Scrape Costco Products — Member Pricing, Ratings & Stock Data

Automatically extract product data from Costco.com search results including pricing, member-only pricing indicators, star ratings, review counts, availability status, brand names, SKUs, and product images. Ideal for price monitoring, competitive analysis, and wholesale product research.

Features

• Full Product Details — Extracts product name, brand, price, image URL, and direct product link from every listing.
• Member Pricing Detection — Identifies whether a product has member-only or warehouse-exclusive pricing.
• Availability & Channel — Reports whether a product is available online, in-warehouse, or both.
• Ratings & Reviews — Captures star ratings (out of 5) and total review counts for each product.
• Item Number / SKU — Extracts the Costco item number for inventory or catalog matching.
• Pagination Support — Automatically follows search result pages to collect up to your specified limit.
• Anti-Detection — Runs Puppeteer with realistic browser fingerprints, user-agent rotation, and controlled concurrency.

Input Parameters

Parameter	Type	Required	Default	Description
searchQuery	String	Yes	—	The product search keyword to query on Costco.com (e.g., laptop, organic coffee).
maxResults	Integer	No	50	Maximum number of products to return. Range: 1–500.

Example Input

{
    "searchQuery": "kirkland vitamins",
    "maxResults": 100
}

Output Dataset

Each record in the output dataset contains the following fields:

Field	Type	Description
name	String	Full product title as displayed on Costco.com.
price	String	Listed price (e.g., $29.99).
isMemberOnly	Boolean	true if the price or product is flagged as member-only.
availability	String	Delivery or availability message (e.g., "Shipping & Handling Included").
channel	String	Where the product is sold: Online, Warehouse, or Online & Warehouse.
rating	Number	Average star rating out of 5, or null if not rated.
reviewCount	Number	Total number of customer reviews, or null if none.
brand	String	Brand or manufacturer name.
imageUrl	String	Direct URL to the product thumbnail image.
productUrl	String	Full URL to the product detail page on Costco.com.
itemNumber	String	Costco item number / SKU.
searchQuery	String	The original search term used.
scrapedAt	String	ISO 8601 timestamp of when the record was scraped.
sourceUrl	String	The search results page URL the product was extracted from.

Example Output

{
    "name": "Kirkland Signature Daily Multi Vitamins & Minerals, 500 Tablets",
    "price": "$14.99",
    "isMemberOnly": false,
    "availability": "Shipping & Handling Included",
    "channel": "Online",
    "rating": 4.7,
    "reviewCount": 1243,
    "brand": "Kirkland Signature",
    "imageUrl": "https://images.costco.com/ImageDelivery/imageService?profileId=12345&imageId=100378430-847__1",
    "productUrl": "https://www.costco.com/kirkland-signature-daily-multi-vitamins.product.100378430.html",
    "itemNumber": "100378430",
    "searchQuery": "kirkland vitamins",
    "scrapedAt": "2025-01-15T10:30:00.000Z",
    "sourceUrl": "https://www.costco.com/CatalogSearch?dept=All&keyword=kirkland+vitamins"
}

Use Cases

• Price Monitoring — Track Costco product prices over time to identify deals, markdowns, and seasonal pricing patterns.
• Competitive Intelligence — Compare Costco's wholesale pricing against other retailers for identical or similar products.
• Product Research — Quickly evaluate product quality by aggregating ratings and review counts across entire categories.
• Inventory & Availability Tracking — Monitor which products are available online versus in-warehouse for logistics planning.
• Market Analysis — Analyze brand presence, pricing tiers, and product distribution within Costco's catalog.
• Affiliate & Content Marketing — Build product comparison pages, deal roundups, or buying guides with real Costco data.

Technical Notes

• The actor uses Puppeteer with headless Chrome for full JavaScript rendering of Costco's dynamic pages.
• Concurrency is limited to 2 requests at a time with built-in delays to reduce detection risk.
• Failed requests are logged to the dataset with an error status for transparency.
• The scraper respects pagination and automatically navigates through multi-page search results.

Author

donnycodesdefi