Track competitor prices and stock across Amazon, Walmart and eBay
Keep a watchlist of your products and your competitors', check them on a schedule, and get clean JSON with price, stock and seller every time. No scrapers, proxies or headless browsers to maintain.
Watchlist
Insulated Water Bottle, 32 oz
AmazonIn stock$24.99
WalmartIn stock$26.47
eBay3 left$27.50
The challenge
Why this is hard to do yourself
Building it in-house
- Retail sites change their page layouts often, so hand-written scrapers break and need constant fixes.
- Marketplaces block repeated automated requests, which means buying proxies and handling CAPTCHAs and retries.
- Every site formats prices, stock and sellers differently, so data needs cleaning before you can compare it.
- Running headless browsers on a schedule for thousands of products is expensive to host and monitor.
With DataGuru
- One API call per product returns structured JSON with the same fields every time.
- Blocking, proxies and retries are handled on our side.
- Price, stock, seller and rating come back as named fields, ready to store and compare.
- You pay per successful request, with no servers or browsers to run.
APIs used
The DataGuru APIs behind this workflow
Use one or combine them. Every API takes a simple JSON request and returns structured JSON.

Amazon Product Search
Price, previous price, stock, seller, rating and Amazon's Choice status for an Amazon product URL.
$0.0012 / req

Walmart Product Details
Price and availability for a Walmart product, with an optional ZIP code for local pickup.
$0.0018 / req

eBay Product Details
Price, condition, seller and shipping for an eBay listing URL or item ID.
$0.0013 / req

Google Shopping
Find which stores sell a product and compare their prices, shipping cost and stock.
$0.005 / req
How it works
Set it up in 4 steps
- 1
Build a watchlist
List the product URLs or item IDs to track: your own listings and the competitors you care about.
- 2
Schedule checks
Run a job hourly or daily that sends each URL to the matching DataGuru API.
- 3
Store snapshots
Save price, stock and seller with a timestamp in your database, a spreadsheet or a CSV.
- 4
Compare and alert
Flag price drops, stock-outs and seller changes, and send them to Slack, email or your repricing tool.
Example
A daily Amazon price tracker in Python
This script checks every product on a watchlist and appends one row per product to a CSV. Run it on a schedule and the file becomes your price history.
import csv
import datetime
import requests
API_URL = "https://api.dataguru.cc/api/v1/amazon/products/search"
HEADERS = {"Authorization": "Api-Key YOUR_API_KEY"}
# Your products and your competitors' products.
WATCHLIST = [
"https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0EXAMPLE1",
"https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0EXAMPLE2",
]
def check(product_url):
res = requests.post(API_URL, headers=HEADERS, json={"product_url": product_url}, timeout=60)
res.raise_for_status()
product = res.json()
return {
"checked_at": datetime.datetime.now(datetime.timezone.utc).isoformat(),
"url": product_url,
"title": product.get("title"),
"price": product.get("price"),
"previous_price": product.get("previous_price"),
"availability": product.get("availability_status"),
"sold_by": (product.get("merchant_info") or {}).get("sold_by"),
}
# Run on a schedule (cron, Celery beat, GitHub Actions...) to build a price history.
with open("price_history.csv", "a", newline="") as f:
writer = None
for url in WATCHLIST:
row = check(url)
writer = writer or csv.DictWriter(f, fieldnames=row.keys())
writer.writerow(row){
"title": "Stainless Steel Insulated Water Bottle, 32 oz",
"brand": "Example Brand",
"price": "24.99",
"price_symbol": "$",
"previous_price": "29.99",
"availability_status": "In Stock",
"is_amazon_choice": true,
"is_coupon_exists": false,
"average_rating": "4.7",
"total_reviews": "12,408",
"merchant_info": {
"sold_by": "Amazon.com",
"ships_from": "Amazon.com"
}
}Example response trimmed to the fields used above. Values are illustrative.
What you get
What you can do with the data
Price-drop alerts
Compare each price with the last snapshot and get notified the moment a competitor undercuts you.
Stock-out detection
Watch availability_status to spot when a competitor runs out, so you can adjust ads or pricing.
Seller and Buy Box tracking
Track merchant_info.sold_by to see who is winning the sale on each listing over time.
Price history charts
Plot snapshots over weeks and months to understand promotions, seasonality and pricing strategy.
MAP compliance
Find resellers advertising below your minimum advertised price across Amazon, Walmart and eBay.
Repricing inputs
Feed fresh competitor prices into your own repricing rules or tools.
What it costs
Checking 1,000 Amazon products once a day:
$36.00 / month
30,000 requests × $0.0012 / req on the Amazon Product Search API. No subscription or minimum; you only pay for successful requests.
See all pricingWho it's for
Built for teams like yours
- E-commerce brands
- Marketplace sellers
- Pricing analysts
- Retail data teams
- Agencies managing many brands
- Price comparison sites
FAQ
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