Recipe · E-commerce
Price watch
Opens each product page in this profile's Product watch rows, reads the price and whether the page says it is in stock, and writes both back into the row. The selectors are a guess — every store draws a price differently, so open one of your pages and check them before trusting a run.
What it does
Walks this profile's watched product pages and writes back the price and whether the page says it is in stock.
It runs against one profile, through that profile's own proxy and with its own cookies — so the pages load the way that account's owner would see them. It navigates, so give it a profile whose session you are happy to have in use.
The 10 steps
The real tree, read out of the pack the launcher ships. Indentation is nesting: the steps under a loop run once per row, and the ones under a branch run only when the condition above them holds. Every {{…}} is a value filled in at run time — from the row being walked, from a setting on the run, or from the profile itself.
loadRowsLoad this profile's watch rowsLoad Product watch into rowsevaluateStamp the sweepRun scriptloopEach product pageLoop forEachEach time
setVarForget the previous rowSet watchgotoOpen the product pageGo to {{loop.item.url}}on failure: continuewaitWaitevaluateRead price and availabilityRun scripton failure: continuesaveRowsWrite the reading backSave to Product watchon failure: continuescreenshotScreenshoton failure: continuewaitWaitEach of those is one of the step types on the automation reference, with the same fields the editor shows and the same fields an agent is handed over the local API.
The tables it uses
These load with the recipe. A dataset is a typed table your workspace owns — the columns are named and typed up front so the steps can address them, and every one of them is yours to rename, extend or fill from a file afterwards.
Product watch
readswritesOne row per product page you are watching. The sweep writes the price and whether the page says it is in stock.
- url
- URL · url
- title
- Title · text
- price
- Price · number
- currency
- Currency · text
- availability
- Availability · select · Unchecked | In stock | Out of stock | Unknown page
- checked_at
- Checked at · datetime
- profile
- Profile · profile
- notes
- Notes · longText
Re-running updates the row it already wrote rather than adding a second one. That is what the match column in the save step is for, and it is the difference between a status check and a table that doubles in size every pass.
What it asks you for
Settings are filled in when the run starts, and every profile can hold its own values — which is how one workflow serves a whole folder of accounts.
- price_selector
- Price selector · text · required
- title_selector
- Title selector · text · required
A CSS selector matching the element that holds the price. The default is a guess: it fits pages that publish schema.org markup and nothing else. Open the page, inspect the price, and put the real one here.
A CSS selector matching the product's own heading. `h1` is right more often than anything else and wrong often enough to check. It is read into the run log so you can see what the sweep was looking at.
Loading it
In the launcher, open Automations, choose Load a starter pack, and pick E-commerce. Untick anything you do not want. The tables land first, then the workflows, then a project called E-commerce Ops that links them together.
What arrives is an ordinary automation row. Open it in the editor, change a step, rename it, delete it — nothing in the app treats it as special afterwards, and loading the pack a second time makes a fresh copy rather than overwriting the one you edited. Tables are the opposite: an existing table of the same name is reused and keeps its rows.
The rest of the e-commerce pack
They load together, share the tables above, and land in one E-commerce Ops project.
Store session check
Opens this profile's store accounts and records which sessions are still signed in and which are showing a banner.
One profile · Its own proxy and cookies · The Store accounts table
Store account audit
Flags account rows that are missing a label, an address, a region or a profile of their own. Opens no page.
One profile · Opens no page · The Store accounts table
Listing export
Reads your seller dashboard's listings page in this profile's session and files one row per listing.
One profile · Its own proxy and cookies · The Listings table · 3 settings on the run