Tesco Ireland Groceries Scraper

Scrape Tesco Ireland's grocery range: product names, EUR prices, Clubcard offers, price per unit, EAN codes, images, ratings, stock and full category paths. Search by keyword, scrape one category, or walk the entire catalogue. No login, no cookies.

Why use this actor?

Tesco is one of Ireland's largest grocers, and its online range is one of the biggest price datasets in Irish retail. This actor gives you a clean, structured feed of the Tesco Ireland grocery catalogue for price monitoring, competitor benchmarking, product matching, market research, or building a grocery price comparison. You get the same data the Tesco website shows shoppers, including Clubcard prices, without needing an account or a delivery slot.

Two data paths, both first-class. Keyword searches go straight to Tesco's own search API, the same one the tesco.ie site uses, so search runs are fast and return clean structured data including the real brand name. Category and full-catalogue runs read the authoritative listing data embedded in Tesco's rendered pages, including the exact product total for every category.

Complete past the 10,000 cap. Every Tesco listing is capped at 10,000 results, so a single broad crawl can silently truncate large departments. This actor walks the category tree (superdepartment → department → aisle → shelf) and, whenever a node's total hits the cap, descends into its child categories until every listing stays under 10,000. Products are deduped by Tesco product id (TPNC), and the run ends with a self-checking completeness assertion that compares per-category distinct coverage against the authoritative totals.

Tesco Ireland sits behind Akamai Bot Manager with hard IP-reputation blocking, so ordinary scrapers get an "Access Denied" before any product loads. For category scraping this actor routes every request through the Bright Data Web Unlocker, which solves the Akamai challenge and returns the fully rendered page, so you get reliable results run after run. Keyword search does not need Bright Data at all.

How to scrape Tesco Ireland data

1. Add this actor to your Apify account.
2. Choose what to scrape:
   • Set searchQuery to scrape a keyword, e.g. milk or bread. This path needs no Bright Data key.
   • Set categoryUrl to scrape one category, e.g. bakery/bread or a full https://www.tesco.ie/shop/en-IE/browse/... URL.
   • Or paste a list of listing URLs into startUrls.
   • Leave everything empty to walk the whole grocery catalogue (all 10 grocery superdepartments).
3. For category or full-catalogue runs, provide a Bright Data API key (field brightDataApiKey, stored as a secret) or set the BRIGHT_DATA_API_KEY environment variable.
4. Set maxProducts to cap the run (default 100, prefilled 20 for a quick test). Set it high, e.g. 25000, for a full-catalogue pull.
5. Run the actor. Results stream to the dataset and can be exported as JSON, CSV, Excel or fed to an API.

For category runs the actor reads the authoritative product total of every listing and paginates 200 products per page. Whenever a listing's total hits Tesco's 10,000 cap, the actor drills into that category's children so no shelf is ever truncated. Set enumerateOnly: true to walk the tree and report the exact catalogue size without scraping products, a cheap way to verify completeness before a full run.

Input

Field	Type	Required	Description
searchQuery	String	No	Search Tesco Ireland groceries by keyword (no Bright Data key needed)
categoryUrl	String	No	A Tesco Ireland category URL or slug to scrape
startUrls	Array	No	One or more Tesco Ireland listing URLs
maxProducts	Integer	No	Maximum products to return (default 100)
brightDataApiKey	String (secret)	For categories	Bright Data Web Unlocker API key. Falls back to BRIGHT_DATA_API_KEY env var.
enumerateOnly	Boolean	No	Walk the tree and report the authoritative catalogue size without scraping products
requestDelaySecs	Integer	No	Minimum pause between category page fetches (for very large paced runs)
proxyConfiguration	Object	No	Proxy settings for the search API path

Example input

{
    "searchQuery": "milk",
    "maxProducts": 100
}

Or a category run:

{
    "categoryUrl": "bakery/bread",
    "maxProducts": 500
}

Output

Field	Type	Example	Description
name	String	Brennans Family Pan Premium White Sliced Bread 800g	Product name
brand	String	Brennans	Brand name (search API) or own-brand detection
price	Number	2.09	Current shelf price in EUR
currency	String	EUR	Always EUR
pricePerUnit	String	€2.61/kg	Unit price
discount	String	€1.50 Clubcard Price	Clubcard / promotion text if present
ean	String	05011059000014	Barcode (GTIN) where available
sku	String	55014303	Tesco base product number (TPNB)
productId	String	250330059	Tesco consumer product number (TPNC)
inStock	Boolean	true	Availability flag
rating	Number	4.5	Average review rating (0-5)
reviewCount	Integer	12	Number of reviews
category	String	Bakery > Bread > White Bread	Full category path
imageUrl	String	https://digitalcontent.api.tesco.com/...	Primary product image
url	String	https://www.tesco.ie/shop/en-IE/products/250330059	Product page URL
scrapedAt	String	2026-07-06T12:00:00.000Z	Timestamp

Example output

{
    "name": "Brennans Family Pan Premium White Sliced Bread 800g",
    "brand": "Brennans",
    "price": 2.09,
    "currency": "EUR",
    "pricePerUnit": "€2.61/kg",
    "ean": "05011059000014",
    "sku": "55014303",
    "productId": "250330059",
    "inStock": true,
    "rating": 3,
    "reviewCount": 2,
    "imageUrl": "https://digitalcontent.api.tesco.com/v2/media/ghs/2f343343-9591-4f09-93a7-1623f582d969/7cb13f8c-82e8-4e39-822c-9ea73b9d2447_716249531.jpeg",
    "category": "Bakery > Bread > White Bread",
    "categories": ["Bakery", "Bread", "White Bread"],
    "url": "https://www.tesco.ie/shop/en-IE/products/250330059",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-07-06T12:00:00.000Z"
}

Cost estimate

Keyword searches fetch up to 200 products per request, so even large keyword pulls cost only a few cents of platform usage. Category runs go through the Bright Data Web Unlocker (about $0.0015 per page fetch on Bright Data's side) and also return up to 200 products per page, so a full-catalogue pull of roughly 15,000-20,000 unique products needs only a few hundred unlocker requests.

Limitations / known issues

• Tesco Ireland's website does not expose historical prices; each run captures a snapshot (use scheduled runs to build a price history).
• rating and reviewCount are only present for products that have reviews.
• The discount field carries the promotion text exactly as Tesco publishes it.
• Category scraping requires a Bright Data Web Unlocker key; keyword search does not.
• A full-catalogue walk is a long run. The actor persists its progress and survives Apify server migrations: already-pushed products are never duplicated and completed categories are skipped on resume.
• Tesco Ireland currently has no third-party marketplace; if Tesco ever adds one, this actor's own-range guard will keep marketplace items out of the output.