Boots Ireland Scraper

Scrape products from Boots.ie, Ireland's leading health and pharmacy retailer, part of the Boots group with stores across the country. Search by keyword and pull clean, structured product data: names, prices, brands, EAN barcodes, ratings, stock status, and images.

No login. No cookies. No account required.

Why use this scraper?

• Price monitoring — Track Boots prices for medicines, vitamins, skincare and beauty products over time and spot promotions.
• Competitive analysis — Compare Boots pricing against other Irish and UK pharmacies on matching EAN codes.
• Market research — Analyse assortment, brand coverage, and pricing across health, pharmacy, and beauty categories.
• Retail intelligence — Monitor stock availability and "3 for 2" style promotions across large product ranges.
• Catalogue enrichment — Match products by EAN/UPC to enrich your own catalogue with images, ratings, and descriptions.
• Brand monitoring — Track how your brand's products are priced, rated, and merchandised on Boots.
• Data journalism & academia — Build datasets on Irish health and beauty retail pricing and consumer ratings.
• Reselling & arbitrage — Find discounted lines and price gaps against other Irish and EU health retailers.

How to scrape Boots data

1. Create an Apify account — Sign up at apify.com (free tier available).
2. Open the Boots Ireland Scraper — Navigate to this actor's page in the Apify Store.
3. Enter a search term — Type a product keyword (e.g., "paracetamol", "vitamin d", "no7 serum"). The scraper searches the full Boots catalogue.
4. Refine (optional) — Filter by brand, price range, stock status, or choose a sort order (price, rating, best selling, newest).
5. Set a result limit — Choose how many products you want (default: 100).
6. Run the actor — Click "Start". Most searches finish in well under a minute.
7. Download your data — Export as JSON, CSV, or Excel from the Dataset tab, or pull it via the Apify API for automated workflows.

How it works

Boots serves its storefront behind Imperva bot protection, but its product catalogue is powered by a public product-search index that the site's own search box queries directly from your browser. This scraper reads from that same index, so it is fast and reliable and does not need a headless browser or residential proxies for normal use. Each request returns up to 200 fully hydrated products.

Input parameters

Parameter	Type	Description	Default
searchQuery	string	Product search term (e.g., "paracetamol", "vitamin d")	paracetamol
maxResults	integer	Maximum products to return (1–2000)	100
sort	string	price_asc, price_desc, newest, rating, bestselling	Relevance
brand	string	Filter to a single brand (exact match, e.g., "No7")	—
inStockOnly	boolean	Only return products currently in stock	false
minPrice	integer	Minimum price in EUR	—
maxPrice	integer	Maximum price in EUR	—
proxyConfiguration	object	Legacy proxy settings (not required)	Apify Residential IE

Output fields

Field	Type	Description	Example
name	string	Full product name	Boots Paracetamol 500mg Tablets 16 Tablets
brand	string	Brand name	Boots
price	number	Current selling price	0.49
originalPrice	number	Price before discount (if on offer)	null
currency	string	ISO currency code	EUR
pricePerUnit	string	Unit price	€0.37 per 1UNI
ean	string	EAN/UPC barcode	5045098199934
sku	string	Boots product identifier	10276369
inStock	boolean	Stock status	true
rating	number	Average review score (out of 5)	4.58
reviewCount	number	Number of reviews	73
category	string	Most specific catalogue category	pain relief
promotion	string	Promotional message	3 for 2 on selected Vitamins
imageUrl	string	Product image URL	https://boots.scene7.com/is/image/Boots/10276369
url	string	Product page URL	https://www.boots.ie/panadol-actifast-...
description	string	Product description / offer details	For the relief of mild to moderate pain...
scrapedAt	string	ISO timestamp of the scrape	2026-07-06T10:00:00.000Z

Example output

{
    "name": "Panadol Actifast 500mg Paracetamol Tablets 20s",
    "brand": "Panadol",
    "price": 7.49,
    "originalPrice": null,
    "currency": "EUR",
    "pricePerUnit": "€0.37 per 1UNI",
    "ean": "5011080181997",
    "sku": "10284315",
    "inStock": true,
    "rating": 4.7,
    "reviewCount": 42,
    "category": "pain relief",
    "promotion": "",
    "imageUrl": "https://boots.scene7.com/is/image/Boots/10284315?op_sharpen=1",
    "url": "https://www.boots.ie/panadol-actifast-500mg-paracetamol-tablets-20s-10284315",
    "description": "For the relief of mild to moderate pain, headache, migraine, and feverishness. Always read the label.",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-07-06T10:00:00.000Z"
}

Cost estimate

Pricing is pay-per-result. Because each request returns up to 200 products from the search index, runs are fast and cheap: a 100-product search completes in seconds. Expect several hundred products per $1 of Apify credits depending on your plan and the per-result rate shown on this actor's pricing tab.

Limitations / known issues

• Search-driven — Results come from Boots' search index, so you scrape by keyword rather than crawling a category tree. Broad terms (e.g., "vitamin") return the widest catalogue slice.
• Pagination depth — The search index limits how deep pagination can go, so extremely broad queries cap out at a few thousand of the most relevant products. Use specific terms or price/brand filters to narrow large result sets.
• Prices exclude in-store-only offers — Reflects online Boots.ie pricing; store-specific promotions may differ.
• Medicine restrictions — Pharmacy-only medicines list their catalogue data but may require a pharmacy interaction to purchase; this scraper reports the listing, not purchase eligibility.
• Not affiliated with Boots — This is an independent tool for publicly available product data. Respect Boots' terms and applicable laws when using scraped data.

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