📊 Competitor price monitoring with web scraping, Google Sheets & Discord alerts
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Description
This workflow monitors product prices from BooksToScrape and sends alerts to a Discord channel via webhook when competitor’s prices are lower than our prices.
🧩 Nodes Used
- Schedule (for daily or required schedule)
- If nodes (to check if checked or unchecked data exists)
- HTTP Request (for fetching product page )
- Extract HTML (for extracting poduct price)
- Code(to clean and extract just the price number)
- Discord Webhook (send discord allerts)
- Sheets (extract and update)
🚀 How to Use
- Replace the Discord webhook URL with your own.
- Customize the scraping URL if you’re monitoring a different site.(Sheet i used)
- Run the workflow manually or on a schedule.
⚠️ Important
- Do not use this for commercial scraping without permission.
- Ensure the site allows scraping (this example is for learning only).
🔗 Nodes Used
Google Sheets, HTTP Request, Discord, Schedule Trigger
📥 Import
Download workflow.json and import into n8n:
Workflow menu → Import from File