# Trader Joe's Scraper: Grocery Prices & Full Product Catalog (`zaiq/trader-joes-scraper`) Actor

Every product Trader Joe's publishes, or any search: price, size, unit, SKU, category, country of origin, characteristics such as organic or kosher, tags, image and link, for a store code you choose. Schedule it to track new products and price changes. No account needed.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/zaiq/trader-joes-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Zaiq](https://apify.com/zaiq) (community)
- **Categories:** E-commerce, Marketing, Lead generation
- **Features:** Limited permissions
- **Stats:** 1 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?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

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

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## Trader Joe's Scraper: full product catalog and prices (traderjoes.com)

[![Trader Joe's Scraper: Full Product Catalog & Prices](https://api.apify.com/v2/key-value-stores/4VJNANhwKgqPpXtAi/records/hero-trader-joes-scraper.jpg)](https://api.apify.com/v2/key-value-stores/4VJNANhwKgqPpXtAi/records/film-retail-price-tracking.mp4)

**[Watch the 22-second film: price tracking](https://api.apify.com/v2/key-value-stores/4VJNANhwKgqPpXtAi/records/film-retail-price-tracking.mp4)**

Get **every product Trader Joe's publishes without an account**, or any search: **price, size, unit, SKU, category, country of origin, characteristics (organic, kosher, gluten free and more), tags, image and link**.

**Try it in a minute:** the form is filled in. Press Start and you get up to 100 real products for under $0.20.

Built for **grocery price monitoring**, **private-label research**, **new product tracking** and **recipe and shopping apps**. Trader Joe's has no online store, so this is one of the few ways to get its catalog as data.

**Run it again and see what changed:** every product is compared with your last run, with nothing to set up and at no extra cost. Schedule it daily and filter on `priceStatus` for a price-drop feed.

### What you get

| Field | What it holds |
|---|---|
| Products | `sku`, `title`, `price`, `currency`, `size`, `unit`, `category`, `country`, `characteristics`, `tags`, `newProduct`, `image`, `url`, `storeCode`, `source`, `rank` |
| Price tracking, on every product row | `previousPrice`, `priceChange`, `priceChangePercent`, `priceStatus` (`first-seen`, `unchanged`, `dropped`, `raised`, `no-price`), `firstSeenAt` |

### What people use it for

- **Grocery price monitoring:** track Trader Joe's prices every week
- **New product tracking:** compare runs to see what was added or removed
- **Private-label research:** what the chain sells, at what size and price, by category
- **Shopping and recipe apps:** a clean product list with sizes, prices and images
- **Diet filters:** find products by characteristic: organic, kosher, gluten free and more

### How to use it

1. Enter **searches**, or leave them empty for the whole catalog and raise **Results per search**.
2. Click **Start**.
3. Schedule it weekly and compare runs to see new products and price changes.

### Input

| Field | Example | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Searches | `milk` | Empty = the whole catalog |
| Results per search | `100` | Up to 10,000 |
| Store code | `TJ` | The site's default |
| Products | empty | A fixed basket of links or SKUs |
| Track price changes | on | Compares every product with your last run; free |
| Tracking list name | empty | Optional: separate lists keep separate histories |

### Output

Each result is one row in the run's dataset (download it as JSON, CSV, Excel, XML or HTML, or read it through the API). An example row (values shortened):

```json
{
  "kind": "product",
  "sku": "012345",
  "title": "Sample Organic Whole Milk",
  "price": 5.99,
  "currency": "USD",
  "size": 64,
  "unit": "Fl Oz",
  "category": [
    "Food",
    "Dairy & Eggs",
    "Milk & Cream"
  ],
  "country": "Product of USA",
  "characteristics": [
    "Organic",
    "Kosher"
  ],
  "url": "https://www.traderjoes.com/home/products/pdp/012345-sample-milk",
  "storeCode": "TJ",
  "source": "milk",
  "rank": 1
}
```

A record named `SUMMARY` in the run's key-value store says what each input returned, with any notes (for example an account that does not exist), what was charged and how much traffic the run used.

### Pricing

- **$0.002 per product**
- Refused pages are free

What typical jobs cost at the list price:

| Job | Cost |
|---|---|
| 100 products | $0.20 |
| A full catalog of 2,000 products | $4 |

On Apify's Scale and Business plans the per-event prices are lower (Store discounts). Set **Maximum cost per run** and the Actor stops cleanly when it is reached: you never pay more than that.

### Tips

- Schedule a daily run and filter on `priceStatus` = `dropped` for a price-drop feed. The run's summary lists the biggest moves.
- Leave Searches empty and set Results per search to 10,000 for the whole catalog.
- Run it weekly and compare by `sku` to spot new products and price changes.

### Use it through the API

**Python**

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN>")
run = client.actor("zaiq/trader-joes-scraper").call(run_input={"searches": ["milk"], "maxResults": 100})
for row in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(row)
```

**JavaScript**

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

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: '<YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN>' });
const run = await client.actor('zaiq/trader-joes-scraper').call({"searches": ["milk"], "maxResults": 100});
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
```

**HTTP (one call, results back)**

```bash
curl -X POST 'https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/zaiq~trader-joes-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=<YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN>' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"searches": ["milk"], "maxResults": 100}'
```

### Integrations and schedules

- **Schedules:** run it every hour, day or week from the Apify Console (Schedules) and keep a history of results.
- **Make, Zapier, n8n, Google Sheets, Slack, Airtable:** connect it through Apify's integrations, or send each finished run to a **webhook**.
- **Datasets:** results stay in the run's dataset; export them or read them by API whenever you need them.

### Use it with AI agents (MCP)

Add Apify's MCP server (`https://mcp.apify.com`) to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, VS Code or any MCP client. The agent can find this Actor and run it for you: ask it for "every Trader Joe's dairy product with its price and size". AI agents can also pay for runs directly through Apify's agentic payments.

### Limits

- Prices are what the site publishes; a store's shelf price can differ, and Trader Joe's does not sell online.
- A few items have no published price: their `price` is empty.
- Availability by store is not included.
- If an address is refused the Actor tries another and never solves a check. Pages it could not read are listed in SUMMARY and not charged.

### FAQ

**How does price tracking work?**

Each run compares every product with your last run and adds the previous price, the change and a status. It keeps one small key-value store in your Apify account and costs nothing extra. Run one list at a time, and turn it off with `trackPrices: false`.

**Do I need an account?**

No. It reads what any visitor sees on traderjoes.com.

**How do I get the whole catalog?**

Leave Searches empty and raise Results per search.

**What does it cost to run?**

Only the event above; there is no monthly fee.

### Related Actors from Zaiq

- [walmart-scraper](https://apify.com/zaiq/walmart-scraper): the same products on Walmart

### Support

Questions, a site that changed, or a field you need? Open an issue on this Actor's **Issues** tab: we answer there, usually within a day.

***

Also found as: trader joes scraper, trader joe's scraper, trader joes api, trader joes products, trader joes prices, trader joes catalog, grocery price scraper, trader joes data.

# Actor input Schema

## `searches` (type: `array`):

What to search for, one per line. Leave empty for the whole catalog.

## `maxResults` (type: `integer`):

Set it high to read the whole catalog when no search is given.

## `storeCode` (type: `string`):

The site's default is TJ. A store's number gives that store's prices where the site has them.

## `products` (type: `array`):

A fixed basket: Trader Joe's product links or SKUs, one per line. The way to monitor the same products every day.

## `trackPrices` (type: `boolean`):

Compare every product with your last run: previous price, change and whether it is new. Free. Keeps one small key-value store in your Apify account.

## `trackingName` (type: `string`):

Optional. Letters, numbers and hyphens. Give separate lists their own history, for example one per client.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "searches": [
    "milk"
  ],
  "maxResults": 100,
  "storeCode": "TJ",
  "trackPrices": true
}
```

# Actor output Schema

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

Dataset: the results.

## `summary` (type: `string`):

What each input returned, and notes.

# 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 = {
    "searches": [
        "milk"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("zaiq/trader-joes-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 = { "searches": ["milk"] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("zaiq/trader-joes-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 '{
  "searches": [
    "milk"
  ]
}' |
apify call zaiq/trader-joes-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,zaiq/trader-joes-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/eaSO46zDqBhFwfBJ6/builds/KBZKiKbl6f1MFtwi4/openapi.json