Instacart Product Search Scraper

Overview

This actor scrapes product data from Instacart category pages. It's designed for extracting structured product information—like names, prices, and availability—from Instacart's grocery catalog for use in market research, price tracking, or database building.

Key Features

• Multi-category scraping: Processes multiple Instacart category URLs in a single run.
• Structured output: Returns clean, consistent JSON data for easy integration.
• Proxy support: Uses Apify Proxy (including residential proxies) to help avoid bot detection.
• Configurable limits: Control the number of items scraped per page and retry attempts for failed requests.
• Built-in retries: Automatically retries failed URL requests to improve data reliability.

How to Use

Configure the actor using a JSON input object. The actor will then visit each provided Instacart category URL, extract product data from the list pages, and deliver the results in a structured dataset.

Input/Output

Input Configuration

Provide the following parameters in a JSON input:

{
  "max_retries_per_url": 2,
  "proxy": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"],
    "apifyProxyCountry": "SG"
  },
  "max_items_per_url": 20,
  "urls": [
    "https://www.instacart.com/categories/316-food/627-frozen-food?page=2",
    "https://www.instacart.com/categories/316-food/844-pantry"
  ]
}

Parameters:
* urls: An array of Instacart category page URLs to scrape (e.g., frozen food, pantry, deli).
* max_items_per_url: The maximum number of products to extract from each provided URL.
* max_retries_per_url: Number of retry attempts if a page fails to load.
* proxy: Configuration for Apify Proxy. Using residential proxies ("RESIDENTIAL") is recommended. Set apifyProxyCountry to match the geographic location of your target data.

Output

The actor outputs a dataset where each item represents a product. The data includes fields such as product name, price, availability, and category information. Results are available in JSON, CSV, and other formats via the Apify platform.

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