On a schedule

Get an email when a price changes on a protected page

A page that blocks normal requests is fetched through your Bright Data zone, and you hear when its price moves.

Runs: On a schedule
Apps: Bright Data
AI: Not needed
Access: API key + zone

Send this to your assistant

Create a ClickRuntime automation: every 6 hours, fetch this product page through my Bright Data zone, read the price, and email me if it changed since the last check.

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

Some of the numbers that matter to a business live on someone else's web page: a competitor's price, a supplier's stock status, a regulator's published rate, a position in search results. The page offers no alert and no API, so somebody has to open it and remember what it said last time. Many pages also block automated requests, which defeats a simple script.

On the schedule you choose, ClickRuntime requests the page through a Bright Data Web Unlocker zone, which gets past typical blocking, extracts the specific value you care about and compares it with the previous one that was stored. If it has changed, you receive an email showing the old and new values.

It suits anyone who needs to be told when a number on a page they do not control moves.

What you get out of it

Price changes are noticed immediately
When a competitor adjusts a price, you hear about it after the next scheduled check. A same-day response beats learning of it from a customer who has already compared the two.
Blocked pages become readable
Many sites reject plain automated requests. Using a Web Unlocker zone gets through where a basic script returns an error, so the check keeps working. The check stays worth reading because it speaks only when something has genuinely moved.
Only real changes produce emails
The value is compared with the last one, so unchanged pages are silent. You are not asked to read the same number each morning, which keeps the alert worth opening.
Old and new values appear side by side
The email shows both numbers, so the size of the change is clear at a glance. A one percent adjustment and a thirty percent cut call for very different responses.
No manual page-watching
Nobody has to bookmark a page and visit it daily. The check continues over holidays and busy periods, which is exactly when competitors tend to change things. Pages change over weekends and holidays, which is often exactly when competitors adjust prices.

How it works

What happens, step by step

On the schedule you set, ClickRuntime fetches the product page through your Bright Data Web Unlocker zone, so sites that block normal visits still load.
It reads the price from the page and compares it with the price saved from the last check.
When the price has changed, you get an email with the page link and the old and new price.
The new price is saved for the next check.

Before it runs live

Connect Bright Data

What you get

RunsOn a schedule

Get an email when a price changes on a protected pagetoday, 9:00Succeeded

Email · Price changedhttps://shop.example.com/products/espresso-machine $599.00 → $549.00

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 Bright Data 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.

serp_price_snapshot_via_web_unlocker.pyexample

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
from clickruntime import on_trigger, credentials, http, state, notify

PRODUCT_URL = "https://shop.example.com/products/espresso-machine"
ZONE = "web_unlocker1"

@on_trigger
def run(event):
    resp = http.post("https://api.brightdata.com/request",
                     headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {credentials.secret('BRIGHTDATA_API_KEY')}"},
                     json={"zone": ZONE, "url": PRODUCT_URL, "format": "raw"}, timeout=60)
    resp.raise_for_status()
    tag = BeautifulSoup(resp.text, "html.parser").select_one("[itemprop=price], .price")
    price = tag.get("content") or tag.get_text(strip=True) if tag else None
    last = state.get("price")
    if price and last and price != last:
        notify.email_me("Price changed", f"{PRODUCT_URL}\n{last} → {price}")
    if price:
        state.set("price", price)
    return {"price": price, "previous": last}

FAQ

Common questions

How does it find the value on the page?

The workflow parses the page content and extracts the part you specify, such as a price or a stock label, based on a pattern or selector. If the site changes its layout, the extraction may need updating. Failed extractions show in the run log.

Does it work for search result rankings too?

Yes, it can request a search results page through Bright Data and read a ranking position or a listed price. Treat results with care, because search pages vary by location and personalization. A consistent request setup keeps comparisons fair.

Is scraping a page allowed?

That depends on the site's terms and the laws that apply to you. Checking publicly available pages at a reasonable rate is common, but review the terms of any site you monitor. Bright Data's own usage policies also apply to your account.

What permissions does it need?

API key + zone. 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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