# Shopify Price & Stock Tracker (`faithful_schlumbergera/shopify-price-stock-tracker`) Actor

Track Shopify product prices, purchase availability, discounts, and price changes across up to 5 stores. Export CSV reports, compare matching SKUs, and track changes between runs. Uses public storefront data without Shopify Admin API access.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/faithful_schlumbergera/shopify-price-stock-tracker.md
- **Developed by:** [代美 小澤](https://apify.com/faithful_schlumbergera) (community)
- **Security:** Limited permissions
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $0.10 / 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 Price & Stock Tracker

Track product prices, purchase availability, discounts, and changes across public Shopify storefronts.

### Features

- Scan up to 5 Shopify stores per run.
- Retrieve up to 100 products per store.
- Export up to 1,000 product variant records per run.
- Collect product titles, variants, SKUs, prices, comparison prices, availability, and product URLs.
- Compare current observations with previously saved snapshots when available.
- Identify price changes and purchase availability changes.
- Compare matching SKUs across stores when currencies match.
- Download CSV files and a Markdown report.

### How to use

1. Select **Scan real Shopify stores**.
2. Enter one or more public Shopify store URLs, one per line.
3. Choose the maximum products per store.
4. Run the Actor.
5. Download the results from the run's key-value store or dataset.

You can also select demo mode to explore fictional sample data without contacting a store.

### Output files

- `PRODUCTS.csv`: Product and variant data
- `PRICE_CHANGES.csv`: Detected changes
- `STORES.csv`: Store-level results and errors
- `SKU_COMPARISONS.csv`: Matches across stores
- `REPORT.md`: Readable summary
- `OUTPUT`: Structured execution summary

### Important limitations

- Uses publicly accessible Shopify storefront data only.
- Does not require Shopify Admin access or an external paid data API.
- Availability indicates whether an item can be purchased, not its exact inventory quantity.
- Historical comparisons require previous observations. Monitoring frequency depends on how often the Actor is run.
- Some storefronts restrict public data access. Access restrictions and robots.txt rules are respected.
- Prices and availability should be verified on the retailer's website before making business decisions.

# Actor input Schema

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

Demo uses fictional products. Scan stores fetches public Shopify product data.

## `storeUrls` (type: `string`):

Enter Shopify storefront URLs, one per line.

## `maxProductsPerStore` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of products to scan per store.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "mode": "demo",
  "storeUrls": "https://www.allbirds.com",
  "maxProductsPerStore": 40
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

No description

## `productsCsv` (type: `string`):

No description

## `priceChangesCsv` (type: `string`):

No description

## `storesCsv` (type: `string`):

No description

## `skuComparisonsCsv` (type: `string`):

No description

## `report` (type: `string`):

No description

## `summary` (type: `string`):

No description

# 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 = {
    "storeUrls": "https://www.allbirds.com"
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("faithful_schlumbergera/shopify-price-stock-tracker").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 = { "storeUrls": "https://www.allbirds.com" }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("faithful_schlumbergera/shopify-price-stock-tracker").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 '{
  "storeUrls": "https://www.allbirds.com"
}' |
apify call faithful_schlumbergera/shopify-price-stock-tracker --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,faithful_schlumbergera/shopify-price-stock-tracker"
        }
    }
}
```

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/oPRIVOvJ2MrdlMz4g/builds/SzyBw2o0wRuMmEmoE/openapi.json