# Ecommerce Price Tracker (`sweet_rebel/ecommerce-price-tracker`) Actor

- **URL**: https://apify.com/sweet\_rebel/ecommerce-price-tracker.md
- **Developed by:** [Rajat Sharda](https://apify.com/sweet_rebel) (community)
- **Categories:** E-commerce
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

$4.00 / 1,000 result scrapeds

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

Actors are web data automations that power AI and operations. They run on the Apify platform to scrape websites, process data, connect APIs, and automate workflows.
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.
Actors are written with capital "A".

## 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.
The best way to integrate Actors is as follows.

- **AI agents and MCP clients** — the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/integrations/mcp.md) at `https://mcp.apify.com` (remote, streamable HTTP, OAuth on first use).
- **Agentic workflows and local Actor development** — [Agent Skills](https://apify.com/.well-known/agent-skills/index.json) with the [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md): `npm install -g apify-cli`, then `apify login`.
- **JavaScript/TypeScript projects** — the official [JS/TS client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md): `npm install apify-client`.
- **Python projects** — the official [Python client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md): `pip install apify-client`.
- **Any other language** — the [REST API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2.md).

For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt).

# README

## E-Commerce Price Tracker

A high-performance, lightweight web scraper designed to track and extract e-commerce products, prices, availability, and direct links from target sites. Perfect for real-time competitor price monitoring and stock tracking.

### Features

- **Price & Availability Extraction**: Captures the exact product title, price, availability status, and direct link.
- **Configurable Item Cap**: Define the maximum number of items to scrap to manage runtimes and compute costs.
- **Pay-Per-Event (PPE) Pricing**: Charged strictly based on actual scrap output, ensuring transparent and cost-effective billing.

### Input Parameters

The Actor accepts the following input in JSON format:

| Field | Type | Required | Default | Description |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| `max_items` | Integer | No | `10` | The maximum number of product listings to scrape in a single run. |

#### Example Input

```json
{
  "max_items": 5
}
```

### Output Schema

The scraped data is pushed directly to your default Apify dataset in JSON format with the following fields:

| Field | Type | Description |
| :--- | :--- | :--- |
| `title` | String | The name of the product. |
| `price` | String | The listing price of the product (including currency symbol). |
| `availability` | String | Stock availability status (e.g., "In stock"). |
| `link` | String | Direct URL to the product page. |

#### Example Output

```json
{
  "title": "A Light in the Attic",
  "price": "£51.77",
  "availability": "In stock",
  "link": "http://books.toscrape.com/catalogue/a-light-in-the-attic_1000/index.html"
}
```

### Pricing Configuration

This Actor utilizes Apify's **Pay-Per-Event (PPE)** monetization model.

- **Primary Event**: `result-scraped`
- **Cost**: **$0.004** per successfully scraped product listing.
- You only pay for what is successfully extracted and delivered to your dataset!

## Actor input object example

```json
{}
```

# 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("sweet_rebel/ecommerce-price-tracker").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("sweet_rebel/ecommerce-price-tracker").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).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 sweet_rebel/ecommerce-price-tracker --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "mcp-remote",
                "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=sweet_rebel/ecommerce-price-tracker",
                "--header",
                "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
            ]
        }
    }
}

```

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/IqHRshwmtxarZyfn1/builds/XfpXfWmsBHJXUtnhi/openapi.json