Pricing Page Detector

Detects if a website has a dedicated, public pricing page (/pricing, /plans, etc.), strictly extracts real price examples, and identifies strong e-commerce product catalogs.

This Actor is built with a strict "No Hallucination" policy. It relies on precise regex patterns and DOM analysis rather than LLMs, ensuring that the prices it extracts are actually written on the page.

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🚀 Features

• Pricing Page Discovery (Smart Routing): 🚀 MASSIVE ADVANTAGE: You don't need to know the exact pricing URL. Your users don't have the time to manually hunt for the /pricing pages of every single website. Just provide the company's root domain (e.g. wexa.ai), and our crawler will intelligently navigate the site, locate the pricing page (whether it's /plans, /pricing, or hidden in a menu), and extract the prices. Perfect for enriching thousands of rows in Clay where you only have domains!
• Strict Price Extraction: Extracts formatting-aware price examples (e.g., $25/month, 99 EUR/year, ١٢٩ ر.س). It will never invent a price.
• "Contact Sales" Awareness: Correctly identifies enterprise pages that say "Contact us for pricing" without showing actual numbers, returning no_prices_need_contact: true so your sales team knows they are dealing with an Enterprise/Custom pricing prospect.
• Bulletproof Free Tier Detection: Uses ARIA and semantic data attributes to reliably detect Free Trials or Free Forever plans without relying on brittle text matching (has_free_tier: true).
• Monthly/Annual Toggle Intelligence: Behaviorally detects and clicks on monthly/annual pricing switches to guarantee all price variations are extracted (has_monthly_annual_toggle: true).
• E-commerce Catalog Detection: Differentiates between a SaaS pricing page and a dense e-commerce catalog. If a site has many products with prices (like Nike or Amazon), it flags has_prices_strong: true.
• Fast Early Exit: Stops crawling immediately once a pricing page and valid prices are confirmed, saving compute time and costs.

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📥 Input Schema

Field	Type	Default	Description
url	String	Required	The URL or domain to analyze (e.g., https://wexa.ai)
maxPages	Integer	3	Maximum number of pages to crawl
timeoutSeconds	Integer	30	Maximum execution time per page in seconds

Example Input:

{
  "url": "https://wexa.ai",
  "maxPages": 3,
  "timeoutSeconds": 30
}

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📤 Output Schema

The Actor pushes a single JSON object to the Apify Dataset per run.

Field	Type	Description
domain	String	The root domain of the analyzed website
has_pricing_page	Boolean	true if a dedicated pricing page was visited
pricing_url	String	The accurate URL of the pricing page (if found)
no_prices_need_contact	Boolean	true if the pricing page only says "Contact Sales/Enterprise" without real prices
has_free_tier	Boolean	true if a free plan was securely detected
has_monthly_annual_toggle	Boolean	true if a monthly/annual switch was interacted with
price_examples	Array	Up to 5 strictly extracted examples of prices found on the page
has_prices_strong	Boolean	true if an e-commerce catalog with many varied prices was detected (even without a dedicated /pricing page)
scraping_status	Object	Metadata regarding execution time, errors, and bot blocks

Example Output (SaaS Company):

{
  "domain": "wexa.ai",
  "has_pricing_page": true,
  "pricing_url": "https://wexa.ai/pricing",
  "no_prices_need_contact": false,
  "has_free_tier": true,
  "has_monthly_annual_toggle": true,
  "price_examples": [
    "$29/month",
    "$99/month"
  ],
  "has_prices_strong": false,
  "scraping_status": {
    "phase_completed": "browser_scan",
    "blocked": false,
    "pages_visited": 2,
    "time_elapsed_ms": 6500,
    "early_stopped": true
  }
}

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💡 Interpreting the Results

• has_pricing_page: true AND price_examples > 0: Perfect for identifying standard SaaS, agencies, or subscription boxes. Your SDRs can pitch against their listed prices.
• no_prices_need_contact: true: Extremely valuable for Clay enrichment! The site has a Pricing/Plans section, but it's an Enterprise B2B SaaS that requires a sales call for a quote. Your sales team can immediately adapt their messaging.
• has_pricing_page: false AND has_prices_strong: true: Typical for E-commerce stores (Shopify, WooCommerce). They don't have a single /pricing page, but their product pages are filled with prices.

Use alongside the Checkout Detector Actor for deep Clay/CRM enrichment to fully understand a business's revenue model!