# SaaS Pricing And Messaging Monitor (`ghostgrid/saas-pricing-and-messaging-monitor`) Actor Extract pricing tiers, prices, feature gates, calls to action, and messaging signals from public SaaS pricing pages. - **URL**: https://apify.com/ghostgrid/saas-pricing-and-messaging-monitor.md - **Developed by:** [GhostGrid](https://apify.com/ghostgrid) (community) - **Categories:** Business, Marketing, Automation - **Stats:** 2 total users, 0 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks - **User rating**: No ratings yet ## Pricing from $1.00 / 1,000 page monitoreds This Actor is paid per event and usage. You are charged both the fixed price for specific events and for Apify platform usage. Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event ## What's an Apify Actor? Actors are a software tools running on the Apify platform, for all kinds of web data extraction and automation use cases. 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. Actors are written with capital "A". ## 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. The best way to integrate Actors is as follows. In JavaScript/TypeScript projects, use official [JavaScript/TypeScript client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js.md): ```bash npm install apify-client ``` In Python projects, use official [Python client library](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python.md): ```bash pip install apify-client ``` In shell scripts, use [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md): ````bash # MacOS / Linux curl -fsSL https://apify.com/install-cli.sh | bash # Windows irm https://apify.com/install-cli.ps1 | iex ```bash In AI frameworks, you might use the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/platform/integrations/mcp.md). If your project is in a different language, use the [REST API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2.md). For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below. For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt). # README ## SaaS Pricing And Messaging Monitor Monitor public SaaS pricing pages and turn them into repeatable competitive-intelligence snapshots. No private API key, login, or vendor credentials are required for public pages. ### Why use it? Run it on a schedule to detect competitor price changes, new or removed tiers, billing-period changes, and positioning updates before they become obvious in a manual review. ### What it extracts - Plan names, prices, currencies, and billing periods - Feature bullets and tier-level calls to action - Free-trial, enterprise, discount, and messaging signals - Stable page/content hashes for repeat-run comparisons - First-seen, changed, and unchanged status ### Input | Parameter | Type | Default | Description | |-----------|------|---------|-------------| | `startUrls` | object[] | required | Public pricing URLs such as `https://www.notion.com/pricing` | | `maxPages` | integer | 10 | Maximum number of URLs to process (1-100) | | `includeRawText` | boolean | true | Include a normalized text excerpt | | `includeHtml` | boolean | false | Include a cleaned HTML excerpt for selector debugging | | `trackChanges` | boolean | true | Persist the last successful snapshot in a named Apify key-value store | | `onlyChanges` | boolean | false | Emit only first-seen or changed pages; still scans every requested URL | | `proxyConfiguration` | object | none | Optional Apify Proxy settings for public pages that rate-limit ordinary HTTP | ### Repeat-run output When `trackChanges` is enabled, output includes: - `change_type`: `new`, `prices_changed`, `pricing_tier_count_changed`, `page_content_changed`, or `unchanged` - `change_detected`: whether a meaningful change was found - `change_summary`: machine-readable reasons for the change - `previous_content_hash` and `previous_scraped_at`: prior successful snapshot metadata Failed or invalid pages are not saved as successful snapshots, so a temporary outage does not create a false change. ### Example ```json { "status": "ok", "company": "Notion", "url": "https://www.notion.com/pricing", "change_type": "prices_changed", "change_detected": true, "change_summary": ["prices_changed"], "pricing_summary": "Found 4 likely pricing tiers. found 8 price points. enterprise or custom pricing is mentioned." } ```` ### Limitations The actor uses public HTML and does not execute a logged-in browser session. JavaScript-only or blocked pricing pages may need an Apify proxy or a server-rendered pricing URL. The actor reports `request_failed` or `no_pricing_text_found` instead of treating an empty extraction as valid pricing data. # Actor input Schema ## `startUrls` (type: `array`): Public SaaS pricing page URLs to analyze. ## `maxPages` (type: `integer`): Maximum number of pricing pages to process. ## `includeRawText` (type: `boolean`): Include a compact excerpt of normalized page text for review. ## `includeHtml` (type: `boolean`): Include a cleaned HTML excerpt for debugging selectors. ## `trackChanges` (type: `boolean`): Persist the last successful public snapshot and compare future runs. ## `onlyChanges` (type: `boolean`): Push only first-seen or changed pages. Failed pages are still emitted, and a no\_changes status is emitted when a successful scan finds nothing new. ## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`): Optional Apify Proxy settings. Most SaaS pricing pages work without proxy. ## Actor input object example ```json { "startUrls": [ { "url": "https://www.notion.com/pricing" }, { "url": "https://linear.app/pricing" }, { "url": "https://www.figma.com/pricing/" } ], "maxPages": 10, "includeRawText": true, "includeHtml": false, "trackChanges": true, "onlyChanges": false, "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": false } } ``` # 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 '' with your token const client = new ApifyClient({ token: '', }); // Prepare Actor input const input = { "startUrls": [ { "url": "https://www.notion.com/pricing" }, { "url": "https://linear.app/pricing" }, { "url": "https://www.figma.com/pricing/" } ] }; // Run the Actor and wait for it to finish const run = await client.actor("ghostgrid/saas-pricing-and-messaging-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 '' with your token. client = ApifyClient("") # Prepare the Actor input run_input = { "startUrls": [ { "url": "https://www.notion.com/pricing" }, { "url": "https://linear.app/pricing" }, { "url": "https://www.figma.com/pricing/" }, ] } # Run the Actor and wait for it to finish run = client.actor("ghostgrid/saas-pricing-and-messaging-monitor").call(run_input=run_input) # Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any) print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"]) for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items(): print(item) # 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start ``` ## CLI example ```bash echo '{ "startUrls": [ { "url": "https://www.notion.com/pricing" }, { "url": "https://linear.app/pricing" }, { "url": "https://www.figma.com/pricing/" } ] }' | apify call ghostgrid/saas-pricing-and-messaging-monitor --silent --output-dataset ``` ## MCP server setup ```json { "mcpServers": { "apify": { "command": "npx", "args": [ "mcp-remote", "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=ghostgrid/saas-pricing-and-messaging-monitor", "--header", "Authorization: Bearer " ] } } } ``` ## OpenAPI specification ```json { "openapi": "3.0.1", "info": { "title": "SaaS Pricing And Messaging Monitor", "description": "Extract pricing tiers, prices, feature gates, calls to action, and messaging signals from public SaaS pricing pages.", "version": "0.1", "x-build-id": "eSDj4KCatepIXXlgb" }, "servers": [ { "url": "https://api.apify.com/v2" } ], "paths": { "/acts/ghostgrid~saas-pricing-and-messaging-monitor/run-sync-get-dataset-items": { "post": { "operationId": "run-sync-get-dataset-items-ghostgrid-saas-pricing-and-messaging-monitor", "x-openai-isConsequential": false, "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for its completion, and returns Actor's dataset items in response.", "tags": [ "Run Actor" ], "requestBody": { "required": true, "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema" } } } }, "parameters": [ { "name": "token", "in": "query", "required": true, "schema": { "type": "string" }, "description": "Enter your Apify token here" } ], "responses": { "200": { "description": "OK" } } } }, "/acts/ghostgrid~saas-pricing-and-messaging-monitor/runs": { "post": { "operationId": "runs-sync-ghostgrid-saas-pricing-and-messaging-monitor", "x-openai-isConsequential": false, "summary": "Executes an Actor and returns information about the initiated run in response.", "tags": [ "Run Actor" ], "requestBody": { "required": true, "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema" } } } }, "parameters": [ { "name": "token", "in": "query", "required": true, "schema": { "type": "string" }, "description": "Enter your Apify token here" } ], "responses": { "200": { "description": "OK", "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/runsResponseSchema" } } } } } } }, "/acts/ghostgrid~saas-pricing-and-messaging-monitor/run-sync": { "post": { "operationId": "run-sync-ghostgrid-saas-pricing-and-messaging-monitor", "x-openai-isConsequential": false, "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for completion, and returns the OUTPUT from Key-value store in response.", "tags": [ "Run Actor" ], "requestBody": { "required": true, "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema" } } } }, "parameters": [ { "name": "token", "in": "query", "required": true, "schema": { "type": "string" }, "description": "Enter your Apify token here" } ], "responses": { "200": { "description": "OK" } } } } }, "components": { "schemas": { "inputSchema": { "type": "object", "required": [ "startUrls" ], "properties": { "startUrls": { "title": "Pricing Page URLs", "type": "array", "description": "Public SaaS pricing page URLs to analyze.", "items": { "type": "object", "required": [ "url" ], "properties": { "url": { "type": "string", "title": "URL of a web page", "format": "uri" } } } }, "maxPages": { "title": "Max Pages", "minimum": 1, "maximum": 100, "type": "integer", "description": "Maximum number of pricing pages to process.", "default": 10 }, "includeRawText": { "title": "Include Raw Text Excerpt", "type": "boolean", "description": "Include a compact excerpt of normalized page text for review.", "default": true }, "includeHtml": { "title": "Include HTML Excerpt", "type": "boolean", "description": "Include a cleaned HTML excerpt for debugging selectors.", "default": false }, "trackChanges": { "title": "Track Changes", "type": "boolean", "description": "Persist the last successful public snapshot and compare future runs.", "default": true }, "onlyChanges": { "title": "Only New or Changed Pages", "type": "boolean", "description": "Push only first-seen or changed pages. Failed pages are still emitted, and a no_changes status is emitted when a successful scan finds nothing new.", "default": false }, "proxyConfiguration": { "title": "Proxy Configuration", "type": "object", "description": "Optional Apify Proxy settings. Most SaaS pricing pages work without proxy.", "default": { "useApifyProxy": false } } } }, "runsResponseSchema": { "type": "object", "properties": { "data": { "type": "object", "properties": { "id": { "type": "string" }, "actId": { "type": "string" }, "userId": { "type": "string" }, "startedAt": { "type": "string", "format": "date-time", "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z" }, "finishedAt": { "type": "string", "format": "date-time", "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z" }, "status": { "type": "string", "example": "READY" }, "meta": { "type": "object", "properties": { "origin": { "type": "string", "example": "API" }, "userAgent": { "type": "string" } } }, "stats": { "type": "object", "properties": { "inputBodyLen": { "type": "integer", "example": 2000 }, "rebootCount": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "restartCount": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "resurrectCount": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "computeUnits": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 } } }, "options": { "type": "object", "properties": { "build": { "type": "string", "example": "latest" }, "timeoutSecs": { "type": "integer", "example": 300 }, "memoryMbytes": { "type": "integer", "example": 1024 }, "diskMbytes": { "type": "integer", "example": 2048 } } }, "buildId": { "type": "string" }, "defaultKeyValueStoreId": { "type": "string" }, "defaultDatasetId": { "type": "string" }, "defaultRequestQueueId": { "type": "string" }, "buildNumber": { "type": "string", "example": "1.0.0" }, "containerUrl": { "type": "string" }, "usage": { "type": "object", "properties": { "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATASET_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATASET_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 1 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "PROXY_SERPS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 } } }, "usageTotalUsd": { "type": "number", "example": 0.00005 }, "usageUsd": { "type": "object", "properties": { "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATASET_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATASET_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": { "type": "number", "example": 0.00005 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "PROXY_SERPS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 } } } } } } } } } } ```