Smart Competitor Price Monitor

Smart Competitor Price Monitor Real-Time Competitor Price Tracking & Change Detection

Smart Competitor Price Monitor automatically tracks competitor product pages, detects price and stock changes, and delivers structured alerts in real time.

Designed for e-commerce teams, growth analysts, and automation workflows, this Actor replaces manual price checks with reliable monitoring that runs continuously in the background.

👉 Monitor competitors. Detect changes instantly. Automate pricing intelligence.

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🔍 Why Use This Actor?

Monitoring competitor pricing manually is slow, inconsistent, and error-prone.

This Actor gives you:

✅ Automated competitor price tracking ✅ Real-time change detection ✅ Historical price comparison ✅ Structured dataset output ✅ Webhook alerts for automation ✅ Scheduling-ready monitoring ✅ Proxy-supported crawling ✅ Reliable browser extraction

No spreadsheets. No fragile scripts. No missed price changes.

⚡ What Happens When You Run It

For each product URL:

Page is loaded using a headless browser

Price + availability are extracted

Values are normalized

Previous run state is compared

Change detection is calculated

Structured results are saved

Alerts are triggered (optional)

Every run builds historical intelligence automatically.

🎯 Perfect For

E-commerce competitor monitoring

Marketplace price tracking

Automated pricing alerts

Growth analytics

Workflow automation pipelines

Competitive intelligence teams

🛠 Features

Auto or selector-based extraction

EU/US price normalization

Dataset + state persistence

Change thresholds

Webhook integration

Proxy compatibility

Debug diagnostics

Scalable monitoring architecture

📈 SEO Keywords Covered

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🔄 Demo Workflow Guide

(Shows real-world value in 3 minutes)

Demo 1 — Daily Competitor Price Monitoring Goal

Detect when a competitor changes pricing.

Steps

1️⃣ Open Actor → paste product URLs 2️⃣ Run actor once → baseline created 3️⃣ Schedule daily run 4️⃣ View Dataset → compare changes

Result:

price changed → alert triggered → action taken

You now have automated competitor intelligence.

Demo 2 — Instant Alert Pipeline (n8n) Goal

Send Slack/email alert when price changes.

Steps

1️⃣ Create webhook in n8n 2️⃣ Add webhook URL to Actor input 3️⃣ Run actor 4️⃣ When change detected → webhook fires

Workflow:

Actor → webhook → Slack/email → team notified

Zero manual checking required.

Demo 3 — Historical Price Tracking Goal

Build pricing history over time.

Steps

1️⃣ Schedule actor daily 2️⃣ Export dataset 3️⃣ Visualize trends in spreadsheet/dashboard

Result:

competitor price history → strategy insights

Demo 4 — Bulk Monitoring

Track dozens or hundreds of competitor URLs in one run.

input → run → structured results → automation

Scales effortlessly.

Best Practices

✔ Use selector mode for precision ✔ Set change thresholds to reduce noise ✔ Schedule runs for continuous monitoring ✔ Enable proxy for strict sites ✔ Keep KV store intact for history

Final Value

Instead of guessing competitor pricing…

You get:

👉 automated tracking 👉 instant alerts 👉 structured insights 👉 reliable history

All running continuously.