SaaS Pricing Changelog Battlecard Watch Scraper

Competitive intelligence, sales enablement, and product marketing teams use this actor to watch public SaaS pricing and changelog pages. Provide competitor names, public pricing URLs, changelog URLs, and watched terms. The actor returns source-linked pricing changes, changelog observations, battlecard reports, and export rows.

Store Quickstart

Run with dryRun=false and public competitor URLs that do not require login or private access.

{
  "competitorTargets": [
    {
      "name": "Example SaaS",
      "pricingUrl": "https://example.com/pricing",
      "changelogUrl": "https://example.com/changelog"
    }
  ],
  "trackedTerms": ["price", "plan", "seat", "usage", "enterprise"],
  "generateBattlecard": true,
  "emitUnchanged": false,
  "dryRun": false
}

Input Examples

Pricing-page watch

{
  "competitorTargets": [
    {
      "name": "Competitor A",
      "pricingUrl": "https://example.com/pricing"
    }
  ],
  "trackedTerms": ["annual", "seat", "enterprise"],
  "dryRun": false
}

Changelog watch

{
  "competitorTargets": [
    {
      "name": "Competitor B",
      "changelogUrl": "https://example.com/changelog"
    }
  ],
  "trackedTerms": ["usage", "api", "enterprise"],
  "generateBattlecard": true,
  "dryRun": false
}

Multi-competitor export

{
  "competitorTargets": [
    {
      "name": "Competitor A",
      "pricingUrl": "https://example.com/pricing"
    },
    {
      "name": "Competitor B",
      "changelogUrl": "https://example.org/changelog"
    }
  ],
  "emitExport": true,
  "dryRun": false
}

Sample Output

{
  "actorName": "saas-pricing-changelog-battlecard-watch-scraper",
  "rowType": "saas_pricing_change",
  "billingEventName": "saas-pricing-change-detected",
  "competitorName": "Example SaaS",
  "currentPriceSignals": ["$39/mo"],
  "sourceUrl": "https://example.com/pricing"
}

Output Fields

• rowType: saas_pricing_page_snapshot, saas_pricing_change, saas_changelog_entry, saas_battlecard_report, or saas_watch_export.
• competitorName: competitor label supplied in the input.
• sourceUrl: public source URL supporting the row.
• priceSignals: public price text signals extracted from the page.
• recommendedReviewQueue: source-linked rows to review in the battlecard.

Pricing And No-Change Runs

• saas-pricing-page-snapshot: $0.030 per optional public pricing page snapshot.
• saas-pricing-change-detected: $0.350 per source-linked pricing page change.
• saas-changelog-entry-detected: $0.150 per public changelog entry.
• saas-battlecard-report: $9.000 per generated battlecard report.
• saas-watch-export-generated: $7.000 per generated export.

When emitUnchanged=false, repeated unchanged runs emit zero dataset rows and zero charges after state is saved.

Compliance Guardrails

• Public SaaS pages only.
• No login, paywall, CAPTCHA, private workspace, contract, account, or bypass behavior.
• This is an unofficial monitoring tool and is not affiliated with any watched company.
• No procurement, legal, investment, pricing, or compliance advice.

Bundle Paths

• Competitive Intel: run a low-cost pricing/changelog watch first, then generate saas-battlecard-report or saas-watch-export-generated when a sales or PMM handoff is needed.
• Pair with Shopify Public Catalog Map & Promo Watch for public storefront promo/catalog monitoring.
• Pair with Ad Transparency Creative Change Watch Scraper for public campaign change monitoring.

See Also

• Ad Transparency Creative Change Watch Scraper for public ad creative change reports.
• Shopify Public Catalog Map & Promo Watch for public storefront promo watch reports.