# E-Commerce Competitor Price Tracking & Stock Monitor (`neon_innovation_lab/ecommerce-pricing-intel`) Actor

Monitor competitor pricing, stockouts, and hidden discounts across Shopify and WooCommerce stores. Built for real-time retail intelligence with pay-per-event billing.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/neon\_innovation\_lab/ecommerce-pricing-intel.md
- **Developed by:** [Neon Innovation Lab](https://apify.com/neon_innovation_lab) (community)
- **Categories:**
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
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## Pricing

$1.50 / 1,000 product extracteds

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?

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.

- **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).
- **Agentic workflows and local Actor development** — [Agent Skills](https://apify.com/.well-known/agent-skills/index.json) with the [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md): `npm install -g apify-cli`, then `apify login`.
- **JavaScript/TypeScript projects** — the official [JS/TS client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md): `npm install apify-client`.
- **Python projects** — the official [Python client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md): `pip install apify-client`.
- **Any other language** — 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

## E-Commerce Competitor Price Tracking & Stock Monitor

In e-commerce, pricing is dynamic and stockouts happen fast. If you're manually checking your competitors' Shopify stores to see when they drop prices, you're already too late.

This Actor monitors real-time product catalogs, competitor pricing dynamics, discount margins, and stock availability. It automatically parses standardized schema.org data across Shopify, WooCommerce, and custom storefronts to give you highly accurate, normalized pricing intelligence.

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### Features

- **JSON-LD & Microdata Extraction**: High-precision parsing of standardized schema.org `Product` records.
- **Automatic Currency Normalization**: Standardizes multi-currency feeds into clean USD/EUR output.
- **Stock & Discount Detection**: Identifies stockout events and percentage markdowns instantly.
- **AI & RAG Ready**: Clean tabular JSON output ready for ingestion by competitor intelligence agents.

### How to use

1. Enter the target store URLs or category pages (e.g. `https://store.com/collections/all`).
2. Set the maximum number of items you want to extract.
3. Run the actor. Results will be saved to the Apify Dataset in clean JSON/CSV formats.

# Actor input Schema

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

List of URLs of e-commerce store pages, category listings, or product catalogs to scrape.

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

The maximum number of product prices to collect. Billed at pay-per-event rates.

## `currency` (type: `string`):

Standardize price currency output.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "startUrls": [
    {
      "url": "https://camp-snap-camera.myshopify.com/collections/all"
    }
  ],
  "maxItems": 100,
  "currency": "USD"
}
```

# Actor output Schema

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

Dataset containing parsed e-commerce pricing records.

## `summary` (type: `string`):

Key-value store entry detailing total items billed via Pay-Per-Event.

# 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 = {
    "startUrls": [
        {
            "url": "https://camp-snap-camera.myshopify.com/collections/all"
        }
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("neon_innovation_lab/ecommerce-pricing-intel").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 = { "startUrls": [{ "url": "https://camp-snap-camera.myshopify.com/collections/all" }] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("neon_innovation_lab/ecommerce-pricing-intel").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 '{
  "startUrls": [
    {
      "url": "https://camp-snap-camera.myshopify.com/collections/all"
    }
  ]
}' |
apify call neon_innovation_lab/ecommerce-pricing-intel --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,neon_innovation_lab/ecommerce-pricing-intel"
        }
    }
}

```

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/Nveg2yVW33jXXeYqZ/builds/jNALwEpCWmELC0w1W/openapi.json