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Competitor Price Tracker – Amazon, Shopify, WooCommerce & Any E-Commerce Site

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Are your competitors quietly dropping prices while you're not watching?

This actor scrapes live product prices from any e-commerce URL — Amazon listings, Shopify stores, WooCommerce shops — and returns clean, structured data you can pipe into spreadsheets, dashboards, or alerts.

• ✅ No proxies to configure
• ✅ No coding required — just paste URLs
• ✅ Results in under 60 seconds
• ✅ Works with JavaScript-rendered pages

Who uses this: E-commerce store owners, dropshippers, Amazon sellers, pricing analysts, and anyone who needs to monitor what competitors are charging — without doing it manually.

What it does

This Actor takes a list of product URLs and returns structured pricing data for each. It uses a smart competitor price tracking pipeline:

1. JSON-LD structured data (most accurate)
2. OpenGraph meta tags (og:price:amount)
3. CSS heuristics as a fallback for unstructured pages

For specific platforms, specialized scrapers kick in:

Cost

Pricing is ~$0.03 per product URL. Amazon URLs cost slightly more due to headless browser usage.

Input

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Example input

{
"urls":[
"https://yoddha.store/product/japa-mala/",
"https://www.amazon.in/Book-Answers-Carol-Bolt/dp/0553813544/",
"https://www.plixlife.com/product/tender-coconut-water-powder-315/315"
],
"maxRetries":3,
"proxyCountry":"US"
}

Output

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Each URL produces one result in the dataset:

Example output

{
"url":"https://www.amazon.in/Book-Answers-Carol-Bolt/dp/0553813544/",
"productName":"The Book Of Answers: The gift book that became an internet sensation, offering both enlightenment and entertainment",
"price":561,
"currency":"INR",
"availability":"In Stock",
"scrapedAt":"2026-05-20T03:08:02.314Z",
"success":true,
"error":null
}

Use cases

• Competitor price tracking — Monitor what rivals charge daily and get alerted on changes
• Amazon price monitor — Track Amazon listings across regions without getting blocked
• Dropshipping price tracker — Stay on top of supplier and competitor pricing automatically
• Market research — Collect e-commerce price intelligence across brands and categories
• Dynamic pricing — Feed competitor prices into your own pricing algorithms
• MAP compliance — Monitor minimum advertised price violations across resellers
• Price comparison tool — Aggregate prices across sellers for any product category

Tips for best results

• Use clean URLs — Remove tracking parameters and referral tags. Use https://www.amazon.in/dp/B0CYTDQ3YF instead of long URLs with ?pd_rd_w=... parameters. Shorter URLs are more reliable.
• Amazon price scraper — Always uses a headless browser (Playwright) to bypass bot detection. Works with amazon.com, amazon.in, amazon.co.uk, and all other regional domains.
• Shopify stores — Detected automatically. The Actor tries the JSON API first for fastest results, then falls back to DOM scraping.
• Currency detection — Extracted from structured data (JSON-LD, OpenGraph). Some smaller stores may not specify currency explicitly — verify the currency field for lesser-known sites.
• Product price alert workflows — Combine with Apify Schedules + Webhooks to trigger alerts when a price drops below your threshold.

Limitations

• Sites behind login walls or Cloudflare Turnstile fingerprinting may not scrape reliably
• Amazon prices shown to logged-in users (Prime deals, regional pricing) may differ from scraped results
• Currency detection depends on structured data — some small stores omit it

Proxy & rate limiting

• Uses Apify residential proxies by default for reliable results
• Exponential backoff retry on failures (configurable via maxRetries)
• Amazon requests always use a headless browser to avoid blocking

Integration

This Actor works great with:

• Apify Schedules — Run daily/hourly price checks automatically
• Webhooks — Get notified when a run completes
• API — Trigger runs programmatically from your backend