Sobeys & Voila Scraper: Prices, Flyers & Scene+ Deals

For grocery price analysts, brands and comparison services monitoring the Sobeys family in Canada. Collect Voila regional online prices, or current regional flyer entries from Sobeys, Safeway Canada, IGA, FreshCo, Foodland and Thrifty Foods. Keep prices, public promotions, Scene+ wording, dates and comparison units when supplied. About US$0.004 per delivered product or flyer item: 20 observations cost US$0.085 including the US$0.005 minimum start charge. No retailer login is needed.

Choose a banner, enter Canadian postal codes and set your result limit. The common retail field names let you combine snapshots in a database or spreadsheet. Every observation identifies its channel through priceScope, with source identifiers and links for review.

Choose a mode

banner: "voila" collects the online product catalogue. Search for milk, coffee or chicken, browse categories, or monitor exact product IDs. Voila's own full-postal-code lookup resolves the delivery region. The Actor selects that region and checks the site's returned identity before collecting its prices.

banner: "sobeys", "safeway-ca", "iga", "freshco", "foodland" or "thrifty-foods" collects that banner's current weekly flyer entries. Supply locations and optional search terms. Empty searchTerms includes all matching named entries with numeric advertised prices. The public flyer provider resolves the postal area, then the Actor verifies each item against its current flyer.

Voila observations use priceScope: "regional_online_catalogue" and a delivery-region UUID in storeId. Flyer observations use priceScope: "regional_weekly_flyer"; their region evidence appears in geography, while physical store fields stay null. Preserve that scope when exporting or comparing baskets.

Understand the prices

For Voila, price is the current advertised online price. regularPrice retains the source base price, and onSale is true when the source supplies a lower sale price. Conditional promotions remain in offers. A "Buy 1 Get 1 Free (Add 2)" condition accompanies the single-product price; retain its quantity requirement in a basket comparison.

For flyers, read priceBasis, advertisedQuantity and priceText together. A printed "2 for $5" has a $5 advertised bundle total and quantity 2. An entry can cover selected varieties or a product group. A supplied individual comparison price remains in unitPrice with its unit.

Scene+ points stay in scenePlusOffers and promotion text. A numeric memberPrice requires explicit member-price evidence. For example, a source flyer showing $2 member pricing and $2.99 without a Scene+ card retains both amounts and sets priceRequiresMembership. Points are never converted to money.

Catchweight products preserve the source typical quantity and unit in typicalWeight, with sellByWeight and priceIsEstimate identifying their pricing basis. Keep these alongside the comparison price when analysing meat or produce.

What you get

A readable verdict comes first, followed by the common retail schema. Unknown values remain null.

Fields	Meaning
retailer, country, currency	Source retailer, CA and CAD.
storeId, storeName, location	Voila delivery region and the requested postal code. Flyer source resolution is retained separately in geography.
productId, sku, gtin	Source identifiers, kept as text. Flyer product IDs begin flyer:; SKU lists stay lists, and GTIN needs barcode provenance.
title, brand, size	Source title, explicit brand and supplied package-size label.
price, regularPrice, onSale	Current advertised amount, base price and numeric sale flag.
promoText, promoType, promoStart, promoEnd	Promotion wording, source type and supplied validity dates.
memberPrice, memberProgram	Explicit member price and identified loyalty programme.
unitPrice, unitOfMeasure	Comparison amount and its unit, such as PER_100G or PER_100ML.
inStock, stockLevel	Online availability and any supplied quantity.
rating, reviewCount	Source aggregate review values when supplied.
category, url, imageUrl, scrapedAt	Category path, product/source page, image and UTC observation time.

Voila extras include regionId, retailerRegionId, requestedLocations, locationResolvedBy, deliverable, ocadoProductId, categoryPath, dietaryAttributes, sellByWeight, priceIsEstimate, typicalWeight, catchWeight and optional details.

Flyer extras include flyerId, flyerName, merchantId, itemId, priceText, priceBasis, advertisedQuantity, description, disclaimer, flyerUrl and geography. Both modes provide banner, priceScope, isDeal, offers, scenePlusOffers, sourceUrl and sourceJobId.

The overview dataset view puts prices, promotions, units, stock and region together. The deals view emphasizes offer evidence; the full-data view retains all fields. A free SUMMARY record reports products, regions, deals, source outcomes, duplicates, notes and spending-limit status. DEALS exports delivered deal rows; larger exports list JSON parts. Dataset notes use recordType: "NOTE", and priced observations use recordType: "PRODUCT".

Start in three steps

1. Choose Voila online or a flyer banner.
2. Enter postal codes and your searches, product IDs or supported links.
3. Set limits, run, review SUMMARY and export JSON, CSV or Excel.

The prefill searches milk for M5V 2T6 with a 20-product cap. On 9 November 2026 it returned 20 distinct products in the retailer-resolved VoilaGTA region. Two larger cloud runs each delivered 1,200 unique observations across several searches. Ten independent live product-page checks matched current prices, regular prices, comparison units, stock and promotion conditions.

Inputs

Input	Behaviour
banner	voila by default; six other choices collect banner flyers.
searchTerms	Voila searches each term in each region, trimming terms to 50 characters. Flyers match any supplied term against advertised names.
startUrls	Voila product, category, search or promotions links.
productIds	Voila retailer IDs such as 267314EA, 507464EA or 218807KG.
locations	Full Canadian postal codes, such as M5V 2T6 and H2X 1Y4. Required for flyers.
storeIds	Voila delivery-region UUIDs from earlier output; take precedence over locations.
maxItemsPerSearch	Voila: new rows per source and region. Flyers: new entries across current flyers for one postal selection. Default 20, maximum 10,000.
maxItems	Global observation cap; default 20, maximum 20,000.
dealsOnly	Voila keeps sales or public offers, including points offers. Flyer mode already collects advertised offers.
includeDetails	Adds Voila product-page descriptions and label fields, including ingredients and nutrition when supplied. No additional product fee.
proxyConfiguration	Automatic datacenter first, then Canadian residential after refusal. Explicit disable, groups, country or custom proxies are respected.

Empty Voila locations and storeIds use the website-assigned region. For a repeatable basket, retain the region ID from a successful postal lookup. Several postal codes resolving to one Voila region produce one observation per product, with the requests grouped in requestedLocations.

Compare two delivery regions:

{
  "banner": "voila",
  "searchTerms": ["milk", "coffee"],
  "locations": ["M5V 2T6", "H2X 1Y4"],
  "maxItemsPerSearch": 20,
  "maxItems": 80
}

Monitor a product and its label:

{
  "productIds": ["267314EA"],
  "storeIds": ["4b2788bd-7207-4a8e-b5ef-0ad94345846b"],
  "includeDetails": true,
  "maxItems": 1
}

Collect Sobeys flyer entries:

{
  "banner": "sobeys",
  "locations": ["M5V 2T6"],
  "maxItemsPerSearch": 20,
  "maxItems": 20
}

Other flyer examples use safeway-ca with T2P 1J9, iga with H2X 1Y4, and thrifty-foods with V8W 1P6. For Voila categories, use a current category link such as https://voila.ca/categories/dairy-eggs/WEB1100610; for public promotions use https://voila.ca/promotions. Categories are verified in the selected region before delivery.

Real output example

Selected fields from the 9 November 2026 prefill:

{
  "retailer": "Voila by Sobeys",
  "storeId": "4b2788bd-7207-4a8e-b5ef-0ad94345846b",
  "storeName": "VoilaGTA",
  "location": "M5V 2T6",
  "productId": "507464EA",
  "gtin": null,
  "title": "Sealtest 2% Milk Partly Skimmed 4 L",
  "price": 6.49,
  "regularPrice": 6.49,
  "unitPrice": 0.16,
  "unitOfMeasure": "PER_100ML",
  "inStock": true,
  "priceScope": "regional_online_catalogue"
}

The same product can have different regional prices: another test returned product 267314EA at $4.69 in VoilaGTA and $5.49 in QC Region 1. The region remains part of the observation's identity.

Pricing and limits on charges

Processing fees are in US dollars; grocery price observations are in Canadian dollars.

One online product is one distinct product in one delivery region. One flyer item is one current named priced entry in one flyer. Duplicate inputs, overlapping sources and a reused flyer across postal areas do not create duplicate charges within a run.

Observations	Base	Bronze	Silver	Gold
20	$0.08	$0.076	$0.072	$0.064
100	$0.40	$0.38	$0.36	$0.32
1,000	$4.00	$3.80	$3.60	$3.20

Add the $0.005 minimum start charge, covering public visitor or flyer setup. At the usual 512 MB setting it is charged once; Apify charges one start unit per GB, with a minimum of one. Details have no separate product fee. Notes, summaries, retries, failures, duplicates and empty matches have no product charge; the platform start charge still applies.

Apify's maximum total charge is checked before another observation is delivered. The Actor stops cleanly at that limit and records it in SUMMARY. Result counts are caps, so fewer source matches can produce fewer rows.

Monitor prices every day

Save a task with a stable basket or category and a verified region. In Apify Console, create a schedule, choose the task and timezone, and connect the completed-run webhook to your database or workflow.

For Voila, join snapshots on banner + storeId + productId; for flyers, use banner + flyerId + itemId. Keep scrapedAt as observation time. Store current prices, base prices, comparison units and offer conditions separately. Each run collects a fresh snapshot and charges for that run's delivered observations.

Check SUMMARY's freeFailures, outcomes and notes before accepting a snapshot. Make, Zapier, n8n, Sheets and database workflows can consume the dataset and preserve gaps when source coverage is incomplete.

API and AI agents

Use your own Apify token:

curl -X POST \
  'https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/vant47~sobeys-voila-scraper/runs' \
  -H 'Authorization: Bearer YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"searchTerms":["milk"],"locations":["M5V 2T6"],"maxItems":20}'

from apify_client import ApifyClient
client = ApifyClient("YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN")
run = client.actor("vant47/sobeys-voila-scraper").call(
    run_input={"searchTerms": ["milk"], "locations": ["M5V 2T6"], "maxItems": 20}
)
rows = list(client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items())

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';
const client = new ApifyClient({ token: process.env.APIFY_TOKEN });
const run = await client.actor('vant47/sobeys-voila-scraper').call({
  searchTerms: ['milk'], locations: ['M5V 2T6'], maxItems: 20
});
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();

Use with AI agents (MCP)

Connect to https://mcp.apify.com. Ask for 20 Voila milk products for M5V 2T6, or current Sobeys flyer prices for that postal area. Supply the banner, source selection and cap. Ask the assistant to inspect SUMMARY and preserve region identity, null values, membership requirements and bundle conditions.

Limits

• Coverage is Voila regional online catalogues and current regional banner flyers. Exact-store shelf and pickup prices are outside coverage; flyer stock and physical store fields stay null.
• Assortments differ by region. The website default can be empty, and some full postal codes have no exact source match.
• Online availability is a source signal, not an audited shelf count. Checkout fees, taxes, substitutions and account-specific eligibility are outside the observation.
• Barcodes need source provenance. Missing dates, quantities, ratings or member prices remain null. Flyer SKU groups are never relabelled as UPCs.
• Flyer mode excludes recipes, social links and panels without numeric prices. Optional nutrition and label details apply to Voila; flyer descriptions and conditions are included directly.
• Source access can change. Retries keep a fresh anonymous context and verify the requested region. Explicit proxy choices prevent automatic switching to another selection.
• No retailer login, account cookies, delivery-slot reservations, shopper-basket changes or CAPTCHA solving. Historical backfill is unavailable.
• Voila has a 150-page safety limit per source and region. Jobs stop cleanly near their configured timeout, retain delivered rows and report timeLimitReached.

FAQ

Can I compare Toronto and Montreal? Enter one postal code for each, or reuse their verified region IDs.

Do details cost extra? There is no extra product fee. Public label fields depend on what the product page supplies.

How do I export deals? Use dealsOnly for Voila, or read the free DEALS JSON output after a mixed run.

What happens with invalid input? Parseable invalid selections produce free notes and SUMMARY. Apify may reject schema-invalid JSON before a run starts.

How do I avoid duplicates? Repeated inputs are deduplicated within a run. Retain the source identifiers when combining separate snapshots.