Tesco UK & Ireland Scraper

Overview

This actor scrapes grocery product data from Tesco's UK (tesco.com) and Ireland (tesco.ie) websites. It extracts detailed product information from category listings, search results, or direct product pages. Output is structured data suitable for market research, price monitoring, or inventory analysis.

Key Features

• Comprehensive Data Extraction: Scrapes product titles, UPC/GTIN, current price, promotional offers, unit price, description, category hierarchy, nutritional information, allergens, manufacturer details, and competitor price match data.
• Multiple URL Support: Handles product URLs, category listing pages, and search query URLs. You can provide a single URL or a list in bulk.
• High Performance: Engineered for speed, capable of scraping approximately 1000 data entries per minute.
• Automatic Pagination: For category and search listings, the scraper automatically navigates through pages until it collects the specified max_items.
• Flexible Output: Exports data in CSV, XLSX, JSON, JSONL, XML, or RSS formats.

How to Use

Configure the actor run via the input schema. The primary method is to provide URLs via the urls field or a search keyword. The region must be specified to target the correct Tesco site.

Input / Configuration

The actor accepts the following input parameters:

• urls (Optional - Array of Strings): A list of Tesco URLs to scrape. Supports these formats:
  • Product Page: https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/272202380
  • Category Listing: https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/shop/fresh-food/all
  • Search Results: https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/search?query=milk
• region (Required - String, Default: UK): The geographic storefront to scrape. Use UK for tesco.com or IE for tesco.ie.
• keyword (Optional - String): A search term (e.g., "milk"). The actor will scrape results from the generated search URL.
• include_product_details (Optional - Boolean, Default: true): When scraping listing pages, set this to true to fetch the full detail set from each individual product page.
• max_items (Optional - Number, Default: 100): The maximum number of product items to scrape from listing or search pages.

Example Input

{
  "urls": [
    "https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/shop/fresh-food/all",
    "https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/301723369"
  ],
  "region": "UK",
  "max_items": 250
}

Output

The dataset contains items with the extracted fields for each product. A typical output item includes:
* url, title, gtin, price, offerText, unitPrice
* description, category, subCategory, productCategory
* nutrition (array), allergens (array), manufacturer
* priceMatch data and other metadata.

The data is available for download in your chosen format from the actor's run dataset.