Shopify Competitor Product Intelligence

Turn Shopify stores, collections, and product pages into a clean competitor research dataset. This Actor helps e-commerce brands, agencies, product teams, dropshippers, Amazon sellers, and Shopify merchants monitor competing stores, compare prices, spot discounts, map assortments, and discover product opportunities without logging in to any external platform.

Paste a Shopify domain for full-catalog research, a collection URL for category research, or a product URL for a single-page check. The Actor automatically collects as much public product data as possible up to your selected limit and returns product names, prices, discount signals, availability, variants, images, tags, product types, SEO keywords, content scores, priority scores, and recommended actions.

Why use this Actor?

Most Shopify competitor research is still done manually: opening product pages, copying prices into spreadsheets, checking sale items, counting variants, and trying to understand what competitors are pushing. This Actor turns that work into a repeatable data feed you can export to CSV, Excel, JSON, Google Sheets, Airtable, your BI tool, or your own workflow.

Use it for:

• Shopify competitor analysis
• Competitor price monitoring
• E-commerce product research
• DTC brand tracking
• Dropshipping product research
• Assortment gap analysis
• SEO and merchandising research
• Product launch monitoring
• Discount and promotion tracking
• Marketplace benchmarking

What data do you get?

Each product row can include:

• Store URL, store domain, and detected store name
• Product title, product URL, handle, vendor, and product type
• Minimum price, maximum price, average price, and currency when available
• Compare-at prices, discount flag, and maximum discount percentage
• Availability, availability rate, in-stock variants, and out-of-stock variants
• Variant count, option names, SKUs, variant prices, and variant availability
• Product image URL, all detected image URLs, and image count
• Product tags, commercial labels, and SEO-friendly keywords
• Content score, priority score, opportunity signal, and recommended action
• Publish, creation, and update timestamps when available

Input example

{
    "storeUrls": [{ "url": "https://hiutdenim.co.uk" }, { "url": "https://hiutdenim.co.uk/collections/denim" }],
    "maxProductsPerStore": 500
}

Output example

{
    "storeDomain": "example-store.com",
    "productTitle": "Merino Wool Runner",
    "productUrl": "https://example-store.com/products/merino-wool-runner",
    "vendor": "Example Brand",
    "productType": "Sneakers",
    "currency": "USD",
    "minPrice": 89,
    "maxPrice": 129,
    "hasDiscount": true,
    "discountPercentMax": 25.5,
    "isAvailable": true,
    "availabilityRate": 0.75,
    "variantCount": 8,
    "imageUrls": ["https://cdn.example.com/product-front.jpg", "https://cdn.example.com/product-back.jpg"],
    "tags": ["men", "running", "wool"],
    "commercialTags": ["new arrival", "sustainable"],
    "searchKeywords": ["wool", "runner", "sneakers"],
    "contentScore": 82,
    "priorityScore": 76,
    "opportunitySignal": "Active discount",
    "recommendedAction": "Track this discount and compare it against your closest matching product."
}

Practical use cases

Track competitor prices every week

Schedule the Actor to run weekly on your top competitors. Export the dataset to a spreadsheet and filter by discounts, priority score, and product type to see which products changed or deserve attention.

Find assortment gaps before launching a collection

Run several stores in the same niche and group products by product type, price band, tags, and variant count. This makes it easier to see where competitors are over-served, under-served, or using premium positioning.

Discover product ideas for a Shopify store

Use the priority score, commercial tags, and opportunity signal to shortlist products that may be worth deeper validation. This is useful for agencies, brand builders, dropshippers, and marketplace sellers.

Improve SEO and merchandising

Use product titles, tags, product types, keywords, content scores, and image counts to compare your own product pages against competitors. Find naming patterns, collection ideas, and content gaps faster.

Monitor discounts and promotions

Filter for products with discounts and high priority scores. This helps identify active promotions, sale-heavy competitors, and products that may be driving seasonal campaigns.

Who is this for?

This Actor is built for non-technical users who need clean e-commerce intelligence quickly:

• Shopify merchants
• E-commerce agencies
• DTC brand teams
• Product researchers
• Dropshipping operators
• Amazon and marketplace sellers
• SEO consultants
• Growth marketers
• Competitive intelligence teams

How to use it

1. Add Shopify store, collection, or product URLs.
2. Choose the maximum number of products you want from each URL.
3. Run the Actor.
4. Export the results as CSV, Excel, JSON, or connect the dataset to your workflow.

No external platform login is required from the user.

Tips for best results

• Use store homepage URLs for full-catalog research and collection URLs for focused category research.
• Compare stores in the same niche for cleaner benchmarking.
• Run the Actor on a schedule if you want recurring competitor monitoring.
• Start with 100 to 500 products per store, then increase the limit for larger catalogs.
• Use the Apify dataset filters to focus on discounts, unavailable products, premium products, or high-priority rows.

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