Seller Policy Change Monitor

Capture seller-policy updates with merchant impact, deadlines, fees, and action items.

Who Uses It

Marketplace sellers, ecommerce consultants, marketplace agencies, and operations teams.

Why It Is Useful

This actor does not save a generic web-scrape dump. It saves a compact dataset shaped around one business job, so the output is easier to review, export, and plug into research workflows.

Input

• startUrls - Public pages to inspect.
• logLines - Pasted snippets for fast tests or sources that do not need crawling.
• maxPagesPerStartUrl - Same-domain pages to inspect from each URL.
• maxResults - Maximum clean rows to save, capped at 20.
• proxyConfiguration - Optional Apify proxy settings.

Output Fields

• marketplaceName - Marketplace or platform name.
• policyChange - Policy update or policy topic.
• sellerImpact - How the update may affect sellers.
• feeOrPenalty - Fee, penalty, or cost mention.
• effectiveDate - Deadline or effective date.
• urgencyLevel - Low, medium, or high urgency based on policy language.
• actionNeeded - Practical seller action suggested by the update.
• policySource - Policy source URL.

Example Output

{
    "marketplaceName": "example marketplace",
    "policyChange": "Fulfillment fee increase",
    "sellerImpact": "Standard size listings become more expensive.",
    "feeOrPenalty": "$0.35",
    "effectiveDate": "Aug 1, 2026",
    "urgencyLevel": "medium",
    "actionNeeded": "Review margin and fulfillment settings.",
    "policySource": "https://example.com/seller-update"
}

Use Cases

• Track fee and compliance changes.
• Summarize seller impact from policy announcements.
• Create action lists before policy deadlines.

Limits

The actor works best with public pages or focused pasted snippets. Login walls, CAPTCHA, heavy anti-bot protection, and very noisy pages can reduce result quality.

Pricing

Recommended pricing is paid per saved dataset item, so users pay for useful rows instead of empty page visits.