Groupon UK Scraper

Extract live deals, prices and voucher codes from groupon.co.uk, the UK's largest local-deals and daily-deals marketplace, by category.

Why use this actor?

Groupon UK doesn't publish a public API, and its category pages render deals client-side after the initial page load — so a plain HTML scraper sees an empty page. This actor talks directly to the same hidden JSON feed groupon.co.uk's own frontend uses to populate a category page, returning clean, structured deal data: title, current price, "was" price, discount %, merchant name, star rating, redemption location and any attached voucher code. Useful for price-monitoring tools, deal-alert bots, local-market research, or feeding a broader European deals/coupons aggregator.

How to scrape Groupon UK data

1. Pick a voucher category slug from the groupon.co.uk URL bar — visit groupon.co.uk/vouchers/{slug} in a browser and copy the slug (e.g. restaurants, massage, hairdressers, things-to-do, beauty-and-spas, spa, nail-salon, escape-games, golf).
2. Set category to that slug, or leave it empty to default to restaurants.
3. Set location to a UK town or city (london, manchester, Milton Keynes, glasgow) or a postcode district (M1, EH1). The actor looks the place up on postcodes.io and asks Groupon for the deals near it. Leave empty to default to london.
4. Set maxResults (results load 24 at a time).
5. Run the actor. Each Groupon deal card becomes one row in the output dataset: title, price, was-price, discount %, merchant, star rating, image, voucher code and redemption location.
6. Export the dataset as JSON, CSV, or connect it via API to your own pipeline.

There is no login and no CAPTCHA in the way — the deal-feed API itself is not behind Cloudflare's bot challenge (only direct /deals/{slug} page loads are, and this actor never needs to hit those — every field comes from the listing feed itself).

A note on Groupon UK's data

• price and originalPrice are in GBP, converted from the pence integers the API returns.
• An unknown category or location returns no rows. Groupon's feed answers an unknown category slug with every deal in the area. The actor detects that, returns nothing and says which input was not found, so you are not charged for unrelated deals. The run still ends as SUCCEEDED. Check a slug at groupon.co.uk/vouchers/{slug} in a browser.
• rating and ratingCount are null on deals with too few reviews to show a score — that's the real site behaviour, not a missing field.
• location is null on deals with no fixed redemption address (e.g. shippable goods, digital vouchers).

Input

Field	Type	Required	Description
category	String	No	groupon.co.uk voucher category slug from /vouchers/{slug} (e.g. restaurants, massage, things-to-do). Default: restaurants.
location	String	No	UK town or city (london, manchester, Milton Keynes) or postcode district (M1). Default: london.
maxResults	Integer	No	Maximum deals to return (default: 50, loads in pages of 24).
proxyConfiguration	Object	No	Proxy settings. Automatic Apify proxy is sufficient — see note above.

Output

Each result contains:

Field	Type	Example
dealId	String	"brewdog-burgers-2026"
title	String	"Indulge in BrewDog's Burgers, Beers & Brunch Experience – Great Value"
url	String	Full groupon.co.uk deal page URL
price	Number | null	23.95
originalPrice	Number | null	47.9
discountPercentage	Number | null	50
currency	String	"GBP"
merchantName	String | null	"BrewDog"
shopDomain	String | null	null (deals redeem on groupon.co.uk, not an external shop)
imageUrl	String | null	Deal image on Groupon's static CDN
temperature	Number | null	null (not applicable — no community voting on Groupon)
temperatureLevel	String | null	null
commentCount	Number | null	null
category	String | null	"restaurants"
categorySlug	String | null	"restaurants"
voucherCode	String | null	"TOGETHER"
isExpired	Boolean	false
isHot	Boolean	true
isNew	Boolean	false
freeShipping	Boolean | null	null
publishedAt	String | null	null (not exposed by the API)
expiresAt	String | null	ISO 8601 timestamp, only when a promotion has an expiry
searchCategory	String | null	Input echo
rating	Number | null	4.8
ratingCount	Number | null	84
location	String | null	"142 Shaftesbury Ave, London"
division	String | null	"london" (input echo)
scrapedAt	String	ISO timestamp of the scrape

Example output

{
    "dealId": "brewdog-burgers-2026",
    "title": "Indulge in BrewDog's Burgers, Beers & Brunch Experience – Great Value",
    "url": "https://www.groupon.co.uk/deals/brewdog-burgers-2026",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-08-20T09:14:53.151Z",
    "price": 23.95,
    "originalPrice": 47.9,
    "discountPercentage": 50,
    "currency": "GBP",
    "merchantName": "BrewDog",
    "shopDomain": null,
    "imageUrl": "https://img.grouponcdn.com/deal/PuSgoQxZNBrafbqXiQasEX/3k-1467x880/v1/t600x362.webp",
    "temperature": null,
    "temperatureLevel": null,
    "commentCount": null,
    "category": "restaurants",
    "categorySlug": "restaurants",
    "voucherCode": null,
    "isExpired": false,
    "isHot": false,
    "isNew": false,
    "freeShipping": null,
    "publishedAt": null,
    "expiresAt": null,
    "searchCategory": "restaurants",
    "rating": 4.8,
    "ratingCount": 84,
    "location": "142 Shaftesbury Ave, London",
    "division": "london"
}

Cost estimate

This actor uses 1 request per ~24 results (one feed page = 24 deals), plus a single warm-up request per run. That's among the cheapest scrapers in the fleet per item — well under $0.01 per 24 deals in Apify compute alone.

Limitations

• No robots.txt-compliant free-text search exists — this actor browses by voucher category, the same path a visitor takes from Groupon's own category menu.
• An unrecognized category or location slug falls back to a broader deals list instead of erroring — see the note above.
• rating and location are null on deals without a review score or a fixed redemption address — that's real site data, not a missing DOM fallback.
• A run's usage cost only settles after the run reports SUCCEEDED — checking cost mid-run under-reports actual spend.
• Data is scraped from the public website and may change without notice.

Related Scrapers

• hotukdeals-scraper — UK community deals board, same country, different deal model (user-posted vs. merchant vouchers)
• mydealz-scraper — German deals community, Pepper Group network
• dealabs-scraper — French deals community, Pepper Group network
• pepper-pl-scraper — Polish deals community, Pepper Group network

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