Ocado API — Real-Time United Kingdom Grocery Data
Access Ocado's UK grocery catalog via the Pepesto API — live pricing in GBP, promotional prices, and product details from ocado.com, returned as structured JSON. Ocado is the UK's leading pure-play online supermarket.
What Does the Ocado API Return?
Everything visible and related to food, cooking, and recipes in the Ocado mobile web application, returned as clean JSON via a single REST call. The indexed product list typically contains about 4,000 SKUs, focused on the most common ingredients used for cooking.
Why Use an API Instead of Building Your Own Ocado Integration?
Developers who have tried to build their own Ocado data pipeline know the obstacles. Unofficial workarounds exist, but they come with real costs.
Ocado 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 Ocado, 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 Ocado 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 Ocado Products in One Request
A single authenticated POST to /api/catalog returns
the all products available in Pepesto for Ocado.
curl -X POST https://s.pepesto.com/api/catalog \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $PEPESTO_API_KEY" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{"supermarket_domain": "ocado.com"}'
{
"https://ocado.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": "GBP",
"price_per_meausure_unit": "0.34 / 100g",
"quantity_str": "1kg",
"quantity": {
"Unit": {
"HundredGrams": 10
},
"accurate_grams": 1000
}
}
}What Can You Build?
The Ocado 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 Ocado'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 Ocado as ready-made tools.
Compare Ocado 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 Ocado cost — including any active promotional prices — before they shop.
Match recipe ingredients to real Ocado 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 Ocado supermarket products and power dietary-aware grocery lists with live pricing.
Monitor Ocado's product range, pricing strategy, and promotional cadence at scale. Analyse SKU composition, spot price movements, and benchmark against competitors.
Coverage & Data Freshness
Covers ocado.com — Ocado's UK online grocery platform. Pricing in GBP. Ocado is exclusively online with no physical supermarkets. Delivery coverage is across most of England, Scotland, and Wales.
United Kingdom — ocado.com. Pricing in GBP.
Daily. Promotional prices and weekly deals are included in every update cycle.
All products listed online at ocado.com — including active promotions and product details.
All product data and pricing is sourced from publicly listed pages on ocado.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 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: "ocado". 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 Ocado API
Ocado does not offer a public developer API for product data or pricing. Pepesto provides a maintained API layer that normalises Ocado's product catalog from ocado.com into consistent JSON, refreshed daily.
Pepesto returns a unified JSON schema across all supported chains. Each Ocado product object includes name, price in GBP, promotional price where active, unit price, and quantity (e.g., kg).
Data from ocado.com is refreshed daily, capturing current online prices and active promotional offers.
Pepesto covers all five major UK supermarkets - Tesco, Sainsbury's, Asda, Waitrose, and Morrisons — plus Ocado. Ocado is a distinct, pure-play online retailer with no physical stores, a different product mix, and premium positioning.
Buy Pepesto API credits, retrieve your key via the /link endpoint, then call /catalog with chain set to ocado. Full endpoint reference is at the Pepesto API documentation.
Ocado's online delivery covers most of England, Scotland, and Wales. Northern Ireland is not currently served by Ocado. The integration covers all products listed on ocado.com.
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 Ocado cart link — free, no API key required.
Everything visible and related to food, cooking, and recipes in the Ocado mobile web application, returned as clean JSON via a single REST call. The indexed product list typically contains about 4,000 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.