# BILLA Czech Republic Scraper — Groceries, Prices & Offers (`studio-amba/billa-cz-scraper`) Actor

Scrape the BILLA Czech Republic online shop by keyword: product names, brands, prices in CZK, unit prices, promotions, categories, SKUs and images. Open JSON API, no login or cookies.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/studio-amba/billa-cz-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Studio Amba](https://apify.com/studio-amba) (community)
- **Categories:** E-commerce
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $1.20 / 1,000 result scrapeds

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## BILLA Czech Republic Scraper

Scrape the BILLA Czech Republic online shop (billa.cz) by keyword and get clean, structured product data: names, brands, prices, unit prices, promotions, categories, SKUs and images.

BILLA is one of the largest supermarket chains in the Czech Republic. This actor reads its public product catalogue directly, so you get fast, reliable grocery data without a login, cookies or a browser.

### Why use this actor?

If you track grocery prices, build a price-comparison tool, monitor promotions, or feed a market-research dataset, you need structured product data you can rely on. This actor turns any BILLA search into a table of products with prices in CZK, unit prices, and promotion details.

Typical users:

- Price-intelligence and price-comparison platforms tracking Czech retail.
- Brands and suppliers monitoring how their products are listed and promoted.
- Market researchers and analysts building grocery datasets.
- Developers who need a clean product feed instead of scraping HTML themselves.

### How to scrape BILLA Czech Republic data

1. Open the actor in the Apify Console.
2. Enter a **search query** in Czech — for example `mleko`, `chleb`, `kava` or `bio`.
3. Set **maxResults** to how many products you want (BILLA caps each query at 1000 results).
4. Leave the proxy on the default Apify setting and click **Start**.
5. When the run finishes, download the results as JSON, CSV, Excel or feed them to an API.

The actor calls BILLA's own product-discovery API, paginates through every result page for your query, de-duplicates by article number, and writes one clean record per product.

### Input

| Field | Type | Required | Description |
|-------|------|----------|-------------|
| `searchQuery` | String | No | Keyword to search in Czech (default: `mleko`) |
| `maxResults` | Integer | No | Maximum products to return, 1–1000 (default: 100) |
| `proxyConfiguration` | Object | No | Apify proxy settings (default Apify proxy works) |

#### Example input

```json
{
    "searchQuery": "mleko",
    "maxResults": 20,
    "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": true }
}
```

### Output

Each result contains:

| Field | Type | Example |
|-------|------|---------|
| `productName` | String | `"Madeta Jihočeské trvanlivé mléko plnotučné 3,5% 1l"` |
| `brand` | String | `"Madeta"` |
| `price` | Number | `27.9` |
| `currency` | String | `"CZK"` |
| `unitPrice` | String | `"27.90 Kč/l"` |
| `originalPrice` | Number | `43.9` |
| `discount` | String | `"31%"` |
| `category` | String | `"Chlazené, mléčné a rostlinné výrobky > Mléko > Trvanlivé mléko"` |
| `sku` | String | `"82-258572"` |
| `productId` | String | `"e8a46070-5679-444b-9816-aaa2d55ca17a"` |
| `inStock` | Boolean | `true` |
| `imageUrl` | String | Primary product image URL |
| `url` | String | Full product page URL |
| `scrapedAt` | String | ISO 8601 timestamp |

`originalPrice` and `discount` are present only on promoted products.

### Example output

```json
{
    "productName": "Madeta Jihočeské trvanlivé mléko plnotučné 3,5% 1l",
    "brand": "Madeta",
    "price": 27.9,
    "currency": "CZK",
    "unitPrice": "27.90 Kč/l",
    "category": "Chlazené, mléčné a rostlinné výrobky > Mléko > Trvanlivé mléko",
    "sku": "82-258572",
    "productId": "e8a46070-5679-444b-9816-aaa2d55ca17a",
    "imageUrl": "https://images.cdn.europe-west1.gcp.commercetools.com/1df039f1-4705-4f79-aa90-cf907a6ec063/82-258572-0207650459-qXm6caBb.jpg",
    "url": "https://www.billa.cz/produkt/madeta-jihoceske-trvanlive-mleko-plnotucne-35-1l-82258572",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-08-24T09:10:00.000Z"
}
```

### Notes and limitations

- Prices are the current online-shop prices in CZK. Store prices may differ by region.
- BILLA caps every search query at 1000 results. To cover a whole catalogue, run several targeted keyword or category searches.
- EAN / barcode is not exposed by the BILLA search API, so it is not included.
- `originalPrice` and `discount` appear only when a product is on promotion.
- `inStock` is only populated when the API returns a `maxQuantity` field for that product — treat a missing value as unknown, not out of stock.

### Cost

Pricing is pay-per-result. A typical keyword search of 100–1000 products completes in well under a minute, so most runs cost only a few cents in Apify platform usage plus the per result fee.

Run usage cost only settles once the run status shows **SUCCEEDED** — reading the dataset mid-run will undercount the actual cost.

### Related Scrapers

Build a complete view of European grocery retail with these sibling scrapers from Studio AMBA:

- **[BILLA Austria Scraper](https://apify.com/studio-amba/billa-at-scraper)** — BILLA's Austrian storefront (shop.billa.at).
- **[Kaufland CZ Scraper](https://apify.com/studio-amba/kaufland-cz-scraper)** — Czech Kaufland groceries and prices (kaufland.cz).
- **[Tesco CZ Scraper](https://apify.com/studio-amba/tesco-cz-scraper)** — Czech Tesco groceries and offers (itesco.cz).
- **[Rohlik Scraper](https://apify.com/studio-amba/rohlik-scraper)** — Czech online grocery delivery (rohlik.cz).
- **[Colruyt Scraper](https://apify.com/studio-amba/colruyt-scraper)** — Belgian grocery prices (colruyt.be).
- **[Delhaize Scraper](https://apify.com/studio-amba/delhaize-scraper)** — Belgian supermarket products (delhaize.be).
- **[Mercadona Scraper](https://apify.com/studio-amba/mercadona-scraper)** — Spain's largest supermarket (mercadona.es).

# Actor input Schema

## `searchQuery` (type: `string`):

Keyword to search the BILLA catalogue in Czech (e.g. 'mleko', 'chleb', 'kava').

## `maxResults` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of products to return. BILLA caps each query at 1000 results.

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Apify proxy settings. The default Apify proxy works — the BILLA API is not geo-locked and has no anti-bot protection.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "searchQuery": "mleko",
  "maxResults": 20,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

No description

# 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 '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "searchQuery": "mleko",
    "maxResults": 20,
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": true
    }
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("studio-amba/billa-cz-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 '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "searchQuery": "mleko",
    "maxResults": 20,
    "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": True },
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("studio-amba/billa-cz-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "searchQuery": "mleko",
  "maxResults": 20,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}' |
apify call studio-amba/billa-cz-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,studio-amba/billa-cz-scraper"
        }
    }
}

```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/a94WAc5AxsSVekDhJ/builds/8LoXXI8wkdiBOeOh6/openapi.json