# Check an Amazon product's price history before you buy

**Use case:** 

Rebuilds the price history of Amazon products from the copies of their pages kept by the Internet Archive: one price per month, the lowest and highest price with their dates, the average, and today's price compared with all of it. Paste ASINs or product links. Use it to tell a real deal from the usual price.

## Input

```json
{
  "products": [
    "B01AKGRTUM",
    "B018UQ5AMS",
    "B00NGV4506"
  ],
  "period": "month",
  "maxPointsPerProduct": 24,
  "includeCurrentPrice": true,
  "outputFormat": "products",
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": false
  }
}
```

## Output

```json
{
  "status": {
    "label": "Status",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "title": {
    "label": "Product",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "currentPrice": {
    "label": "Today $",
    "format": "number"
  },
  "lowestPrice": {
    "label": "Lowest $",
    "format": "number"
  },
  "lowestPriceDate": {
    "label": "Lowest on",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "highestPrice": {
    "label": "Highest $",
    "format": "number"
  },
  "highestPriceDate": {
    "label": "Highest on",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "averagePrice": {
    "label": "Average $",
    "format": "number"
  },
  "currentVsLowestPct": {
    "label": "Today vs lowest %",
    "format": "number"
  },
  "currentVsAveragePct": {
    "label": "Today vs average %",
    "format": "number"
  },
  "isAtOrBelowHistoricLow": {
    "label": "At historic low",
    "format": "boolean"
  },
  "pricePoints": {
    "label": "Price points",
    "format": "number"
  },
  "firstDate": {
    "label": "From",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "lastDate": {
    "label": "To",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "rating": {
    "label": "Rating",
    "format": "number"
  },
  "ratingsCountLast": {
    "label": "Ratings",
    "format": "number"
  },
  "bestSellersRank": {
    "label": "Best Sellers Rank",
    "format": "number"
  },
  "url": {
    "label": "Amazon",
    "format": "link"
  }
}
```

## How it works

### 1. Sign up on Apify or log in

The Amazon Price History: Lowest, Highest & Is Today a Real Deal Actor is ready to run with the inputs already set for "Check an Amazon product's price history before you buy". [Sign up or log in](https://console.apify.com/create-task-from-example/3ObR0chU4VcO6yOfu) and you'll land in Apify Console with a copy of this exact task.

### 2. Start the "Check an Amazon product's price history before you buy" task

The Amazon Price History: Lowest, Highest & Is Today a Real Deal Actor will start running based on the input automatically. You can also change all the input fields, like products, one price point per, and more, to match your specific use case.

### 3. Receive the "Check an Amazon product's price history before you buy" output

Monitor the progress in real time. You will be notified as soon as your dataset is complete and ready for review. Each result includes data such as status, product, today $, and more.

### 4. Integrate into your workflow

The final output is delivered in JSON, CSV, or Excel format, ready to be plugged into your workflow. You can also [run the "Check an Amazon product's price history before you buy" task via API](https://apify.com/wellbuilt_zythem/amazon-price-history.md).

## About this Actor

This example demonstrates how to use [Amazon Price History: Lowest, Highest & Is Today a Real Deal](https://apify.com/wellbuilt_zythem/amazon-price-history.md) with a specific input configuration. Visit the [Actor detail page](https://apify.com/wellbuilt_zythem/amazon-price-history.md) to learn more, explore other use cases, and run it yourself.


## How to integrate an Actor?

This Task's input is already configured above. Use it as-is rather than inventing a new one.

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 full API examples (JavaScript, Python, CLI, MCP, OpenAPI), see this Task's Actor page: https://apify.com/wellbuilt_zythem/amazon-price-history.md

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`).