研究

Monitor Competitor Pricing Changes

Compare competitor pricing pages with saved summaries and notify a Slack channel of changes.

Setup

Connect Google Sheets and Slack, set the spreadsheet ID on Read pricing pages and Update pricing and time, and set a Slack channel in Notify pricing change. The sheet needs unique headers Pricing URL, Pricing and Time. Set the sheet name in the read range and Identify pricing rows. Create secret Variable AIRTOP_API_KEY and bind it to each Airtop request. In n8n connect Airtop, Sheets and Slack and select the same spreadsheet and sheet. Run one format.

Behavior

For each nonempty pricing URL, Airtop reads the page and compares its plans with the saved summary. A result whose status does not contain SIMILAR updates that row’s Pricing and Time cells and sends its differences to Slack. Similar results leave the row unchanged. Model output can miss or misinterpret a plan; review the page and the result.

Open Flow processes rows in order, updates before notifying and closes successful Airtop sessions. Earlier changes remain if a later step fails. Check the sheet and Slack before retrying an uncertain write. Avoid overlapping runs or reordering rows during a run. Airtop requests have a 30-second HTTP timeout and 4 MiB response limit; browser readiness is checked up to 60 times at five-second intervals. Errors before session close can leave a session until its idle timeout.

Inspiration & credits

Changes to the source

Replace private spreadsheet and channel identifiers with configuration. Open Flow uses Airtop’s official HTTP API because no Airtop Provider is available.
Preserve the Pricing URL cell while updating Pricing and Time, and process rows in order.

Adapted from Monitor Competitor Pricing in Zie619/n8n-workflows. The matching n8n listing credits Airtop. The original template does not state a separate license.

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