# Waitrose UK Product, Price & Offers Scraper (`dromb/waitrose-uk-wave3`) Actor

Extract Waitrose UK product search, item details, prices, offers, ratings, reviews, images, ingredients, categories, and filters for price monitoring and retail research.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/dromb/waitrose-uk-wave3.md
- **Developed by:** [Dmitriy Gyrbu](https://apify.com/dromb) (community)
- **Categories:** Automation, Developer tools, E-commerce
- **Stats:** 1 total users, 0 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $0.30 / 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.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

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.
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".

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

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# README

## Waitrose UK Product Scraper (Unofficial)

Scrape Waitrose UK product search, categories, pricing, offers, and normalized item data.
Use this Waitrose UK scraper for price monitoring, retail research, assortment tracking, and ecommerce data workflows.

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

### Proxy behavior

Normal bounded runs use direct HTTP. A UK proxy is an optional fallback only if Waitrose starts blocking a particular network or run; no browser is required for the verified search and item paths.

### Supported operations

- `categories`
- `search_filters`
- `search`
- `category` (best effort; some navigation pages currently expose filters but no product rows)
- `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.

- `categories`
  Required: none
  Optional: none
- `search_filters`
  Required: none
  Optional: `query`, `categoryId`
- `search`
  Required: `query`
  Optional: `page`, `limit`, `sort`, `includeRaw`
- `category`
  Required: `categoryId` or `categoryUrl`
  Optional: `page`, `limit`, `sort`, `includeRaw`
- `item`
  Required: `productId` or `itemId` or `url`
  Optional: `includeRaw`

### Example inputs

These starter examples were validated locally against the live site.

```json
{
  "operation": "categories"
}
```

```json
{
  "operation": "search_filters",
  "query": "milk",
  "includeRaw": false
}
```

```json
{
  "operation": "search",
  "query": "milk",
  "page": 1,
  "limit": 20,
  "sort": "RELEVANCE",
  "includeRaw": false
}
```

```json
{
  "operation": "category",
  "categoryUrl": "https://www.waitrose.com/ecom/shop/browse/groceries/fresh_and_chilled/milk_butter_and_eggs/milk/semi_skimmed_milk",
  "page": 1,
  "limit": 20,
  "sort": "MOST_POPULAR",
  "includeRaw": false
}
```

```json
{
  "operation": "item",
  "url": "https://www.waitrose.com/ecom/products/essential-british-free-range-semi-skimmed-milk-4-pints/053457-26759-26760",
  "includeRaw": false
}
```

### Output

- Dataset: normalized products, categories, or explicit filter rows. Empty best-effort categories do not publish filter rows as products.
- Key-value store `OUTPUT`: run summary with `source`, `operation`, `success`, `total`, `errors`, `proxy`, and `monetization`

# Actor input Schema

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

Actor operation to execute. The Console form shows all possible fields at once, so use the README examples to see which fields are required for each operation.

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

Required for `search`. Optional for `search_filters` when you want keyword-specific filters.

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

Optional for `search` and `category`. One-based page index.

## `limit` (type: `integer`):

Optional for `search` and `category`. Maximum rows returned from the current page.

## `sort` (type: `string`):

Optional for `search` and `category`. Example values: `RELEVANCE`, `MOST_POPULAR`, `PRICE_ASC`, `PRICE_DESC`.

## `categoryId` (type: `string`):

Optional for `category` or `search_filters`. Waitrose category identifier.

## `categoryUrl` (type: `string`):

Optional for `category`. Full category URL alternative to `categoryId`.

## `productId` (type: `string`):

Optional for `item`. Accepts the ID emitted by `search`, a six-digit Waitrose line number, or a canonical product slug. Cross-run lookup resolves search-emitted IDs through a bounded fresh search.

## `itemId` (type: `string`):

Optional for `item`. Alias for `productId`; accepts IDs emitted by a previous independent `search` run.

## `url` (type: `string`):

Optional for `item` and `category`. For `item`, a canonical Waitrose product URL is authoritative when supplied, even if an ID field is also present.

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

Optional for any operation. Include the unnormalized source payload in the OUTPUT summary.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "operation": "search",
  "query": "milk",
  "page": 1,
  "limit": 10
}
```

# 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/waitrose-uk-wave3").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/waitrose-uk-wave3").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/waitrose-uk-wave3 --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,dromb/waitrose-uk-wave3"
        }
    }
}

```

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/1x5St27Xso0c1BI6z/builds/TjdXcRg1zxl4Isbsh/openapi.json