Cyber Monday Price Tracker: Hourly Checks for Nov 30

Описание и применение

Автоматический скрипт на Apify проверяет цены товаров каждый час с воскресенья вечера по вторник утром, затем сравнивает минимальные цены Cyber Monday с ценами Black Friday.

Задача

Track price changes for Cyber Monday 2026 by checking a product list hourly from Sunday evening to Tuesday morning, then compare Cyber Monday lows with Black Friday prices.

Результат

The hourly schedule captures all price changes during the Cyber Monday window, costing between $1.26 and $4.50 on GOLD tier for 36 runs. The comparison script identifies price or currency differences between Black Friday and Cyber Monday for each product.

Рабочий процесс

• Configure Apify actor with monitorMode and onlyChanges enabled for hourly checks from Sunday 6 p.m. to Tuesday 6 a.m. (America/New_York timezone).
• Set cron entries: 0 18‑23 29 11 *, 0 * 30 11 *, 0 0‑5 1 12 * for hourly; adjust for every‑3‑hour cadence.
• Run actor for each cadence, ensuring each run finishes before the next starts to avoid duplicate baselines.
• Export data to a dataset; use a second task with monitorMode off to capture full product data on Black Friday evening and Cyber Monday evening.
• Run a Python script that pulls datasets from both runs via ApifyClient, joins by product URL, and prints items where currency or price changed.
• Store or visualize results for analysis.
• Optionally set a maximum cost per run in run options to cap unexpected expenses.

Доказательства

Using an Apify schedule with the timezone set to America/New_York, the Sunday 6 p.m. to Tuesday 6 a.m. window is three cron entries:

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Hourly checks cost about three times as much as checks every three hours.

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For a 150-product list, one run costs between "nothing changed" and "everything changed": FREE: $0.005 + 150 × $0.0012 = $0.185 up to $0.005 + 150 × $0.0048 = $0.725

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The actor is pay per event. With monitorMode and onlyChanges on, every run pays the start fee, and each product pays either "product scraped" (new or changed, written) or "product checked" (unchanged, not written).

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This script joins two runs by product URL:

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