# Retail Arbitrage Price Scanner – Walmart to Amazon Spread (`robinworld/retail-arbitrage-spread-scanner`) Actor

Scans retail clearance price spreads across Walmart, Target, and Amazon in real-time to find high-margin online arbitrage (OA) and FBA flipping deals.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/robinworld/retail-arbitrage-spread-scanner.md
- **Developed by:** [Robin world](https://apify.com/robinworld) (community)
- **Categories:**
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $4.00 / 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/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
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- **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`.
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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## 🛍️ Retail Arbitrage & Clearance to Amazon Spread Scanner

> **The automated inventory sourcing engine for Amazon FBA, FBM, and Online Arbitrage (OA) sellers.**

Scrapes real-time **clearance, rollbacks, and overstock deals from Walmart, Target, Home Depot, and BestBuy**, then automatically calculates the **Amazon Buy Box spread, estimated 15% marketplace fees, net profit ($USD), and ROI percentage**.

***

### 💎 Why Online Arbitrage Sellers Need This Actor

Manual sourcing requires spending **hours clicking through clearance aisles** and scanning barcodes with seller apps. This Actor automates the entire sourcing pipeline for just **$0.003 per verified profitable deal**.

- **🛒 Major Retailers Included**: Scans Walmart, Target, Home Depot, and BestBuy simultaneously.
- **📈 Real-Time ROI & Net Profit Calculations**: Pre-computes gross price differences, subtracts standard 15% Amazon fees, and outputs precise Net Profit and Return on Investment (ROI%).
- **🔗 Direct Buy & Sell Links**: Provides direct links to buy inventory immediately at the retailer, and direct Amazon search links to verify the ASIN and sales rank.
- **⚡ Instant Multi-Format Export**: Export clean datasets to **Excel, CSV, JSON**, or send instant alerts via Webhooks to **Telegram, Discord, or Google Sheets**.

***

### 🚀 How to Use

1. **Retail Clearance Source**: Select `All Major Retailers` or pick specific stores (`Walmart`, `Target`, `Home Depot`, `BestBuy`).
2. **Category / Keyword (Optional)**: Filter by niche (e.g. `toys`, `electronics`, `tools`, `lego`).
3. **Minimum ROI (%)**: Set your profit threshold (e.g. `25%` or `35%`).
4. **Minimum Net Profit ($)**: Set minimum profit per unit (e.g. `$5.00` or `$10.00`).
5. **Click "Start"** to generate your daily sourcing buy-list.

***

### 📦 Output Data Sample

```json
{
  "deal_id": "19979049",
  "title": "HART 20-Volt Brushless Reciprocating Saw (Battery Not Included)",
  "store_name": "Walmart",
  "store_price": 37.83,
  "original_retail_price": 60.53,
  "estimated_amazon_price": 60.53,
  "gross_spread": 22.70,
  "estimated_fba_fees": 9.08,
  "estimated_net_profit": 13.62,
  "estimated_roi_percent": 36.0,
  "clearance_discount_percent": 37.5,
  "store_url": "https://www.walmart.com/ip/HART-20-Volt-Brushless-Reciprocating-Saw...",
  "amazon_search_url": "https://www.amazon.com/s?k=HART+20-Volt+Brushless+Reciprocating+Saw",
  "in_stock": true,
  "scraped_at": "2026-09-08T03:20:00Z"
}
```

***

### 💰 Pricing: Pay-Per-Event

- **Price**: **$0.003** per extracted profitable arbitrage deal.
- Sourcing 1,000 profitable deals costs only **$3.00**.
- Pay only for profitable records returned.

# Actor input Schema

## `source_store` (type: `string`):

Select retail chain to scan for clearance items and price spreads

## `keyword` (type: `string`):

Narrow down deals by category or brand (e.g. 'electronics', 'toys', 'tools', 'lego', 'apple')

## `min_roi_percent` (type: `integer`):

Filter out deals with lower Return on Investment than this percentage

## `min_net_profit_usd` (type: `number`):

Minimum net dollar profit per unit after estimated 15% marketplace fees

## `max_items` (type: `integer`):

Max number of profitable arbitrage records to extract (charged $0.003 per item)

## `proxy_configuration` (type: `object`):

Use Apify built-in proxies for fast multi-threaded execution

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "source_store": "all",
  "keyword": "",
  "min_roi_percent": 20,
  "min_net_profit_usd": 5,
  "max_items": 50,
  "proxy_configuration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

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

Clearance to Amazon price spread and arbitrage margin dataset items

# 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 = {};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("robinworld/retail-arbitrage-spread-scanner").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 = {}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("robinworld/retail-arbitrage-spread-scanner").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 '{}' |
apify call robinworld/retail-arbitrage-spread-scanner --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,robinworld/retail-arbitrage-spread-scanner"
        }
    }
}

```

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/S2VtzQPC2WCkidG87/builds/h4EB8HvsEiV767oep/openapi.json