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.
Key Benefits
- Monitor competitor prices in real-time
- Automate price change alerts
- Optimize your pricing strategy
- Track stock availability
- Analyze market trends
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.
Quick Start for Price Monitoring
Simple integration in any language
1import requests23# Price Monitoring with Makerhook4def 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 )1415 data = response.json()16 print("Status:", response.status_code)17 print("Data:", data)1819 # Process for price monitoring20 return data2122get_price_monitoring_data()
{"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.
Price Monitoring in 4 simple steps
Go from zero to production in minutes, not weeks
Choose your scrapers
Select from 230+ scrapers optimized for price monitoring. We recommend starting with amazon, ebay, walmart.
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.
Receive structured data
Get clean, normalized JSON responses in milliseconds. Data is ready to use—no parsing or cleaning required.
Scale your workflow
Automate price monitoring with scheduled jobs, webhooks, and batch processing. Handle millions of requests without infrastructure headaches.
With vs Without Makerhook
See the difference in your price monitoring workflow
DIY Scraping | With Makerhook | |
|---|---|---|
| Time to first data | Days to weeks | 5 minutes |
| Infrastructure | Proxies, servers, browsers | One API call |
| Maintenance | Constant updates needed | Zero maintenance |
| Anti-bot handling | Trial and error | Built-in bypass |
| Data format | Raw HTML to parse | Clean JSON |
| Success rate | 60-80% | 99.9% |
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.
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.
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