# PAL | Product Price & Stock Snapshot (`practical_ai_lab_jp/my-actor`) Actor

Turn public product URLs into export-ready price and stock snapshots: product name, currency, price, SKU, brand and availability. Useful for catalog checks and price comparisons without coding. Supports pages with schema.org Product JSON-LD; no login or JavaScript rendering.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/practical_ai_lab_jp/my-actor.md
- **Developed by:** [Practical AI Lab](https://apify.com/practical_ai_lab_jp) (community)
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
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## Pricing

from $2.00 / 1,000 product snapshots

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?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
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.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

## 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.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## PAL | Product Price & Stock Snapshot

> **Stop checking product prices by hand: extract price, stock, brand, currency and SKU from public product-page structured data.**

**Best for:** Ecommerce teams checking public catalog prices, product data auditors, and developers building scheduled product checks.

**Quick start:** Provide a few public product URLs; export one dataset row per priced offer. Compare current published prices across repeat runs using the same URLs.

**What to expect:** Only static HTML with Product JSON-LD is supported. Prices and stock reflect what the website publishes, not independently verified current stock.

**PAL workflow:** Use this tool on its own or follow the PAL links below to combine related audits. There is no required additional purchase.

**Stop copying product prices by hand. Convert public product pages into structured price, stock, SKU and brand records in seconds.**

Built for ecommerce catalog checks, competitor spot-checks and monitoring published product offers.

### What you get

Product name, price, currency, availability, brand, SKU and source URL for recognized static Product JSON-LD.

- **Input:** Public HTTPS product page URLs, up to 50 per run.
- **Output:** structured records in the Apify dataset, exportable as JSON, CSV or Excel.
- **Processing:** lightweight static-HTML parsing without logging in to websites or deploying a server.

### Try a single page first

1. Paste a publicly accessible HTTPS product or storefront URL into the input form.
2. Select **Start** and review the dataset results.
3. Export the results. Add more URLs after confirming that the site exposes the expected structured data or links.

Example input:

```json
{"urls":["https://scrapeme.live/shop/Pikachu/"]}
```

### Clear pay-per-event pricing

**$2 per 1,000 product snapshots + $0.00005 per run.** Only successful priced product records generate the product-snapshot billable event. Prices shown here describe this Actor's current pricing configuration; verify the live rate in Apify before running at scale. Run cost limits can be set in Apify Console.

### Complete your PAL ecommerce workflow

Each Actor works independently. Choose another PAL tool only when it answers your next question:

- [PAL Return Policy Schema Auditor](https://apify.com/practical_ai_lab_jp/my-actor-1)
- [PAL Shipping Promise Schema Audit](https://apify.com/practical_ai_lab_jp/my-actor-2)
- [PAL Product GTIN & SKU SEO Auditor](https://apify.com/practical_ai_lab_jp/my-actor-3)
- [PAL Store Policy Link Mapper](https://apify.com/practical_ai_lab_jp/my-actor-4)

**Suggested path:** Product Snapshot → GTIN/SKU Audit for catalog QA; Policy Link Mapper → Return Policy Audit and Shipping Promise Audit to inspect policy signals.

[Explore all Practical AI Lab tools](https://apify.com/practical_ai_lab_jp).

### Important limitations

Pages without static Product JSON-LD may return no product. Javascript-only storefronts are not supported. The tools read public HTTPS pages (not private logins), do not render JavaScript and do not bypass access controls. Page data can be incomplete or stale. No guarantee of legal compliance, completeness or sales outcomes.

# Actor input Schema

## `urls` (type: `array`):

Public HTTPS product pages exposing static schema.org Product JSON-LD. Max 50 per run. Default is a public scraping-test product.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "urls": [
    "https://scrapeme.live/shop/Pikachu/"
  ]
}
```

# Actor output Schema

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

No description

# 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 = {
    "urls": [
        "https://scrapeme.live/shop/Pikachu/"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("practical_ai_lab_jp/my-actor").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 = { "urls": ["https://scrapeme.live/shop/Pikachu/"] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("practical_ai_lab_jp/my-actor").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 '{
  "urls": [
    "https://scrapeme.live/shop/Pikachu/"
  ]
}' |
apify call practical_ai_lab_jp/my-actor --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

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

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/E61j8P2UqOhAc1KGQ/builds/tLbvK9CC6qaXEoUKC/openapi.json