# Chemist Warehouse AU Product Scraper (`dromb/apify-wave1-actors`) Actor

Scrape Chemist Warehouse Australia product search results, prices, pharmacy categories, and normalized item data for price monitoring and product research.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/dromb/apify-wave1-actors.md
- **Developed by:** [Dmitriy Gyrbu](https://apify.com/dromb) (community)
- **Categories:** E-commerce, Automation, Developer tools
- **Stats:** 3 total users, 0 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 1 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $0.40 / 1,000 results

This Actor is paid per event and usage. You are charged both the fixed price for specific events and for Apify platform usage.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

Actors are web data automations that power AI and operations. They run on the Apify platform to scrape websites, process data, connect APIs, and automate workflows.
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.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.
Actors are written with capital "A".

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.
The best way to integrate Actors is as follows.

- **AI agents and MCP clients** — the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/integrations/mcp.md) at `https://mcp.apify.com` (remote, streamable HTTP, OAuth on first use).
- **Agentic workflows and local Actor development** — [Agent Skills](https://apify.com/.well-known/agent-skills/index.json) with the [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md): `npm install -g apify-cli`, then `apify login`.
- **JavaScript/TypeScript projects** — the official [JS/TS client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md): `npm install apify-client`.
- **Python projects** — the official [Python client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md): `pip install apify-client`.
- **Any other language** — the [REST API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2.md).

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

For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt).

# README

## Chemist Warehouse AU Product Scraper

Scrape Chemist Warehouse Australia product search results, prices, pharmacy categories, and normalized item records.
Use this Chemist Warehouse scraper for pharmacy price monitoring, product research, stock checks, and ecommerce data workflows.

This is an unofficial actor and is not affiliated with Chemist Warehouse.

This actor is designed for simple product discovery use cases such as:

- keyword search by product name
- lightweight catalog checks
- downstream price comparison pipelines

### What this actor does

The actor currently supports one operation:

- `search`

For each matching product, the dataset returns a normalized record with fields
such as:

- `name`
- `brand`
- `sku`
- `source_url`
- `price`
- `description`
- `images`
- `source`

The run summary is stored in the default key-value store under the `OUTPUT` key.

### Operation guide

The Apify Console form shows the union of all supported fields, but this actor
currently supports only one operation.

- `search`
  Required: `query`
  Optional: `page`, `includeRaw`

### Input

#### Search example

```json
{
  "operation": "search",
  "query": "panadol",
  "page": 0,
  "includeRaw": false
}
```

#### Another example

```json
{
  "operation": "search",
  "query": "vitamin c",
  "page": 0,
  "includeRaw": false
}
```

### Output

- Dataset: normalized product rows
- Key-value store `OUTPUT`: run summary with `source`, `operation`, `success`,
  `total`, `errors`, `proxy`, and `monetization`

### Notes

- `page` is zero-based.
- This actor is focused on search only in the current release.
- The actor is intended to run as a standalone Apify source and does not depend
  on the existing RapidAPI deployment.
- Default proxy strategy is `direct` with no custom proxies.
- The runtime is prepared for future pay-per-event monetization without changing
  the actor structure again.

# Actor input Schema

## `operation` (type: `string`):

Actor operation to execute. This actor currently supports only `search`.

## `query` (type: `string`):

Required for `search`. Search phrase.

## `page` (type: `integer`):

Optional for `search`. Zero-based search results page.

## `includeRaw` (type: `boolean`):

Optional for `search`. Include the unnormalized source payload in the OUTPUT summary.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "operation": "search",
  "query": "panadol",
  "page": 0,
  "includeRaw": false
}
```

# Actor output Schema

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

Normalized dataset items returned by the actor.

## `summary` (type: `string`):

Run summary JSON stored under the OUTPUT key.

# 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 = {};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("dromb/apify-wave1-actors").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 = {}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("dromb/apify-wave1-actors").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 '{}' |
apify call dromb/apify-wave1-actors --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,dromb/apify-wave1-actors"
        }
    }
}

```

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/EWSK0SScxzT9IgqhD/builds/gGFmgiR8rXOdcRddd/openapi.json