Automated Competitor Price Monitoring with Bright Data
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Automate daily competitor price monitoring using Bright Data for reliable web scraping. This workflow extracts pricing details, detects changes against historical data in Google Sheets, and updates records, ensuring you're always informed about market shifts.
About This Workflow
Stay ahead in the competitive landscape with this robust n8n workflow designed for automated competitor price monitoring. Every day, it leverages Bright Data's unblocking capabilities to reliably fetch a target pricing page. After extracting key pricing information for specific plans, the workflow intelligently compares it against your stored historical data in Google Sheets. If any price changes are detected for crucial plans like Basic, Grow, Advanced, or Plus, the sheet is automatically updated, giving you real-time insights for strategic pricing decisions without manual effort.
Key Features
- Automated Daily Monitoring: Schedule daily checks to proactively track competitor pricing shifts.
- Reliable Web Scraping with Bright Data: Utilizes Bright Data to bypass geo-restrictions and IP blocking, ensuring consistent data retrieval.
- Intelligent Price Extraction & Formatting: Precisely extracts specific plan names and their corresponding prices from complex HTML.
- Historical Data Comparison: Compares newly scraped prices against previously recorded data in Google Sheets to identify changes.
- Dynamic Google Sheets Updates: Automatically updates your competitor price sheet when a change is detected.
How To Use
- Bright Data API Key: In the "Fetch Page via Bright Data" node, replace
API_KEYin theAuthorizationheader with your actual Bright Data API key. - Target URL Configuration: Adjust the
urlparameter in the "Fetch Page via Bright Data" node to your desired competitor's pricing page. - Google Sheets Setup: Link your Google Sheets credentials to the "Read Last Saved Price" and "Update Stored Price" nodes. Ensure the
Document IDandSheet Namepoint to your competitor price analyzer spreadsheet. - HTML Extraction Refinement (Optional): If monitoring a different site, update the
cssSelectorvalues in the "Extract HTML Content" node to match the new page's structure for plan names and pricing. - Price Block Formatting (Optional): Modify the
jsCodein "Format & Isolate Price Block" if your competitor's plan names or price formats differ, especially thepriceRegexand the plan names array.
Apps Used
Workflow JSON
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"id": "cff82123-adfa-4b07-8387-dc55250d3735",
"name": "Automated Competitor Price Monitoring with Bright Data",
"nodes": 27,
"category": "Marketing",
"status": "active",
"version": "1.0.0"
}Note: This is a sample preview. The full workflow JSON contains node configurations, credentials placeholders, and execution logic.
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