Current prices
List prices, sale prices, and promotional pricing across competitors.
Web scraping for price monitoring, at retail scale
Retail sites block scrapers, because they were not built for agents. Browserbase runs real browsers that extract competitor prices, track changes, and power your pricing strategy, reliably. Running on infrastructure that handles 35m+ browser sessions a month.
The Problem
Manual price tracking breaks down
- Manually checking competitor prices across dozens of retail sites.
- Missing price changes that affect your margins within hours.
- Getting blocked by anti-bot detection as soon as you automate collection.
- Spreadsheets going stale before you can act on the pricing data.
- No visibility into promotional pricing, flash sales, or MAP violations.
The Solution
How Browserbase automates price monitoring
- Real browsers: navigate retail sites exactly like a human would.
- Verified: reach retail pages that turn away ordinary tooling, with no per-site tuning.
- Agent Identity: Web Bot Auth signs your agent's requests, so retailers can verify it instead of guessing.
- Scheduled collection: run price checks on your schedule, from hourly to daily.
- Full observability: debug and replay every session with built-in recording.
- Parallel extraction: monitor thousands of products simultaneously.
Data you can collect
Price history
Track price changes over time to identify patterns and trends.
Stock status
Monitor inventory levels and out-of-stock patterns alongside pricing.
Templates to get you started
Scrape with geolocation proxies
Proxies
Route browser automation traffic through specific geolocations to access region-specific content
Scrape e-commerce products
E-commerce
Search multiple e-commerce retailers simultaneously and extract structured product data including prices, descriptions, and availability.
Frequently Asked Questions
How often can I monitor competitor prices?
With Browserbase, you can run price monitoring jobs as frequently as needed. Parallel browser sessions let you check thousands of product prices simultaneously, from hourly updates to real-time tracking during peak sales events.
What data can I extract for price monitoring?
You can collect current prices, sale prices, promotional discounts, shipping costs, stock levels, and price history from retail sites. This data powers competitive pricing strategies, MAP compliance monitoring, and dynamic pricing systems.
How do I avoid getting blocked when scraping prices?
Browserbase uses real browsers with Verified access built in, covering fingerprint rotation, residential proxies, managed CAPTCHA solving, and human-style navigation. Agent Identity adds Web Bot Auth signed requests, so retailers can verify your agent instead of guessing.