Price Monitoring
Online retailers implement thousands of price changes daily that are impossible to monitor manually. As a result, e-commerce specialists rely on web intelligence solution providers such as Oxylabs' for automated real-time data delivery.
Real-time data from any country
Robust, ethically-acquired proxies
Structured, ready-to-use pricing information
Conduct price monitoring with gathered data
To keep up with the ever-changing market, it’s crucial to monitor pricing data, shipping costs, and product availability. With the help of Oxylabs’ web intelligence solutions, companies can effortlessly gather all this public data and conduct price monitoring for their customers.
Adapting to layout changes
E-commerce sites store pricing information in varied locations. This can disrupt the price extraction processes, especially with constantly changing page layouts.
Possible risks
Parsers can't adapt to different website layouts, so companies must create parsers for each page they want to extract data from. With website layouts changing, all these parsers need maintenance.
How can we help?
Our solutions provide already parsed data in JSON format. For example, Web Scraper API has a built-in parser, saving companies development time and costs.
Collect pricing data on a large scale
The e-commerce market is dynamic and, especially during sale peak times, pricing information may change several times a day. Gathering fresh and accurate prices requires a price monitoring tool that can handle large-scale operations.
Possible risks
As prices change more frequently, it becomes harder to ensure the information is up-to-date.
How can we help?
Our customers can adjust the scraping scale anytime to meet their current needs, ensuring they receive up-to-date information.
Get geo-location based prices
Pricing information differs between websites and can be influenced by geographic location – even the same provider may alter prices based on the country or currency. As a result, it may be difficult to retrieve desired data from a particular location.
Possible risks
Larger e-commerce sites use IP addresses to tailor pricing for different countries, so businesses need reliable proxies to collect accurate pricing data.
How can we help?
Oxylabs proxy network covers all countries in the world and offers city-level targeting, allowing companies to access pricing data from anywhere.
Top Oxylabs' solutions for price monitoring
Datacenter Proxies
Use Oxylabs' Datacenter Proxies (shared or dedicated) to gather product pricing data from anywhere in the world.
Pre-selected and tested proxies
Unlimited bandwidth without any hidden fees
The largest proxy pool and selection of locations
Web Scraper API
Easily ccess accurate product data from the top 50 e-commerce marketplaces or standalone shops.
Pay only for successfully delivered results*
Get real-time highly-localized product data
Collect pricing information at large scale
E-Commerce Product Datasets
Leverage clean, parsed, and ready-to-use datasets to grasp pricing trends. Get data from top e-commerce sources like Amazon and Walmart.
Structured and fresh data
Flexible data delivery and formats
Customized according to your needs
Residential Proxies
Collect pricing information with human-like scraping and 100M+ IPs from any online marketplace.
Largest and most reliable Residential Proxy network
Little to no IP bans and CAPTCHAs
∼99.95% success rates and ∼0.6s response time
Word from a customer
Oxylabs goes beyond being a web scraping solutions provider – we strive to be a trusted business partner. We take pride in our customers' trust in us for their data collection requirements and share their positive experience online.
Added benefits
Dedicated account manager
Get personal assistance by one of our professional account managers.
High success rates
Our ML-driven proxy management ensures the highest success rate with the lowest response time.
Live chat support
Reach out to our support via live chat or email and they’ll get back to you in a timely manner.
Data from 195 countries
Bypass geographical restrictions and get data from different locations.
Insured, award winning products
All of Oxylabs products are insured and recognized by industry experts.
Detailed documentation
Start strong with our extensive documentation, video tutorials, and GitHub repository.
Certified data centers and upstream providers
All of our products are insured
All of our products are covered by Technology Errors & Omissions (Technology E&O) and Cyber Insurance.
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Frequently asked questions
What is price monitoring?
Price monitoring is the process of collection, processing, and analysis of the competitors' prices. The purpose of competitor price intelligence is to understand the market, optimize pricing strategies, preserve margins, and increase profits. Businesses monitor pricing data to keep track of the ever-changing market and stay ahead of the competition.
Why is it important to monitor market prices?
The main reason it's crucial to monitor prices is to notice patterns and trends in competitors' prices. Online price intelligence can help businesses understand their competitors' strategies and make their products or services more desirable.
How to monitor prices of competitors?
To monitor competitor pricing, you’ll first need to identify a list of competitor websites and pages. Afterwards, you’ll need a web scraping tool that would gather the pricing data – Oxylabs Web Scraper API, for example. Lastly, you can set up an alert system that would send you notifications if sudden pricing changes occur. Get a coupon code for a discount and start using Oxylabs solutions right away.
What tool should I use to monitor prices of competitors?
To monitor competitor pricing, you’ll need a reliable web scraping solution that delivers up-to-date information. For example, Oxylabs offers three different price monitoring tools, depending on your preference, target difficulty, technical knowledge, and other factors:
Web Scraper API, which is a zero-maintenance web scraping infrastructure that delivers parsed data that’s ready for analysis.
Web Unblocker, an AI-powered proxy solution that can deliver public pricing data from the most complex websites.
E-Commerce Datasets – a collection of ready-to-use e-commerce website data, usually consisting of product information, categories, brands, prices, number of sellers, wholesalers, ratings, product availability, and so on.
You can check out each product’s page for further information or contact us at support@oxylabs.io. Our professionals will help you choose the best price monitoring option for your business.
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