# Esselunga Italy Scraper — Groceries & Prices (`studio-amba/esselunga-it-scraper`) Actor

Scrape the Esselunga Italy online shop by keyword: product names, brands, prices in EUR, unit prices, discounts, product codes, stock and images. Open JSON API, no login or cookies.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/studio-amba/esselunga-it-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Studio Amba](https://apify.com/studio-amba) (community)
- **Categories:** E-commerce
- **Features:** Limited permissions
- **Stats:** 5 total users, 0 monthly users, 96.7% 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/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
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For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## Esselunga Italy Scraper

Scrape the Esselunga Italy online shop (spesaonline.esselunga.it) by keyword and get clean, structured product data: names, brands, prices, unit prices, discounts, product codes, stock status and images.

Esselunga is one of Italy's leading supermarket chains. This actor reads its public catalogue 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, monitor promotions, build a price-comparison tool, or feed a market-research dataset, you need structured product data you can rely on. This actor turns any Esselunga search into a table of products with prices in EUR, unit prices and discount details.

Typical users:

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

### How to scrape Esselunga data

1. Open the actor in the Apify Console.
2. Enter a **search query** in Italian — for example `latte`, `caffè`, `pasta` or `biologico`.
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 Esselunga's own search API, paginates through every result page for your query, de-duplicates by product code, and writes one clean record per product.

### Input

| Field | Type | Required | Description |
|-------|------|----------|-------------|
| `searchQuery` | String | No | Keyword to search in Italian (default: `latte`) |
| `maxResults` | Integer | No | Maximum products to return (default: 100) |
| `proxyConfiguration` | Object | No | Apify proxy settings (default Apify proxy works; switch to Residential IT if blocked) |

#### Example input

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

### Output

Each result contains:

| Field | Type | Example |
|-------|------|---------|
| `productName` | String | `"Arborea Latte Parzialmente Scremato UHT 1000 ml"` |
| `brand` | String | `"Arborea"` |
| `price` | Number | `0.85` |
| `currency` | String | `"EUR"` |
| `unitPrice` | String | `"0,85 € / l"` |
| `originalPrice` | Number | `1.65` |
| `discount` | String | `"-48%"` |
| `sku` | String | `"302042"` |
| `productId` | String | `"5400047"` |
| `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.

### Example output

```json
{
    "productName": "Arborea Latte Parzialmente Scremato UHT 1000 ml",
    "brand": "Arborea",
    "price": 0.85,
    "currency": "EUR",
    "unitPrice": "0,85 € / l",
    "originalPrice": 1.65,
    "discount": "-48%",
    "sku": "302042",
    "productId": "5400047",
    "inStock": true,
    "imageUrl": "https://images.services.esselunga.it/html/img_prodotti/esselunga/big/302042.jpg",
    "url": "https://spesaonline.esselunga.it/commerce/nav/supermercato/store/dettaglio/prodotto/302042",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-07-12T09:00:00.000Z"
}
```

### Notes and limitations

- Prices are the current online-shop prices in EUR, VAT included.
- EAN / barcode is not exposed by the Esselunga catalogue API, so it is not included.
- Category is not returned per product by the search endpoint, so it is omitted.
- `originalPrice` and `discount` appear only when a product is on promotion.

### Cost

Pricing is pay-per-result. A typical keyword search of 100–500 products completes in about 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 promotions (shop.billa.at).
- **[Continente PT Scraper](https://apify.com/studio-amba/continente-pt-scraper)** — Portuguese groceries with EAN barcodes (continente.pt).
- **[Dia ES Scraper](https://apify.com/studio-amba/dia-es-scraper)** — Spanish supermarket products and prices (dia.es).
- **[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 Esselunga catalogue in Italian (e.g. 'latte', 'caffè', 'pasta').

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

Maximum number of products to return across all result pages.

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

Apify proxy settings. The default Apify (datacenter) proxy works. If requests get blocked, switch to Residential with country IT.

## Actor input object example

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

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

No description

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

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

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

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).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": "latte",
  "maxResults": 20,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ]
  }
}' |
apify call studio-amba/esselunga-it-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,studio-amba/esselunga-it-scraper"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/oitmninCrZzaVShfk/builds/Apry8FZ6ugE3pA8Cm/openapi.json