# WooCommerce Price & Inventory Monitor (`sashaebashu/woocommerce-monitor`) Actor

Scrape any WooCommerce store's products, prices, stock, categories and customer reviews — and monitor price drops, restocks and new products over time. No API keys.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/sashaebashu/woocommerce-monitor.md
- **Developed by:** [Sasha Ebashu](https://apify.com/sashaebashu) (community)
- **Categories:** E-commerce, Automation, Developer tools
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $3.00 / 1,000 results

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## WooCommerce Price & Inventory Monitor

Scrape **every product from any WooCommerce store** — names, prices, sale prices, stock status, categories, ratings, images and **customer reviews** — and **monitor changes over time**: price drops, price rises, restocks, sell-outs, new and removed products.

Just enter a store domain. **No API keys, no login.** It reads the store's public WooCommerce Store API.

### Two modes

#### 1. Catalog — full product dump

Get the complete catalog: one row per product with price, regular/sale price, currency, in-stock flag (and `lowStockRemaining` when the store exposes it), categories, tags, brand, average rating and review count, images and timestamps. Run across many stores at once. Export to JSON, CSV, Excel or Google Sheets.

#### 2. Monitor — only what changed 🔥

Run it on a schedule. The actor remembers the previous run and outputs **only the differences**:

| changeType | meaning |
|---|---|
| `price_drop` / `price_rise` | the price moved (with `oldPrice`, `newPrice`, `changePct`) |
| `back_in_stock` / `out_of_stock` | availability flipped |
| `new_product` / `removed_product` | a product appeared or disappeared |

Perfect for **competitor price tracking, restock alerts, dropshipping research and MAP-violation monitoring**.

### Why this one

- **Monitoring, not just a snapshot** — most scrapers only dump the catalog once. This one tracks change over time, so a daily schedule actually tells you something.
- **Fast & cheap** — reads the store's public Store API with parallel pagination, datacenter proxy is enough.
- **Rich data** — currency, ratings, review counts and categories come straight from the API.
- **Customer reviews** — optionally attach the actual review text, rating, reviewer and date to each product — data most product scrapers can't get.
- **Multi-store** — watch dozens of competitors in a single run.
- **Clear status, no silent failures** — if a store has no public Store API, is protected or blocks the request, it's reported in the log instead of just returning nothing.

### Input

| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| `storeUrls` | Store domains or URLs (`offermanwoodshop.com`, `https://rootscience.com`). |
| `mode` | `catalog` (full dump) or `monitor` (only changes since last run). |
| `minPriceChangePct` | Monitor: ignore price moves smaller than this %. |
| `reportNewOnFirstRun` | Monitor: emit all products as new on the first (baseline) run. |
| `includeImages` | Include product image URLs in each row (on by default). |
| `includeReviews` | Catalog: attach customer reviews (text, rating, reviewer, date) to each product. |
| `maxReviewsPerProduct` | Cap reviews attached per product (default 10). |
| `priceMin` / `priceMax` | (variable products) the price range of a product's variations. |
| `maxProductsPerStore` | Cap per store (0 = unlimited). |

### Output (catalog)

`store`, `productId`, `name`, `slug`, `sku`, `type`, `url`, `price`, `priceMin`, `priceMax`, `hasPriceRange`, `regularPrice`, `salePrice`, `currency`, `onSale`, `discountPct`, `inStock`, `onBackorder`, `lowStockRemaining`, `averageRating`, `reviewCount`, `categories`, `tags`, `brands`, `variationsCount`, `featuredImage`, `images`, `scrapedAt` — plus `reviews[]` (`rating`, `review`, `reviewer`, `date`) and `reviewsScraped` when `includeReviews` is on.

### Notes

Works on any WooCommerce store that exposes the public Store API (the default). Some stores behind aggressive CDN/bot protection may need a residential proxy. Monitor mode stores its baseline in the actor's key-value store, so keep using the same actor/schedule for change tracking.

# Actor input Schema

## `storeUrls` (type: `array`):

WooCommerce store domains or URLs, e.g. offermanwoodshop.com, https://rootscience.com. The actor reads the public WooCommerce Store API (/wp-json/wc/store/products).

## `mode` (type: `string`):

catalog = dump every product with prices, stock & categories. monitor = compare against the previous run and output only what changed (price drops/rises, back-in-stock, out-of-stock, new/removed products).

## `minPriceChangePct` (type: `integer`):

In monitor mode, ignore price changes smaller than this percent. 0 = report all.

## `reportNewOnFirstRun` (type: `boolean`):

Monitor mode: on the very first run there is no baseline. If on, emit every product as new\_product; if off, just save the baseline silently.

## `includeImages` (type: `boolean`):

Include product image URLs in catalog output.

## `includeReviews` (type: `boolean`):

Catalog mode: attach customer reviews (text, rating, reviewer, date) to each product from the store's public reviews API. Adds extra requests.

## `maxReviewsPerProduct` (type: `integer`):

Cap how many reviews to attach per product when reviews are on.

## `maxProductsPerStore` (type: `integer`):

Cap products fetched per store (0 = unlimited).

## `maxConcurrency` (type: `integer`):

How many stores to fetch in parallel.

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Apify Proxy (datacenter) is enough — the WooCommerce Store API is public.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "storeUrls": [
    "offermanwoodshop.com"
  ],
  "mode": "catalog",
  "minPriceChangePct": 0,
  "reportNewOnFirstRun": false,
  "includeImages": true,
  "includeReviews": false,
  "maxReviewsPerProduct": 10,
  "maxProductsPerStore": 0,
  "maxConcurrency": 10,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `overview` (type: `string`):

No description

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "storeUrls": [
        "offermanwoodshop.com"
    ],
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": true
    }
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("sashaebashu/woocommerce-monitor").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "storeUrls": ["offermanwoodshop.com"],
    "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": True },
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("sashaebashu/woocommerce-monitor").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "storeUrls": [
    "offermanwoodshop.com"
  ],
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}' |
apify call sashaebashu/woocommerce-monitor --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,sashaebashu/woocommerce-monitor"
        }
    }
}

```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/sJIo4bLRSH3Qc8csW/builds/fVAzL1yeLAhIMoaC4/openapi.json