Tesco UK API — Real-Time United Kingdom Grocery Data
Access Tesco UK's complete grocery catalog via the Pepesto API — live pricing in GBP, promotional prices, and details from tesco.com, returned as clean JSON.
What Does the Tesco UK API Return?
Everything visible and related to food, cooking, and recipes in the Tesco UK 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 Tesco UK Integration?
Developers who have tried to build their own Tesco UK data pipeline know the obstacles. Unofficial workarounds exist, but they come with real costs.
Tesco UK 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 Tesco UK, 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 Tesco UK 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 Tesco UK Products in One Request
A single authenticated POST to /api/catalog returns
the all products available in Pepesto for Tesco UK.
curl -X POST https://s.pepesto.com/api/catalog \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $PEPESTO_API_KEY" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{"supermarket_domain": "tesco.com"}'
{
"https://tesco.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 Tesco UK 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 Tesco UK's products, compare products, and place grocery orders — all programmatically via REST.
Compare Tesco UK 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 Tesco UK cost — including any active promotional prices — before they shop.
Match recipe ingredients to real Tesco UK 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 Tesco UK supermarket products and power dietary-aware grocery lists with live pricing.
Monitor Tesco UK's product range, pricing strategy, and promotional cadence at scale. Analyse SKU composition, spot price movements, and benchmark against competitors.
Coverage & Data Freshness
Covers tesco.com — Tesco's UK online grocery store serving England, Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland. This is the UK storefront only. Tesco Ireland (tesco.ie) is a separate integration with its own catalog and pricing.
United Kingdom — tesco.com. Pricing in GBP.
Daily. Promotional prices and weekly deals are included in every update cycle.
All products listed online at tesco.com — including active promotions and product details.
All product data and pricing is sourced from publicly listed pages on tesco.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: "tesco-gb". 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 Tesco UK API
Tesco does not offer a public developer API. Pepesto provides a maintained, reliable API layer that normalises Tesco UK's product catalog from tesco.com into consistent JSON, updated daily.
Yes. Promotional prices and multi-buy deals listed on tesco.com are captured in each daily refresh and returned alongside the standard price.
Tesco UK (tesco.com) and Tesco Ireland (tesco.ie) are entirely separate storefronts with different product catalogs, pricing in GBP vs EUR, and different promotional calendars. Pepesto provides separate integrations for each. Use chain tesco-gb for the UK and tesco-ie for Ireland.
Pepesto returns a unified JSON schema across all 25+ supported chains. Each Tesco UK product includes name, price in GBP, unit price.
Data from tesco.com is refreshed daily, capturing current prices and active promotional deals.
Buy Pepesto API credits, retrieve your key via /link, then query /catalog with chain set to tesco-gb. Full endpoint reference is at pepesto.com/docs/grocery-shopping-api.
Everything visible and related to food, cooking, and recipes in the Tesco UK 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.