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E-commerce Price Monitoring

Complete example showing how to monitor e-commerce products for price changes and stock availability.

Use case

Track competitor prices, product availability, and detect when products go on sale.

What you’ll build

  • Strategy for extracting product data
  • Hourly monitoring schedule
  • Price drop alerts
  • Inventory tracking

Prerequisites

  • Meter API key
  • TODO: Your alerting system (email, Slack, etc.)
  • TODO: Your target e-commerce site

Step 1: Generate strategy

TODO: Replace with your actual e-commerce site and data

Step 2: Set up monitoring

Step 3: Process price changes

TODO: Implement your price tracking logic

Step 4: Track inventory

TODO: Implement stock tracking

Complete example

TODO: Full working implementation

Deployment

Option 1: Run as service

TODO: Set up as systemd service or similar

Option 2: Cron job

TODO: Configure cron

Option 3: Cloud function

TODO: Deploy to AWS Lambda, Google Cloud Functions, etc.

Next steps

  • Add database for price history tracking
  • Implement email/Slack alerts
  • Build price trends visualization
  • Add multi-page monitoring

See also

Need help?

Email me at mckinnon@meter.sh