Continente API — Real-Time Portugal Grocery Data
Access Continente's Portuguese grocery catalog via the Pepesto API — live pricing in EUR and product details from continente.pt, returned as clean JSON. Continente is Portugal's market leader and its largest online grocery platform.
What Does the Continente API Return?
Everything visible and related to food, cooking, and recipes in the Continente 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 Continente Integration?
Developers who have tried to build their own Continente data pipeline know the obstacles. Unofficial workarounds exist, but they come with real costs.
Continente 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 Continente, 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 Continente 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 Continente Products in One Request
A single authenticated POST to /api/catalog returns
the all products available in Pepesto for Continente.
curl -X POST https://s.pepesto.com/api/catalog \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $PEPESTO_API_KEY" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{"supermarket_domain": "continente.pt"}'
{
"https://continente.pt/spaghetti/barilla-spaghettoni-nr-7-1kg/p/4934814e0251": {
"entity_name": "Spaghetti",
"kg_verified": true,
"names": {
"pt": "Barilla Esparguete Spaghettoni n.º 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 Continente API gives your product a live data layer on top of one of Portugal's leading grocery retailers.
Give your AI agent the ability to search Continente'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 Continente as ready-made tools.
Compare Continente prices against other Portugal 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 Continente cost — including any active promotional prices — before they shop.
Match recipe ingredients to real Continente 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 Continente supermarket products and power dietary-aware grocery lists with live pricing.
Monitor Continente's product range, pricing strategy, and promotional cadence at scale. Analyse SKU composition, spot price movements, and benchmark against competitors.
Coverage & Data Freshness
Covers continente.pt — Continente's Portuguese online grocery store. Pricing in EUR. Continente is operated by the Sonae group and is the market leader in Portuguese grocery.
Portugal — continente.pt. Pricing in EUR.
Daily. Promotional prices and weekly deals are included in every update cycle.
All products listed online at continente.pt — including active promotions and product details.
All product data and pricing is sourced from publicly listed pages on continente.pt. 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 28 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: "continente". 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 Continente API
Continente does not offer a public developer API. Pepesto provides a maintained API layer that normalises Continente's product catalog from continente.pt into consistent JSON, refreshed daily.
Pepesto returns a unified JSON schema across all supported chains. Each Continente product object includes name in Portuguese, price in EUR, promotional price where active, unit price, and quantity (e.g., kg).
Yes. Product names and categories are returned in Portuguese as displayed on continente.pt. All JSON field keys use English for consistent cross-chain programmatic access.
Data from continente.pt is refreshed daily, capturing current EUR prices and active promotional offers.
Yes. Continente is Portugal's largest online grocery platform with delivery and click-and-collect across the country. The integration covers products listed on continente.pt.
Buy Pepesto API credits, retrieve your key via the /link endpoint, then call /catalog with chain set to continente. Full endpoint reference is at the Pepesto API documentation.
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 Continente cart link — free, no API key required.
Everything visible and related to food, cooking, and recipes in the Continente 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 28 European grocery chains with a consistent JSON schema.