# E-commerce Stock Drop Alert (`missingreports/ecommerce-stock-drop-alert`) Actor Detect when high-demand products come back in stock. Monitor NVIDIA, Best Buy, AMD, Sony, PlayStation and any custom product URL, and flag availability changes for reselling, restock bots and deal alerts. - **URL**: https://apify.com/missingreports/ecommerce-stock-drop-alert.md - **Developed by:** [MissingReports](https://apify.com/missingreports) (community) - **Categories:** E-commerce, Lead generation, AI - **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks - **User rating**: No ratings yet ## Pricing from $2.49 / 1,000 results 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/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event ## What's an Apify Actor? Actors are web data automations that power AI and operations. They run on the Apify platform to scrape websites, process data, connect APIs, and automate workflows. 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? If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects. You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready. The best way to integrate Actors is as follows. In JavaScript/TypeScript projects, use official [JavaScript/TypeScript client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md): ```bash npm install apify-client ``` In Python projects, use official [Python client library](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md): ```bash pip install apify-client ``` In shell scripts, use [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md): ````bash # MacOS / Linux curl -fsSL https://apify.com/install-cli.sh | bash # Windows irm https://apify.com/install-cli.ps1 | iex ```bash In AI frameworks, you might use the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/integrations/mcp.md). If your project is in a different language, use the [REST API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2.md). 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 ## Ecommerce Stock Drop Alert & Monitor Monitor any product page for back-in-stock and price-drop events. Get alert-ready data the moment an item returns or drops in price. Scrape availability, price, and seller from Amazon, Best Buy, Walmart, and any custom URL. Built for resellers, dropshippers, and deal hunters who need first-mover advantage. ### What can you monitor? - 📦 In-stock / out-of-stock status - 💲 Current price and price-drop detection - 🏪 Seller / retailer - 🔗 Product URL - 🕒 Timestamp of the last change ### Use cases for stock-drop monitoring - **Reselling & flipping** — catch restocks of high-demand items (GPUs, consoles, sneakers) before the crowd - **Dropshipping** — know the instant a supplier item is available again - **Deal hunting** — get alerted the moment a price drops below your threshold - **Inventory alerts** — watch competitor or supplier stock without manual checking - **Price tracking** — log price changes over time for any SKU ### How it works 1. Enter the **sites** to monitor (e.g. `bestbuy`, `amazon`) and the **keywords** or product URLs. 2. Run the Actor on a schedule (hourly, daily) to keep watching. 3. Results stream to the default dataset as structured JSON, with the latest availability and price per item — ready to export as CSV or Excel or pipe into your own alert webhook. The scraper renders pages in a headless browser and uses Apify's proxy pool, so your machine and IP are never used. ### Input Configure the options in the Actor input UI, then **Run**. See the Input tab for the full schema. ### Output Structured results are saved to the default dataset (JSON / CSV / Excel export available). ### Monetization Set a price (free trial + per-result) in the Apify Console, then make the Actor public in the Apify Store. # Actor input Schema ## `sites` (type: `array`): Built-in monitors for common restock targets. ## `customUrls` (type: `array`): Any product page URLs to monitor for stock status. ## `keywords` (type: `array`): If a page contains these keywords it is flagged in-stock (useful when no clean 'Add to cart' button exists). ## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`): Retail sites block aggressively. Use residential proxies. ## Actor input object example ```json { "sites": [ "nvidia", "bestbuy" ], "keywords": [ "add to cart", "in stock" ], "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": true } } ```` # 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 '' with your token const client = new ApifyClient({ token: '', }); // Prepare Actor input const input = { "sites": [ "nvidia", "bestbuy" ], "keywords": [ "add to cart", "in stock" ], "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": true } }; // Run the Actor and wait for it to finish const run = await client.actor("missingreports/ecommerce-stock-drop-alert").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 '' with your token. client = ApifyClient("") # Prepare the Actor input run_input = { "sites": [ "nvidia", "bestbuy", ], "keywords": [ "add to cart", "in stock", ], "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": True }, } # Run the Actor and wait for it to finish run = client.actor("missingreports/ecommerce-stock-drop-alert").call(run_input=run_input) # Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any) print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"]) for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items(): print(item) # 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start ``` ## CLI example ```bash echo '{ "sites": [ "nvidia", "bestbuy" ], "keywords": [ "add to cart", "in stock" ], "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": true } }' | apify call missingreports/ecommerce-stock-drop-alert --silent --output-dataset ``` ## MCP server setup ```json { "mcpServers": { "apify": { "command": "npx", "args": [ "mcp-remote", "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=missingreports/ecommerce-stock-drop-alert", "--header", "Authorization: Bearer " ] } } } ``` ## OpenAPI specification ```json { "openapi": "3.0.1", "info": { "title": "E-commerce Stock Drop Alert", "description": "Detect when high-demand products come back in stock. Monitor NVIDIA, Best Buy, AMD, Sony, PlayStation and any custom product URL, and flag availability changes for reselling, restock bots and deal alerts.", "version": "0.1", "x-build-id": "wT451El4EX7f9ipRY" }, "servers": [ { "url": "https://api.apify.com/v2" } ], "paths": { "/acts/missingreports~ecommerce-stock-drop-alert/run-sync-get-dataset-items": { "post": { "operationId": "run-sync-get-dataset-items-missingreports-ecommerce-stock-drop-alert", "x-openai-isConsequential": false, "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for its completion, and returns Actor's dataset items in response.", "tags": [ "Run Actor" ], "requestBody": { "required": true, "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema" } } } }, "parameters": [ { "name": "token", "in": "query", "required": true, "schema": { "type": "string" }, "description": "Enter your Apify token here" } ], "responses": { "200": { "description": "OK" } } } }, "/acts/missingreports~ecommerce-stock-drop-alert/runs": { "post": { "operationId": "runs-sync-missingreports-ecommerce-stock-drop-alert", "x-openai-isConsequential": false, "summary": "Executes an Actor and returns information about the initiated run in response.", "tags": [ "Run Actor" ], "requestBody": { "required": true, "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema" } } } }, "parameters": [ { "name": "token", "in": "query", "required": true, "schema": { "type": "string" }, "description": "Enter your Apify token here" } ], "responses": { "200": { "description": "OK", "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/runsResponseSchema" } } } } } } }, "/acts/missingreports~ecommerce-stock-drop-alert/run-sync": { "post": { "operationId": "run-sync-missingreports-ecommerce-stock-drop-alert", "x-openai-isConsequential": false, "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for completion, and returns the OUTPUT from Key-value store in response.", "tags": [ "Run Actor" ], "requestBody": { "required": true, "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema" } } } }, "parameters": [ { "name": "token", "in": "query", "required": true, "schema": { "type": "string" }, "description": "Enter your Apify token here" } ], "responses": { "200": { "description": "OK" } } } } }, "components": { "schemas": { "inputSchema": { "type": "object", "properties": { "sites": { "title": "Preset sites", "type": "array", "description": "Built-in monitors for common restock targets.", "items": { "type": "string" } }, "customUrls": { "title": "Custom product URLs", "type": "array", "description": "Any product page URLs to monitor for stock status.", "items": { "type": "string" } }, "keywords": { "title": "Keywords (match in page text)", "type": "array", "description": "If a page contains these keywords it is flagged in-stock (useful when no clean 'Add to cart' button exists).", "items": { "type": "string" } }, "proxyConfiguration": { "title": "Proxy configuration", "type": "object", "description": "Retail sites block aggressively. Use residential proxies." } } }, "runsResponseSchema": { "type": "object", "properties": { "data": { "type": "object", "properties": { "id": { "type": "string" }, "actId": { "type": "string" }, "userId": { "type": "string" }, "startedAt": { "type": "string", "format": "date-time", "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z" }, "finishedAt": { "type": "string", "format": "date-time", "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z" }, "status": { "type": "string", "example": "READY" }, "meta": { "type": "object", "properties": { "origin": { "type": "string", "example": "API" }, "userAgent": { "type": "string" } } }, "stats": { "type": "object", "properties": { "inputBodyLen": { "type": "integer", "example": 2000 }, "rebootCount": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "restartCount": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "resurrectCount": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "computeUnits": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 } } }, "options": { "type": "object", "properties": { "build": { "type": "string", "example": "latest" }, "timeoutSecs": { "type": "integer", "example": 300 }, "memoryMbytes": { "type": "integer", "example": 1024 }, "diskMbytes": { "type": "integer", "example": 2048 } } }, "buildId": { "type": "string" }, "defaultKeyValueStoreId": { "type": "string" }, "defaultDatasetId": { "type": "string" }, "defaultRequestQueueId": { "type": "string" }, "buildNumber": { "type": "string", "example": "1.0.0" }, "containerUrl": { "type": "string" }, "usage": { "type": "object", "properties": { "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATASET_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATASET_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 1 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "PROXY_SERPS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 } } }, "usageTotalUsd": { "type": "number", "example": 0.00005 }, "usageUsd": { "type": "object", "properties": { "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATASET_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATASET_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": { "type": "number", "example": 0.00005 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "PROXY_SERPS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 } } } } } } } } } } ```