Shopify Best Sellers Tracker | New Products, Prices, $3/1K

What is Shopify Best Sellers Tracker?

Track Shopify stores' best sellers, new products, price changes, stock-outs and restocks since your last run for $3.00 per 1,000 rows, no login.

For brands, resellers and agencies watching competitor stores. Each store checked costs $0.015 and includes a catalogue summary, with no platform usage billed on top. Your first run with the example input costs about $0.034 (11 rows in our test run).

Watch	Shopify store domains or any URL on the store
Row types	Store summary, best-seller, new product, price change, stock-out, restock
Output	34 fields per row; JSON, CSV, Excel, API
Automate	Schedules, webhooks, Zapier, Make, n8n, Google Sheets, MCP for AI agents
Price	$3.00 per 1,000 rows ($2.10 per 1,000 rows on paid Apify plans)
Free to try	Runs on Apify's free plan: the $5 monthly credit covers about 1,600 rows (plus $0.015 per store checked)
Login needed	No

Why Shopify Best Sellers Tracker users pick this one

• All signals in one run. Best sellers, new products, price moves, stock-outs and restocks.
• Price moves in detail. Old and new price, direction, percent and every variant that moved.
• The store's own order. Best sellers ranked as the store shows them, source named.
• Cheaper per row. $3.00 per 1,000 rows, cheaper than the leading tools.
• Polite and resilient. Respects robots.txt; a rate-limited store keeps what was read.

Get started in 3 steps

1. Paste your competitors' Shopify store URLs into 'Competitor store URLs' (e.g. warmlydecor.com).
2. Optionally change how many best-sellers to return per store, or give the watch list a change-tracking name.
3. Click Start, then schedule it daily; each run reports what changed since the last one. Download JSON, CSV or Excel, or send rows to Google Sheets, Zapier, Make or n8n.

▶ Try it with the example input

The form opens with an example input already filled in: that run costs about $0.034 on the free plan.

How much does it cost to scrape Shopify best sellers?

Pay per event: you pay only for what the run returns, plus a small start fee. Bronze, Silver, Gold and higher Apify plans pay less per result.

Rows	Free plan	Paid plans (Bronze, Silver, Gold)
100	$0.30	$0.21
1,000	$3.00	$2.10
10,000	$30.00	$21.00

Totals include the $0.0005 start fee per run, rounded to the cent. Apify's free plan includes $5 of credit a month, enough for about 1,600 rows (plus $0.015 per store checked).

Each store read is charged once, as its store summary row ($0.015 per store checked on every plan), for catalogues up to 25,000 products. Best-seller, new product, price change, stock-out and restock rows are charged at the spy-result price per row. Skipped stores return no rows and cost nothing beyond the start fee.

Billing events

Event	Free plan	Paid plans (Bronze, Silver, Gold)
spy-result	$3.00 per 1,000 rows	$2.10 per 1,000 rows
store-summary	$0.015 per store checked	$0.015 per store checked
apify-actor-start	$0.0005 per run	$0.0005 per run

Benchmarks: how we compare

Test	Rows returned	Run time	Notes
Prefilled form: notebooktherapy.com, 10 best-sellers, 250 products	11 (1 summary + 10 best-sellers)	not recorded	-
3 small stores (1,281 products in all), first run	43 (3 summaries + 40 best-sellers)	4.0 s	best-sellers found on 2 of 3 stores; the third has no public best-seller list
Same 3 stores, run again	43	4.1 s	0 change rows repeated
4 stores, first run, new products from the last 30 days	82 (4 summaries, 60 best-sellers, 18 new products)	7.4 s	-
Same 4 stores, run again	64 (4 summaries + 60 best-sellers)	8.7 s	0 change rows repeated
Store at the 25,000-product limit, first run	3 (summary + 2 new products)	406 s	summary marked partial, cap named
Same store, run again	1 (summary)	432 s	peak memory 129-137 MB of 256 MB on this store
4 bad inputs: 2 non-Shopify sites, a domain that does not exist, text that is not a URL	0	8.7 s	each named in the run status; run succeeded
Field check: 10 random best-seller rows against the store's own product file	10 of 10 matched	-	title, vendor, type, price range, stock flag
Best-seller order against the store's own collection page	3 of 3 stores matched	-	-

Each row is one run on the Apify cloud at 256 MB of memory, no proxy. Run time is the platform's run time, start-up included. The whole catalogue is read on every run, so run time grows with catalogue size, not with the number of rows returned. The field and order checks compared our rows with each store's public product files and collection pages.

What data you get

Shopify Best Sellers Tracker compares each competitor Shopify store with your previous run and returns only what changed: new products, price changes with old and new price, stock-outs and restocks. It also returns the store's best-sellers in the store's own order and a catalogue summary (product count, price range and median, top vendors and product types). Paste store domains and schedule it daily; it reads only the public product feed and checks each store's robots.txt first.

• store_summary row per store: catalogue (product_count, variant_count, in/out of stock, on sale, price_low, price_high, price_median, top_vendors, top_product_types, newest_published_at), changes (counts), best_sellers_source, first_run, partial, note
• best_seller rows: rank, product id, title, vendor, type, price range, compare-at price, in-stock flag, product URL, image
• new_product rows: products added since your previous run (first run: created in the last 7 days)
• price_change rows: previous_price_min/max, price_min/max now, price_direction (up/down/mixed), price_change_pct, variant_changes with old and new price per variant
• stock_out and restock rows: products that sold out completely or came back in stock
• Every row: store domain, name and currency, created and published dates in ISO 8601 UTC, first_seen_at, source_url, scraped_at

record_type	store_domain	rank	title	price_min	currency	available	best_sellers_source
store_summary	warmlydecor.com				USD		store's own Best Sellers collection: best-sellers
best_seller	warmlydecor.com	1	Motion Sensor LED Night Lights	10.95	USD	True	store's own Best Sellers collection: best-sellers
best_seller	warmlydecor.com	2	Brien - Solar Lawn Lights	64.95	USD	True	store's own Best Sellers collection: best-sellers
best_seller	notebooktherapy.com	1	Tsuki Bullet Journal Stencil Set ☾	34.08	USD	True	store's own Best Sellers collection: best-sellers

One full row record, exactly as a real run returned it (long text and lists shortened here). From a real run:

{
  "record_type": "best_seller",
  "store_domain": "notebooktherapy.com",
  "store_name": "NotebookTherapy",
  "store_url": "https://notebooktherapy.com",
  "currency": "USD",
  "rank": 3,
  "product_key": "notebooktherapy.com:15474992775537",
  "product_id": 15474992775537,
  "title": "Tsuki ‘Matcha Bloom’ Travel Notebook Gift Set ☾",
  "handle": "tsuki-matcha-bloom-travel-notebook-gift-set",
  "vendor": "NotebookTherapy",
  "product_type": "Gift Sets",
  "product_url": "https://notebooktherapy.com/products/tsuki-matcha-bloom-travel-notebook-gift-set",
  "image_url": "https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/2026/1775/files/01-matcha_bloom_set-carousel-2000.jpg?v=1774956451",
  "price_min": 74.78,
  "price_max": 82.13,
  "compare_at_price_max": 92.36,
  "available": true,
  "created_at": "2026-03-20T16:46:46Z",
  "published_at": "2026-03-31T12:02:35Z",
  "first_seen_at": "2026-11-04T04:50:32Z",
  "previous_price_min": null,
  "previous_price_max": null,
  "price_direction": null,
  "price_change_pct": null,
  "variant_changes": [],
  "best_sellers_source": "store's own Best Sellers collection: best-selling-products",
  "catalogue": null,
  "changes": null,
  "first_run": null,
  "partial": null,
  "note": null,
  "source_url": "https://notebooktherapy.com/products/tsuki-matcha-bloom-travel-notebook-gift-set",
  "scraped_at": "2026-11-04T11:20:24Z"
}

Use cases

• Shopify store owners checking competitors' new products and price moves every day
• Brands spotting when a competitor sells out or restocks a product
• Dropshippers seeing which products competing stores list as best-sellers
• Agencies sending clients a daily competitor report in Google Sheets

Use-case recipes

Daily competitor report in Google Sheets

For agencies and store owners. List the rival stores, give the list a change-tracking name and schedule it daily. Send rows to Google Sheets: store_summary rows give the counts per store, price_change rows give previous_price_min, price_min and price_change_pct, and new_product rows link to the new items by product_url.

{
  "storeUrls": [
    "warmlydecor.com",
    "notebooktherapy.com",
    "meowingtons.com"
  ],
  "maxBestSellers": 10,
  "stateKey": "daily-report"
}

Stock-out and restock alerts

For brands watching when a rival sells out. Set best-sellers to 0 so a quiet day returns only the summary rows. Filter on record_type = stock_out or restock and send those rows to Slack or email through Zapier, Make or n8n; product_url and title say which product moved.

{
  "storeUrls": [
    "warmlydecor.com",
    "meowingtons.com"
  ],
  "maxBestSellers": 0,
  "stateKey": "stock-alerts"
}

Best-seller rank tracking for product research

For dropshippers looking for proven products. Return 20 best-sellers per store on a weekly schedule. Key the best_seller rows on product_id and compare rank across runs; first_seen_at shows how long a product has been in your watch, and best_sellers_source says which store list the rank came from.

{
  "storeUrls": [
    "notebooktherapy.com",
    "warmlydecor.com"
  ],
  "maxBestSellers": 20,
  "stateKey": "bestseller-weekly"
}

Launch watch: what did a store add recently?

For buyers and marketers tracking a rival's launches. On the first run, 'new products from the last N days' returns what the store created in that window; later runs return everything added since the previous run. Use created_at and published_at on the new_product rows to date each launch.

{
  "storeUrls": [
    "notebooktherapy.com"
  ],
  "maxBestSellers": 0,
  "newWithinDays": 30,
  "stateKey": "launch-watch"
}

Input

Field	Type	What it does	Default
storeUrls (Competitor store URLs)	array	Shopify stores to watch, as a domain or any URL on the store, e.g. 'kith.com', 'https://www.allbirds.com'.
maxBestSellers (Best-sellers per store)	integer	How many best-sellers to return per store, in rank order, e.g. 20. 0 = skip best-sellers.	20
maxProductsPerStore (Max products per store)	integer	Upper limit of products read per store for the summary and change tracking, e.g. 1000. 0 = the whole catalogue...	0
newWithinDays (First run: new products from the last N days)	integer	On the first run for a store there is no previous run to compare with, so 'new products' are those...	7
proxyConfiguration (Proxy)	object	Optional proxy.	{"useApifyProxy": false}

All 6 fields, with examples: see the Input tab.

Use with AI agents (MCP)

MCP (Model Context Protocol) is the open standard that lets AI assistants such as Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor call outside tools. Apify's hosted MCP server at https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=aurelix/shopify-best-sellers-tracker gives your assistant this Actor only: it fills in the input from your request, runs it and reads the rows back, at the same per-result price as a run started by hand.

Example prompts

• "Show me the top 10 best-sellers of notebooktherapy.com in the store's own order with their prices"
• "Watch warmlydecor.com and meowingtons.com every day and tell me which products sold out or came back in stock since the last run"
• "Give me a catalogue summary of these two Shopify stores: product count, price range, median price and top vendors"

Claude Desktop and claude.ai

Settings > Connectors > Add custom connector, name it Apify, paste https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=aurelix/shopify-best-sellers-tracker, keep the detected OAuth settings, select Add and sign in to Apify.

Claude Code

$claude mcp add --transport http apify "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=aurelix/shopify-best-sellers-tracker"

Cursor and VS Code

Add this to ~/.cursor/mcp.json (Cursor); in VS Code's .vscode/mcp.json put the same entry under "servers" with "type": "http". Sign in to Apify when asked.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "apify": {
      "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=aurelix/shopify-best-sellers-tracker"
    }
  }
}

ChatGPT

Turn on Developer mode, open Settings > Apps & Connectors > Create, paste the URL above as the MCP server URL, choose OAuth and authorize Apify.

Clients without sign-in send Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN> instead. No Apify account? This Actor supports Apify's agentic payments: an agent can pay per run with a prepaid, spend-capped token, bought with x402 stablecoin payments.

n8n AI agent

Give an AI Agent node an MCP Client Tool with the endpoint https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=aurelix/shopify-best-sellers-tracker and a Bearer credential holding your Apify token.

Use it from AI agents (MCP), the API or no-code

Copy this to your AI assistant

Use the Apify Actor aurelix/shopify-best-sellers-tracker (Shopify Best Sellers Tracker) through Apify's MCP server or API. Main input: storeUrls (Competitor store URLs). Example input: {"storeUrls": ["warmlydecor.com", "notebooktherapy.com"], "maxBestSellers": 20, "stateKey": "competitors-daily"}. Each result is one row with fields such as record_type, store_domain, store_name, store_url, currency, rank, product_key, product_id. It costs $3.00 per 1,000 rows on Apify's free plan plus a $0.0005 start fee per run, and needs no login.

MCP server URL for this Actor: https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=aurelix/shopify-best-sellers-tracker (setup for each client in the section above).

API

Start a run and read the dataset with Apify's REST API or the Python and JavaScript clients:

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN>")
run = client.actor("aurelix/shopify-best-sellers-tracker").call(run_input={'storeUrls': ['warmlydecor.com', 'notebooktherapy.com'], 'maxBestSellers': 20, 'stateKey': 'competitors-daily'})
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

No-code: schedule it in 3 clicks

Send the results to Google Sheets, Zapier, Make, n8n, Slack or any webhook URL.

1. Fill in the input, then click Save as a new task.
2. In the task, click Schedule and pick daily or weekly (Apify Schedules).
3. Open the task's Integrations tab to send every run's results to Slack, Google Sheets, email or any webhook.

Prefer n8n or Make? Ask in the Issues tab and we will share a ready-made workflow for it.

FAQ

Can I scrape Shopify best sellers without login?

Yes. It never logs in, so you need no Shopify account, password or cookies; only a free Apify account to run it.

Is there a Shopify best sellers API?

You can use this Actor as one. Start it with Apify's REST API or the Python and JavaScript clients and read the results as JSON (see the code above), or call it from an AI agent through MCP.

How much does it cost to scrape Shopify best sellers?

About $3.00 for 1,000 rows on Apify's free plan and $2.10 on paid plans, start fee included. The free $5 monthly credit covers about 1,600 rows (plus $0.015 per store checked).

Can I export Shopify best sellers data to Excel or Google Sheets?

Yes. Download the results as Excel, CSV, JSON, XML or HTML from the run's Storage tab, or send them to Google Sheets with Apify's Google Sheets integration or the API.

Is it legal to scrape Shopify best sellers?

It reads only public data any logged-out visitor can see: the product feed each Shopify store serves to every visitor. It goes at a polite pace, respects robots.txt, never logs in and never solves CAPTCHAs. It returns product fields (title, price, variants, images, links); no customer or order data. To have a record removed, open an issue on this Actor's Issues tab; if a store formally asks us to stop, this Actor will stop. You are responsible for using the data lawfully, incl. anti-spam and privacy laws; this is not legal advice.

Where do the best-sellers come from?

From Shopify's public best-selling sort where the store's robots.txt allows it. Most stores disallow sorted pages, so the Actor then uses the store's own best-seller collection (e.g. 'Best Sellers'), in the order the store shows it. If neither is allowed or exists, no best-sellers are returned and best_sellers_source says why. Every best-seller row names its source in best_sellers_source, and rank is the store's own order, not sales figures.

What does the first run return?

The catalogue summary, the best-sellers, and products the store created in the last 7 days (adjustable). Price changes, stock-outs and restocks start from the second run, because they need a previous run to compare with.

How are price changes measured?

Per variant, against the variant's price at your previous run on that store. One row per product lists every variant that moved, with old and new price, and says whether prices went up, down or both.

What counts as a stock-out?

A product whose variants were in stock at the previous run and are all out of stock now. A restock is the reverse. Shopify's public feed has an in-stock flag, not quantities.

What if a store blocks access?

Stores whose robots.txt disallows the product feed, that hide the feed, or that are not on Shopify are skipped and named in the run status, as are store addresses that do not exist or do not answer ('store not reachable'). Other stores in the run still deliver.

Can I track the same stores for different purposes?

Yes. Give each watch list its own 'Change-tracking name', and each keeps its own memory of the previous run.

What does a quiet day cost?

One store summary per store read, at the per-store price, plus the best-seller rows you asked for. Change rows are only returned, and charged, when something changed. Set 'Best-sellers per store' to 0 to pay for the summaries only. Stores that are skipped return no rows and cost nothing beyond the start fee.

Why do best-sellers come back on every run?

Best-seller rows show the store's current order, so they are returned every run, not only when they change. Compare rank by product_id between runs to see products move up or down.

Can the same change be reported twice?

No. The change memory is saved before rows are returned. If the run's Max total charge stops output, the changes not returned are held back and come in the next run. In our reruns, 0 change rows repeated.

What happens when a store is only partly read?

If a store stops answering midway, its summary and change rows cover the products read so far, and the summary row has partial = true with a note. Best-sellers are skipped for that store on that run. The next run measures new products from your last complete run, so nothing added in between is missed.

How long is the change memory kept?

Per store and per change-tracking name. A product not seen for 90 days is forgotten. If a store is not checked for 90 days, its next run counts as a first run again.

What do price_direction and price_change_pct mean?

price_direction is up when every variant that moved went up, down when every one went down, and mixed otherwise. price_change_pct is the change of the product's lowest price against the lowest price at your previous run. variant_changes lists each moved variant with its old and new price.

How long does a run take?

The whole catalogue is read every run, 250 products per request. In our test runs three stores with 1,281 products took 4 s, and a store at the 25,000-product limit took about 7 minutes.

Limits (stated honestly)

• Shopify stores only, and only stores that leave the public products.json feed on and allow it in robots.txt.
• Catalogues are read up to Shopify's public limit of 25,000 products per store; larger stores are summarised and tracked on those 25,000, and the summary row and run status say the cap was reached (partial: true).
• Best-sellers depend on what the store makes public: most stores disallow the best-selling sort in robots.txt, so the store's own best-seller collection is used, and some stores have none.
• Stock is an in-stock flag per variant, not a quantity.
• Prices are the ones the store serves to the Actor's server. Stores that price by visitor country can show other visitors converted prices: in our checks, two stores showed a Canadian address prices converted at a fixed rate.
• Changes are measured between your runs; anything that changed and changed back between two runs is not seen.
• If a store rate-limits midway, its report covers only the products read before that and is marked partial.
• Products removed from a store are not reported.

Works great with

• Before this: Tech Stack API: find out which domains are Shopify stores first; those go into storeUrls
• Then: Shopify Product Export Scraper: the same storeUrls for one full catalogue export

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Recent changes

• 0.1: The form starts with 10 best-sellers and 250 products per store, so a first test run finishes quickly.

The full history is on the Changelog tab.

Tested daily

An automated health check runs this Actor every day on a fixed input and checks that at least 9 rows come back with record_type, store_domain, store_url, source_url, scraped_at filled in; a failed check alerts the maintainer straight away.

Your feedback

Missing a field, found a bug or need another filter? Open an issue on the Issues tab; we aim to answer within a day. If this Actor saved you time, a short review helps other people find it.