# Alcampo Spain Scraper — Groceries, Prices & Offers (`studio-amba/alcampo-es-scraper`) Actor

Scrape the Alcampo Spain online grocery shop by keyword or category: product names, prices in EUR, unit prices, promotions and brands. No login or cookies.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/studio-amba/alcampo-es-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Studio Amba](https://apify.com/studio-amba) (community)
- **Categories:** E-commerce
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 2 monthly users, 98.1% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
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## Pricing

from $2.00 / 1,000 result scrapeds

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/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## Alcampo Spain Scraper

Know current prices, unit prices, and active promotions on any product at Alcampo's Spanish online grocery store (compraonline.alcampo.es) — without checking the site by hand. This scraper turns any Alcampo search or category page into structured product data: product name, brand, price, unit price, and promotion/discount details.

Alcampo is the Spanish arm of Auchan, one of Europe's largest hypermarket chains. Its online shop runs on the Ocado Smart Platform and server-renders every product listing, so this actor reads the page directly — no login, no cookies, no browser required.

### Why use this actor?

If you track grocery prices, build a price-comparison tool, monitor promotions, or feed a market-research dataset, you need structured product data you can rely on. This actor turns any Alcampo search or category page into a table of products with prices in EUR, unit prices, and promotion details.

Typical users:

- Price-intelligence and price-comparison platforms tracking Spanish retail.
- Brands and suppliers monitoring how their products are listed and promoted at Alcampo.
- Market researchers and analysts building grocery datasets across Spain.
- Developers who need a clean product feed instead of scraping HTML themselves.

### How to scrape Alcampo Spain data

1. Open the actor in the Apify Console.
2. Enter a **search query** in Spanish — for example `leche`, `pan` or `aceite`. This returns Alcampo's top 50 matching products.
3. Alternatively, set a **category URL** (e.g. a leaf category like `https://www.compraonline.alcampo.es/categories/leche-entera/OCEntera`) to scrape that category's entire product set instead of a keyword search.
4. Set **maxResults** to how many products you want.
5. Leave the proxy on the default Apify setting and click **Start**.
6. When the run finishes, download the results as JSON, CSV, Excel or feed them to an API.

The actor fetches the server-rendered listing page, parses every product card, then visits each product's page to pick up brand and category details before writing one clean record per product.

### Input

| Field | Type | Required | Description |
|-------|------|----------|--------------|
| `searchQuery` | String | No | Keyword to search in Spanish (default: `leche`). Returns up to 50 results. |
| `categoryUrl` | String | No | Full category leaf URL to scrape its entire product set. Takes priority over `searchQuery`. |
| `maxResults` | Integer | No | Maximum products to return (default: 100) |
| `proxyConfiguration` | Object | No | Apify proxy settings (default Apify proxy works) |

#### Example input

```json
{
    "searchQuery": "leche",
    "maxResults": 20,
    "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": true }
}
```

### Output

Each result contains:

| Field | Type | Example |
|-------|------|---------|
| `productName` | String | `"L.R. Leche entera 6 x 1 l."` |
| `brand` | String | `"L.R."` |
| `price` | Number | `5.70` |
| `currency` | String | `"EUR"` |
| `pricePerUnit` | String | `"0,95 € por litro"` |
| `originalPrice` | Number | `6.50` |
| `discount` | String | `"-12%"` |
| `sku` | String | `"99193"` |
| `imageUrl` | String | Primary product image URL |
| `url` | String | Full product page URL |
| `scrapedAt` | String | ISO 8601 timestamp |

`originalPrice` and `discount` are present only on promoted products.

### Example output

```json
{
    "productName": "L.R. Leche entera 6 x 1 l.",
    "brand": "L.R.",
    "price": 5.70,
    "currency": "EUR",
    "pricePerUnit": "0,95 € por litro",
    "sku": "99193",
    "imageUrl": "https://www.compraonline.alcampo.es/images-v3/37ea0506-72ec-4543-93c8-a77bb916ec12/eb6553ac-fc96-4ae4-b258-d0edea51cc71/500x500.jpg",
    "url": "https://www.compraonline.alcampo.es/products/l-r-leche-entera-6-x-1-l/99193",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-07-13T09:00:00.000Z"
}
```

### Notes and limitations

- Prices are the current online-shop prices in EUR.
- **Search caps at 50 results.** Alcampo's search page ignores the `?page=` parameter (verified: page 2 returns the same 50 products as page 1). To scrape more than 50 items for a topic, use `categoryUrl` to target a specific leaf category page, which renders its full product set in one page.
- **EAN / barcode is not exposed** anywhere on the Alcampo storefront (listing or product page), so it is not included in the output.
- `originalPrice` and `discount` appear only when a product is on promotion.

### Cost

Pricing is pay-per-result. A typical search or category run of 20–100 products completes in under a minute, so most runs cost only a few cents in Apify platform usage plus the per-result fee.

### Related Scrapers

Build a complete view of European grocery retail with these sibling scrapers from Studio AMBA:

- **[Monoprix France Scraper](https://apify.com/studio-amba/monoprix-fr-scraper)** — French supermarket products on the same platform (monoprix.fr).
- **[BILLA Austria Scraper](https://apify.com/studio-amba/billa-at-scraper)** — Austrian supermarket products and prices (billa.at).
- **[Mercadona Scraper](https://apify.com/studio-amba/mercadona-scraper)** — Spain's largest supermarket (mercadona.es).
- **[Dia ES Scraper](https://apify.com/studio-amba/dia-es-scraper)** — Spanish supermarket products and prices (dia.es).
- **[Continente PT Scraper](https://apify.com/studio-amba/continente-pt-scraper)** — Portuguese groceries with EAN barcodes (continente.pt).

# Actor input Schema

## `searchQuery` (type: `string`):

Keyword to search the Alcampo catalogue in Spanish (e.g. 'leche', 'pan', 'aceite'). Returns up to 50 results — Alcampo's search does not paginate past the first 50.

## `categoryUrl` (type: `string`):

Full Alcampo category leaf URL (e.g. https://www.compraonline.alcampo.es/categories/leche-entera/OCEntera) to scrape its ENTIRE product set instead of a keyword search. Takes priority over searchQuery if both are set.

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

Maximum number of products to return.

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Apify proxy settings. Default Apify (datacenter) proxy works — Alcampo is served via CloudFront with no anti-bot detected.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "searchQuery": "leche",
  "maxResults": 20,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ]
  }
}
```

# 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 = {
    "searchQuery": "leche",
    "maxResults": 20,
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": true,
        "apifyProxyGroups": [
            "RESIDENTIAL"
        ]
    }
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("studio-amba/alcampo-es-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 = {
    "searchQuery": "leche",
    "maxResults": 20,
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": True,
        "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"],
    },
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("studio-amba/alcampo-es-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "searchQuery": "leche",
  "maxResults": 20,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ]
  }
}' |
apify call studio-amba/alcampo-es-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "mcp-remote",
                "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=studio-amba/alcampo-es-scraper",
                "--header",
                "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
            ]
        }
    }
}

```

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/ZNU7sE3fkTxM8lPg9/builds/RSpGgfH1lstcZRRih/openapi.json