ALDI UK Scraper: Prices, Price Drops & Specialbuys

Get products and prices from ALDI UK (aldi.co.uk) as structured data: price, was price, unit price, size, Price Drops, and Specialbuys with their in-store dates, plus category and image. Search aldi.co.uk, read categories, the Specialbuys calendar, Price Drops or the whole range, or look up products by URL or SKU.

The Actor reads the same product data the ALDI UK website loads for any visitor, through home (residential) internet connections in Great Britain by default, and directly if those fail (ALDI serves every address the same store prices). It does not log in and needs no account.

What it does

• Search aldi.co.uk for any words.
• Categories: give a category page (or its key) and every product in it is read, 60 at a time.
• Specialbuys: every in-store date ALDI publishes (usually the last two weeks and the next two drops), the ones already in store, or only the ones coming. A Specialbuys page URL with a theme works too.
• Price Drops: every product on ALDI's Price Drops page, with the earlier price.
• Whole range: every product aldi.co.uk lists (3,974 on 4 October 2026).
• Product lookups: product page URLs or SKUs, 60 per request.
• Details (optional): description, ingredients, country of origin and allergens for each product.
• One clean row per product: a product found by two inputs is written and charged once.
• Unit prices normalised to a number and a unit (for example 1.38 per kg), and pack sizes normalised to grams, millilitres or items.
• Run summary in the key-value store (RUN-SUMMARY).

ALDI UK does not sell groceries online: its website shows store prices. Every row says whether the product is in stores now or, for a Specialbuy, from which date.

Who uses it

• Price comparison and grocery apps that need ALDI's shelf prices and unit prices.
• Deal and Specialbuys sites that publish each Thursday's and Sunday's Specialbuys ahead of time.
• Analysts comparing discounter prices with the big four supermarkets.

Example

Runs on 4 October 2026, through UK home connections:

Input	Result
Whole range	3,974 products in 90 seconds (68 requests). ALDI reports 4,027; 3,974 is every product its listing returns (the same with two different sort orders).
Specialbuys, every date	237 products across six in-store dates (24 September to 11 October 2026) in 11 seconds; 97 still to come.
Price Drops	68 products, each with the earlier price where ALDI shows one.
Four searches (milk, cheese, chocolate, air fryer), maximum 400	400 products in 10 seconds.
Category pages (Milk; Food Cupboard; a Specialbuys theme page), maximum 1,000	1,000 products in 24 seconds.

Input

{
  "searchTerms": ["milk"],
  "categoryUrls": ["https://www.aldi.co.uk/products/chilled-food/milk/k/1588161416978051001"],
  "productUrls": ["000000000000543221"],
  "specialBuys": "upcoming",
  "priceDrops": true,
  "wholeRange": false,
  "includeDetails": false,
  "maxItems": 100
}

Field	What it does
searchTerms	Words to search for on aldi.co.uk.
categoryUrls	Category pages (/products/.../k/<key>), Specialbuys pages (/special-buys/2026-10-08, a theme in the address is kept) or category keys.
productUrls	Product page URLs or SKUs such as 000000000000543221. Up to 5,000.
specialBuys	none (default), all, in-store (already in stores) or upcoming.
priceDrops	Read ALDI's Price Drops page.
wholeRange	Read every product aldi.co.uk lists. Set maxItems to 0 or high enough.
offersOnly	Keep only Price Drops, Specialbuys and products with an earlier price. The others are not charged.
includeDetails	Add description, ingredients, country of origin and allergens (one extra request per product; same price).
maxItems	Stop after this many products (default 100; 0 means no limit).
proxyConfiguration, maxConcurrency	UK home connections by default, direct if they fail; inputs worked on at once (default 4).

Output

One row per product. A row from the Price Drops page:

{
  "retailer": "ALDI UK",
  "productId": "000000000000308242",
  "sku": "000000000000308242",
  "gtin": null,
  "name": "Macaroni Pasta 500g",
  "brand": "CUCINA",
  "size": "0.5 KG",
  "quantity": 500.0,
  "quantityUnit": "g",
  "packCount": null,
  "price": 0.69,
  "wasPrice": 0.72,
  "currency": "GBP",
  "unitPrice": 1.38,
  "unitPriceUnit": "kg",
  "memberPrice": null,
  "memberPriceProgram": null,
  "memberPriceValidFrom": null,
  "memberPriceValidTo": null,
  "onOffer": true,
  "promotionText": "Was £0.72",
  "promotionType": "price-cut",
  "offerStartDate": null,
  "offerEndDate": null,
  "promotions": [
    {"text": "Was £0.72", "type": "price-cut", "id": null, "validFrom": null, "validTo": null,
     "memberOnly": false, "requiredQuantity": null, "price": null}
  ],
  "available": true,
  "availability": "in_store",
  "availabilityText": "Sold in ALDI stores (not online)",
  "category": "Food Cupboard > Rice, Pasta & Noodles",
  "categoryPath": ["Food Cupboard", "Rice, Pasta & Noodles"],
  "imageUrl": "https://dm.emea.cms.aldi.cx/is/image/aldiprodeu/product/jpg/scaleWidth/600/3b2fda96-f8d0-4a89-860b-10f6c99fe6b3/Macaroni%20Pasta%20500g",
  "productUrl": "https://www.aldi.co.uk/product/cucina-macaroni-pasta-500g-000000000000308242",
  "rating": null,
  "reviewCount": null,
  "sponsored": false,
  "gtins": [],
  "description": null,
  "sourceType": "offers",
  "source": "Price Drops",
  "position": 2,
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-04T16:08:21Z",
  "charged": true
}

• A Specialbuy has promotionType special-buy, offerStartDate = its in-store date, and availability coming_soon until that date (then in_store, "While Stock Lasts").
• ALDI does not publish barcodes, ratings or stock levels online, so those fields are empty.
• The same fields are used by our other UK grocery scrapers (Waitrose, Ocado, Lidl GB), so their data can be joined.

Use it from code, automations and AI agents

• API: run it and get the results in one call: POST https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/zaiq~aldi-uk-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_TOKEN with the input as JSON. The API tab on this page has ready-made Python, JavaScript and cURL examples.
• Python (pip install apify-client):

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("YOUR_TOKEN")
run = client.actor("zaiq/aldi-uk-scraper").call(run_input={'searchTerms': ['milk'], 'maxItems': 20})
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

• No code: connect it to Google Sheets, Zapier, Make or n8n from the Integrations tab, schedule runs in Apify Console, and get a webhook when a run finishes.
• AI agents (MCP): add it as a tool to Claude, Cursor or any MCP client through Apify's MCP server: https://mcp.apify.com?tools=zaiq/aldi-uk-scraper.

Pricing

$4.00 per 1,000 products (event product-scraped, $0.004 per product row). Apify platform usage is included.

You pay only for product rows with a price. Searches that find nothing, failed or blocked requests, products not found, products found again by a second input and products without a price cost nothing. Examples: the 20-product test input costs $0.08; the whole range (3,974 products) costs $15.90; all Specialbuys on the calendar (237) cost $0.95.

Limits

• Prices are ALDI's store prices as shown on aldi.co.uk; prices in some stores can differ.
• Specialbuys are sold while stocks last; the Actor reports the in-store date, not remaining stock.
• The Actor reads what the website shows; if ALDI changes its site, the Actor needs an update (failed inputs are free and listed in the run summary).
• Search text is cleaned before it is sent: markup and code characters such as < > " ; = ( ) are removed and long text is cut to 73 characters (ALDI's own limit), because ALDI blocks or rejects them otherwise (the run summary lists every change).

FAQ

Does it need an ALDI account? No. It reads public product data without logging in.

When do new Specialbuys appear? ALDI lists the next Thursday and Sunday drops in advance (on Sunday 4 October 2026 its calendar already showed 8 and 11 October). Schedule a run with specialBuys set to upcoming twice a week.

Is it legal? The Actor reads data the website shows to any visitor. Check ALDI's terms and the law that applies to your use before you use the data.

This Actor is not affiliated with ALDI.