Chronodrive.com Scraper

Pull product data from chronodrive.com, the French grocery drive of the Auchan group. The actor returns one row per product with the current price in EUR, the price per kg or litre, pack size, EAN barcode, brand, category, Nutri-Score and the promotion shown on the page.

Chronodrive lists around 41,000 product addresses in its sitemap, from fresh food and dry goods to drinks, baby care, household and hygiene products. If you track French grocery prices or match products across shops by barcode, this actor gives you a repeatable feed.

How to scrape Chronodrive.com data

There are two ways to tell the actor which products to read.

1. Paste product pages into productUrls, for example https://www.chronodrive.com/auchan--billes-de-mozzarella-P606243.
2. Leave productUrls empty and fill urlKeywords. The actor reads the public product sitemap and keeps products whose address contains one of your words, for example nutella or lessive.

The actor stops at maxResults. If you leave everything empty, it reads the first 50 products in the sitemap.

Search result pages, the basket and the account pages are not read. The actor only requests product pages and the sitemap.

Input

Field	Type	Description
productUrls	list of URLs	Chronodrive.com product pages
urlKeywords	list of words	Used when no URLs are given. Keeps products whose address contains one of the words
maxResults	number	Maximum number of rows (default 50)
proxyConfiguration	proxy	Apify Proxy by default

What you get back

Field	Description
sku	Chronodrive product number
ean	First EAN-13 barcode of the product
eans	All barcodes listed for the product
name	Product name including brand
brand	Brand name
price	Current selling price in EUR, VAT included
currency	ISO currency code (EUR)
unitPrice	Price per kg or litre
unitPriceUnit	Unit of the unit price (kg or l)
quantity	Pack size as shown, for example 150 g or 2 x 70 g
promotion	Promotion text shown on the page, with the validity date when given
inStock	Whether the product is available
availability	Availability as published (InStock or OutOfStock)
tags	Labels shown on the product, for example Frais or New
nutriscore	Nutri-Score letter
origin	Origin statement when shown
category	Category path on the site
description	Product description, first 500 characters
imageUrl	Main product image
url	Product page address
scrapedAt	Time of the read
country, language	fr, fr

Example output

{
  "sku": "606243",
  "ean": "3596710563128",
  "eans": ["3596710563128"],
  "name": "AUCHAN Billes de mozzarella",
  "brand": "AUCHAN",
  "price": 1.95,
  "currency": "EUR",
  "unitPrice": 13,
  "unitPriceUnit": "kg",
  "quantity": "150 g",
  "promotion": null,
  "inStock": true,
  "availability": "InStock",
  "tags": ["Frais"],
  "category": "Produits laitiers & Oeufs > Fromages à cuisiner et apéritifs > Fromages apéritifs et salades",
  "url": "https://www.chronodrive.com/auchan--billes-de-mozzarella-P606243",
  "country": "fr",
  "language": "fr"
}

Input examples

Read one specific product:

{
  "productUrls": [
    "https://www.chronodrive.com/auchan--billes-de-mozzarella-P606243"
  ]
}

Read up to 500 Nutella and Ferrero products:

{
  "urlKeywords": ["nutella", "ferrero"],
  "maxResults": 500
}

Promotions

When Chronodrive shows an offer on a product page, for example a percentage credited to the loyalty account on a second product, the text goes into promotion. When there is no offer the field is empty. The price in price is the shelf price shown on the page.

Price format

Prices are in euro with VAT included. unitPrice is the price per kg or litre as the shop shows it, and unitPriceUnit tells you which of the two.

Store prices

Chronodrive sets prices for the national catalogue. The actor reads the catalogue price shown to a visitor who has not chosen a pickup store.

Use cases

• Track French grocery prices for a brand or a category.
• Match products between Chronodrive and other European grocery shops with the EAN.
• Compare price per kg across pack sizes of the same product.
• Build a price comparison or market report for France.

Related actors

Other grocery and retail scrapers in this fleet cover Carrefour, Intermarche, Leclerc, Auchan and Monoprix.

FAQ

Does it need a login? No. The actor reads public product pages.

How many products can I read? The sitemap lists around 41,000 addresses. Set maxResults to the number you need.

Why does a run take a while? The shop answers with an error page on some requests. The actor asks again for the same page until it gets the product data, so a run of 100 products takes a few minutes.

How often is the data updated? Each run reads the live site.

What if a product page is removed? The page is skipped and the run goes on with the next one.

Notes

Use the data in line with the site's terms and with local law. Source websites can change or restrict access, and we are not responsible for restrictions imposed by them.