How to scrape Costco

Costco is a national membership warehouse club that provides a wide variety of merchandise, including food, electronics, furniture, and clothing. Costco has been in business since 1983 and has over 700 locations across the United States. Costco is known for its low prices and its large selection of merchandise.

Data scraping from Costco can be beneficial for a ton of purposes such as:

👉 Collecting pricing and product information for market research

👉 Monitoring competitors’ pricing and inventory levels

👉 Keeping track of sales on specific products

👉 Analyzing consumer and purchasing trends

👉 Automating the process of tracking prices for personal use and many more. 

In this tutorial, we will show you how to use Hexomatic to automate the scraping of Costco so that you can save time and relieve yourself of manual data collection.

We will cover: 

#1 How to scrape Costco product listings

#2 How to scrape Costco single product data

To get started, you need to have a Hexomatic.com account.

#1 How to scrape Costco product listings

First, let’s go over the process of scraping any product category data from Costco including the product names and product URLs.

With our ready-made scraping recipe template, you need to perform a few simple steps to get entire product listings in your Google Sheets or CSV file. 

Step 1: Go to the Public Recipe Library

From your dashboard, select Recipe Library to access the public scraping recipes. 

Step 2: Capture the desired category page URL(s)

Go to https://www.costco.com/  and capture the desired product category page URL(s).

For example, we are going to capture the “Health” category listings. 

Step 3: Select the “Costco listings page” recipe via data input

From the Recipe library, select the “Costco listings page” recipe and choose the “Use with data input” option. 

Step 4: Add the captured URL(s)

Next, add the previously captured category page URL(s). You can add a single URL or bulk URLs.

Step 5: Add the “Costco listings page” recipe to the workflow

From the Public Scraping Recipes list, add the “Costco listings page” recipe to your workflow, selecting data input as the source. 

Then, click Continue.

Step 6: Run the workflow

You can run the workflow by clicking “Run now”.

Step 7: View and Save the results

Once the workflow has finished running, you can view the results and export them to CSV or Google Sheets.

#2 How to scrape Costco single product data

Now that we know how to scrape any product category from Costco, let’s see how to automatically scrape any single product data from Costco using our 2nd Costco public scraping recipe template.

Step 1: Go to the Public Recipe Library

From your dashboard, select Recipe Library to access the public scraping recipes. 

Step 2: Capture the desired page URL(s)

Go to https://www.costco.com/  and capture the desired single product page URL(s).

For example,

Step 3: Add the “Costco single product page” recipe via data input

From the Recipe Library, select the “Costco single product page” recipe and choose the “Use with data input” option.

Step 4: Add the captured page URLs

Once the workflow is created, add the previously captured page URL(s). You can add a single URL or bulk URLs.

Step 5: Add the “Costco single product page” recipe to the workflow

Next, add the “Costco single product page” recipe to your workflow, selecting data input as the source. 

Step 6: Run the workflow

You can run the workflow by clicking “Run now”.

Step 7: View and save the results

Once the workflow has finished running, you can view the results and export them to CSV or Google Sheets. 

As you can see, it took us a few minutes to get a complete data sheet with product listings and detailed product data. 

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