# INTERSPAR Austria Scraper — Groceries, Prices & Offers (`studio-amba/interspar-at-scraper`) Actor

Scrape the INTERSPAR Austria online shop by keyword: product names, brands, prices in EUR, unit prices, promotions, categories, GTINs/EANs and images. Open JSON API, no login or cookies.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/studio-amba/interspar-at-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Studio Amba](https://apify.com/studio-amba) (community)
- **Categories:** E-commerce
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 75.0% 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

## What's an Apify Actor?

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

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# README

## INTERSPAR Austria Scraper

Scrape the INTERSPAR Austria online shop (interspar.at) by keyword and get clean, structured product data: names, brands, prices, unit prices, promotions, categories, EANs and images.

INTERSPAR is one of Austria's largest hypermarket chains, part of the SPAR group. This actor reads SPAR's own open product-search API directly, so you get fast, reliable grocery data without a login, cookies or a browser.

### 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 INTERSPAR search into a table of products with prices in EUR, unit prices, category paths, and validated EAN barcodes where available.

Typical users:

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

### How to scrape INTERSPAR Austria data

1. Open the actor in the Apify Console.
2. Enter a **search query** in German — for example `milch`, `kaffee`, `schokolade` or `bio`.
3. Set **maxResults** to how many products you want.
4. Leave the proxy on the default Apify setting and click **Start**.
5. When the run finishes, download the results as JSON, CSV, Excel or feed them to an API.

The actor calls SPAR's own FactFinder product-search API, paginates through every result page for your query, de-duplicates by product number, and writes one clean record per product.

### Input

| Field | Type | Required | Description |
|-------|------|----------|--------------|
| `searchQuery` | String | No | Keyword to search in German (default: `milch`) |
| `maxResults` | Integer | No | Maximum products to return (default: 100) |
| `proxyConfiguration` | Object | No | Apify proxy settings (default Apify proxy works) |

#### Example input

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

### Output

Each result contains:

| Field | Type | Example |
|-------|------|---------|
| `productName` | String | `"SPAR Bio Milch LaengFri.0,9%1L GVE 12"` |
| `brand` | String | `"SPAR"` |
| `price` | Number | `1.32` |
| `currency` | String | `"EUR"` |
| `pricePerUnit` | String | `"1.32 €/l"` |
| `originalPrice` | Number | `3.32` |
| `discount` | String | `"-29%"` |
| `category` | String | `"Produkte > Milch > Kühlregal > Molkerei & Eier"` |
| `sku` | String | `"2020005519879"` |
| `ean` | String | `"9008007070008"` |
| `productCode` | String | `"8808582348801"` |
| `inStock` | Boolean | `true` |
| `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. `ean` and `productCode` are mutually exclusive per item — see the note below.

### Example output

```json
{
    "productName": "SPAR Bio Milch LaengFri.0,9%1L  GVE 12",
    "brand": "SPAR",
    "price": 1.32,
    "currency": "EUR",
    "pricePerUnit": "1.32 €/l",
    "category": "Produkte > Milch > Kühlregal > Molkerei & Eier",
    "sku": "2020005458611",
    "productCode": "8808676556801",
    "inStock": true,
    "imageUrl": "https://cdn1.interspar.at/cachableservlets/articleImage.dam/at/2020005458611/dt_main.jpg",
    "url": "https://www.interspar.at/spar-bio-milch/p/2020005458611",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-07-13T09:00:00.000Z"
}
```

### Notes and limitations

- Prices are the current online-shop prices in EUR. Store prices may differ by region.
- **EAN accuracy:** INTERSPAR's search API exposes a 13-digit `code-internal` field per product that looks like a GTIN/EAN barcode, but most of them are not real barcodes — they're synthetic internal codes. This actor runs a standard GS1 mod-10 checksum on every code and only ever exposes it as `ean` when the checksum is genuinely valid. In a live sample of 100 products, only about 7% passed validation. The remaining 93% are exposed as `productCode` instead so you never mistake an internal number for a real barcode.
- `originalPrice` and `discount` appear only when a product is on promotion.
- Results are de-duplicated by INTERSPAR's internal product number.

### Cost

Pricing is pay-per-result. A typical keyword search of 20–1000 products completes in well 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:

- **[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).
- **[Carrefour France Scraper](https://apify.com/studio-amba/carrefour-fr-scraper)** — French hypermarket products and prices (carrefour.fr).
- **[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 INTERSPAR catalogue in German (e.g. 'milch', 'kaffee', 'schokolade').

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

Maximum number of products to return.

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

Apify proxy settings. The default Apify (datacenter) proxy works — the FactFinder search API is not geo-locked or anti-bot protected.

## Actor input object example

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

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

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

```

## MCP server setup

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

```

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/qMd3IlVWhkSGiIii3/builds/VzGXpcBsPCCoosrSU/openapi.json