Officeworks Australia Scraper - Products & Reviews

Scrape Officeworks products from officeworks.com.au into a clean, structured dataset. Search by keyword with brand, price and rating filters, browse the Deals and Clearance specials collections, or paste product, search and category URLs directly. Capture the current price plus any was / original price and discount, a canonical product title, the variant matrix, and optionally the full product detail plus customer ratings and reviews with an aggregate rating summary and a star-rating distribution for every product.

Officeworks is Australia's leading retailer of office supplies, technology, furniture, print and stationery. This actor turns any Officeworks search, category or product page into structured rows you can analyse, monitor or feed into your own tools.

What you get

One flat record per product, including:

• Identity - name, title (canonical, brand-prefixed), brand, sku, seoPath, urlKeyword, gtin, manufacturerPartNumber, productType
• Price - price, edlpPrice, gstRate, hasBusinessPrice, currency
• Specials & discount - isOnSpecial, promoLabel (the store's own badge, e.g. Deal / Clearance / Low Price), isNew, and, when a product is genuinely reduced below its everyday price, wasPrice, savingsAmount, savingsPercent
• Availability - availableStates (in-stock states), isAvailableInStore, availableOnline, isClearance
• Variants - variants (per-variant sku, url, distinguishing attributes and thumbnail), variantAxes, variantCount
• Category - category, categories (full breadcrumb path), categoryPath, categoryHierarchy (full category chains)
• Descriptions - shortDescription, longDescription, metaDescription, features (feature bullets)
• Attributes - specifications and attributes (name/value pairs)
• Media - imageUrl, images (full gallery)
• Ratings & reviews - rating (0-5), reviewCount on every card, and with detail enrichment also ratingDistribution, recommendedCount and reviews[] with per-review rating, title, body, author, ISO-8601 date, helpful count, pros/cons and secondary ratings, plus reviewsCollected
• Resume & recurring updates (optional) - turn on Incremental mode to get only NEW, UPDATED, and REAPPEARED products on every scheduled run, or resume one specific interrupted crawl with resumeFromRunId

Modes

Search by keyword + filters

Set Mode = search and add one or more Search keywords. Each keyword is searched separately. Refine with:

• Specials / offers collection - browse Deals or Clearance instead of (or alongside) your keywords; brand, price, rating and sort still apply
• Brand - keep only a given brand
• Minimum / maximum price (AUD)
• Minimum rating (1-5)
• Include unavailable products - on by default
• Sort by - relevance, newest, name A-Z, price low-to-high, price high-to-low, or rating low-to-high / high-to-low

Scrape pasted URLs

Set Mode = url and paste Officeworks URLs:

• A product URL (/shop/officeworks/p/<slug>, e.g. https://www.officeworks.com.au/shop/officeworks/p/some-product-sku) returns that single product.
• A search URL (e.g. https://www.officeworks.com.au/shop/officeworks/search?q=laptop) or a category URL (e.g. https://www.officeworks.com.au/shop/officeworks/c/office-supplies/pens) returns multiple pages of results, continuing forward from the page in the URL.
• A specials URL works the same way - paste https://www.officeworks.com.au/shop/officeworks/c/deals or https://www.officeworks.com.au/shop/officeworks/c/clearance.

Specials, was-price & discount

Officeworks groups its promotions into two storefront collections - Deals (curated featured offers) and Clearance (reduced-to-clear stock). Pick one in Specials / offers collection in search mode, or paste its URL in URL mode. Each product carries isOnSpecial and the store's own promoLabel badge (e.g. Deal, Clearance, Low Price).

Officeworks runs an every-day-low-price model and generally does not publish a strike-through "was" price. When a product is genuinely reduced below its everyday price, wasPrice, savingsAmount and savingsPercent are populated; otherwise they stay null (they are never fabricated). The current price is always present.

Ratings & reviews

Every product card already carries the aggregate rating (0-5) and reviewCount. Keep Fetch full product detail + reviews on (the default) to also attach each product's full detail, the star-rating distribution and its customer reviews. Use Max reviews per product to cap how many are collected per product (0 = all available).

For example, a popular product might carry reviewCount: 128 with a rating of 4.6 and a ratingDistribution of { "5": 96, "4": 20, "3": 6, "2": 3, "1": 3 }, each review including rating, title, body, author, date and a helpful count. Products with no reviews simply leave rating, reviewCount, ratingDistribution and reviews absent (these fields are never faked); reviewsCollected reads 0. Some reviews are ratings-only, in which case only the rating and date are present. Officeworks does not publish a verified-purchase flag, so verifiedPurchase is omitted; where a reviewer indicated where they bought the item, that appears as purchaseLocation.

Turn detail enrichment off for a faster, lower-cost run that returns the listing card fields only (name, brand, price, images, category, aggregate rating and review count) with no reviews.

Incremental mode note: rating, reviewCount, ratingDistribution, recommendedCount, reviews and reviewsCollected are always returned, but they do not drive changeType. Other shoppers post reviews independently of and far more often than a product's own price/stock/specials change, so counting them would mark almost every product UPDATED on every scheduled run and defeat suppression. A genuine price, stock, or specials change still triggers UPDATED as usual.

Output limits

• Max products - overall cap across the run (0 = unlimited)
• Max pages per search - safety cap on result pages per keyword / URL

Resume & recurring updates

There are two different things here - pick the one that matches what you're doing:

Need	Use
A crawl stopped and should continue	resumeFromRunId / automatic checkpoint recovery
Run the same search every day and receive only changes	incrementalMode
Keep separate daily campaigns for similar searches	distinct stateKey values
Run a normal full snapshot	leave both off

Resume (resumeFromRunId) continues one specific interrupted or previous large crawl: paste a run ID or dataset ID and this run skips products already collected there, returning only the remaining new products. An automatic same-run checkpoint also protects against platform migrations/Resurrects without any input needed.

Incremental mode (incrementalMode) is for a schedule (for example, daily): the actor remembers the previous run of the same search by itself, so you never paste a run ID. The first run returns everything as NEW. Later runs return only NEW, UPDATED, and REAPPEARED products by default - duplicates and unchanged products are suppressed (and not charged). Turn on emitUnchanged or emitExpired only when you also want those rows returned (and billed for). State is isolated per mode/search/URL/specials/brand/sort/price/rating/stock/detail setup automatically; set stateKey to name or deliberately share a monitoring campaign. EXPIRED is only synthesized once a run fully scans every keyword/URL/specials target (not capped by Max products/Max pages, not a Resume run).

When incrementalMode is on, every returned record also carries:

Field	Description
changeType	NEW | UPDATED | UNCHANGED | REAPPEARED | EXPIRED
changedFields	Top-level fields that changed since last seen; non-empty only for UPDATED
firstSeenAt	When this product was first observed by this monitoring campaign
lastSeenAt	When this product was last observed

Scheduled-run example - same search, run daily:

Day 1 (first run ever for this search):

{ "mode": "search", "queries": ["pen"], "incrementalMode": true }

→ every product comes back with "changeType": "NEW".

Day 2 (the schedule fires again, identical input):

{ "mode": "search", "queries": ["pen"], "incrementalMode": true }

→ products whose price/stock/specials/etc. changed come back as "changeType": "UPDATED" with changedFields listing what changed, brand-new products come back as "changeType": "NEW", products that vanished and came back come back as "changeType": "REAPPEARED" - and products that are still there, unchanged, are not returned at all (suppressed, not charged) unless emitUnchanged is on.

Send results into your apps (MCP connectors)

Optionally pipe results into the apps you already use via Model Context Protocol (MCP) connectors - Notion, Linear, Airtable or Apify. Authorize a connector under Apify → Settings → API & Integrations, then select it in the input. Notion gets a rich page-per-item export; other connectors get a best-effort write or digest. This never changes the dataset output.

Plan Requirement

Runs on any Apify plan. Using Apify Proxy is recommended for reliable results; on the free plan, coverage may be limited and some runs may return fewer results.

Example input

{
  "mode": "search",
  "queries": [],
  "specialsCategory": "clearance",
  "sortBy": "priceAsc",
  "detailEnrichment": true,
  "maxReviewsPerProduct": 10,
  "maxItems": 50,
  "proxy": { "useApifyProxy": true }
}

Example output

{
  "sku": "EXAMPLE123",
  "name": "Example 14 inch Notebook 16GB 512GB",
  "title": "Example Brand Example 14 inch Notebook 16GB 512GB",
  "brand": "Example Brand",
  "url": "https://www.officeworks.com.au/shop/officeworks/p/example-notebook-example123",
  "price": 897.0,
  "edlpPrice": 897.0,
  "wasPrice": null,
  "savingsAmount": null,
  "savingsPercent": null,
  "isOnSpecial": true,
  "promoLabel": "Clearance",
  "isNew": false,
  "gstRate": 10.0,
  "currency": "AUD",
  "gtin": "9300000000000",
  "availableStates": ["NSW", "VIC", "QLD", "WA", "SA"],
  "availableOnline": true,
  "isClearance": true,
  "category": "Laptops",
  "categories": ["Technology", "Computers", "Laptops"],
  "categoryHierarchy": [["Technology", "Computers", "Laptops"]],
  "variantAxes": { "Colour": ["Silver", "Space Grey"] },
  "variantCount": 2,
  "variants": [
    {
      "sku": "EXAMPLE123",
      "url": "https://www.officeworks.com.au/shop/officeworks/p/example-notebook-example123",
      "attributes": { "Colour": "Silver" },
      "imageUrl": "https://www.officeworks.com.au/images/example-thumb.jpg"
    }
  ],
  "shortDescription": "A lightweight everyday notebook.",
  "features": ["14 inch display", "16GB memory", "512GB storage"],
  "specifications": { "Brand": "Example Brand", "Storage": "512GB" },
  "imageUrl": "https://www.officeworks.com.au/images/example.jpg",
  "rating": 4.6,
  "reviewCount": 128,
  "ratingDistribution": { "5": 96, "4": 20, "3": 6, "2": 3, "1": 3 },
  "recommendedCount": 110,
  "reviews": [
    {
      "reviewId": "1000000001",
      "rating": 5,
      "title": "Great value",
      "body": "Fast and light, exactly what I needed.",
      "author": "SampleReviewer",
      "date": "2026-06-01T10:00:00.000+00:00",
      "helpfulCount": 3
    }
  ],
  "reviewsCollected": 1
}