ALDI US Scraper: Store Prices, ALDI Finds & Weekly Ad

For grocery price analysts, brands and comparison services that need the advertised in-store price at a verified ALDI US location. Search for cheese, milk or coffee, follow category and product links, or monitor a stable basket of product IDs. About $0.0035 per delivered product, so 20 products cost $0.07 and 1,000 products cost $3.50, plus the minimum $0.00005 Actor start charge. No retailer login or retailer API key is required.

The Safeway & Albertsons family schema, Product event, views and SUMMARY are preserved. Products at different stores are separate observations; overlapping inputs at one store are delivered and charged once.

Promotion coverage on small jobs

Every row identifies its promotionCoverage. Sources with at least 20 candidates within the limits, and larger known-product baskets, add the store-wide weekly-ad, ALDI Finds and Price Drops scan. Small jobs use product-response and requested-source promotions. Weekly-ad URLs retain their dates; dated Finds collections retain their on-sale dates. Small exact-product or keyword lookups can have null weekly-ad/Finds fields because the broader scan was not performed. Product sale flags and supplied promotion objects remain. SUMMARY identifies coverage.

Know which price you are comparing

ALDI publishes separate in-store, pickup and delivery contexts. This Actor selects in-store and verifies its retailer location ID. priceChannel is in_store; shopId identifies the channel and storeId the physical location. Select In-Store and the same store when checking a row manually.

price is the advertised current price. regularPrice is an explicit original price, otherwise null. Flyer membership and ALDI Finds do not automatically prove a markdown. onSale preserves the source flag; isDeal also covers known weekly-ad and Price Drops membership.

Weekly-ad dates come from the flyer range. Finds dates come from dated collections. Coupons remain separate and are not subtracted from price. Member prices and UPCs stay null without source evidence.

For weighted goods, priceIsEstimate, estimatedWeight and estimatedWeightUnit retain the package estimate; unitPrice retains the published price per pound. Prices exclude checkout charges. Availability is an online estimate, not a physical shelf count.

What you get

Each product begins with a readable verdict, then shared retail fields and ALDI evidence. Unknown values stay null.

Field	Meaning
retailer, country, currency	ALDI, US and USD.
storeId, storeName, location	Verified public ALDI location, supplied store name and requested ZIP. Location is null for exact-store/default selections.
productId, sku, gtin	Public product number, explicit SKU and barcode where supplied. A product ID is never presented as a UPC.
title, brand, size	Product title, supplied brand and pack size.
price, regularPrice, onSale	Advertised in-store price, published original price and source sale flag.
promoText, promoType	Weekly-ad name, Price Drop label or supplied promotion information.
promoStart, promoEnd	Published weekly-ad date range when this product belongs to that ad.
memberPrice, memberProgram	Explicit membership price/program, otherwise null.
unitPrice, unitOfMeasure	Numeric unit comparison price and the printed unit, such as oz, fl oz or lb.
inStock, stockLevel	Supplied availability boolean and numeric quantity, if published. Qualitative labels do not become invented quantities.
rating, reviewCount	Explicit aggregate review values when supplied.
category, url, imageUrl	Supplied category, public product page and product image.
scrapedAt	UTC observation timestamp.

ALDI-specific fields:

Field	Meaning
banner	aldi, for joins with the rest of the grocery family.
aldiFind, aldiFindOnSaleDate	Membership in a published ALDI Finds collection and its dated on-sale label.
weeklyAd, weeklyAdName	Current flyer membership and its published name.
priceDrop, fanFavorite	Explicit collection or tag evidence where available.
department, brandType	Supplied taxonomy and ALDI-exclusive/national brand tag when explicit.
sellByWeight, snapEligible	Public selling-unit and SNAP information when shown.
stockStatus, stockStatusText	Original qualitative availability code and shopper-facing wording.
unitPriceText, aisle	Original comparison-price string and in-store location label.
offers, digitalCouponAvailable, digitalCouponText	Supplied promotion objects and coupon signals; no personalized redemption calculation.
shopId, priceChannel	Verified in-store shopping context.
storeAddress, storeDistance, requestedLocations	Public store-selection evidence and ZIPs resolving to the store.
details	Optional product sections and images, including ingredients/warnings when published.
sourceUrl, sourceJobId, recordType	Reproducible public source request, job identifier and PRODUCT/NOTE distinction.

The overview view groups price, promotion, unit price, stock and store. The deals view adds dates; details exposes the full schema. Free DEALS JSON contains only known deals; large exports link to parts.

Every run saves SUMMARY with products, stores, deals found, charged products, duplicate exclusions, resolved stores, source outcomes, free failures and spending-limit status. Explanatory dataset rows have recordType: "NOTE" and no Product charge. Product observations have recordType: "PRODUCT".

Start in three steps

1. Enter ZIP codes or exact ALDI location IDs.
2. Choose terms, category/deals/product links or product IDs, and set the cap.
3. Run, inspect SUMMARY, then export JSON, CSV or Excel.

On 3 November 2026, the cheese prefill near 60174 returned 20 products and matching charges in 40.3 seconds, with no source failures. Larger cloud validations also completed cleanly:

Input mode	Products	Stores with products	Product charges
Search terms	1,200	4	1,200
Category pages	1,200	3	1,200
Known-product basket	1,176	3	1,176

All three completed without duplicate rows or source failures.

Inputs and examples

Input	Behavior
searchTerms	Array such as ["milk", "coffee"]. Each term is searched at each selected store. Only the site's exact-result groups are accepted; unrelated recommendation carousels are excluded.
startUrls	Public ALDI US category pages, collections, weekly ads, search links or product links. Explicit run selections control the store.
productIds	Numeric ALDI product IDs, such as 18649227. These are not UPC barcodes.
locations	US ZIP codes. The nearest in-store location returned by ALDI is selected using the ZIP's geographic center.
storeIds	Exact public retailer location IDs, such as 23593. They take precedence over ZIPs.
maxItemsPerSearch	Maximum new rows per term, category or deals source and store, default 20, maximum 1,000. Known-product ID lists use the global maxItems cap.
maxItems	Global product/store row cap, default 20, maximum 10,000.
dealsOnly	Keep source markdowns, Price Drops and weekly-ad products. ALDI Finds alone are not automatically a price discount.
includeDetails	Add optional product sections and images with no extra product fee.
proxyConfiguration	Default datacenter pool first, US residential after refusal; custom settings are supported.

Empty locations/storeIds use the website default. ZIP centers select ALDI nearby-store listings and can differ from a street-address lookup. Pin the returned storeId for repeatable monitoring.

Compare a small basket across ZIPs:

{
  "searchTerms": ["milk", "coffee"],
  "locations": ["60174", "10001"],
  "maxItemsPerSearch": 20,
  "maxItems": 80
}

Monitor exact products at two stores:

{
  "productIds": ["18649227", "18649581"],
  "storeIds": ["23593", "20785"],
  "maxItems": 4
}

Read a department or a particular collection:

{
  "startUrls": [
    "https://www.aldi.us/store/aldi/pages/dairy-and-eggs",
    "https://www.aldi.us/store/aldi/collections/n-milk-33852"
  ],
  "storeIds": ["23593"],
  "maxItemsPerSearch": 100,
  "maxItems": 100
}

Weekly-ad URL: https://www.aldi.us/store/aldi/flyers/view/weekly/print. Finds URL: https://www.aldi.us/store/aldi/pages/this-weeks-aldi-finds. Structured catalogs are read; image-only panels are not OCRed.

Example from a real cloud run

Observed on 3 November 2026 at ALDI W. Main Street, St. Charles:

{
  "retailer": "ALDI",
  "storeId": "20785",
  "location": "60174",
  "productId": "18649581",
  "title": "Happy Farms American Cheese Singles",
  "brand": "happy farms",
  "size": "12 oz",
  "price": 1.85,
  "regularPrice": null,
  "unitPrice": 0.15,
  "unitOfMeasure": "oz",
  "inStock": true,
  "brandType": "ALDI exclusive",
  "priceChannel": "in_store"
}

Pricing and spending limits

One Product is one distinct product/store observation. Each run charges for fresh observations; within-run duplicates are free.

Products	Base	Bronze	Silver	Gold
20	$0.07	$0.0665	$0.063	$0.056
100	$0.35	$0.3325	$0.315	$0.28
1,000	$3.50	$3.325	$3.15	$2.80

Add the minimum $0.00005 Actor start charge. Base is $0.0035 per Product, Bronze $0.003325, Silver $0.00315 and Gold $0.0028. Notes, summaries, duplicates and failed or empty requests add no Product charge. Optional details have no additional event fee. There is no extra default dataset-row charge.

Remaining charge capacity is checked before additional batches. The Actor stops cleanly at the spending limit and records it in SUMMARY. Caps do not guarantee available matches.

Monitor prices every day

Save a task with stable store IDs and product IDs or collection URLs. In Apify Console, create a schedule, select the task, choose its time/timezone, and connect a completed-run webhook to your workflow.

Join snapshots with banner + storeId + productId, retaining scrapedAt. Keep current price, original price, flyer dates and Finds dates separate. Read SUMMARY before accepting complete coverage. Source failures produce free notes rather than substituted old prices.

Save snapshots in your database for history; no historical backfill or cross-run suppression is provided. Make, Zapier, n8n and Sheets can consume the dataset and summary.

API and automation

Use your Apify token:

curl -X POST \
  'https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/vant47~aldi-us-scraper/runs' \
  -H 'Authorization: Bearer YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"searchTerms":["cheese"],"locations":["60174"],"maxItems":20}'

from apify_client import ApifyClient
client = ApifyClient("YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN")
run = client.actor("vant47/aldi-us-scraper").call(
    run_input={"productIds": ["18649227"], "storeIds": ["23593"], "maxItems": 1}
)
rows = list(client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items())
summary = client.key_value_store(run["defaultKeyValueStoreId"]).get_record("SUMMARY")

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';
const client = new ApifyClient({ token: process.env.APIFY_TOKEN });
const run = await client.actor('vant47/aldi-us-scraper').call({
  searchTerms: ['cheese'], locations: ['60174'], maxItems: 20
});
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();

Use with AI agents (MCP)

Connect to https://mcp.apify.com. Request ALDI US prices by ZIP/store, supply a product cap, and ask for SUMMARY. Preserve nulls, physical store IDs and the in-store price channel when combining retailers.

Reliability and limits

Requests are sequential and paced. Refusals retry with fresh anonymous sessions, using US residential after datacenter where needed. Retry-After is honored. No retailer account, account cookies or CAPTCHA solving is used.

Saved batches, progress and the dataset ledger survive reboots. Delivery and charging are serial; recovery reconciles rows, receipts and platform counts. Ambiguous billing evidence stops further charges. Both private reboot tests finished with unique rows and matching charges.

Search accepts the site's exact-result groups. Category HTML supplies navigation; inventory and prices are then fetched for the selected store. This does not guarantee every visual panel or the entire national catalog. Missing verified prices are excluded without a Product charge.

Finds can remain in older dated collections. Their dates do not guarantee stock. Availability labels remain qualitative. Missing UPCs, card prices, SNAP flags, quantities and coupon conditions stay null. Details can contain only a nutrition heading when values are absent. Prices and stock can change after observation. The Actor is independent of ALDI.

FAQ

Can I pin a store? Yes, reuse a returned storeId in storeIds.

Why does the website price differ? Check the physical store and In-Store mode.

Is every flyer item discounted? No. Flyer membership and markdowns are separate.

Are UPCs complete? No. gtin remains null without a verified barcode.

Do details add a fee? No extra Product fee; they add requests.

What happens with bad input? Parseable invalid selections produce free notes and SUMMARY. Apify can reject schema-invalid input before startup, without a Product charge.

Can I combine the grocery family? Yes, preserve each retailer's store identity and price rules alongside the shared fields.

Related: Safeway & Albertsons, ALDI Australia.

ZIP lookup uses Zippopotam.us, adapted from GeoNames under the Open Database License. ALDI supplies store coordinates, addresses, products and prices.