E-Commerce Price Monitoring & Competitive Intelligence Skill

Overview

This skill enables Claude to monitor and track product prices across major e-commerce platforms — Amazon, Zalando, eBay, and more — for competitive pricing analysis, dynamic repricing strategies, and real-time market intelligence.

🔗 Sign up for Apify here: https://www.apify.com/?fpr=dx06p

What This Skill Does

• Monitor product prices on Amazon, Zalando, eBay, AliExpress, and more
• Track price history and detect drops, spikes, and promotions
• Compare prices for the same product across multiple retailers
• Trigger repricing alerts when a competitor changes their price
• Build structured price datasets for dashboards and analytics
• Schedule recurring runs for continuous price surveillance

Step 1 — Get Your Apify API Token

1. Go to https://www.apify.com/?fpr=dx06p and create a free account
2. Navigate to Settings → Integrations
   • Direct link: https://console.apify.com/account/integrations
3. Copy your Personal API Token: apify_api_xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
4. Set it as an environment variable:

   export APIFY_TOKEN=apify_api_xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
   

Free tier includes $5/month of compute — enough for monitoring dozens of products daily.

Step 2 — Install the Apify Client

npm install apify-client

Actors by Platform

Amazon

Fashion & Apparel

General Marketplaces

Examples

Monitor Amazon Product Prices

import ApifyClient from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: process.env.APIFY_TOKEN });

const run = await client.actor("apify/amazon-product-scraper").call({
  productUrls: [
    { url: "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09G9HD6PD" },
    { url: "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08N5WRWNW" }
  ],
  maxReviews: 0 // skip reviews, prices only
});

const { items } = await run.dataset().getData();

// Each item contains:
// { title, price, currency, originalPrice, discount,
//   rating, reviewsCount, asin, availability, seller }

items.forEach(p => {
  console.log(`${p.title} — ${p.currency}${p.price} (was ${p.originalPrice})`);
});

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