# Continente Portugal Scraper — Groceries & EAN (`studio-amba/continente-pt-scraper`) Actor

Scrape the Continente Portugal supermarket by keyword: product names, brands, prices in EUR, unit prices, categories, images and optional EAN barcodes from product pages. No login or cookies.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/studio-amba/continente-pt-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Studio Amba](https://apify.com/studio-amba) (community)
- **Categories:** E-commerce
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## 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

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# README

## Continente Portugal Scraper

Scrape the Continente Portugal supermarket (continente.pt) by keyword and get clean, structured product data: names, brands, prices, unit prices, categories, images and optional EAN barcodes.

Continente is Portugal's largest supermarket chain. This actor reads its server-rendered catalogue directly, so you get fast, reliable grocery data without a login, cookies or a browser. Turn on EAN capture to match products to their barcodes.

### Why use this actor?

If you track grocery prices, match products by barcode, build a price-comparison tool, or feed a market-research dataset, you need structured product data you can rely on. This actor turns any Continente search into a table of products with prices in EUR, unit prices and (optionally) EAN barcodes.

Typical users:

- Price-intelligence and price-comparison platforms tracking Portuguese retail.
- Brands and suppliers matching their catalogue by EAN barcode.
- Market researchers and analysts building grocery datasets.
- Developers who need a clean product feed instead of scraping HTML themselves.

### How to scrape Continente data

1. Open the actor in the Apify Console.
2. Enter a **search query** in Portuguese — for example `leite`, `café`, `azeite` or `arroz`.
3. Set **maxResults** to how many products you want.
4. Optionally enable **Fetch EAN barcodes** to capture each product's barcode from its product page (slower — one extra request per product).
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 requests Continente's search pages, walks the pagination for your query, de-duplicates by product id, and writes one clean record per product. With EAN capture on, it also opens each product page to read the barcode.

### Input

| Field | Type | Required | Description |
|-------|------|----------|-------------|
| `searchQuery` | String | No | Keyword to search in Portuguese (default: `leite`) |
| `maxResults` | Integer | No | Maximum products to return (default: 100) |
| `fetchDetails` | Boolean | No | Open each product page to capture the EAN barcode (slower, default: false) |
| `proxyConfiguration` | Object | No | Apify proxy settings (default Apify proxy works) |

#### Example input

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

### Output

Each result contains:

| Field | Type | Example |
|-------|------|---------|
| `productName` | String | `"Leite UHT Meio Gordo Continente"` |
| `brand` | String | `"Continente"` |
| `price` | Number | `0.86` |
| `currency` | String | `"EUR"` |
| `unitPrice` | String | `"0,86€/lt"` |
| `originalPrice` | Number | `1.09` |
| `discount` | String | `"-21%"` |
| `category` | String | `"Lacticínios e Ovos > Leite > Meio Gordo"` |
| `sku` | String | `"6879912"` |
| `productId` | String | `"6879912"` |
| `ean` | String | `"5601312508007"` |
| `imageUrl` | String | Primary product image URL |
| `url` | String | Full product page URL |
| `scrapedAt` | String | ISO 8601 timestamp |

`ean` is present only when **fetchDetails** is enabled. `originalPrice` and `discount` are present only on promoted products.

### Example output

```json
{
    "productName": "Leite UHT Meio Gordo Continente",
    "brand": "Continente",
    "price": 0.86,
    "currency": "EUR",
    "unitPrice": "0,86€/lt",
    "category": "Lacticínios e Ovos > Leite > Meio Gordo",
    "sku": "6879912",
    "productId": "6879912",
    "ean": "5601312508007",
    "imageUrl": "https://www.continente.pt/dw/image/v2/.../leite-uht-meio-gordo.jpg",
    "url": "https://www.continente.pt/produto/leite-uht-meio-gordo-continente-continente-6879912.html",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-07-12T09:00:00.000Z"
}
```

### Notes and limitations

- Prices are the current online prices in EUR.
- **EAN barcodes** require `fetchDetails: true`. That opens one product page per result, so large runs take much longer — raise the run timeout for a big catalogue pull.
- The run is migration-safe: if Apify moves a long run between hosts, it resumes without re-fetching or duplicating products already delivered.
- `originalPrice` and `discount` appear only when a product is on promotion.

### Cost

Pricing is pay-per-result. A keyword search without EAN capture completes in about a minute. With EAN capture, expect roughly one extra request per product, so budget more run time for large keyword sets.

### Related Scrapers

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

- **[Dia ES Scraper](https://apify.com/studio-amba/dia-es-scraper)** — Spanish supermarket products and prices (dia.es).
- **[BILLA Austria Scraper](https://apify.com/studio-amba/billa-at-scraper)** — Austrian supermarket products and promotions (shop.billa.at).
- **[Esselunga IT Scraper](https://apify.com/studio-amba/esselunga-it-scraper)** — Italian supermarket products and discounts (esselunga.it).
- **[Mercadona Scraper](https://apify.com/studio-amba/mercadona-scraper)** — Spain's largest supermarket (mercadona.es).
- **[Colruyt Scraper](https://apify.com/studio-amba/colruyt-scraper)** — Belgian grocery prices (colruyt.be).
- **[Delhaize Scraper](https://apify.com/studio-amba/delhaize-scraper)** — Belgian supermarket products (delhaize.be).
- **[Tesco Scraper](https://apify.com/studio-amba/tesco-scraper)** — UK groceries and Clubcard offers (tesco.com).

# Actor input Schema

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

Keyword to search the Continente catalogue in Portuguese (e.g. 'leite', 'café', 'azeite').

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

Maximum number of products to return across all result pages.

## `fetchDetails` (type: `boolean`):

Open each product page to capture its EAN / barcode. This adds one request per product, so runs take much longer. For large runs, raise the run timeout accordingly.

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

Apify proxy settings. The default Apify (datacenter) proxy works — continente.pt is not geo-locked.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "searchQuery": "leite",
  "maxResults": 20,
  "fetchDetails": false,
  "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": "leite",
    "maxResults": 20,
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": true,
        "apifyProxyGroups": [
            "RESIDENTIAL"
        ]
    }
};

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

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("studio-amba/continente-pt-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": "leite",
  "maxResults": 20,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ]
  }
}' |
apify call studio-amba/continente-pt-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

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

```

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/YxhsVfsBFD4vsgFV3/builds/IWI5duPvAGOW2o7Rx/openapi.json