Real-Time Grocery Data Scraping and APIs by Actowiz Solutions

Challenge

The client—a fast-growing retail intelligence firm—was struggling with:

• Fragmented and inconsistent product data across grocery platforms.
• Delayed insights from legacy data providers, making decision-making reactive rather than proactive.
• No easy access to real-time API for aggregating prices, stock availability, and store-specific product listings.
• Need for location-wise comparisons (e.g., same SKU priced differently in Delhi vs Mumbai).
• Extracting nutritional labels and ingredient lists for 100K+ grocery SKUs.

To stay competitive, they needed:

A real-time, scalable grocery data API

Coverage of top Indian platforms: Blinkit, BigBasket, Zepto, Amazon

Store-level and pin code-level granularity

Batch and on-demand access for flexible integration

Full data compliance, reliability, and freshness

Actowiz Solutions’ Approach

Actowiz Solutions designed a comprehensive grocery data scraping solution with real-time and batch API support tailored to the client’s need for deep SKU-level intelligence.

✅ Platforms Covered:

Blinkit

BigBasket

Zepto

Amazon Fresh (India)

JioMart (Beta)

✅ Key Capabilities:

• 1. Product Details API

Fetch SKU names, images, brand, size, category, and packaging type.

• 2. Real-Time Pricing API

Return current price, discount, MRP, and price drop history.

• 3. Stock & Availability API

Indicates “in-stock”, “out-of-stock”, and delivery ETA per location.

• 4. Nutrition & Ingredient API

Parsed nutrition labels (e.g., calories, protein, sugar) and full ingredient lists.

• 5. Store-wise and Pin Code Comparison API

Enables competitive analysis by comparing the same SKU across:

• Different platforms (Blinkit vs BigBasket)
• Different stores (within Blinkit or Zepto)
• Different pin codes or cities (Mumbai vs Delhi)
• 6. Batch Download & Daily Snapshot

For large-scale offline analysis via CSV/JSON endpoints.

• 7. Monitoring Dashboard
• Visual UI for pricing trends, price alerts, and availability shifts.
• Filters by city, brand, category, or SKU.

Data Update Frequency:

• Real-Time API: < 5 minutes latency
• Batch Mode: Daily / Hourly options available
• Delta-only sync available to reduce payload

API Response Format:

• REST API (JSON)
• Webhooks for price drop notifications
• CSV/Excel on demand for bulk analysts

Results

In just 6 weeks, the client gained deep visibility into India’s online grocery pricing landscape.

Key Outcomes:

• Enabled competitive pricing analysis for 25 FMCG clients.
• Launched a dashboard showing daily grocery inflation across cities.
• Deployed custom alerts when price drops occurred for key SKUs.

Sample Data Extracted

1. Product Listing Snapshot

2. Location-Wise Price Comparison

3. Nutrition & Ingredients (Zepto)

Product: Tropicana Orange Juice

Calories: 47 kcal/100ml

Sugar: 10.5g

Ingredients: Water, Orange Juice Concentrate, Sugar, Acidity Regulator, Antioxidant

Takeaways

Actowiz Solutions proved to be a game-changer by delivering real-time grocery scraping APIs with unmatched granularity and speed. Here are key takeaways from this implementation:

API-First Design:

Clients gained direct control over data ingestion and display.

Platform Agnostic:

Support for multiple Indian grocery platforms with consistent JSON output.

Location-Based Intelligence:

Ability to compare prices and availability across pin codes and cities.

Nutrition Intelligence:

Helping health-focused brands track competitor ingredient disclosures.

Scalability & Customization:

Actowiz handled over 1 million API calls/month with 99.99% uptime.

Ongoing Support & Expansion

• Global Expansion: The same grocery API model is being extended to UAE (Carrefour, Lulu), Singapore (FairPrice, RedMart), and the UK (Tesco, ASDA).
• AI-Based Enhancements: Integration of AI models for price prediction, discount detection, and restock forecasting.
• Brand Tracking: FMCG brands now get weekly reports on how their products are priced and positioned across marketplaces.