New Shopify Stores Radar & Shopify Checker (Pre-Launch)

Find Shopify stores the day their domain gets its first HTTPS certificate, including stores still behind their password page. Most new-store tools only see a shop once it has public products; this one reads public Certificate Transparency logs, so pre-launch stores show up too (about 40% of detections).

Built as a tool for AI agents as much as for people: one flat JSON object per store, stable field names, no nested pages to crawl, pay per result.

What it returns

Field	Type	Meaning
store_domain	string	Public domain of the store
store_name	string | null	Storefront name
status	live | pre-launch	pre-launch = password page, not open yet
niche	string	One of 16 niches (from public product titles and types), General store or Unknown (no products yet)
country, region, currency	string | null	Store-level settings published by the storefront
products, collections	integer | null	Public catalog counts
ships_to	integer | null	Number of shipping countries
product_types, sample_titles	string | null	Short public catalog preview
domain_registered	YYYY-MM-DD | null	Registration date from the official RDAP registry
first_detected	YYYY-MM-DD	Day the radar first saw the store (feed mode)

In Check my domains mode each row also has input, is_shopify (boolean) and dns_status.

Example item (illustrative values):

{
  "store_domain": "example-store.com",
  "store_name": "Example Store",
  "status": "live",
  "niche": "Health & Supplements",
  "country": "GB",
  "region": null,
  "currency": "GBP",
  "products": 12,
  "collections": 3,
  "ships_to": 41,
  "product_types": "Supplements",
  "sample_titles": "Pre-Workout – Watermelon (380g)",
  "domain_registered": "2026-09-20",
  "first_detected": "2026-09-26"
}

Business-level data only: no emails, no phone numbers, no names of people.

Modes

• New stores feed ("mode": "feed") — stores detected in the last 1–30 days whose domain was registered in the last 30 days. Filter by status, niche and country. The feed is refreshed up to every 2 hours.
• Check my domains ("mode": "enrich") — send domains; get whether each one runs on Shopify, its registration date, status, niche and catalog counts. Useful for automated lead enrichment and CRM clean-up.

For AI agents (MCP, API, x402)

• MCP: add this Actor as a tool in the Apify MCP server (https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=prelaunch-radar/new-shopify-stores-pre-launch-radar) and call it from Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, CrewAI, LangChain or any MCP client.
• API: POST https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/prelaunch-radar~new-shopify-stores-pre-launch-radar/run-sync-get-dataset-items returns the JSON array directly.
• x402: agents can pay per call without an Apify account.
• Minimal inputs:
  • {"mode": "feed", "sinceDays": 1} — today's new stores
  • {"mode": "feed", "status": "pre-launch", "countries": ["US"], "maxItems": 50}
  • {"mode": "enrich", "domains": ["example.com"]}
• maxItems is a hard cap on billed results, so an agent's spend is bounded before the run.

Scheduling

Run the feed every day with "sinceDays": 1 (Apify Schedules, n8n, Make, Zapier) to receive the stores detected yesterday and today; deduplicate on store_domain.

Pricing

Pay per result: you pay for each store delivered (feed) or each domain checked (enrich). Stores filtered out are never billed. Max results caps your spend.

How it's built

Public Certificate Transparency logs (RFC 6962), public DNS records pointing to Shopify, the official RDAP registry, and each store's public /meta.json and /products.json.

LEGAL DISCLAIMER

This dataset is provided for market research, trend analysis, and competitive intelligence purposes only, on an "as-is" and "as-available" basis without warranties of any kind. Records originate exclusively from publicly accessible sources (Certificate Transparency logs, public DNS and RDAP registries, and stores' public storefront metadata); no personally identifiable information (PII) is collected or sold. Independently developed, not affiliated with, authorized, or endorsed by Shopify Inc. By accessing this data, you agree that the provider shall not be liable for any direct or indirect damages resulting from its use; in any event, liability is limited to the purchase price.