E-Commerce Price Tracker

A high-performance, lightweight web scraper designed to track and extract e-commerce products, prices, availability, and direct links from target sites. Perfect for real-time competitor price monitoring and stock tracking.

Features

• Price & Availability Extraction: Captures the exact product title, price, availability status, and direct link.
• Configurable Item Cap: Define the maximum number of items to scrap to manage runtimes and compute costs.
• Pay-Per-Event (PPE) Pricing: Charged strictly based on actual scrap output, ensuring transparent and cost-effective billing.

Input Parameters

The Actor accepts the following input in JSON format:

Field	Type	Required	Default	Description
max_items	Integer	No	10	The maximum number of product listings to scrape in a single run.

Example Input

{
  "max_items": 5
}

Output Schema

The scraped data is pushed directly to your default Apify dataset in JSON format with the following fields:

Field	Type	Description
title	String	The name of the product.
price	String	The listing price of the product (including currency symbol).
availability	String	Stock availability status (e.g., "In stock").
link	String	Direct URL to the product page.

Example Output

{
  "title": "A Light in the Attic",
  "price": "£51.77",
  "availability": "In stock",
  "link": "http://books.toscrape.com/catalogue/a-light-in-the-attic_1000/index.html"
}

Pricing Configuration

This Actor utilizes Apify's Pay-Per-Event (PPE) monetization model.

• Primary Event: result-scraped
• Cost: $0.004 per successfully scraped product listing.
• You only pay for what is successfully extracted and delivered to your dataset!