Track Shopify competitor prices daily with products.json (no API key)

Описание и применение

Автоматический мониторинг цен конкурентов на Shopify с использованием публичного endpoint products.json и платформы Apify, без API‑ключей и парсинга HTML.

Задача

Need to monitor competitor prices on Shopify stores without API keys or scraping.

Результат

Fetched 1,201 products from 5 stores in 12.6 s, cost $1.20 on free plan; daily monitoring returns only changes, saving time and money.

Рабочий процесс

• Identify target Shopify stores or collections
• Configure Apify Actor with store URLs and options (maxProductsPerStore, onlyOnSale)
• Run Actor to fetch products.json, parse JSON, flatten data into rows
• Apply filters (keywords, vendors, price range, etc.) before charging
• Export results to CSV or store in database
• Set onlyChanges=true and monitorName to enable daily diff
• Schedule Actor in Apify Console to run daily
• Receive only changed or new product rows as alerts

Доказательства

Every Shopify storefront has a public, documented-by-accident API that most people never look at: https://www.allbirds.com/products.json?limit=250&page=1

Источник

Result: 1,201 products from 5 stores in 12.6 seconds, plus 2 free error rows. Cost on the Free plan: 1,201 × $0.001 = $1.20.

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