# Competitor Pricing Page Change Monitor (`signaltools/competitor-pricing-page-change-monitor`) Actor Monitor public pricing pages and emit structured price, plan, copy, and change signals for competitor intelligence and sales/product teams. - **URL**: https://apify.com/signaltools/competitor-pricing-page-change-monitor.md - **Developed by:** [Stephen Coulson](https://apify.com/signaltools) (community) - **Categories:** Automation, Developer tools, Lead generation - **Stats:** 2 total users, 0 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks - **User rating**: No ratings yet ## Pricing Pay per usage This Actor is paid per platform usage. The Actor is free to use, and you only pay for the Apify platform usage, which gets cheaper the higher subscription plan you have. Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-usage ## What's an Apify Actor? Actors are a software tools running on the Apify platform, for all kinds of web data extraction and automation use cases. 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". ## How to integrate an Actor? If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects. You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready. The best way to integrate Actors is as follows. In JavaScript/TypeScript projects, use official [JavaScript/TypeScript client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js.md): ```bash npm install apify-client ``` In Python projects, use official [Python client library](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python.md): ```bash pip install apify-client ``` In shell scripts, use [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md): ````bash # MacOS / Linux curl -fsSL https://apify.com/install-cli.sh | bash # Windows irm https://apify.com/install-cli.ps1 | iex ```bash In AI frameworks, you might use the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/platform/integrations/mcp.md). If your project is in a different language, use the [REST API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2.md). For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below. For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt). # README ### What does Competitor Pricing Page Change Monitor do? **Competitor Pricing Page Change Monitor** watches public pricing pages and turns them into structured pricing intelligence. Give it a list of URLs and it records price mentions, plan-language, page hashes, and whether each page is new, unchanged, changed, or errored compared with the previous run. Use it for competitor intelligence, product marketing, sales enablement, investor monitoring, and pricing research. Schedule it daily or weekly on Apify and export the dataset to CSV, Excel, JSON, Google Sheets, Zapier, Make, or your CRM. ### Why use it? Pricing pages change when companies test packaging, increase prices, introduce enterprise tiers, remove free plans, or shift go-to-market strategy. Most teams notice these changes late. This Actor gives you a simple recurring monitor for public pricing pages. ### Input ```json { "pages": [ { "name": "Slack", "url": "https://slack.com/pricing", "category": "team_software" }, { "name": "Notion", "url": "https://www.notion.com/pricing", "category": "productivity" } ], "keywords": ["free", "pro", "business", "enterprise", "monthly", "annual", "seat", "user", "contact sales"], "enableDelta": true, "persistSnapshot": true } ```` ### Output The Actor outputs one row per monitored page, including: - page name and URL - fetch status - page title and meta description - content hash and previous hash - `change_status`: `new`, `unchanged`, `changed`, or `error` - detected price mentions - added and removed price mentions - tracked pricing terms - timestamp ### Notes This Actor uses public web pages only. It does not log in, use cookies, or scrape private/authenticated data. Dynamic pricing pages that require client-side rendering may produce limited text; for those, use the page's public static pricing URL where possible. # Actor input Schema ## `pages` (type: `array`): Public pricing or plans pages to monitor. ## `keywords` (type: `array`): Terms to track in page copy. ## `maxTextChars` (type: `integer`): Safety cap for page text stored in snapshot. ## `enableDelta` (type: `boolean`): Compare current pages with previous snapshots and tag changes. ## `persistSnapshot` (type: `boolean`): Save this run as baseline for future delta detection. ## Actor input object example ```json { "pages": [ { "name": "Slack", "url": "https://slack.com/pricing", "category": "team_software" }, { "name": "Notion", "url": "https://www.notion.com/pricing", "category": "productivity" } ], "keywords": [ "free", "starter", "pro", "business", "enterprise", "annual", "monthly", "seat", "user", "trial", "discount", "contact sales" ], "maxTextChars": 30000, "enableDelta": true, "persistSnapshot": true } ``` # Actor output Schema ## `results` (type: `string`): Structured rows with price mentions, plan terms, hashes, and delta status. ## `summary` (type: `string`): Aggregate run status, counts, per-page summaries, and changed pages. # 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 '' with your token const client = new ApifyClient({ token: '', }); // Prepare Actor input const input = { "pages": [ { "name": "Slack", "url": "https://slack.com/pricing", "category": "team_software" }, { "name": "Notion", "url": "https://www.notion.com/pricing", "category": "productivity" } ], "keywords": [ "free", "starter", "pro", "business", "enterprise", "annual", "monthly", "seat", "user", "trial", "discount", "contact sales" ] }; // Run the Actor and wait for it to finish const run = await client.actor("signaltools/competitor-pricing-page-change-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 '' with your token. client = ApifyClient("") # Prepare the Actor input run_input = { "pages": [ { "name": "Slack", "url": "https://slack.com/pricing", "category": "team_software", }, { "name": "Notion", "url": "https://www.notion.com/pricing", "category": "productivity", }, ], "keywords": [ "free", "starter", "pro", "business", "enterprise", "annual", "monthly", "seat", "user", "trial", "discount", "contact sales", ], } # Run the Actor and wait for it to finish run = client.actor("signaltools/competitor-pricing-page-change-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 '{ "pages": [ { "name": "Slack", "url": "https://slack.com/pricing", "category": "team_software" }, { "name": "Notion", "url": "https://www.notion.com/pricing", "category": "productivity" } ], "keywords": [ "free", "starter", "pro", "business", "enterprise", "annual", "monthly", "seat", "user", "trial", "discount", "contact sales" ] }' | apify call signaltools/competitor-pricing-page-change-monitor --silent --output-dataset ``` ## MCP server setup ```json { "mcpServers": { "apify": { "command": "npx", "args": [ "mcp-remote", "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=signaltools/competitor-pricing-page-change-monitor", "--header", "Authorization: Bearer " ] } } } ``` ## OpenAPI specification ```json { "openapi": "3.0.1", "info": { "title": "Competitor Pricing Page Change Monitor", "description": "Monitor public pricing pages and emit structured price, plan, copy, and change signals for competitor 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"runs-sync-signaltools-competitor-pricing-page-change-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": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/runsResponseSchema" } } } } } } }, "/acts/signaltools~competitor-pricing-page-change-monitor/run-sync": { "post": { "operationId": "run-sync-signaltools-competitor-pricing-page-change-monitor", "x-openai-isConsequential": false, "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for completion, and returns the OUTPUT from Key-value store in response.", "tags": [ "Run Actor" ], "requestBody": { "required": true, "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$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", "required": [ "pages" ], "properties": { "pages": { "title": "Pricing pages", "type": "array", "description": "Public pricing or plans pages to monitor.", "items": { "type": "object", "required": [ "url" ], "properties": { "name": { "type": "string", "title": "Page name", "description": "Human-readable company or product name." }, "url": { "type": "string", "title": "Pricing page URL", "description": "Public pricing, plans, or packaging page URL." }, "category": { "type": "string", "title": "Category", "description": "Optional market category for grouping output rows." } } } }, "keywords": 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