LOOKFANTASTIC Product & Sale Price Scraper (UK)

Search LOOKFANTASTIC (a UK beauty retailer) by keyword, or read a category, brand or offer page, and get one flat row per product: the current price and the RRP in GBP, the discount in pounds and percent, the promo text and its voucher code, brand, size variant, whether it can be bought, the product link and the photo. Run it on a schedule and diff the dataset to get a LOOKFANTASTIC sale and promo price watch: which serums, brands or offers dropped, and which only advertise a code.

No account, no API key, no login, no browser. One request returns 32 products.

Input

Output

Prices are numbers in pounds; currency is the currency the page states (GBP on every page measured).

Example row (real values, 2026-10-15):

{
  "query": "https://www.lookfantastic.com/c/health-beauty/face/skincare-products/specific-care/serums/",
  "position": 3,
  "product_id": "12595875",
  "name": "ESPA Optimal Skin Rejuvenating Night Booster 30ml",
  "brand": "ESPA",
  "url": "https://www.lookfantastic.com/p/espa-optimal-skin-rejuvenating-night-booster-30ml/12595875/",
  "image_url": "https://static.thcdn.com/productimg/original/12595875-1145339338587141.jpg",
  "currency": "GBP",
  "price": 28.8,
  "original_price": 48.0,
  "on_sale": true,
  "discount_amount": 19.2,
  "discount_percent": 40.0,
  "promo": "Save 40%",
  "promo_code": null,
  "variant": null,
  "variant_count": 1,
  "in_stock": true,
  "stock_label": null,
  "list_name": "Facial Serums"
}

What the price fields mean

The page's own tracking data calls the RRP price and the current price value, which reads backwards. Which is which was checked on 160 product cards (the struck-through figure on every card equals the RRP, the "Current price" equals the current price) and on all 873 products of one category (the pounds off equal the difference, with no exception).

A voucher code is not a reduction. Under a banner such as

Save 22% | Use Code: FLASH22

Honest nulls

A field the page did not send is null, never 0 or "". A COMING SOON product can have no price at all (the page sends null for both): its row is still returned, with null price and original_price.

• No rating or review count. The ratings are filled in by the browser after the page loads and are not in the HTML, so the rows do not carry them.
• variant is not the size of the row. It is the page's label for the product's default variant. The Clarins Double Serum 50ml row says 30ml, and so do its 75ml and 30ml siblings. Read the size from name and url.
• in_stock is about the card. True means a working buy button, false a disabled one. The site does not say more (stock levels, delivery dates).

Pricing

Pay per event:

• $0.002 per run (actor-start), charged only after your input is validated, so a run that fails on bad input costs nothing.
• $0.00105 per product row written (product-scraped), i.e. $1.05 per 1,000 products. A row that is not written is not charged: rows filtered by onlyOnSale, and repeats of a product another term already returned, are free.

How it fetches

It reads the product list that lookfantastic.com's own pages embed (an item map keyed by product id) and the product cards next to it. Measured 2026-10-15: HTTP 200 HTML from a plain home connection and from an Apify datacenter address, no key or cookie needed. A refusal (403, 429, 5xx), a 200 that is not a LOOKFANTASTIC page, or a dropped connection is treated as the address being blocked, and the actor rotates to a fresh one and retries.

Things worth knowing, all measured:

• A search does not always return search results. /search/?q=serum is redirected to the Serums category (873 products), numbuzin to the Numbuzin brand page, red lipstick to a lipsticks list. A term the site does not recognise is answered in place (retinol night cream: 103 products, 4 pages), and one it cannot match at all gets no results. The actor reads whatever list the site lands on, all its pages. query stays the term you typed. A broad term can therefore return a whole category; maxItems bounds it.
• A brand name lands on a brand page, not a list. cerave, medik8, nars, la roche posay, ordinary, elemis and ghd are all redirected to a hub of banners and carousels that holds no product list. Each hub links the brand's list of everything (/c/brands/cerave/view-all/, /c/brands/medik8/view-all-medik8/, /c/brands/elemis/all-elemis/); the actor follows that link and reads it, all its pages, in the sort you chose (CeraVe 84 products, The Ordinary 99, Medik8 69 on 2026-10-15). The same applies to a brand page given as a start URL. The run log says which list was read.
• The redirect drops sort. The actor re-reads the first page from the category when you asked for a sort, so the order you chose is the order you get.
• The price sorts follow the site's own price index. Over all 28 pages of one category the displayed current price ran in order on 27 pages in each direction; one page in each held one product out of strict order.
• Depth. The site lists 32 products per page and has no page-size setting. The deepest list measured has 134 pages; page 100 answered in full. A page past the last is an empty list and the actor stops there. At most 10,000 products per term or page.
• Pages repeat nothing. All 28 pages of one category were read: 873 products, none twice. A guard still ends a walk after three pages in a row that bring nothing new.
• Category landing pages have no list. /c/health-beauty/face/ is a page of carousels and links no list of everything below it; it fails (at no charge) with a message rather than return nothing. Use a deeper category such as /c/health-beauty/face/skincare-products/.
• Not offered. The site's facet filters (brand, price range, skin type) are not wired into this actor; start from a category or brand page that already narrows the list.