# Shopify Competitor Monitor (`brick_joey_yto/shopify-competitor-monitor`) Actor

Monitor any Shopify store catalog — new products, prices, sale flags, stock. Competitor tracking for DTC brands, dropshippers & agencies. No API key.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/brick_joey_yto/shopify-competitor-monitor.md
- **Developed by:** [William Billings](https://apify.com/brick_joey_yto) (community)
- **Categories:** E-commerce, Marketing, Business
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

$1.00 / 1,000 results

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## Shopify Competitor Monitor — Store Catalogs, Prices & New-Product Alerts

Extract any Shopify store's **full product catalog** — titles, prices, compare-at prices (automatic **sale detection**), variants, stock availability, publish dates, collections — then **watch competitor stores on a schedule** for new-product drops and price changes. No API key, no login.

### What you can do

| Mode | What it does | Best for |
|---|---|---|
| `products` | Full catalog of a store — title, vendor, type, tags, price range, `onSale` flag, in-stock variant count, publish/update dates | Competitor teardown, catalog dumps |
| `collections` | Every collection with product counts | Store structure intel |
| `product` | Single product — every variant's price/SKU/compare-at/availability | Deep-dives |
| `watch` | `product_snapshot` rows for a **list of stores**, sorted newest-first | Scheduled competitor alerts |

`watch` is the money feature: schedule it daily/hourly on competitor stores and diff rows by `productId` — get alerted the moment a rival **launches a product** (`publishedAt`), **drops a price**, or **runs a sale** (`onSale`/`compareAtMax`). This is the dropshipper winning-product radar and DTC competitive-intel loop in one actor.

### Example inputs

```json
{ "mode": "watch", "stores": ["allbirds.com", "bombas.com", "deadlegacy.co"], "maxProducts": 500 }
```

```json
{ "mode": "products", "stores": ["fanjoy.co"], "maxProducts": 1000 }
```

```json
{ "mode": "product", "products": ["allbirds.com|womens-allbirds-flip-flop-dusty-pink"] }
```

### Example output

```json
{
  "recordType": "product_snapshot",
  "productId": 7443560218673,
  "title": "Women's Allbirds Flip Flop - Dusty Pink",
  "vendor": "Allbirds",
  "productType": "Shoes",
  "priceMin": 25.0,
  "priceMax": 25.0,
  "compareAtMax": 50.0,
  "onSale": true,
  "variantsCount": 7,
  "inStockVariants": 1,
  "publishedAt": "2025-06-12T10:14:00-07:00",
  "url": "https://allbirds.com/products/womens-allbirds-flip-flop-dusty-pink",
  "store": "allbirds.com",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-15T10:40:12Z"
}
```

### Pricing

Flat pay-per-event: **$0.001 per row** — watching 10 competitor stores (500 products each) daily ≈ 150k rows/mo ≈ **$150/mo for total competitive coverage**. Light catalog dumps cost cents.

### FAQ

**How does this work without an API key?** Every Shopify store exposes a public catalog feed at `/products.json` — the same one their themes and apps use. We read it directly.

**Does it work on every Shopify store?** Most. Some very large stores Cloudflare-block the endpoint; if a store returns an error row, retry with an Apify proxy enabled.

**How do I detect new products?** `publishedAt` — in `watch` mode rows arrive newest-first; keep seen `productId`s and alert on first-seen.

**Can it see inventory counts?** Variant-level `available` + `inventory_quantity` when the store publishes it; some stores hide exact stock.

**Is it legal?** We read publicly accessible catalog endpoints. Respect each store's Terms of Service.

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***

*Not affiliated with Shopify Inc. Uses publicly accessible catalog endpoints — respect each store's Terms of Service.*

# Actor input Schema

## `mode` (type: `string`):

'products' dumps a store's catalog, 'collections' lists collections, 'product' details one product, 'watch' snapshots multiple stores for scheduled new-product/price alerts.

## `stores` (type: `array`):

Shopify store domains — e.g. 'allbirds.com', 'brand.myshopify.com'. One or many.

## `products` (type: `array`):

'store.com|product-handle', a full product URL, or a bare handle (demo store used). Empty = demo on a live product.

## `maxProducts` (type: `integer`):

Cap catalog rows per store (250 per page).

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Optional — some large stores Cloudflare-block /products.json; a proxy usually passes.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "mode": "products",
  "stores": [
    "allbirds.com"
  ],
  "products": [],
  "maxProducts": 250
}
```

# Actor output Schema

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("brick_joey_yto/shopify-competitor-monitor").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("brick_joey_yto/shopify-competitor-monitor").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{}' |
apify call brick_joey_yto/shopify-competitor-monitor --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,brick_joey_yto/shopify-competitor-monitor"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/3cheN9QqwTBHXFeui/builds/I4mRNcSfz0kbnK5z8/openapi.json