Shopify Catalog & Price Monitor

Apify Store title: Shopify Catalog & Price Monitor — Track Competitor Stores on a Schedule

Apify Store description:

Pull the full public product catalog — titles, variants, SKUs, prices, compare-at prices, and stock — from any Shopify store, straight from the /products.json feed Shopify publishes for search engines. Zero-config default run returns clean rows immediately; point it at your competitors and schedule it to catch price drops, restocks, and new products. Public catalog data only: no login, no customer PII, no rate-limit games. Perfect for brand teams, agencies, and marketplaces tracking competitor pricing at scale.

Source + legality

GET https://{domain}/products.json?limit=250&page=N — the public JSON feed Shopify publishes so search engines and apps can read a store's catalog. No authentication, no cookies, product + pricing data only. Backed by hiQ v. LinkedIn and Meta v. Bright Data for public-data scraping. Honors target robots.txt and a polite request rate.

Zero-config default run

Leave the input empty: the actor pulls a few stable public demo stores (colourpop.com, gymshark.com, allbirds.com) and returns clean product rows immediately — so the first free run works and the Store listing's "try it" button never errors (the #1 documented discovery failure mode is a silent default-input error). A single blocked or throttled store can't zero the run; fetchRows aggregates across whichever stores respond.

Output fields

store, productId, title, handle, vendor, productType, tags[], variantId, sku, price, compareAtPrice, currency, available, image, updatedAt, source

Run locally (no Apify account)

npm install
npm test --workspace actors/shopify-catalog-price-monitor
# or run the actor directly:
node actors/shopify-catalog-price-monitor/src/main.js

Proposed pricing (set in Apify at publish — CJ-gated)

Pay-Per-Event in the documented winning band (~75% of top-20 actors use PPE):

• ~$0.003 per product scanned
• ~$0.004 per change event (price/stock change on scheduled runs)

Pricing is NOT set here — it is configured on the Apify Store at publish and requires CJ sign-off (see businesses/forge/STRATEGY.md). No account, no publish, no spend happens in this repo.