# ALDI Scraper: Product Prices in AU, US, UK, IE & Germany (`uber_byte/aldi-scraper`) Actor

Scrape ALDI product prices, specials, unit prices and categories from aldi.com.au, aldi.us, aldi.co.uk, aldi.ie and aldi-sued.de. Search terms or URLs.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/uber\_byte/aldi-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Marlon Lee](https://apify.com/uber_byte) (community)
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $2.00 / 1,000 products

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## ALDI Scraper

ALDI Scraper collects ALDI product prices from five ALDI websites in one run: aldi.com.au, aldi.us, aldi.co.uk, aldi.ie and aldi-sued.de. Search by keyword or paste ALDI category, search or product URLs, and get the price, was-price, saving, Special Buys date, unit price, category, brand and pack size in the same fields for every country. Built for ALDI price tracking, supermarket price comparison and specials monitoring. No login, account or API key.

### What you get

One row per product, with:

- **Store and product:** store, country, currency, ALDI product ID, name, brand, pack size, category path, image and product URL
- **Price:** current shelf price, was-price (only when ALDI shows a higher previous price), special flag and promotion text such as "Save 37%"
- **Special Buys:** the Special Buys or ALDI Finds date text, such as "While Stocks Last", where ALDI shows one
- **Unit price:** ALDI's comparison price text (for example "£3.50/1 KG"), plus the value and measure as separate fields so you can sort by value
- **Other:** bottle deposit, availability, ALDI's product badges (for example "Kühlung" for chilled on aldi-sued.de)
- `loyaltyPrice` and `barcode` are always `null`. ALDI has no loyalty-card prices and doesn't publish barcodes on these sites. The fields stay so ALDI rows line up with other supermarket datasets.

### Use cases

- **ALDI price tracking:** follow a list of products or whole categories on a schedule.
- **Specials and price-drop monitoring:** catch was-prices, savings and Special Buys.
- **Cross-country price comparison:** run the same search term in AU, US, UK, IE and DE and get one dataset.
- **Supermarket price comparison:** merge with Coles, Woolworths, Sainsbury's or other grocery data.
- **Unit price and private-label research:** compare price per 100 g, per litre or per kg across ALDI brands.

### Supported sites

| Country | Site | Search terms | Category URLs | Product URLs |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Australia | aldi.com.au | yes | yes | yes |
| United Kingdom | aldi.co.uk | yes | yes | yes |
| Ireland | aldi.ie | yes | yes | yes |
| Germany (ALDI SÜD) | aldi-sued.de | yes | yes | yes |
| United States | aldi.us | yes | no | no |

ALDI Nord (aldi-nord.de), Hofer (AT/SI), ALDI Suisse and other countries are not supported.

### How to use

1. Open the Actor in Apify Console.
2. Pick one or more **Countries** and add **Search terms** such as `milk` or `coffee pods`. Each term runs in every selected country.
3. Or paste ALDI **category, search or product URLs**. Each URL goes to the site it belongs to.
4. Turn on **Only specials** if you want discounted items and Special Buys only, and set the max products per search term or URL.
5. Click **Start**. Download the results as JSON, CSV, Excel or HTML, or read them through the Apify API.

### Input example

```json
{
  "countries": ["au", "us", "uk"],
  "searchTerms": ["milk", "coffee pods"],
  "startUrls": [
    "https://www.aldi.com.au/products/dairy-eggs-fridge/k/960000000",
    "https://www.aldi-sued.de/produkt/milsani-frische-vollmilch-3-5-1-l-000000000330654001"
  ],
  "maxItems": 200
}
```

`maxItems` applies to each search term or URL in each country. Supported URL formats:

```
https://www.aldi.com.au/results?q=milk
https://www.aldi.com.au/products/dairy-eggs-fridge/k/960000000
https://www.aldi.com.au/product/farmdale-full-cream-milk-2l-000000000000398689
https://www.aldi.co.uk/results?q=cheese
https://www.aldi.ie/results?q=milk
https://www.aldi-sued.de/suchergebnisse?q=milch
https://www.aldi-sued.de/produkt/milsani-frische-vollmilch-3-5-1-l-000000000330654001
https://www.aldi.us/store/aldi/s?k=eggs
```

### Output example

Real results from a test run (29 Sep 2026):

```json
{
  "store": "aldi",
  "country": "GB",
  "currency": "GBP",
  "productId": "000000000670216001",
  "name": "Squeezy Cheese",
  "brand": "EMPORIUM",
  "size": "0.14 KG",
  "price": 0.49,
  "wasPrice": 0.79,
  "loyaltyPrice": null,
  "isOnSpecial": true,
  "promotion": "Save 37%",
  "specialBuy": null,
  "unitPrice": "£3.50/1 KG",
  "unitPriceValue": 3.5,
  "unitPriceMeasure": "1 KG",
  "deposit": null,
  "available": null,
  "category": "Chilled Food > Cheese",
  "badges": [],
  "barcode": null,
  "image": "https://dm.emea.cms.aldi.cx/is/image/aldiprodeu/product/jpg/scaleWidth/900/c7b80518-ff87-46a5-9b08-2cbd0caafa38/emporium-squeezy-cheese",
  "url": "https://www.aldi.co.uk/product/emporium-squeezy-cheese-000000000670216001",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-09-29T20:54:43.204Z"
}
```

```json
{
  "store": "aldi",
  "country": "US",
  "currency": "USD",
  "productId": "16902710",
  "name": "Friendly Farms Whole Milk",
  "brand": "Friendly Farms",
  "size": "1 gal",
  "price": 3.45,
  "wasPrice": null,
  "loyaltyPrice": null,
  "isOnSpecial": false,
  "promotion": null,
  "specialBuy": null,
  "unitPrice": "$0.03/fl oz",
  "unitPriceValue": 0.03,
  "unitPriceMeasure": "fl oz",
  "deposit": null,
  "available": true,
  "category": "Plain Milk",
  "badges": [],
  "barcode": null,
  "image": "https://d2lnr5mha7bycj.cloudfront.net/product-image/file/large_b4aaab37-66cf-46e3-9638-f37987fca803.jpg",
  "url": "https://www.aldi.us/store/aldi/products/16902710-friendly-farms-vitamin-d-milk-1-gal",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-09-29T20:54:37.356Z"
}
```

### Pricing

You pay per product saved to the dataset. Pages with no products, errors and duplicates (the same product found by two search terms) cost nothing. Set a maximum cost per run in Apify Console, and the Actor stops cleanly when it reaches that limit.

### FAQ

**Is it legal to scrape ALDI?** The Actor collects only public product and price information that anyone can see without logging in, and no personal data. Check ALDI's terms and your local law for your use case.

**Do I need an ALDI account?** No. The Actor never logs in and never asks for credentials.

**Why do I need a residential proxy?** ALDI sites use Akamai and Cloudflare bot protection that blocks many datacenter IPs and bursts of requests. The default is Apify Residential proxy. If you leave the proxy country empty, the Actor uses an IP from each site's own country, which is the most reliable setup.

**Are aldi.us prices the same as in store?** Not always. aldi.us prices come from ALDI's online shop (run by Instacart) for the delivery area the site assigns to the visitor's IP. They can differ from in-store prices and between areas, and you can't pick a ZIP code yet.

**How many US products can I get per search?** As many as the aldi.us search returns for the term, usually about 100 to 150. US category and product URLs are not supported.

**Why is `available` usually null outside the US?** aldi.com.au, aldi.co.uk, aldi.ie and aldi-sued.de show national online prices but no stock, so `available` is `null` unless ALDI marks a product discontinued.

**Does "Only specials" apply to product URLs?** No. It filters search and category results. A product URL you paste always returns that product.

**Can I merge the data with Coles, Woolworths or Sainsbury's?** Yes. The output fields (`store`, `country`, `price`, `wasPrice`, `unitPrice`, `size`, `category`, `url` and more) match our other supermarket scrapers.

**What if a run returns no products?** ALDI can change its sites without notice. Open an issue with the run link.

# Actor input Schema

## `countries` (type: `array`):

Which ALDI websites to run the search terms against. URLs always go to the site they belong to.

## `searchTerms` (type: `array`):

Keywords, e.g. milk, coffee pods, chocolate. Each term is searched in every selected country.

## `startUrls` (type: `array`):

ALDI URLs, e.g. https://www.aldi.com.au/products/dairy-eggs-fridge/k/960000000, https://www.aldi.co.uk/results?q=cheese, https://www.aldi-sued.de/produkt/milsani-frische-vollmilch-3-5-1-l-000000000330654001, https://www.aldi.us/store/aldi/s?k=eggs

## `onlySpecials` (type: `boolean`):

Keep only products with a was-price / saving, or ALDI Special Buys (ALDI Finds) with a sale date.

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of results to return. See the README for whether this applies per search or to the whole run.

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

ALDI sites use Akamai / Cloudflare bot protection. With RESIDENTIAL and no country set, the Actor picks the right country for each site automatically.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "countries": [
    "au",
    "us"
  ],
  "searchTerms": [
    "milk"
  ],
  "onlySpecials": false,
  "maxItems": 100,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ]
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

No description

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "countries": [
        "au",
        "us"
    ],
    "searchTerms": [
        "milk"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("uber_byte/aldi-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "countries": [
        "au",
        "us",
    ],
    "searchTerms": ["milk"],
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("uber_byte/aldi-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "countries": [
    "au",
    "us"
  ],
  "searchTerms": [
    "milk"
  ]
}' |
apify call uber_byte/aldi-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,uber_byte/aldi-scraper"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/eXoSeGHd3qgpYxD1x/builds/RmBZJtkTc2Hl88GQK/openapi.json