Cloud Ninjas RAM Price & Stock Monitor

Turn Cloud Ninjas RAM listings into a sourcing sheet with advertised price, ordering availability, SKU, DDR generation, ECC type, module construction, kit capacity and cost per GB. Repeat the same watchlist to record price changes and restocks.

Built for server refurbishers, IT asset resellers, repair shops and purchasing teams. A RAM kit is only a useful comparison when you know what is inside it: 768 GB across 24 modules is different from one 768 GB module. This Actor separates those fields and preserves contradictory seller specifications as visible warnings.

Start with a useful result

Click Start with the default input. The Actor reads the first three products in Cloud Ninjas' branded-memory collection, checks storefront currency, and saves their RAM variants. No API key, login, cookies or proxy is required.

Open Output → Saved observations for JSON, export CSV from the dataset, or open the readable run report for coverage and history status. Supply exact product URLs for a stable purchasing watchlist; use collection URLs for bounded discovery.

{
  "startUrls": ["https://cloudninjas.com/collections/branded-memory-ram-modules-collection"],
  "productsPerSource": 3,
  "maxResults": 5
}

Three practical recipes

1. DDR5 module sourcing

Read the first three branded products and compare their prices, module types and merchant-supplied specifications. Out-of-stock variants are retained so you can see what is unavailable.

{"startUrls":["https://cloudninjas.com/collections/branded-memory-ram-modules-collection"],"productsPerSource":3,"maxResults":5}

2. Currently orderable DDR5 offers

Inspect five products, then retain matching in-stock DDR5 variants. Filtering happens inside the selected window; the Actor does not scan the entire catalog to fill the result cap.

{"startUrls":["https://cloudninjas.com/collections/branded-memory-ram-modules-collection"],"productsPerSource":5,"availability":"in_stock","memoryGeneration":"DDR5","maxResults":5}

3. Refurbished server kit pricing

Observe an exact DDR4 kit listing. Use comparePrevious: true on repeated runs to see price changes. Keep availability: "all" when you need restock and sold-out transitions; filtering out one state prevents that state from entering your baseline.

{"startUrls":["https://cloudninjas.com/products/dell-768gb-24x32gb-ddr4-pc4-3200aa-pc4-25600-ecc-registered-server-memory-upgrade-kit"],"maxResults":5}

What each result means

Field	Meaning
recordId, productId, variantId, sku	Stable merchant product/variant identity and the supplied SKU. One saved row represents one variant observation.
price, currency, compareAtPrice	Public advertised USD offer and optional merchant comparison price. Currency must be explicitly verified from the same storefront; an unlabeled price is rejected.
inStock, stockQuantity	Merchant ordering availability. Physical quantity remains null; this Actor does not query carts or infer units on hand.
memoryGeneration, moduleType, eccType	DDR3/DDR4/DDR5; RDIMM/LRDIMM/UDIMM/SODIMM; ECC, non-ECC or on-die ECC only. Missing or conflicting values remain null.
totalCapacityGB, moduleCount, moduleCapacityGB	Total kit capacity, module count and capacity per module. TB labels use 1,024 GB for normalization. Unknown counts are not guessed.
pricePerGB, pricePerModule	Advertised offer divided by unambiguous total capacity or module count, rounded to six decimals. These exclude shipping, tax and resale costs.
speedMTs, rank, condition	Normalized merchant speed label, rank and stated condition. The merchant sometimes labels DDR transfer rates “MHz”; this is stored as the advertised effective rate, not measured clock speed.
manufacturer, manufacturerPartNumber, vendor	Explicit brand/MPN specification fields, separate from the Shopify vendor. A vendor named Cloud Ninjas is not assumed to manufacture the module.
specWarnings, specEvidence	Conflicts and supporting title, variant, specification lines and relevant tags. Review warnings before purchasing.
priceChange, priceChangePercent, restocked, soldOut	Changes against this workflow's retained prior observation, not market-wide or historical sales data.
comparisonStatus, changedFields, previous	not_requested, new, changed or unchanged, with prior values when available.
observedAt, sourceUpdatedAt, sourceUrl, sourcePage, url	Observation timestamp, optional merchant update timestamp and exact public evidence links. Merchant update time is not proof that its inventory was physically counted then.

The storefront currently contains real inconsistencies. For example, a module's title/tags can say 5600 while its description says 4800. This Actor reports speedMTs: null with conflicting_speedMTs. It does not choose the most attractive specification or invent a compatibility verdict.

Inputs and coverage

Accepts up to three plain Cloud Ninjas /products/handle or /collections/handle URLs. Other stores, query parameters, tagged collection paths, private pages and authentication are unsupported. productsPerSource selects 1–25 products from the first collection page in source order; it is ignored for exact product URLs. All variants returned for those products are inspected. A response at the public 250-variant ceiling is rejected because completeness cannot be established.

maxResults caps saved observations at 1–100. Default 5; the default source window currently produces three rows. availability, memoryGeneration and moduleType filter inside the chosen product window. A valid filter may produce zero results. Unknown normalized specifications do not match a specific filter. Non-RAM products are excluded and counted in SUMMARY.

Requests are spaced at least one second apart with a shared 30–120 second time budget. Public robots rules are checked, redirects are rejected, and HTTP 401, 403 or 429 stops subsequent requests. There are no proxies, block workarounds, account sessions or cart requests.

SUMMARY records requested sources, selected products, observed variants, filters, saved rows, unreached sources, failures, limits and whether comparison history was updated. Collection windows are never labeled complete catalog coverage. A successful platform run can still have partial coverage; inspect SUMMARY.incomplete.

Reliable comparison history

Enable comparePrevious to retain complete observations, or onlyChanges to save only new or changed variants. A complete unchanged repeat may save zero rows and incur no dataset-item charge. History is separated by snapshotName, URLs, product-window size and filters.

History updates only after every selected source and matching variant has been handled successfully. Failed sources, a time limit, charge limit, an output cap that drops selected rows, or unreached URLs leave the prior baseline intact. An output cap exactly equal to the number of matching rows is complete. Concurrent writers that alter the same history are detected before overwrite.

Rows no longer present in a limited source window are not declared deleted, sold out or removed. Prior identities are retained, up to 20,000 per history scope. Use a new snapshot name or narrower watchlist if that limit is reached. Do not overlap runs that write the same history scope.

Pricing

$0.002 per saved variant observation, plus $0.00005 per run start. A three-row run costs $0.00605 in these events. A five-row run costs $0.01005. Billing follows saved dataset rows, not downloaded pages; duplicate observations and unchanged rows skipped by onlyChanges create no dataset-item charge. The run-start event still applies. Configure Max total charge in Apify run options for an additional cap. Your platform plan can have separate usage charges.

Scope and buying decisions

This independent Actor currently covers Cloud Ninjas only. It is not affiliated with Cloud Ninjas or RAM manufacturers. Public offers are not completed sales, guaranteed fulfillment, wholesale quotes, guaranteed compatibility or resale-profit predictions. Merchant descriptions can contain mistakes. Check your exact motherboard/server requirements and confirm seller details before purchasing. Combine these observations with your own selling prices, condition, shipping, tax, warranty, return and platform-fee assumptions.

Sources: Cloud Ninjas branded RAM collection, Cloud Ninjas terms, public robots rules, Shopify public Product API. Product/collection responses can change; unsupported or malformed responses fail explicitly instead of generating substitute data.

For source changes or additional memory fields, open an issue on the Actor page with the affected public URL and a non-secret example input. Explore Mayd It data workflows.