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Price Drop Tracker - Monitor Any E-commerce Product

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Price Drop Tracker - Monitor Any E-commerce Product

Price Drop Tracker - Monitor Any E-commerce Product

Actor for scraping data from a single web page. The URL of the web page is passed in via input, defined by the input schema. It uses the Axios client to get the HTML of the page & the Cheerio library to parse the data from it. The data are then stored in a dataset where you can easily access them.

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Track prices on Amazon, Shopify, eBay, Walmart, Target, Etsy & more. Get alerts when prices drop below your threshold. Monitor stock availability. Schedule daily runs to never miss a deal.


Quick Start

Test with Demo Mode (free, no API key needed)

{
"demoMode": true,
"productUrls": [
"https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09V3KXJPB",
"https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BDHWDR12"
]
}

Run with real data

{
"demoMode": false,
"productUrls": [
"https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09V3KXJPB",
"https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BDHWDR12"
],
"historyDatasetName": "price-history",
"alertOnPriceChange": true,
"priceDropThreshold": 5,
"priceIncreaseThreshold": 10,
"alertOnStockChange": true,
"maxConcurrency": 5
}

Input Parameters

ParameterTypeDefaultRequiredDescription
productUrlsarray-Yes*List of product page URLs to monitor (Amazon, Shopify, WooCommerce, eBay, Walmart, Target, Etsy, or any e-commerce site)
historyDatasetNamestring"price-history"NoName of the dataset to store price history (enables tracking across runs)
alertOnPriceChangebooleantrueNoSend alerts when price changes exceed thresholds
priceDropThresholdinteger5NoAlert when price drops by this percentage or more
priceIncreaseThresholdinteger10NoAlert when price increases by this percentage or more
alertOnStockChangebooleantrueNoSend alerts when product goes in/out of stock
webhookUrlstring-NoURL to receive alert notifications (POST request with alert data)
maxConcurrencyinteger5NoMaximum number of pages to process simultaneously
demoModebooleantrueNoRun with sample data (no actual scraping) for testing

Troubleshooting

"API error 429" or "Rate limit"

Too many requests. Wait a minute and try again, or reduce the number of items per run.

No results or empty dataset

Check the run log for error messages. Common causes:

  • Invalid input format (check the examples above)
  • The target data doesn't exist or is too small to track

How do I test without an API key?

Enable Demo Mode in the input. This returns realistic sample data so you can verify the output format works for your workflow.


Built by John Rippy | Actor Arsenal