# Competitor Price Position Snapshot (`junipr/competitor-price-position-snapshot`) Actor

Compare owned and competitor product pages for visible price position, sale badges, shipping text, ratings, availability, and offer presentation.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/junipr/competitor-price-position-snapshot.md
- **Developed by:** [junipr](https://apify.com/junipr) (community)
- **Categories:** E-commerce, Developer tools
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $17.50 / 1,000 product target checkeds

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?

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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?

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The best way to integrate Actors is as follows.

- **AI agents and MCP clients** — the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/integrations/mcp.md) at `https://mcp.apify.com` (remote, streamable HTTP, OAuth on first use).
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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

## Competitor Price Position Snapshot

Compare competitor product/collection pages for visible price position, sale badges, shipping text, ratings, availability, and offer presentation against owned products.

### What it does

Compares mapped public owned and competitor offers using visible or supplied prices, currency, sale, shipping, rating, and availability evidence.

The actor emits one row per owned-versus-competitor match. Every dataset row uses the declared dataset schema, includes source provenance and a scan timestamp, and is written only after every applicable pay-per-event charge is accepted.

### Typical uses

- Compare competitor product prices
- Snapshot price position for mapped products
- Export sale and shipping signals
- Find pricing gaps against competitors
- Build ecommerce price research sheet

### Input

Use public HTTP(S) URLs or deterministic `htmlInputs`. URL fetching rejects localhost, loopback, link-local, and private-network destinations. `allowedDomains` can further constrain live fetches.

- `startUrls`
- `sitemapUrls`
- `htmlInputs`
- `allowedDomains`
- `maxPages`
- `maxDepth`
- `includeEvidence`
- `includeRawSnapshots`
- `requestDelayMs`
- `timeoutMs`
- `userAgentMode`
- `ownedProductUrls`
- `competitorProductUrls`
- `productMatchMap`
- `priceRecords`
- `collectionUrls`
- `priceRules`
- `includeShippingSignals`
- `maxProducts`
- `maxCompetitors`
- `maxPriceRecords`
- `maxSnapshots`
- `maxChargeUsd`
- `includeReport`

The safety caps named in `maxProducts, maxCompetitors, maxPriceRecords, maxSnapshots, timeoutMs` are enforced in addition to `maxChargeUsd`. A value of `0` for `maxChargeUsd` is a hard zero budget: the actor exits before the first paid operation.

#### Minimal deterministic example

```json
{
  "htmlInputs": [
    {
      "sourceUrl": "https://shop.example/public-page",
      "html": "<html><head><title>Public page</title></head><body><h1>Public evidence</h1></body></html>"
    }
  ],
  "includeEvidence": true,
  "includeReport": true,
  "maxChargeUsd": 75
}
```

The prefilled input remains deliberately small so Apify automated quality runs finish quickly. For production use, replace the example source with public pages you are authorized to access.

### Dataset output

- `sourceUrl`
- `sourceType`
- `pageTitle`
- `recordType`
- `recordName`
- `issueCode`
- `severity`
- `evidenceSnippet`
- `recommendation`
- `canonicalUrl`
- `httpStatus`
- `scannedAt`
- `matchGroupId`
- `productName`
- `competitorName`
- `ownedUrl`
- `competitorUrl`
- `ownedPrice`
- `competitorPrice`
- `priceDifference`
- `pricePosition`
- `currency`
- `saleSignal`
- `shippingSignal`
- `ratingSignal`
- `availabilityComparison`

Reports are also written to key-value storage:

- `competitor-price-position-snapshot-summary-report.md`
- `competitor-price-position-snapshot-records.csv`
- `competitor-price-position-snapshot-issues.json`
- `competitor-price-position-snapshot-evidence-samples.json`
- `competitor-price-position-snapshot-run-metadata.json`

When `includeRawSnapshots` is true, bounded raw HTML snapshots are stored separately. Raw snapshots are off by default.

### Pay-per-event pricing

Platform-usage pass-through is **off**. Prices are the locked fixed-inclusive values for this actor.

| Event | Price | Meaning |
| --- | ---: | --- |
| `actor-start` | $0.08 | Actor Start |
| `product-target-checked` | $0.0175 | Product Target Checked |
| `competitor-price-record-checked` | $0.0175 | Competitor Price Record Checked |
| `price-position-signal-detected` | $0.0345 | Price Position Signal Detected |
| `executive-report-generated` | $0.85 | Executive Report Generated |

Charging rules:

- `actor-start` must be accepted before fetching or rendering begins.
- Page/target events are deduplicated per source.
- Record and finding events fire only when the corresponding output exists.
- Report output is written only after the report event is accepted.
- Partial charges and Apify charge-limit responses stop the run before additional paid output.
- Store discounts are tracked as a separate Console configuration requirement; this source does not claim they are already applied.

### Evidence and failure behavior

- Price difference is competitor price minus owned price.
- Missing sides and currency mismatches are explicit diagnostics.
- The actor does not access private pricing, accounts, carts, or restricted data.

A fetch failure, browser failure, blocked page, missing record, or incomplete match produces a bounded diagnostic row when possible. It never invents a successful extraction. Evidence can be omitted with `includeEvidence: false`.

### Local verification

```bash
pnpm --filter @junipr/competitor-price-position-snapshot build
pnpm --filter @junipr/competitor-price-position-snapshot test
pnpm --filter @junipr/competitor-price-position-snapshot smoke
```

The tests cover strong, weak, unavailable, comparison, and cap fixtures; schema equality; pricing metadata; accepted/partial/limited charges; zero budget; and report generation.

### Limitations

- Results reflect the public source at the scan time and may change later.
- Site markup changes can require selector/parser maintenance.
- The actor does not bypass authentication, CAPTCHAs, robots restrictions, or access controls.
- Legal, tax, pricing, SEO, merchandising, and marketplace decisions remain the user's responsibility.

# Actor input Schema

## `startUrls` (type: `array`):

startUrls for Competitor Price Position Snapshot.

## `sitemapUrls` (type: `array`):

sitemapUrls for Competitor Price Position Snapshot.

## `htmlInputs` (type: `array`):

htmlInputs for Competitor Price Position Snapshot.

## `allowedDomains` (type: `array`):

allowedDomains for Competitor Price Position Snapshot.

## `maxPages` (type: `integer`):

maxPages for Competitor Price Position Snapshot.

## `maxDepth` (type: `integer`):

maxDepth for Competitor Price Position Snapshot.

## `includeEvidence` (type: `boolean`):

includeEvidence for Competitor Price Position Snapshot.

## `includeRawSnapshots` (type: `boolean`):

includeRawSnapshots for Competitor Price Position Snapshot.

## `requestDelayMs` (type: `integer`):

requestDelayMs for Competitor Price Position Snapshot.

## `timeoutMs` (type: `integer`):

timeoutMs for Competitor Price Position Snapshot.

## `userAgentMode` (type: `string`):

userAgentMode for Competitor Price Position Snapshot.

## `ownedProductUrls` (type: `array`):

ownedProductUrls for Competitor Price Position Snapshot.

## `competitorProductUrls` (type: `array`):

competitorProductUrls for Competitor Price Position Snapshot.

## `productMatchMap` (type: `array`):

productMatchMap for Competitor Price Position Snapshot.

## `priceRecords` (type: `array`):

priceRecords for Competitor Price Position Snapshot.

## `collectionUrls` (type: `array`):

collectionUrls for Competitor Price Position Snapshot.

## `priceRules` (type: `array`):

priceRules for Competitor Price Position Snapshot.

## `includeShippingSignals` (type: `boolean`):

includeShippingSignals for Competitor Price Position Snapshot.

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

maxProducts for Competitor Price Position Snapshot.

## `maxCompetitors` (type: `integer`):

maxCompetitors for Competitor Price Position Snapshot.

## `maxPriceRecords` (type: `integer`):

maxPriceRecords for Competitor Price Position Snapshot.

## `maxSnapshots` (type: `integer`):

maxSnapshots for Competitor Price Position Snapshot.

## `maxChargeUsd` (type: `number`):

maxChargeUsd for Competitor Price Position Snapshot.

## `includeReport` (type: `boolean`):

includeReport for Competitor Price Position Snapshot.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "startUrls": [],
  "sitemapUrls": [],
  "htmlInputs": [],
  "allowedDomains": [],
  "maxPages": 5,
  "maxDepth": 5,
  "includeEvidence": true,
  "includeRawSnapshots": false,
  "requestDelayMs": 0,
  "timeoutMs": 15000,
  "userAgentMode": "standard",
  "ownedProductUrls": [],
  "competitorProductUrls": [],
  "productMatchMap": [],
  "priceRecords": [
    {
      "matchGroupId": "camera",
      "role": "owned",
      "owned": true,
      "ownedUrl": "https://shop.example/camera",
      "name": "Atlas Camera",
      "price": 129.99,
      "currency": "USD",
      "availability": "in_stock"
    },
    {
      "matchGroupId": "camera",
      "role": "competitor",
      "competitorUrl": "https://competitor.example/camera",
      "name": "Rival Camera",
      "price": 149.99,
      "currency": "USD",
      "saleSignal": true,
      "shippingSignal": "free shipping",
      "ratingSignal": 4.6,
      "availability": "in_stock"
    }
  ],
  "collectionUrls": [],
  "priceRules": [],
  "includeShippingSignals": true,
  "maxProducts": 5,
  "maxCompetitors": 5,
  "maxPriceRecords": 20,
  "maxSnapshots": 20,
  "maxChargeUsd": 75,
  "includeReport": true
}
```

# Actor output Schema

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

No description

## `report` (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 = {};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("junipr/competitor-price-position-snapshot").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("junipr/competitor-price-position-snapshot").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 junipr/competitor-price-position-snapshot --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,junipr/competitor-price-position-snapshot"
        }
    }
}
```

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/wOOoAEzfE3fpKDZsJ/builds/btcxJuoHAXkekLcyp/openapi.json