Albert Heijn Belgium API — Real-Time Belgium Grocery Data
Access Albert Heijn Belgium's grocery catalog via the Pepesto API — live pricing in EUR and details from ah.be, returned as structured JSON.
What Does the Albert Heijn Belgium API Return?
Everything visible and related to food, cooking, and recipes in the Albert Heijn Belgium mobile web application, returned as clean JSON via a single REST call. The indexed product list typically contains 1,000–2,000 SKUs, focused on the most common ingredients used for cooking.
Why Use an API Instead of Building Your Own Albert Heijn Belgium Integration?
Developers who have tried to build their own Albert Heijn Belgium data pipeline know the obstacles. Unofficial workarounds exist, but they come with real costs.
Albert Heijn Belgium updates their website regularly — changing markup, adding rate limiting, or restructuring categories. Pepesto absorbs all of that. Your integration keeps working.
The same JSON field names work whether you're calling Albert Heijn Belgium, Jumbo, Tesco, or any other supported chain. One integration for all of Europe.
Calling a REST API takes hours. Building, maintaining, and scaling your own Albert Heijn Belgium data extraction takes months — and requires ongoing engineering resources.
DIY data extraction is fragile: a single layout change can silently break your pipeline. Pepesto monitors and updates integrations continuously so you don't have to.
Fetch Albert Heijn Belgium Products in One Request
A single authenticated POST to /api/catalog returns
the all products available in Pepesto for Albert Heijn Belgium.
curl -X POST https://s.pepesto.com/api/catalog \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $PEPESTO_API_KEY" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{"supermarket_domain": "ah.be"}'
{
"https://ah.be/spaghetti/barilla-spaghettoni-nr-7-1kg/p/4934814e0251": {
"entity_name": "Spaghetti",
"kg_verified": true,
"names": {
"nl": "Barilla Spaghettoni nr. 7 1kg",
"en": "Barilla Spaghettoni No. 7 1kg"
},
"price": 340,
"currency": "EUR",
"price_per_meausure_unit": "0.34 / 100g",
"quantity_str": "1kg",
"quantity": {
"Unit": {
"HundredGrams": 10
},
"accurate_grams": 1000
}
}
}What Can You Build?
The Albert Heijn Belgium API gives your product a live data layer on top of one of Belgium's leading grocery retailers.
Give your AI agent the ability to search Albert Heijn Belgium's products, compare products, and place grocery orders — all programmatically via REST. Prefer tool-native? Drop in the grocery shopping MCP server → and your agent gets Albert Heijn Belgium as ready-made tools.
Compare Albert Heijn Belgium prices against other Belgium retailers in real time. Flag promotions, track price history, and surface the best deal per product.
Let users build a weekly shopping list and see the exact Albert Heijn Belgium cost — including any active promotional prices — before they shop.
Match recipe ingredients to real Albert Heijn Belgium products and show the true cost of cooking from a given menu. Drive grocery orders directly from your meal planner.
Bridge meal planning and shopping: match recipe ingredients to real Albert Heijn Belgium supermarket products and power dietary-aware grocery lists with live pricing.
Monitor Albert Heijn Belgium's product range, pricing strategy, and promotional cadence at scale. Analyse SKU composition, spot price movements, and benchmark against competitors.
Coverage & Data Freshness
Covers ah.be — Albert Heijn's Belgian online grocery store. Pricing in EUR. Albert Heijn operates a dedicated Belgian storefront (ah.be) with its own assortment and pricing, distinct from the Dutch store (ah.nl). This integration covers ah.be.
Belgium — ah.be. Pricing in EUR.
Daily. Promotional prices and weekly deals are included in every update cycle.
All products listed online at ah.be — including active promotions and product details.
All product data and pricing is sourced from publicly listed pages on ah.be. Pepesto does not access retailer-gated pricing or any data not visible to a regular visitor. Products shown at a lower price due to a promotion or budget-tier range are included because they appear publicly on the site — not through any special retailer agreement.
How to get started
Three steps. No approval process. Your first call can be running within minutes.
Start pay-as-you-go — all 26 chains included, no per-chain pricing. Move to a monthly plan when you grow. See pricing →
After purchase, call /link with your email — your API
key is returned immediately. No waiting, no approval form, no account
setup.
Make your first call to /api/catalog with
chain: "albert-heijn-be". Full endpoint reference and example
responses are in the API reference.
Purchase via Stripe, then call /link with your email — your
key is returned immediately.
Frequently Asked Questions about the Albert Heijn Belgium API
Albert Heijn does not offer a public developer API. Pepesto provides a maintained API layer that normalises Albert Heijn Belgium's product catalog from ah.be into consistent JSON, updated daily.
Yes. ah.be (Belgium) and ah.nl (Netherlands) are separate storefronts with different assortments and pricing. This integration covers ah.be — the Belgian store. The Dutch Albert Heijn store is covered separately.
Product names are returned as displayed on ah.be, primarily in Dutch. All JSON field keys use English for consistent cross-chain programmatic access.
Pepesto returns a unified JSON schema across all 26 live chains. Each product includes name, price in EUR, unit price, and quantity (e.g., kg).
Data from ah.be is refreshed daily, capturing current online prices and weekly promotions.
Purchase Pepesto API credits, retrieve your key via /link, then call /catalog with chain set to albert-heijn-be. Full endpoint reference is at pepesto.com/docs/grocery-shopping-api.
No. The API on this page is for developers and businesses. If you simply want to shop, connect Pepesto's hosted Agent to Cart MCP to your AI assistant and get a one-tap Albert Heijn Belgium cart link — free, no API key required.
Everything visible and related to food, cooking, and recipes in the Albert Heijn Belgium mobile web application, returned as clean JSON via a single REST call. The indexed product list typically contains 1,000–2,000 SKUs, focused on the most common ingredients used for cooking.
The standard catalog is indexed daily — product prices and product details are refreshed every 24 hours. If your use case requires more frequent updates or push notifications on price changes, get in touch and we can discuss what's possible.
Other Supermarkets Available on Pepesto
One API key gives you access to 26 European grocery chains with a consistent JSON schema.