Asda API — Real-Time United Kingdom Grocery Data
Access Asda's UK grocery catalog via the Pepesto API — live pricing in GBP, promotional prices, and details from asda.com, returned as structured JSON.
What Does the Asda API Return?
Everything visible and related to food, cooking, and recipes in the Asda 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.
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Why Use an API Instead of Building Your Own Asda Integration?
Developers who have tried to build their own Asda data pipeline know the obstacles. Unofficial workarounds exist, but they come with real costs.
Asda 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 Asda, 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 Asda 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 Asda Products in One Request
A single authenticated POST to /api/catalog returns
the all products available in Pepesto for Asda.
curl -X POST https://s.pepesto.com/api/catalog \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $PEPESTO_API_KEY" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{"supermarket_domain": "asda.com"}'
{
"https://asda.com/spaghetti/barilla-spaghettoni-nr-7-1kg/p/4934814e0251": {
"entity_name": "Spaghetti",
"kg_verified": true,
"names": {
"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 Asda API gives your product a live data layer on top of one of United Kingdom's leading grocery retailers.
Give your AI agent the ability to search Asda's products, compare products, and place grocery orders — all programmatically via REST.
Compare Asda prices against other United Kingdom 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 Asda cost — including any active promotional prices — before they shop.
Match recipe ingredients to real Asda 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 Asda supermarket products and power dietary-aware grocery lists with live pricing.
Monitor Asda's product range, pricing strategy, and promotional cadence at scale. Analyse SKU composition, spot price movements, and benchmark against competitors.
Coverage & Data Freshness
Covers asda.com — Asda's UK online grocery store. Pricing in GBP. The integration covers products available via asda.com. Asda instore-only offers not listed online are excluded.
United Kingdom — asda.com. Pricing in GBP.
Daily. Promotional prices and weekly deals are included in every update cycle.
All products listed online at asda.com — including active promotions and product details.
All product data and pricing is sourced from publicly listed pages on asda.com. 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 27 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: "asda". 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 Asda API
Asda does not offer a public developer API. Pepesto provides a maintained, reliable API layer that normalises Asda's product catalog from asda.com into consistent JSON, refreshed daily.
Yes. Where a promotional price is active on a product, both the promotional price and the standard online price are returned as separate fields in the product object.
Pepesto returns a unified JSON schema across all 25+ supported chains. Each Asda product object includes name, current price in GBP, promotional price where active, unit price, and quantity (e.g., kg).
Data from asda.com is refreshed daily, capturing current online prices and active promotional prices.
Purchase Pepesto API credits, retrieve your key via the /link endpoint, then call /catalog with chain set to asda. Your first request can be running within minutes. Documentation is at pepesto.com/docs/grocery-shopping-api.
The Pepesto Asda integration covers asda.com — the UK online grocery store. Pricing is in GBP. Asda operates in England, Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland.
Everything visible and related to food, cooking, and recipes in the Asda 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 25+ European grocery chains with a consistent JSON schema.