Makerhook
Use Case

Price Monitoring

Track competitor pricing across e-commerce platforms. Get real-time alerts on price changes and optimize your pricing strategy with automated data collection.

E-commerceRetailDropshippingWholesale

Key Benefits

  • Monitor competitor prices in real-time
  • Automate price change alerts
  • Optimize your pricing strategy
  • Track stock availability
  • Analyze market trends
99.9%
Success rate
<2s
Avg response
230+
E-commerce scrapers
99.9%
Uptime guarantee
<2s
Avg response time
Products tracked
The Problem

Price Monitoring without the right tools is a headache

Building price monitoring systems from scratch is time-consuming and error-prone. Here's what teams typically struggle with:

Competitor sites block you

E-commerce sites actively detect and block scrapers, making consistent price monitoring nearly impossible.

Data is always stale

By the time you collect and process data, prices have already changed. Real-time monitoring requires serious infrastructure.

Scaling is expensive

Monitoring thousands of products across multiple sites requires significant computing resources and proxy costs.

Format changes break everything

When sites update their layout, your scrapers break and you lose days of pricing data.

Manual work doesn't scale

Copy-pasting prices from websites is tedious and error-prone. You need automation.

No historical data

Without proper storage and tracking, you can't analyze price trends or patterns over time.

Don't waste weeks building infrastructure. Focus on what matters—your business.

Makerhook handles all of this for you

Quick Start for Price Monitoring

Simple integration in any language

1import requests
2
3# Price Monitoring with Makerhook
4def get_price_monitoring_data():
5 response = requests.get(
6 url="https://api.makerhook.com/v1/scraper/amazon",
7 params={
8 "url": "TARGET_URL"
9 },
10 headers={
11 "x-api-key": "YOUR_API_KEY"
12 }
13 )
14
15 data = response.json()
16 print("Status:", response.status_code)
17 print("Data:", data)
18
19 # Process for price monitoring
20 return data
21
22get_price_monitoring_data()
Response200 OK
{
"success": true,
"request_id": "req_nthmk7ls",
"credits_used": 1,
"data": {
"title": "Example Product Title",
"price": {
"amount": 99.99,
"currency": "USD"
},
"rating": 4.7,
"reviews_count": 1247,
"images": [
"https://example.com/image1.jpg",
"https://example.com/image2.jpg"
],
"seller": "example_seller"
}
}

All responses return clean, structured JSON data ready to use in your application.

How It Works

Price Monitoring in 4 simple steps

Go from zero to production in minutes, not weeks

1

Choose your scrapers

Select from 230+ scrapers optimized for price monitoring. We recommend starting with amazon, ebay, walmart.

2

Make your first API call

Use our simple REST API to request data. No complex setup, no infrastructure to manage. Just a single HTTP request.

3

Receive structured data

Get clean, normalized JSON responses in milliseconds. Data is ready to use—no parsing or cleaning required.

4

Scale your workflow

Automate price monitoring with scheduled jobs, webhooks, and batch processing. Handle millions of requests without infrastructure headaches.

Comparison

With vs Without Makerhook

See the difference in your price monitoring workflow

DIY Scraping
With Makerhook
Time to first dataDays to weeks5 minutes
InfrastructureProxies, servers, browsersOne API call
MaintenanceConstant updates neededZero maintenance
Anti-bot handlingTrial and errorBuilt-in bypass
Data formatRaw HTML to parseClean JSON
Success rate60-80%99.9%
Our Solution

Everything you need for price monitoring

Makerhook gives you reliable data extraction with enterprise-grade infrastructure

Global Coverage

Access data from any region with our worldwide proxy network. Get localized results for accurate price monitoring.

Real-time Data

Get fresh data in milliseconds. Perfect for time-sensitive price monitoring that requires up-to-date information.

Enterprise Security

SOC 2 compliant infrastructure with encrypted data transfer. Your price monitoring data is safe with us.

Developer Experience

Built for developers, by developers

Everything you need to build price monitoring into your product

Comprehensive documentation

Detailed guides, API reference, and examples to get you started quickly with price monitoring.

Code samples in every language

Python, JavaScript, PHP, Go, Ruby, and more. Copy-paste ready code for your stack.

Webhooks & async processing

Handle large-scale price monitoring with async callbacks and batch processing.

Expert support

Real engineers who understand price monitoring. Fast, helpful responses.

Ready to build price monitoring?

Get access to free API credits and start extracting data in minutes. No credit card required.