Overview
This workflow automates daily competitor price monitoring by scraping product pages, analyzing price changes, and notifying stakeholders. It integrates Google Sheets for product management and Telegram for instant alerts.
Key Features
- Scheduled Execution: Triggers every day at 8 AM to ensure timely price checks.
- Product List Management: Fetches product URLs from a Google Sheet, allowing easy updates.
- Web Scraping: Loads each product page and extracts current price data using HTTP requests and HTML parsing.
- Data Processing: Normalizes and compares prices, computes changes, and cleans up parsed data.
- Batch Processing: Handles products one at a time with pauses to avoid rate limits.
- Change Detection: Identifies significant price changes and triggers notifications.
Benefits
- Real-Time Insights: Enables quick response to competitor pricing strategies.
- Efficiency: Eliminates manual price checks, saving hours of repetitive work.
- Accuracy: Reduces human error in price tracking and reporting.
Use Cases
- E-commerce teams tracking competitor pricing.
- Sales and marketing departments optimizing pricing strategies.
Integrations
- Google Sheets: Centralized product list management.
- Telegram: Instant notifications for actionable insights.
