adds articleNumber, description, specialBuy, vegan, vegetarian, ageRestriction and priceDate, and has no barcodes; the Ekoplaza Scraper adds articleNumber, vegan, vegetarian, ekoscope, origin, shelfLifeDays, ageRestriction, soldByWeight, detailsDate, description, ingredients, allergens, mayContain, freeFrom, nutrition and priceDate; the Poiesz Scraper adds promoDescription, deposit, depositAmount, ageRestriction, alcoholPercentage, purchaseLimit, soldByWeight, detailsRead, detailsDate, ingredients, allergens, mayContain, freeFrom, nutrition and storage; the Vomar Scraper adds soldByWeight, and fills gtins with every barcode Vomar lists; the Hoogvliet Scraper adds promoDescription, vegan, vegetarian, shelfLifeDays, ageRestriction, soldByWeight, ingredients, nutrition, storage, origin, alcoholPercentage and priceDate; the DekaMarkt and Dirk Scrapers add soldByWeight and priceDate; PLUS adds vegan, vegetarian, deposit, storeOnly, detailsRead and detailsDate; Jumbo adds promotions and shelfLifeDays. Category ids are text on Jumbo, Dirk, DekaMarkt, Hoogvliet, Vomar, Poiesz, Ekoplaza and Aldi, numbers on Albert Heijn, and not given by PLUS.

Support for the Dirk Scraper

Questions, a missing field, or a custom pipeline on top of this data: write to Imad at imad@sleepmodesystems.com. Bugs go in the Issues tab of this actor.