On a schedule

Catch a product price drop

You get an email as soon as a product's price falls below the number you set.

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

Send this to your assistant

Create a ClickRuntime automation: every 6 hours, extract the price from this product page with Firecrawl and email me if it drops below $249.

Paste it into your assistant. It tells you what it will send or change before it runs live.

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Why use it

Why teams use this automation

Buyers of equipment, suppliers' parts and everyday purchases can save a lot by catching a price drop, but nobody refreshes product pages all day. Resellers and purchasing teams have the opposite problem: a supplier raises a price or a part goes out of stock, and they find out when a quote bounces. Ordinary web monitors only notice that the page changed, which happens for countless reasons unrelated to price.

On a schedule, ClickRuntime scrapes the product page with a JSON extraction schema so it reads the actual price and availability fields, compares them with the previous values, and emails you only when the price has dropped. The message gives the old price, the new price and a link.

It works well for buyers waiting for a sale and for resellers watching supplier prices.

What you get out of it

Buy when the price falls
An email as soon as the price drops lets you order while the sale lasts. Deals on popular items can vanish within hours, so the timing matters. Waiting for a sale is easier when you are told.
Avoid false alarms
Reading the price field directly means layout tweaks and banner changes do not trigger alerts. You hear about money, not about someone moving a button. Fewer false alarms means you keep reading the alerts.
Track suppliers for your margins
Resellers can see when a supplier price drops or rises. Adjusting your own prices quickly protects margin and keeps you competitive. Even small changes add up across many parts. That helps your negotiating position.
Catch stock changes
The same extraction can read availability. A back-in-stock message tells you to order before the item sells out again. Stock can matter more than price when deadlines are tight, so it is worth knowing.
Monitor several products at once
List a handful of URLs and each is checked on the same schedule. A single flow replaces browser tabs, bookmarks and reminders you would otherwise juggle. That saves a lot of tab-switching.

How it works

What happens, step by step

On your chosen schedule, ClickRuntime visits the product page you are watching and reads the current price.
It compares the price with your target, such as $249.
If the price is below your target, you get an email with the new price and the product link.
You are not emailed again for the same price.

Before it runs live

Connect Firecrawl

What you get

RunsOn a schedule

Catch a product price droptoday, 9:00Succeeded

Email · Price watchPrice drop: $229.00 — shop.example.com/products/standing-desk is now below $249.

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 Firecrawl 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_stock_extraction_watch.pyexample

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

URL = "https://shop.example.com/products/standing-desk"
TARGET = 249

@on_trigger
def run(event):
    resp = http.post("https://api.firecrawl.dev/v2/scrape",
                     headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {credentials.secret('FIRECRAWL_API_KEY')}"},
                     json={"url": URL, "formats": [{"type": "json", "schema": {
                         "type": "object", "properties": {"price": {"type": "number"}, "in_stock": {"type": "boolean"}},
                         "required": ["price"]}}]}, timeout=60)
    resp.raise_for_status()
    price = resp.json()["data"]["json"]["price"]
    if price < TARGET and state.get("last_alert_price") != price:
        notify.email_me(f"Price drop: ${price}", f"{URL} is now ${price} (below ${TARGET}).")
        state.set("last_alert_price", price)
    return {"price": price}

FAQ

Common questions

How does it read the price from a page?

A JSON extraction schema names the fields you want, such as price and availability, and the scraper pulls them from the page's content. This is more dependable than matching text on a page that shifts.

Can I set a target price?

Yes. Instead of alerting on any drop, the check can alert only when the price is at or below a number you choose, such as 80 dollars. Otherwise it stays quiet and keeps watching. Alerts then fire only on real bargains.

Will it work on pages that need a login?

The scraper reads public pages. Prices behind a login, such as trade-only pricing, are not visible to it unless the site offers a public feed or token, so check how the supplier shows its prices.

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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