On a schedule

Get an email when a product price drops

When a watched product falls below your target price, you hear about it within hours.

Runs: On a schedule
Apps: ScrapingBee
AI: Not needed
Access: API key

Send this to your assistant

Create a ClickRuntime automation: every 6 hours, fetch these 3 product pages through ScrapingBee, read the price, and email me if any of them drops below $249.

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Why use it

Why teams use this automation

A retailer or brand manager who sells through dozens of reseller sites cannot watch each product page by eye. A competitor drops a price by 12 percent on a Tuesday, a reseller quietly lists your product under your minimum advertised price, and you find out when a customer sends you a screenshot. By then the lower price has been live for days, your own sales have slowed, and the other resellers are asking why they cannot match it.

On the schedule you set, the automation fetches each product page through ScrapingBee using extract rules that pull out the price, compares it with the last price it stored, and emails you when a price has changed or has fallen below your MAP. ScrapingBee handles rendering and blocks, so JavaScript-heavy shops still work. Brand managers and e-commerce teams use it to watch competitors and resellers.

What you get out of it

MAP violations found in days, not weeks
When a reseller lists below your minimum advertised price, you hear about it the day it happens. Early contact is far more effective than a complaint after weeks of undercutting.
Competitor price moves seen quickly
A rival's price cut changes how your own listing looks. Seeing it the same day lets you decide whether to match, bundle or hold, instead of reacting after sales have already dropped.
Evidence with dates
Each alert records the old price, the new price and when it was noticed. That is useful in a conversation with a reseller or when you enforce a pricing policy in writing.
Pages that need JavaScript still work
Many shops build their prices in the browser after loading. Fetching through ScrapingBee with rendering handles those pages, so the alert is reliable on sites a simple request would read as blank.
Hours of manual checking removed
Opening thirty product pages every morning to compare prices is tedious and error-prone. The automation checks every page the same way each time and only interrupts you when something has changed.

How it works

What happens, step by step

On the schedule you set, ClickRuntime loads the product page you are watching.
It reads the current price from the page and checks it against your target price.
When the price falls below your target, you get an email with the new price and the product link.
It remembers the last price it alerted on, so you are not emailed again for the same price.

Before it runs live

Connect ScrapingBee

What you get

RunsOn a schedule

Get an email when a product price dropstoday, 9:00Succeeded

Email · Price below $249$239.00 at https://shop.example.com/products/desk-pro

Build your own

Need it to work differently?

This template is a starting point. Copy the prompt and change it, or describe a different automation from scratch, with your own conditions, more apps or an AI step. Your assistant writes it, tests it and runs it on ClickRuntime.

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

Run it at a different time, more or less often, or only on weekdays
Add an AI step, for example to summarize, sort or draft a reply
Add another app, for example also send it to Slack
Combine it with other ScrapingBee steps into one automation

Under the hood

The code that runs this automation

This is the Python script that runs each time the automation starts. Your AI assistant writes it for you when you send the prompt, and you allow each step in your assistant. To change how the automation works, describe the change to your assistant and it updates the script for you. For every function it can use, see the script reference.

price_monitoring_alert.pyexample

import json
from clickruntime import on_trigger, credentials, http, state, notify

TARGET = 249.0
PAGES = ["https://shop.example.com/products/desk-pro",
         "https://store.example.net/item/desk-pro-oak",
         "https://example.org/p/desk-pro"]
RULES = {"price": {"selector": "[itemprop=price], .price", "output": "text"}}

@on_trigger
def run(event):
    key = credentials.secret("SCRAPINGBEE_KEY")
    alerted = state.get("alerted") or {}
    hits = []
    for url in PAGES:
        data = http.get("https://app.scrapingbee.com/api/v1/", params={
            "api_key": key, "url": url, "extract_rules": json.dumps(RULES)}, timeout=60).json()
        price = float("".join(c for c in data.get("price", "") if c.isdigit() or c == ".") or 0)
        if 0 < price < TARGET and alerted.get(url) != price:
            hits.append(f"${price:,.2f} at {url}")
        alerted[url] = price
    if hits:
        notify.email_me("Price below $249", "\n".join(hits))
    state.set("alerted", alerted)
    return {"below_target": len(hits)}

FAQ

Common questions

How does it know what the price on the page is?

You define extract rules, usually a CSS selector for the price element, and ScrapingBee returns that text. The automation turns it into a number and compares it with the stored one. A site redesign may require updating the selector.

What if a site blocks the request or the price is missing?

ScrapingBee offers proxy and rendering options to get past common blocking. If a price is still missing, the run log shows it so you can adjust the rule. A missing value is not treated as a price change.

Can I set different MAP prices for different products?

Yes. The list of products can store a MAP value for each URL, and the comparison uses that number. Products without a MAP are only checked for any change, so you can mix both kinds in one list.

What permissions does it need?

API key. Nothing else in your accounts is used.

Does it need AI?

No. It runs without AI, so it doesn't use your plan's AI allowance.

How many runs does it use?

One run each time it runs (on a schedule). Checks that find nothing to do and stop right away aren't counted.

Can I change how it works?

Yes. Describe the change to your AI assistant, for example a different schedule, channel or filter. It updates the automation, tests it and tells you what changed.

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