Alternate Price Watch
Pricing
from $4.00 / 1,000 product scrapeds
Compare the same product across alternate.nl, alternate.be and alternate.at: per-country price, shipping and stock, cross-border savings, and alerts for price drops.
Alternate product SKUs (the number in the product URL) or full product URLs on alternate.nl, .be or .at. The same product is looked up in every selected country. Example: ["1234567", "https://www.alternate.nl/Gigabyte/RTX-5070/html/product/1234567"].
[]Keywords matched against product names found in the Alternate sitemap. Each keyword adds the matching products, up to Max items in total. Example: ["RTX 5070", "Ryzen 7 9800X3D"].
[]Alternate category or listing page URLs; only the first page of each (about 17 products) is read, because further pages load dynamically. Example: ["https://www.alternate.nl/Videokaarten"].
[]Which Alternate shops to fetch each product from: nl (Netherlands), be (Belgium), at (Austria). Example: ["nl", "be"] compares only NL and BE.
[ "nl", "be", "at"]The country you normally buy from. The savings in arbitrageAlpha are measured against the total price (item plus shipping) in this country. Example: "nl".
Maximum number of products (dataset items, one per SKU, each one billed) a run outputs; the run stops once reached. It also caps how many search results are used per search query. Product IDs you list are all checked until the cap is reached. Example: 50.
If enabled, only products that are new (first time seen) or whose lowest total price fell by at least Minimum drop (%) since the previous run are output; unchanged, higher or slightly lower prices are skipped and not billed. A small drop does not move the comparison baseline, so slow slides add up until they reach the threshold. Example: true.
Smallest price drop in percent that counts as a drop when Only output price drops is on. Range 0 to 100. Example: 5.0.
Name of the persistent key-value store holding the last seen prices, used for delta tracking between runs. Use a different name to keep separate watchlists. Only lowercase letters, digits and hyphens are allowed (not at the start or end). Example: "alternate-price-state".
Optional https URL that receives a JSON alert when price drops are found. Works with Discord, Slack or any generic JSON webhook. Treated as a secret because it contains a token. Example: "https://hooks.slack.com/services/T000/B000/XXXX".