Redcare IT Scraper

Scrape product data from Redcare Italia (redcare.it), the Italian online pharmacy of the Redcare Pharmacy group (formerly Shop Apotheke). Get product names, brands, prices, list prices, EAN barcodes, ratings, review counts, stock status, images and categories. No login, no cookies.

What this actor does

Redcare is one of Italy's largest online pharmacies, with a catalogue of medicines, health, beauty and personal-care products. This actor searches that catalogue by keyword and returns a clean, structured record for every matching product, straight from the store's own search backend.

You give it an Italian search term (for example tachipirina, vitamina d, or crema solare) and a result limit. It returns the same products a shopper sees on the site, with pricing in EUR, discounts, EAN barcodes where available, ratings and availability, ready to export as JSON, CSV or Excel, or to feed into your own pipeline.

Why use this actor?

• Price monitoring — track medicine and health-product prices across the Italian market.
• Competitor benchmarking — compare Redcare Italia against other pharmacies (see Related Scrapers below).
• Product matching — match by EAN barcode, exposed on most OTC and parapharmacy results.
• Market research — pull ratings, review counts and discounts to see what sells and how it is positioned.
• Catalogue building — assemble a health-and-beauty product feed with images and categories.

No account is required. The actor reads the store's public product search directly, so results are fast and stable run after run.

How to scrape Redcare Italia data

1. Add this actor to your Apify account.
2. Set searchQuery to an Italian keyword, for example tachipirina, vitamina d, crema solare or magnesio. Leave it empty and the actor defaults to tachipirina so a blank run still returns data.
3. Set maxResults to cap the run (default 100, prefilled 20 for a quick test).
4. Optionally set a proxy. The search API is public and works without one, but a residential IT proxy is available as a safety valve.
5. Run the actor. Results stream to the dataset and can be exported as JSON, CSV, Excel or pulled via the API.

The actor queries the store's Algolia-powered product search, pages through the results up to your limit, deduplicates by product id, and writes one row per product.

Input

Field	Type	Required	Description
searchQuery	String	No	Italian search term (default tachipirina)
maxResults	Integer	No	Maximum products to return (default 100)
proxyConfiguration	Object	No	Optional Apify proxy (residential IT prefilled)

Example input:

{
  "searchQuery": "vitamina d",
  "maxResults": 50,
  "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": true }
}

Output

Each result contains:

Field	Type	Example
name	String	"TACHIPIRINA® 500mg 30 Compresse"
brand	String	"Tachipirina"
price	Number	6.69
originalPrice	Number	7.55
currency	String	"EUR"
pricePerUnit	String	"€ 0,22 / 1 pz"
ean	String	"8017100010154"
sku	String	"IT012745168"
productId	String	"IT012745168"
inStock	Boolean	true
rating	Number	4.5
reviewCount	Integer	12
category	String	"Dolore e Infiammazione"
imageUrl	String	"https://cdn.redcare.it/images/IT0/127/451/68/IT012745168-p1.jpg"
url	String	"https://www.redcare.it/medicinali/IT012745168/tachipirina-compresse.htm"
description	String	"Compresse per il trattamento del dolore e della febbre"
specs	Object	{ "pharmaForm": "Compresse", "packSize": "30", ... }
scrapedAt	String	"2026-07-14T10:00:00.000Z"

Example output

{
  "name": "TACHIPIRINA® 500mg 30 Compresse",
  "brand": "Tachipirina",
  "price": 6.69,
  "originalPrice": 7.55,
  "currency": "EUR",
  "sku": "IT012745168",
  "productId": "IT012745168",
  "inStock": true,
  "url": "https://www.redcare.it/medicinali/IT012745168/tachipirina-compresse.htm",
  "specs": {
    "manufacturer": "Angelini Acraf S.p.A."
  },
  "scrapedAt": "2026-07-14T10:00:00.000Z"
}

About EAN codes

EAN coverage on Redcare Italia is uneven by product type. OTC and parapharmacy items — supplements, sun care, cosmetics — mostly carry a standard EAN/GTIN barcode in the ean field. Branded, AIC-registered medicines (like Tachipirina itself) mostly don't: Italy identifies those by the AIC (Autorizzazione all'Immissione in Commercio) code rather than a retail barcode, so ean is often empty for pharmaceutical searches. This is a data characteristic of the Italian market, not a scraping gap. Use sku (the Redcare internal product code) to match pharmaceutical products instead.

Prices and discounts

• price is the current selling price in EUR.
• originalPrice is the list/strike-through price, present only when it is higher than the selling price (so you can compute the discount).
• pricePerUnit is the base price per unit (for example per tablet or per 100 ml), useful for comparing pack sizes.

Notes and limitations

• Search-based. The actor scrapes by keyword. Broad terms return more products; specific terms return fewer, more relevant ones.
• EAN gaps on branded medicines. See "About EAN codes" above — this is expected for AIC-registered drugs, not a data quality issue.
• Result window. A single keyword returns up to roughly 1,000 products (the search backend's pagination window). For a fuller pull, run several targeted queries.
• Italian storefront. This actor targets the Italian (IT_it) storefront on redcare.it, with Italian pricing and availability.
• No prescription checkout. This reads public product data only; it does not place orders or handle prescriptions.

Related Scrapers

Building a pharmacy or health price comparison? Pair this with the other Studio AMBA pharmacy actors:

• Shop Apotheke AT Scraper — Austrian storefront of the same group
• Redcare Pharmacy FR Scraper — French storefront of the same group
• Redcare CH Scraper — Swiss storefront of the same group
• Shop Apotheke Scraper — German storefront of the same store
• DocMorris Scraper — German/EU online pharmacy

FAQ

Do I need an account or cookies? No. The actor reads the store's public product search directly.

Which country does this cover? The Italian storefront (redcare.it), prices in EUR with Italian availability.

How do I match products across pharmacies? Use the ean field where present (OTC/parapharmacy items), or the sku field for the Redcare internal product code (branded medicines).

Can I scrape the whole catalogue? Run a set of category or keyword queries. Each query returns up to about 1,000 products, so split broad ranges into narrower terms for full coverage.