Cdiscount Price Tracker

Track product prices, ratings, availability, and deals on Cdiscount (France's largest e-commerce platform) with automated browser scraping. Works without proxy using advanced anti-detection techniques.

Features

• French Marketplace Focus: Optimized for Cdiscount.fr with support for Belgian, German, Italian, and Spanish marketplace sellers
• Multi-URL Tracking: Track unlimited product URLs in a single run
• Keyword Search Mode: Search Cdiscount by keyword and extract top results with prices
• Smart Price Parser: Handles French price format (29,99 €) with non-breaking spaces
• Discount Detection: Automatically detects and calculates discount percentages
• Rating & Reviews: Star rating and review count extraction
• Seller Information: Extract seller name from product pages
• Stock Monitoring: Availability status on every product
• Anti-Detection: Random delays, user-agent rotation, stealth scripts, navigator overrides
• Price Alerts: Check if price drops below threshold with webhook notifications
• Price History: Store price data points in KV store for trend tracking

Use Cases

• Price comparison across Cdiscount marketplace sellers
• Deal hunting — find the lowest price for any product
• Competitive intelligence — monitor competitor pricing on Cdiscount
• Price history tracking — run periodically to build price datasets
• Price alerts — get notified when a product drops below your target price
• Stock alerts — monitor availability across marketplace sellers

Input

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
productUrls	string[]	Yes*	Cdiscount product page URLs to track
searchKeywords	string[]	Yes*	Keywords to search for on Cdiscount
maxResults	number	No	Max results per keyword (default: 10, max: 50)
marketplaces	string[]	No	Marketplaces: FR, BE, DE, IT, ES (default: FR)
maxConcurrency	number	No	Concurrent browsers (default: 2)
delayMin	number	No	Min delay ms between requests (default: 2000)
delayMax	number	No	Max delay ms between requests (default: 5000)
priceAlerts	string	No	JSON array of alert rules
webhookUrl	string	No	Webhook URL for price alert notifications

*at least one of productUrls or searchKeywords required

Price Alerts Format

[
  {
    "email": "user@example.com",
    "maxPrice": 50.00,
    "productUrl": "https://www.cdiscount.com/...",
    "keywords": ["iphone", "samsung"]
  }
]

Output

Each result includes:

{
  "productId": "iphone-15-pro-128go",
  "name": "Apple iPhone 15 Pro 128 Go - Titane Noir",
  "marketplace": "FR",
  "price": 1099.00,
  "currency": "EUR",
  "originalPrice": 1229.00,
  "discountPercentage": 10.6,
  "rating": 4.5,
  "reviewCount": 1234,
  "seller": "Amazon Marketplace",
  "inStock": true,
  "availability": "En stock",
  "url": "https://www.cdiscount.com/le-monde/iphone-15-pro.html",
  "imageUrl": "https://img.cdiscount.com/...",
  "scrapedAt": "2025-01-15T10:30:00.000Z"
}

Anti-Detection Measures

This actor is designed to work without proxy by implementing:

1. Random delays between requests (2-5 seconds by default)
2. User-agent rotation across 8 different browser profiles
3. Navigator overrides to hide webdriver detection
4. Plugin and language faking to appear as a real browser
5. Chrome runtime object injection to bypass fingerprinting
6. French language preference for realistic Cdiscount browsing

Setup

# Install dependencies
npm install

# Run locally (requires Apify account)
npm start

# Run tests
npm test

Docker

docker build -t cdiscount-price-tracker .
docker run -e APIFY_TOKEN=your_token cdiscount-price-tracker

💰 Pricing

Pay-per-use, no monthly fees:

	Price
Actor start	$0.01
Per result	$0.01

💡 Example: A run returning 500 results costs $5.01 total ($0.01 start + 500 × $0.01).

Notes

• Works without proxy thanks to anti-detection measures
• Respects rate limits with configurable delays (default 2-5s)
• Supports both direct URL tracking and keyword search discovery
• Results are stored in Apify Dataset — export as JSON, CSV, or Excel
• Price history is stored in KV store for trend tracking

Keywords

Cdiscount, price tracker, France, e-commerce, price comparison, deals, Cdiscount.fr, marketplace, shopping, deal finder, price alert, French marketplace, product tracker, price monitor