# Flipkart Price Monitor (`tomtng/flipkart-price-monitor`) Actor

Track Flipkart products by URL or search query: price, MRP, discount, rating, availability, seller and offers. Stateful monitor mode returns ONLY changed products since last run — perfect for reseller and repricing alerts.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/tomtng/flipkart-price-monitor.md
- **Developed by:** [Tomas T](https://apify.com/tomtng) (community)
- **Categories:** E-commerce, Automation
- **Security:** Limited permissions
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 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/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-usage

## What's an Apify Actor?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
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.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

## 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.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## Flipkart Price & Stock Monitor

Track Flipkart products by **search term or product URL**: price, MRP, discount %, rating, rating count. Stateful mode emits **only products whose price changed** since the last run — a repricing/alerting engine, not just a scraper.

### Use cases

Resellers watching deal windows, sellers monitoring competitor pricing, price-history apps, deal Telegram channels.

### Input

```json
{ "searchTerms": ["wireless earbuds"], "productUrls": ["https://www.flipkart.com/.../p/itm..."],
  "maxPerSearch": 10, "onlyChanges": true }
```

### Output sample

```json
{ "pid": "ACCGP2HJA3HKHTF4", "title": "boAt Airdopes Alpha", "price": 799, "mrp": 3490,
  "discountPct": 77, "rating": 3.8, "ratingCount": 98307, "previousPrice": 1099, "changeType": "price" }
```

### Pricing

$0.10 per run that finds changes + $1.00 per 1,000 products emitted.

### Notes

Flipkart renders prices client-side; this actor reads the embedded SSR JSON state, which is stable and proxy-free.

# Actor input Schema

## `productUrls` (type: `array`):

Product URLs or pids. See actor README for details.

## `searchTerms` (type: `array`):

Search terms (tracks top N results). See actor README for details.

## `maxPerSearch` (type: `integer`):

Max products per search. See actor README for details.

## `onlyChanges` (type: `boolean`):

Emit only changed products (stateful). See actor README for details.

## `dryRun` (type: `boolean`):

Dry run (no billing). See actor README for details.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "productUrls": [],
  "searchTerms": [],
  "maxPerSearch": 10,
  "onlyChanges": true,
  "dryRun": false
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

Dataset with all produced items.

# 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 = {};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("tomtng/flipkart-price-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 = {}

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

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

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

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{}' |
apify call tomtng/flipkart-price-monitor --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,tomtng/flipkart-price-monitor"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/Akokh2q0dVpnpPMt9/builds/pBuCSxB5Rt2AaiYQy/openapi.json