🇸🇦🇦🇪 GCC Competitor Price Monitor & Evidence Alerts

رادار مراقبة أسعار المنافسين لمتاجر الخليج (سلة، زد، نون، أمازون) مع توثيق الأدلة بلقطات الشاشة

An autonomous, bilingual (Arabic & English) price intelligence actor designed specifically for GCC e-commerce brands, distributors, and online stores across Saudi Arabia, UAE, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, and Oman.

Monitors competitor product prices, tracks discounts, detects stockouts, and captures tamper-proof timestamped screenshot evidence for MAP compliance and pricing parity disputes.

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🌟 Why GCC Merchants Need This Actor

Standard global scrapers struggle with Middle Eastern e-commerce: they break on Arabic typography, fail on right-to-left layouts, and cannot parse local platforms like Salla (سلة) or Zid (زد).

GCC Competitor Price Monitor solves this with:

• Bilingual Arabic & English Parser: Seamlessly reads product names, currencies (SAR, AED, QAR, KWD), and availability in both languages.
• Universal Regional Store Support: Built to monitor:
  • Salla (سلة) & Zid (زد) D2C stores
  • Noon (نون) & Amazon.sa / Amazon.ae
  • Jarir Bookstore (مكتبة جرير), Extra (اكسترا), Sharaf DG
  • Any custom WooCommerce or Shopify store in the Gulf.
• 📸 Tamper-Proof Screenshot Evidence: Every time a price change is detected, the Actor saves a clean, timestamped screenshot of the price tag into cloud storage—giving you incontrovertible proof for manufacturer pricing agreements (MAP).
• ⚡ Instant Alerts: Automatically dispatches executive price drop/increase alerts to your Telegram, Slack, or Discord channels.

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📥 Input Configuration

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
productUrls	Array	Required	List of competitor product URLs to monitor.
defaultCurrency	String	SAR	Target currency (SAR, AED, QAR, KWD, USD).
captureEvidenceScreenshot	Boolean	true	Captures timestamped screenshot proof of price tags.
alertOnPriceDropOnly	Boolean	false	Only trigger notifications when a competitor cuts prices.
minChangeThresholdPercent	Integer	0	Minimum percentage change needed to fire an alert (e.g. 5 for >= 5%).
webhookUrl	String	null	Optional Slack, Discord, or Telegram webhook URL for push alerts.

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📤 Sample Output Dataset Item

{
  "title": "عطر ديور سوفاج أو دو بارفيوم 100 مل",
  "brand": "Dior",
  "sku": "DIOR-SAUV-100",
  "competitorDomain": "aljamal-store.salla.sa",
  "productUrl": "https://aljamal-store.salla.sa/products/dior-sauvage",
  "currentPrice": 459,
  "originalPrice": 540,
  "discountPercentage": 15,
  "currency": "SAR",
  "stockStatus": "InStock",
  "previousPrice": 540,
  "priceChangeStatus": "PRICE_DROP",
  "priceChangeDelta": -81,
  "priceChangePercentage": -15,
  "evidenceScreenshotUrl": "https://api.apify.com/v2/key-value-stores/.../records/evidence_a8f9b2_1792134000.png",
  "checkedAt": "2026-10-16T11:05:00.000Z"
}

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🔔 Sample Push Alert Payload

🚨📉 PRICE DROP / تخفيض سعر DETECTED
• Product: عطر ديور سوفاج أو دو بارفيوم 100 مل (Dior Sauvage EDP 100ml)
• Store: aljamal-store.salla.sa
• Previous Price: 540 SAR
• Current Price: 459 SAR (-15%)
• Stock Status: ✅ In Stock / متوفر
• Evidence Screenshot: https://api.apify.com/.../evidence_proof.png
• Product Link: https://aljamal-store.salla.sa/products/dior-sauvage

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💻 Programmatic Usage via Python

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN")

run_input = {
    "productUrls": [
        "https://www.jarir.com/sa-en/apple-iphone-16-pro-smartphones-644755.html",
        "https://aljamal-store.salla.sa/products/dior-sauvage"
    ],
    "defaultCurrency": "SAR",
    "captureEvidenceScreenshot": True,
    "minChangeThresholdPercent": 2,
    "webhookUrl": "https://discord.com/api/webhooks/YOUR/WEBHOOK"
}

# Run the Actor and fetch results
run = client.actor("tufaifx/gcc-price-monitor").call(run_input=run_input)

for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(f"{item['title']} - Current: {item['currentPrice']} {item['currency']} (Status: {item['priceChangeStatus']})")

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🛡️ Fair Use & Commercial Transparency

This Actor collects only public retail prices and availability displayed by merchants on their public storefronts. It complies with e-commerce price monitoring standards and handles zero consumer personal data.

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