The moment it happens
Compare the top products before you buy
Name a product type and get a table of the top five options with prices, ratings, pros and cons.
- Runs
- The moment it happens
- Apps
- SerpApi
- AI
- Yes, uses the built-in AI allowance
- Access
- API key
Send this to your assistant
Create a ClickRuntime automation: when I send a product type like 'standing desk' to this link, search Google Shopping and reviews, and email me a comparison table of the top 5 with price, rating, pros and cons.
First time? Adding ClickRuntime to your assistant takes about two minutes.
Why use it
Why teams use this automation
Choosing between project management tools, standing desks or CRMs usually means a dozen browser tabs: review sites, vendor pricing pages, forum threads, a shopping listing that may or may not be current. An hour later you have three half-remembered prices and an unclear sense of which option fits. Teams repeat this for every purchase, and a decision that should take ten minutes of reading takes an afternoon, or gets made on whichever vendor had the most polished page.
When you send a product or tool category, the automation searches Google's shopping and web results through SerpApi, pulls out each candidate's name, price and rating, and asks ClickRuntime's built-in AI to write a comparison with pros and cons. A short email carries the comparison. It runs the moment you submit the request. Small business owners, buyers and anyone doing quick vendor research use it to get a shortlist fast.
What you get out of it
A shortlist in minutes, not an afternoon
You receive candidates with prices and ratings side by side, so you can drop clear mismatches immediately. The time saved on a single purchase often covers hours of someone's salary.
Prices from live search results
Shopping results reflect what sellers list today, so you are not working from a comparison article written last year. Spotting that one option costs half as much can change the whole decision.
Pros and cons written in one voice
The AI summarizes strengths and weaknesses for every option in the same format. That makes differences easy to see, where reading each vendor's own marketing makes everything sound the same.
Fewer purchases you regret
Seeing ratings and common complaints before buying helps avoid the product with a good price and a pattern of failures. A returned item or a switched tool costs more than the research would have.
Research you can forward
The email is a ready-made summary to share with a partner or manager who needs to approve the spend. That replaces a chat message with five links and no explanation.
How it works
What happens, step by step
When you send a product type, such as standing desk, to your personal ClickRuntime link, the automation starts straight away.
ClickRuntime searches Google Shopping for prices and ratings, and Google for review articles.
AI picks the top five options and builds a table with each one's name, price, rating, pros and cons.
The comparison is emailed to you.
Before it runs live
- Connect SerpApi
- Paste your automation's link into the other app's webhook settings
What you get
Build your own
Need it to work differently?
Your own rules
Conditions, thresholds, filters and exceptions, written the way you'd explain them to a colleague.
Any number of apps
One automation can read from one app and update several others. Over 248 apps are ready, and anything with an API works too.
AI where it helps
Summaries, classification, extraction and drafts use ClickRuntime's built-in AI, with no extra key.
On a schedule or on each event
Runs as often as every 5 minutes, or the moment an app sends an event, and keeps track of what it already handled.
Changes you can ask for
- Act only on the items that match your own rules, and skip the rest
- Change what the AI looks for, or how it writes the result
- Add another app, for example also send it to Slack
- Combine it with other SerpApi steps into one automation
Under the hood
The code that runs this automation
from clickruntime import on_event, credentials, http, ai, notify
@on_event
def handle(event):
product = (event.json or {}).get("product", "").strip()
key = credentials.secret("SERPAPI_KEY")
shop = http.get("https://serpapi.com/search.json",
params={"engine": "google_shopping", "q": product, "api_key": key}).json()
items = [f"{r['title']} | {r.get('price')} | rating {r.get('rating', '-')} ({r.get('reviews', 0)} reviews)"
for r in shop.get("shopping_results", [])[:10]]
web = http.get("https://serpapi.com/search.json",
params={"engine": "google", "q": f"best {product} review", "api_key": key}).json()
reviews = [f"{r['title']}: {r.get('snippet', '')}" for r in web.get("organic_results", [])[:6]]
table = ai.generate(
f"Product type: {product}\n\nShopping results:\n" + "\n".join(items)
+ "\n\nReview snippets:\n" + "\n".join(reviews),
system="Pick the top 5 and write a plain-text table: name, price, rating, pros, cons.",
max_output_tokens=900,
).text
notify.email_me(f"Top 5 {product} compared", table)
return {"candidates": len(items)}FAQ
Common questions
Where do the prices come from?
Does it work for software and services, or only physical products?
Can I ask for a comparison with my own criteria?
What permissions does it need?
Does it need AI?
How many runs does it use?
Can I change how it works?
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