Price Monitoring
Track prices and availability across a fixed set of products on a schedule, so you can detect changes rather than sample a single moment.
How it works
These Actors are designed to chain — the output of one is the input of the next.
- 1
Fix the product set
Build the list once with Amazon Search Scraper, or supply your own URLs, and keep it stable so runs are comparable.
- 2
Schedule the runs
Run the product Actor on an Apify schedule. Each run appends a dated dataset.
- 3
Compare across runs
Read successive datasets through the Apify API and diff price and availability per identifier.
Scrapers for this use case
3 Goldmine Actors serve this workflow.
Amazon Product Scraper
Scrapes detailed product information from Amazon product pages including price, features, images, and more
amazon-search-scraper
AliExpress Product Scraper | E-commerce Data Extraction
Powerful AliExpress product scraper that extracts detailed product data from search results and category pages. Get real-time pricing, sales data, and product information from AliExpress marketplace.
What this does not solve
Worth knowing before you build a process on top of it.
- Change detection is your side of the job — the Actors return the current state, not a diff.
- Amazon prices vary by region, account and Buy Box winner, so pin the locale you care about.
- Frequent scheduling raises cost proportionally, because pricing is per result.