Screwfix UK Product & Store Scraper (Unofficial)

Scrape Screwfix UK products, categories, filters, and stores with normalized output for price monitoring, product research, market research, availability, offers, and retail workflows.

This is an unofficial actor and is not affiliated with Screwfix.

Proxy behavior

Screwfix currently works with direct HTTP, so normal runs do not require paid proxy traffic or a browser. Add a UK proxy only if cloud access starts getting blocked.

Ready-to-use tasks

• Power tools category — monitor products, promotions, discounts, availability, and review signals in one live category.
• Rich product details — return descriptions, technical specifications, videos, sustainability claims, stock, pricing, and reviews for a known SKU.
• Store directory — collect branch codes and URLs for store discovery workflows.
• Store details — enrich a branch with address, coordinates, opening hours, and collection availability.

Supported operations

• probe
• categories
• stores
• store
• search_filters
• search
• category
• item

Operation guide

The Apify Console form shows the union of all supported fields, so the visible inputs do not change when you switch operation. Use the guide below to know which fields are required.

• probe Required: none Optional: includeRaw

• categories Required: none Optional: includeRaw

• stores Required: none Optional: storeQuery, page, limit, includeRaw

• store Required: storeCode or storeSlug or storeUrl Optional: includeRaw

• search_filters Required: none Optional: query, categoryId, categorySlug, categoryUrl, includeRaw

• search Required: query Optional: page, limit, sort, includeRaw

• category Required: categoryId or categorySlug or categoryUrl Optional: page, limit, sort, includeRaw

• item Required: productId or productSlug or productUrl Optional: includeRaw

Example inputs

Empty input is supported and runs the Power Tools starter category cat830704. The examples below show explicit operation-specific calls.

{
  "operation": "categories",
  "includeRaw": false
}

{
  "operation": "search",
  "query": "spanner",
  "page": 1,
  "limit": 10,
  "sort": "relevance_desc",
  "includeRaw": false
}

{
  "operation": "category",
  "categoryId": "cat830704",
  "page": 1,
  "limit": 10,
  "sort": "top_sellers_desc",
  "includeRaw": false
}

{
  "operation": "item",
  "productId": "979HF",
  "includeRaw": false
}

{
  "operation": "stores",
  "storeQuery": "London",
  "page": 1,
  "limit": 24,
  "includeRaw": false
}

{
  "operation": "store",
  "storeCode": "TA4",
  "includeRaw": false
}

{
  "operation": "search_filters",
  "query": "spanner",
  "categoryId": "cat830704",
  "categorySlug": "c/tools/cat830704",
  "categoryUrl": "https://www.screwfix.com/c/tools/cat830704",
  "includeRaw": false
}

{
  "operation": "probe",
  "includeRaw": false
}

Output

• Dataset: normalized products, categories, stores, or structured filter rows depending on the operation
• Key-value store OUTPUT: run summary with source, operation, success, total, errors, proxy, and monetization

Limitations

• Search depends on the live Screwfix listing component. Category browsing is the stable alternate workflow if the search surface changes upstream.
• Store search is directory-based text matching (no geospatial nearest-store ranking)
• Review summary available on product detail, but individual review rows not extracted
• Category taxonomy is top-level from header navigation plus discovered filters (no full deep browse tree export)

AI / MCP / API contract

• Empty input runs a buyer-useful Power Tools category starter (cat830704).
• Dataset contains semantic result rows only: products, categories, stores, or structured filter rows.
• A true no-match search returns an exact empty Dataset ([]).
• search_filters can run without context; it uses the Power Tools starter category only when no query/category context is provided.
• OUTPUT contains status, counts, supported operations, errors, and an agent provenance envelope.
• Product rows expose stable IDs, names, brand/category context, GBP pricing, stock state, source URL, and rich technical fields where available.