Track competitor prices and get alerted when they change

Scrapes competitor websites, compares prices to your history, and sends an instant alert whenever something changes.

How the work actually flows

A straight line. Runs once per each competitor product page.

Pattern: Sequence (1) ยท Multiple Instances without Synchronization (12)

flowchart TD trig(["scheduled price check runs"]):::trigtime s0[["visit competitor product pages"]]:::mi s1["extract price and stock"]:::task s2["compare against price history"]:::task s3[("log changes to spreadsheet")]:::store s4["send telegram alert"]:::svc trig --> s0 s0 --> s1 s1 --> s2 s2 --> s3 s3 --> s4 out[/"instant competitor change alert"/]:::out pay{{"react faster to competitor moves"}}:::pay s4 --> out out --> pay classDef task fill:#e7f6fe,stroke:#34b8f0,color:#2c2a29 classDef svc fill:#f6f8fa,stroke:#7c8795,color:#2c2a29 classDef mi fill:#e7f6fe,stroke:#0079a8,color:#2c2a29,stroke-width:2px classDef human fill:#fff,stroke:#0079a8,color:#0079a8 classDef store fill:#f6f8fa,stroke:#0079a8,color:#2c2a29 classDef trig fill:#00a4eb,stroke:#0079a8,color:#fff,font-weight:bold classDef trigtime fill:#00a4eb,stroke:#0079a8,color:#fff,font-weight:bold classDef trigdata fill:#8ad4f5,stroke:#0079a8,color:#06314c,font-weight:bold classDef gate fill:#fff,stroke:#e8a23d,color:#6b4708,font-weight:bold classDef out fill:#1f9d6b,stroke:#167a53,color:#fff,font-weight:bold classDef pay fill:#06314c,stroke:#021f33,color:#fff
Starts itA stepAn outside serviceRuns once per itemA record or sheetResultPayoff
Build size
Advanced

A larger build with multiple systems, AI reasoning, and custom rules.

Business functions
E-commerce & ProductMessaging & NotificationsSpreadsheet & Database OpsWeb Scraping & Data CollectionResearch & Market Intelligence
Connects
Google SheetsTelegramFirecrawl

The problem it solves

You can't check competitor websites every day to see if they've dropped prices or gone out of stock, so you often find out too late to react. Manually tracking pricing across multiple competitors in a spreadsheet is tedious and easy to fall behind on.

Who it fits

A retailer, pricing analyst, or e-commerce team that needs to react quickly to competitor pricing moves.

How it works

  1. On a schedule, the system visits your list of competitor product pages using Firecrawl
  2. AI reads each page and extracts the current price and stock status
  3. It compares the new data against your price history
  4. Any price or stock change is logged to a spreadsheet
  5. You get an instant alert on Telegram with the details of what changed
What you get

Price changes you hear about first

You get an instant Telegram alert whenever a competitor's price or stock changes, keeping you ahead of the market.

What you get

An updated pricing spreadsheet and an instant alert whenever a competitor's price or stock changes.

What you need

Web scraping and AI service accounts, a Google account for spreadsheets, and a messaging app like Telegram.

We can build this. But should you?

The hard question is not how to build it. It is whether this is the right thing to build first.

That is what a Fractional Chief AI Officer figures out with you, before anyone writes a line of code.

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