Smacient built a scraper that flags sponsored listings on Blinkit

Blinkit has no public API. If you sell groceries or FMCG products there, the only way to check your pricing, stock, or how you rank against competitors used to be opening the app and searching manually, location by location.

That does not scale, so Smacient built the Blinkit Data Extractor, an Apify actor that searches Blinkit the same way a customer would: give it a product query and a delivery address, and it returns every matching product, ranked exactly as Blinkit serves them.

Try it here: apify.com/smacient/blinkit-data-extractor

The part worth mentioning: every result comes back with an is_ad field, so you can tell which listings are paid placements versus organic ranking. Pair that with merchant_id and merchant_type, and you can see exactly which store is fulfilling a sponsored slot, not just which brand is buying it.

Beyond that, each product includes brand, unit, price, MRP, discount, stock status, inventory count, rating, review count, full category hierarchy, delivery ETA in minutes, image URLs, a deeplink straight into the app, and group_id, which links size variants of the same product together.

Input is three fields: query, delivery address, and max results (12 to 500). Run it, export as JSON, CSV, or Excel.

It has been live on Apify since April, priced from $3.50 per 1,000 results, currently sitting around 40 users. Most usage so far is price monitoring and competitive research from D2C brands and agencies tracking clients across cities.

Next up is adding scheduled sponsored-placement alerts, so instead of pulling data and checking manually, users get pinged the moment a competitor starts bidding on their core keywords.