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Tesco grocery data,
at warehouse scale.

We extract product listings, Clubcard pricing, nutritional macros, and category hierarchies from Tesco. Delivered as clean JSON, CSV, or Parquet to S3, BigQuery, or Snowflake on your schedule.

Products extracted
312K /day
Price updates
1.4M /24h
Nutritional records
280K /run
Active pipelines
142
Uptime
99.98%
Data Dictionary

Every field we extract from tesco.com

Structured, schema-consistent data across all major object types — delivered clean, typed, and ready to query.

Complete list of extractable fields for Product Listings objects from tesco.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

skutitlebrandcategorysub_categorypriceclubcard_priceunit_priceweightdescriptionimage_urlin_stockaverage_ratingreview_count
product_listings
● 200 OK
"sku": "254656543",
"title": "Tesco Finest Tomato and Basil Soup 600G",
"brand": "Tesco Finest",
"price": 2.75,
"clubcard_price": 2.25,
"unit_price": "0.46/100g",
"weight": "600g",
"in_stock": true,
"average_rating": 4.6
# skutitlebrandcategorysub_categoryprice
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Complete list of extractable fields for Nutritional Info objects from tesco.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

skuenergy_kcal_100genergy_kj_100gfat_100gsaturates_100gcarbohydrate_100gsugars_100gfibre_100gprotein_100gsalt_100gingredientsallergens
nutritional_info
● 200 OK
"sku": "254656543",
"energy_kcal_100g": 45,
"fat_100g": 1.2,
"saturates_100g": 0.3,
"carbohydrate_100g": 6.5,
"sugars_100g": 4.2,
"protein_100g": 1.1,
"salt_100g": 0.55
# skuenergy_kcal_100genergy_kj_100gfat_100gsaturates_100gcarbohydrate_100g
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Complete list of extractable fields for Offers and Pricing objects from tesco.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

skustandard_priceclubcard_pricepromotion_typepromotion_descriptionpromotion_valid_untilprice_per_unitcurrencyscraped_at
offers_and pricing
● 200 OK
"sku": "254656543",
"standard_price": 2.75,
"clubcard_price": 2.25,
"promotion_type": "CLUBCARD_PRICE",
"promotion_description": "Clubcard Price: 50p off",
"promotion_valid_until": "2026-06-15T23:59:59Z",
"price_per_unit": "0.46/100g",
"currency": "GBP"
# skustandard_priceclubcard_pricepromotion_typepromotion_descriptionpromotion_valid_until
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Complete list of extractable fields for Dietary and Lifestyle objects from tesco.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

skuis_veganis_vegetarianis_gluten_freeis_halalis_kosheris_organiclifestyle_tagsstorage_instructions
dietary_and lifestyle
● 200 OK
"sku": "254656543",
"is_vegan": true,
"is_vegetarian": true,
"is_gluten_free": true,
"is_halal": false,
"is_organic": false,
"lifestyle_tags": "['Suitable for Vegans', 'Gluten Free']",
"storage_instructions": "Keep refrigerated. Once opened consume within 2 days."
# skuis_veganis_vegetarianis_gluten_freeis_halalis_kosher
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Complete list of extractable fields for Search Results objects from tesco.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

keywordpositionskutitlepriceclubcard_pricesponsoredpromotedin_stockscraped_at
search_results
● 200 OK
"keyword": "tomato soup",
"position": 3,
"sku": "254656543",
"sponsored": false,
"price": 2.75,
"clubcard_price": 2.25,
"in_stock": true,
"scraped_at": "2026-05-12T10:15:22Z"
# keywordpositionskutitlepriceclubcard_price
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Capabilities

Extract grocery intelligence with precision

Our Tesco scraper handles the complexities of modern grocery platforms: dynamic React frontends, postal code session management, complex promotional mechanics, and deeply nested nutritional data.

Full Catalogue Extraction

Extract every product across all categories, aisles, and shelves. Capture titles, brands, weights, and high-resolution image URLs.

Clubcard Pricing Data

Capture both standard and Clubcard prices, alongside unit pricing metrics (e.g. price per 100g) to normalise comparisons.

Nutritional Macro Parsing

Extract structured nutritional tables including calories, fats, sugars, and protein, mapped to per 100g and per serving metrics.

Allergen and Dietary Flags

Parse ingredient lists to highlight allergens and capture explicit dietary tags like Vegan, Gluten-Free, and Organic.

Postcode-Specific Availability

Simulate user sessions for specific UK postal codes to track regional stock availability and localised pricing differences.

Complex Promotional Mechanics

Extract multi-buy logic (e.g. Any 3 for 5 pounds), valid-until dates, and seasonal promotional banners attached to SKUs.

Search Rank Tracking

Monitor organic versus sponsored placements for key FMCG search terms to evaluate brand visibility.

Stock and Inventory Signals

Track out-of-stock indicators and low-stock warnings to forecast supply chain issues and competitor availability.

Scheduled Diffs

Run pipelines daily or weekly, emitting only the records that changed since the last extraction to optimise downstream processing.

// engagement pipeline

From category tree to warehouse record

Brief in. Clean data out.

Define Scope
d 0

Provide target categories, search terms, or specific SKUs. We map the extraction schema to your business requirements.

Pipeline Build
d 2–4

We configure Playwright crawlers, proxy rotation, postcode session management, and rate-limit handling for tesco.com.

Validation & QA
d 4–6

Schema validation, null-rate checks, price anomaly detection, and sample nutritional tables before full production launch.

Delivery
ongoing

JSON, CSV, or Parquet pushed to your S3 bucket, BigQuery dataset, or Snowflake stage on your defined schedule.

Under the hood

Overcoming grocery platform complexities

Tesco employs modern web frameworks and stringent bot mitigation. Here is how we maintain reliable extraction pipelines.

pipeline-monitor · tesco.com · live ● active
// fingerprinting
Identity rotation
TLS fingerprintrandomised
User-agentrotated
IP poolresidential
Challenges blocked0
// pagination
Page coverage
48,291 pages queued running
// observability
Pipeline health
99.9%
uptime
142ms
p99 lat
0.3%
null rate
2
alerts
SPA Rendering
Full Playwright execution for React apps

Tesco relies heavily on client-side rendering. We run full Playwright browser sessions with JavaScript execution to hydrate product grids, nutritional modals, and dynamic pricing widgets that headless HTTP clients miss entirely.

Session Management
Postcode and store targeting

Grocery availability and pricing depend on the delivery location. We inject and maintain specific UK postal codes into the browser session state, ensuring the data reflects exactly what a local customer sees.

Promotional Parsing
Normalising complex offer logic

Grocery promotions are notoriously complex. We parse unstructured text like 'Buy 2 for 4.00' into structured JSON fields, separating the mechanics, the absolute discount, and the validity dates for immediate analysis.

Anti-bot layer
Residential UK proxies

To prevent IP bans and rate limiting, our crawlers use residential ISP proxies located within the UK. We rotate IPs per request while maintaining sticky sessions where required for postcode consistency.

Schema stability
Resilient DOM selectors

We utilise multiple fallback chains per field, including CSS selectors, XPath, and Next.js internal state extraction, ensuring a frontend layout change does not break your data pipeline.

Applications

Who uses Tesco data and how

Teams across industries use tesco.com data to build competitive products and smarter operations.

01
FMCG Competitor Benchmarking

Consumer packaged goods brands monitor competitor pricing, promotional frequency, and product positioning across the entire Tesco catalogue.

02
Inflation and Price Tracking

Economic analysts and retail researchers track basket prices over time to measure grocery inflation and evaluate the impact of Clubcard discounts.

03
Nutritional Analysis Apps

Health and diet platforms ingest macro and allergen data to power barcode scanning apps and dietary recommendation engines.

04
Market Share Analysis

Strategy teams analyse category shelf space, brand dominance, and search result positioning to estimate market penetration.

05
Supply Chain Forecasting

Procurement teams monitor out-of-stock signals across specific postcodes to identify regional supply chain constraints.

06
Dynamic Repricing

Challenger grocery brands and rapid delivery startups ingest Tesco pricing to automate their own repricing algorithms.

Why DataFlirt

"Tesco holds the definitive dataset for UK grocery pricing and nutritional indexing, but extracting it requires parsing complex promotional logic and dynamic frontend frameworks."

Most teams underestimate the investment required: reliable Tesco scraping requires residential proxies, full JavaScript rendering, postal code session management, daily selector maintenance, and anomaly monitoring. DataFlirt absorbs that complexity so your engineers can focus on the analysis, not the infrastructure.

Technical Spec

Tesco scraper technical specifications

Everything supported by our tesco.com scraper — rendered SPA elements, auth walls, rate-limit evasion and beyond.

JavaScript rendering
Full Playwright sessions required for dynamic product grids and pricing widgets
Supported
Clubcard pricing extraction
Separates standard price from loyalty card price automatically
Supported
Nutritional tables
Parses tabular macro data into structured key-value pairs
Supported
Postcode availability
Simulates user location to verify regional stock levels
Supported
Promotional mechanics
Extracts multi-buy offers and percentage discounts
Supported
Allergen flags
Identifies bolded allergens within ingredient lists
Supported
Category trees
Maps the full breadcrumb hierarchy for every SKU
Supported
User purchase history
Requires authenticated user credentials and violates privacy policies
Partial
Delivery slot booking
Transactional operations are strictly outside our extraction scope
Partial
Infrastructure

Infrastructure powering the Tesco pipeline

Open-source tooling on proven cloud infra — no vendor lock-in, full observability.

ScrapyPlaywrightPython 3.12RedisPostgreSQLApache AirflowAWS LambdaS3CloudWatch2CaptchaCapSolverResidential ProxiesDockerKubernetesGrafanaPrometheus
Scrapy and Playwright Stack

Scrapy orchestrates the crawl and manages deduplication. Playwright handles the React frontend, rendering the DOM and executing JavaScript to expose the underlying data.

UK Proxy Infrastructure

We utilise dedicated UK residential proxy pools to ensure consistent routing, preventing location-based redirects and mitigating IP reputation blocks.

Cloud-Native Orchestration

Pipelines run on AWS Lambda and ECS. Airflow handles scheduling, dependency management, and SLA alerting, with all state safely stored in managed PostgreSQL.

Output & Delivery

Your data, your destination

Data delivered to where your team already works — no new tooling required.

JSON
Newline-delimited or nested structures for complex nutritional data
CSV
Flat file with typed columns, perfect for immediate spreadsheet analysis
XLS
Formatted Excel exports for business intelligence teams
Parquet
Columnar format optimised for BigQuery, Snowflake, and Athena
AWS S3
Direct bucket delivery compatible with any modern data lake
Webhook
HTTP POST per record for real-time pricing alerts
API
REST endpoints to query your extracted datasets on demand
Snowflake
Stage and COPY INTO workflow for incremental data warehousing
S3
Direct bucket delivery — compatible with any data lake
// faq

Common questions.

About tesco.com scraping, legality, and pipeline operations.

Ask us directly →
Is scraping Tesco legal?

Scraping publicly available pricing, nutritional, and product data is generally permissible under UK law. DataFlirt targets only public, non-authenticated information. We do not extract personal user data or circumvent authentication walls. Clients should review Tesco terms of service and consult legal counsel for their specific use cases.

How do you handle Clubcard pricing?

Our extraction logic specifically targets the DOM elements associated with Clubcard promotional badges. We output both the standard price and the Clubcard price as distinct fields in the final schema, allowing you to calculate the absolute and percentage discount.

Can you scrape data for specific UK postcodes?

Yes. We can inject target postcodes into the session state before extraction begins. This is critical for capturing accurate regional stock availability and localised pricing variations.

How frequently can you update the catalogue?

We typically run full catalogue refreshes on a weekly basis, with high-priority categories or specific SKUs tracked daily or sub-daily to monitor rapid price fluctuations and stock changes.

Do you extract nutritional information per 100g or per serving?

We extract both formats if they are present on the product page. Our schema maps the raw nutritional tables into standard JSON objects, capturing energy, fat, carbohydrates, protein, and salt.

What happens when Tesco changes their website design?

Our pipelines use multi-layer fallback chains for DOM selectors. If a layout change breaks the primary selector, the pipeline automatically attempts secondary methods, including extracting internal Next.js state data. We monitor null rates continuously to fix schema drift before it impacts your delivery.

Can I request a sample dataset?

Yes. We provide a sample run of up to 500 SKUs or specific categories during the scoping phase. This allows your engineering team to validate the schema fit, field completeness, and overall data quality before committing.

$ dataflirt scope --new-project --source=tesco.com ready

Tell us what
to extract.
We do the rest.

20-minute scoping call. Pilot dataset within the week. Production within two. Whether you need a one-off nutritional database export or a continuous price-monitoring feed across the UK grocery sector, we scope, build, and operate the pipeline. Tell us your requirements.

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