# WooCommerce Price & Inventory Monitor (`sashaebashu/woocommerce-monitor`) Actor

Scrape any WooCommerce store's products, prices, stock and categories — and monitor price drops, restocks and new products over time. No API keys.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/sashaebashu/woocommerce-monitor.md
- **Developed by:** [Sasha Ebashu](https://apify.com/sashaebashu) (community)
- **Categories:** E-commerce, Automation
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $3.00 / 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/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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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".

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```bash
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```

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```bash
pip install apify-client
```

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````bash
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# Windows
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```bash

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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## WooCommerce Price & Inventory Monitor

Scrape **every product from any WooCommerce store** — names, prices, sale prices, stock status, categories, ratings and images — and **monitor changes over time**: price drops, price rises, restocks, sell-outs, new and removed products.

Just enter a store domain. **No API keys, no login.** It reads the store's public WooCommerce Store API.

### Two modes

#### 1. Catalog — full product dump
Get the complete catalog: one row per product with price, regular/sale price, currency, in-stock flag (and `lowStockRemaining` when the store exposes it), categories, tags, brand, average rating and review count, images and timestamps. Run across many stores at once. Export to JSON, CSV, Excel or Google Sheets.

#### 2. Monitor — only what changed 🔥
Run it on a schedule. The actor remembers the previous run and outputs **only the differences**:

| changeType | meaning |
|---|---|
| `price_drop` / `price_rise` | the price moved (with `oldPrice`, `newPrice`, `changePct`) |
| `back_in_stock` / `out_of_stock` | availability flipped |
| `new_product` / `removed_product` | a product appeared or disappeared |

Perfect for **competitor price tracking, restock alerts, dropshipping research and MAP-violation monitoring**.

### Why this one

- **Monitoring, not just a snapshot** — most scrapers only dump the catalog once. This one tracks change over time, so a daily schedule actually tells you something.
- **Fast & cheap** — reads the store's public Store API with parallel pagination, datacenter proxy is enough.
- **Rich data** — currency, ratings, review counts and categories come straight from the API.
- **Customer reviews** — optionally attach the actual review text, rating, reviewer and date to each product — data most product scrapers can't get.
- **Multi-store** — watch dozens of competitors in a single run.
- **Clear status, no silent failures** — if a store has no public Store API, is protected or blocks the request, it's reported in the log instead of just returning nothing.

### Input

| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| `storeUrls` | Store domains or URLs (`offermanwoodshop.com`, `https://rootscience.com`). |
| `mode` | `catalog` (full dump) or `monitor` (only changes since last run). |
| `minPriceChangePct` | Monitor: ignore price moves smaller than this %. |
| `reportNewOnFirstRun` | Monitor: emit all products as new on the first (baseline) run. |
| `includeReviews` | Catalog: attach customer reviews (text, rating, reviewer, date) to each product. |
| `maxReviewsPerProduct` | Cap reviews attached per product (default 10). |
| `priceMin` / `priceMax` | (variable products) the price range of a product's variations. |
| `maxProductsPerStore` | Cap per store (0 = unlimited). |

### Output (catalog)

`store`, `productId`, `name`, `slug`, `sku`, `type`, `url`, `price`, `priceMin`, `priceMax`, `hasPriceRange`, `regularPrice`, `salePrice`, `currency`, `onSale`, `discountPct`, `inStock`, `onBackorder`, `lowStockRemaining`, `averageRating`, `reviewCount`, `categories`, `tags`, `brands`, `variationsCount`, `featuredImage`, `images`, `scrapedAt` — plus `reviews[]` (`rating`, `review`, `reviewer`, `date`) and `reviewsScraped` when `includeReviews` is on.

### Notes

Works on any WooCommerce store that exposes the public Store API (the default). Some stores behind aggressive CDN/bot protection may need a residential proxy. Monitor mode stores its baseline in the actor's key-value store, so keep using the same actor/schedule for change tracking.

# Actor input Schema

## `storeUrls` (type: `array`):

WooCommerce store domains or URLs, e.g. offermanwoodshop.com, https://rootscience.com. The actor reads the public WooCommerce Store API (/wp-json/wc/store/products).
## `mode` (type: `string`):

catalog = dump every product with prices, stock & categories. monitor = compare against the previous run and output only what changed (price drops/rises, back-in-stock, out-of-stock, new/removed products).
## `minPriceChangePct` (type: `integer`):

In monitor mode, ignore price changes smaller than this percent. 0 = report all.
## `reportNewOnFirstRun` (type: `boolean`):

Monitor mode: on the very first run there is no baseline. If on, emit every product as new_product; if off, just save the baseline silently.
## `includeImages` (type: `boolean`):

Include product image URLs in catalog output.
## `includeReviews` (type: `boolean`):

Catalog mode: attach customer reviews (text, rating, reviewer, date) to each product from the store's public reviews API. Adds extra requests.
## `maxReviewsPerProduct` (type: `integer`):

Cap how many reviews to attach per product when reviews are on.
## `maxProductsPerStore` (type: `integer`):

Cap products fetched per store (0 = unlimited).
## `maxConcurrency` (type: `integer`):

How many stores to fetch in parallel.
## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Apify Proxy (datacenter) is enough — the WooCommerce Store API is public.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "storeUrls": [
    "offermanwoodshop.com"
  ],
  "mode": "catalog",
  "minPriceChangePct": 0,
  "reportNewOnFirstRun": false,
  "includeImages": true,
  "includeReviews": false,
  "maxReviewsPerProduct": 10,
  "maxProductsPerStore": 0,
  "maxConcurrency": 10,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}
````

# Actor output Schema

## `overview` (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 = {
    "storeUrls": [
        "offermanwoodshop.com"
    ],
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": true
    }
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("sashaebashu/woocommerce-monitor").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 = {
    "storeUrls": ["offermanwoodshop.com"],
    "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": True },
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("sashaebashu/woocommerce-monitor").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "storeUrls": [
    "offermanwoodshop.com"
  ],
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}' |
apify call sashaebashu/woocommerce-monitor --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "mcp-remote",
                "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=sashaebashu/woocommerce-monitor",
                "--header",
                "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
            ]
        }
    }
}

```

## OpenAPI specification

```json
{
    "openapi": "3.0.1",
    "info": {
        "title": "WooCommerce Price & Inventory Monitor",
        "description": "Scrape any WooCommerce store's products, prices, stock and categories — and monitor price drops, restocks and new products over time. No API keys.",
        "version": "0.1",
        "x-build-id": "SE20IPPkTylbVAyKi"
    },
    "servers": [
        {
            "url": "https://api.apify.com/v2"
        }
    ],
    "paths": {
        "/acts/sashaebashu~woocommerce-monitor/run-sync-get-dataset-items": {
            "post": {
                "operationId": "run-sync-get-dataset-items-sashaebashu-woocommerce-monitor",
                "x-openai-isConsequential": false,
                "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for its completion, and returns Actor's dataset items in response.",
                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
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                "requestBody": {
                    "required": true,
                    "content": {
                        "application/json": {
                            "schema": {
                                "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                "parameters": [
                    {
                        "name": "token",
                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
                        },
                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
                    }
                ],
                "responses": {
                    "200": {
                        "description": "OK"
                    }
                }
            }
        },
        "/acts/sashaebashu~woocommerce-monitor/runs": {
            "post": {
                "operationId": "runs-sync-sashaebashu-woocommerce-monitor",
                "x-openai-isConsequential": false,
                "summary": "Executes an Actor and returns information about the initiated run in response.",
                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
                ],
                "requestBody": {
                    "required": true,
                    "content": {
                        "application/json": {
                            "schema": {
                                "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                "parameters": [
                    {
                        "name": "token",
                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
                        },
                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
                    }
                ],
                "responses": {
                    "200": {
                        "description": "OK",
                        "content": {
                            "application/json": {
                                "schema": {
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                                }
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        },
        "/acts/sashaebashu~woocommerce-monitor/run-sync": {
            "post": {
                "operationId": "run-sync-sashaebashu-woocommerce-monitor",
                "x-openai-isConsequential": false,
                "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for completion, and returns the OUTPUT from Key-value store in response.",
                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
                ],
                "requestBody": {
                    "required": true,
                    "content": {
                        "application/json": {
                            "schema": {
                                "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                "parameters": [
                    {
                        "name": "token",
                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
                        },
                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
                    }
                ],
                "responses": {
                    "200": {
                        "description": "OK"
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    },
    "components": {
        "schemas": {
            "inputSchema": {
                "type": "object",
                "properties": {
                    "storeUrls": {
                        "title": "WooCommerce store URLs",
                        "type": "array",
                        "description": "WooCommerce store domains or URLs, e.g. offermanwoodshop.com, https://rootscience.com. The actor reads the public WooCommerce Store API (/wp-json/wc/store/products).",
                        "items": {
                            "type": "string"
                        }
                    },
                    "mode": {
                        "title": "Mode",
                        "enum": [
                            "catalog",
                            "monitor"
                        ],
                        "type": "string",
                        "description": "catalog = dump every product with prices, stock & categories. monitor = compare against the previous run and output only what changed (price drops/rises, back-in-stock, out-of-stock, new/removed products).",
                        "default": "catalog"
                    },
                    "minPriceChangePct": {
                        "title": "Min price change % (monitor)",
                        "minimum": 0,
                        "type": "integer",
                        "description": "In monitor mode, ignore price changes smaller than this percent. 0 = report all.",
                        "default": 0
                    },
                    "reportNewOnFirstRun": {
                        "title": "Report all as new on first monitor run",
                        "type": "boolean",
                        "description": "Monitor mode: on the very first run there is no baseline. If on, emit every product as new_product; if off, just save the baseline silently.",
                        "default": false
                    },
                    "includeImages": {
                        "title": "Include images",
                        "type": "boolean",
                        "description": "Include product image URLs in catalog output.",
                        "default": true
                    },
                    "includeReviews": {
                        "title": "Include customer reviews",
                        "type": "boolean",
                        "description": "Catalog mode: attach customer reviews (text, rating, reviewer, date) to each product from the store's public reviews API. Adds extra requests.",
                        "default": false
                    },
                    "maxReviewsPerProduct": {
                        "title": "Max reviews per product",
                        "minimum": 1,
                        "type": "integer",
                        "description": "Cap how many reviews to attach per product when reviews are on.",
                        "default": 10
                    },
                    "maxProductsPerStore": {
                        "title": "Max products per store",
                        "minimum": 0,
                        "type": "integer",
                        "description": "Cap products fetched per store (0 = unlimited).",
                        "default": 0
                    },
                    "maxConcurrency": {
                        "title": "Max concurrency",
                        "minimum": 1,
                        "maximum": 30,
                        "type": "integer",
                        "description": "How many stores to fetch in parallel.",
                        "default": 10
                    },
                    "proxyConfiguration": {
                        "title": "Proxy",
                        "type": "object",
                        "description": "Apify Proxy (datacenter) is enough — the WooCommerce Store API is public."
                    }
                }
            },
            "runsResponseSchema": {
                "type": "object",
                "properties": {
                    "data": {
                        "type": "object",
                        "properties": {
                            "id": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "actId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "userId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "startedAt": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "format": "date-time",
                                "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z"
                            },
                            "finishedAt": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "format": "date-time",
                                "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z"
                            },
                            "status": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "example": "READY"
                            },
                            "meta": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "origin": {
                                        "type": "string",
                                        "example": "API"
                                    },
                                    "userAgent": {
                                        "type": "string"
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "stats": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "inputBodyLen": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 2000
                                    },
                                    "rebootCount": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "restartCount": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "resurrectCount": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "computeUnits": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "options": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "build": {
                                        "type": "string",
                                        "example": "latest"
                                    },
                                    "timeoutSecs": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 300
                                    },
                                    "memoryMbytes": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 1024
                                    },
                                    "diskMbytes": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 2048
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "buildId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "defaultKeyValueStoreId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "defaultDatasetId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "defaultRequestQueueId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "buildNumber": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "example": "1.0.0"
                            },
                            "containerUrl": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "usage": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATASET_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATASET_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 1
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "PROXY_SERPS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "usageTotalUsd": {
                                "type": "number",
                                "example": 0.00005
                            },
                            "usageUsd": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATASET_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATASET_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "number",
                                        "example": 0.00005
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "PROXY_SERPS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    }
                                }
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }
}
```
