Apify's E-commerce Scraping Tool or a Shopify + WooCommerce tracker? Two Apify Actors compared

Updated 28 Oct 2026 · Disclosure: the second Apify Actor compared here is built and published by Unadhi; the first is made by Apify. Competitor facts below come only from their own public pages, read on 28 Oct 2026; each is linked in Sources. We did not log in, start trials or read paywalled material. No ratings, no reviews, no scores of our own.

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Short answer: Both run on Apify Store. Apify's own E-commerce Scraping Tool works on almost any shop or marketplace (its page names Amazon, eBay, Zalando, Otto, Lidl, Decathlon, Shopify and WooCommerce sites and more): give it product URLs, category URLs or keywords and it returns name, price, identifiers, brand, stock status and variants, and it can also collect reviews and seller details or add an AI summary. It charges per event. Its pricing (read from the Actor's public Apify listing, checked 28 Oct 2026) is $0.006 per product on the Apify Free plan, $0.0015 on Bronze, $0.00125 on Silver and $0.001 on Gold (the Store page shows “from $1.00 / 1,000 product details”), plus fees per listing page and optional fees when a site needs residential proxies, an unblocker or browser rendering. Our Shopify & WooCommerce Product + Price Tracker only reads Shopify and WooCommerce shops, takes just the shop URL, returns one row per product with variants, price, compare-at price, stock, SKU/GTIN, images and URLs plus a per-shop summary, and has no Actor fee during launch; you pay only Apify platform usage. If you watch Amazon, other marketplaces or big retailers, pick Apify's tool. If your competitors are small Shopify and WooCommerce shops, try ours.

The pain this page is about

“My five competitors are small Shopify and WooCommerce shops in the Netherlands and Belgium. I want their whole catalogue with prices every Monday, from just their home page URLs.” A general marketplace scraper can do it; a platform-specific Actor reads the shop's public catalogue directly.

Side by side (function and price, from public pages)

	E-commerce Scraping Tool (Apify)	Unadhi Product + Price Tracker (Apify)
Sites	Almost any public shop or marketplace, including Amazon, eBay and big retailers	Shopify and WooCommerce shops with public catalogues
Input	Product URLs, category URLs or keywords; search across retailers	One shop URL per line; its catalogue is read
Extra data	Reviews, seller details, influencer storefronts, optional AI summary	Compare-at price, per-shop summary of what was read or skipped
Pricing model	Pay per event: per product, per listing page, optional proxy/unblocker/browser fees per product	No Actor fee during launch; Apify platform usage only
Price (public, checked 28 Oct 2026)	$0.006 per product (Free plan) · $0.0015 Bronze · $0.00125 Silver · $0.001 Gold; listing pages from $0.0005 (Free plan)	Free during launch. Apify Free plan includes $5 of usage a month, no card
Made by	Apify (maintained by Apify)	Unadhi, a small independent developer

A function-and-price summary in our own words, not a review. We do not repeat ratings or user counts from its Store page.

Who should pick Apify's E-commerce Scraping Tool instead

You track Amazon, eBay or other marketplaces, or large retailers that are not on Shopify or WooCommerce.
You need reviews or seller data, keyword search across retailers, or an AI summary.
You want a tool maintained by Apify itself.

Who our Actor fits better

Your competitors are small Shopify and WooCommerce shops and you have only their home page URLs.
You want the same columns for every shop and a summary of which shops were skipped and why.
You want no per-product fee while the Actor is in launch.

Other honest comparisons: autofacts Shopify Scraper · Prisync · Distill.io.

Try it on three shops first

Actor fee: free during launch · you pay only Apify platform usage

The Shopify & WooCommerce Product + Price Tracker is a pay-per-usage Actor on Apify: you pay only for the platform resources the run uses, with no extra developer charge (Apify docs). Apify's free plan is $0 and includes $5 of platform usage a month, no credit card (apify.com/pricing). Listing pages are free in the Actor's own design, and shops that are skipped or return nothing cost nothing. We do not quote a cost per 1,000 products; run a small test and read the usage in your Apify billing page. Built and published by Unadhi (disclosure).

Open the Actor on Apify (free during launch)

Free gift: copy-paste input for a three-shop price check

{ "startUrls": [{ "url": "https://competitor-one.com" }, { "url": "https://competitor-two.com/collections/all" }, { "url": "https://competitor-three.com/shop/" }], "maxProductsPerShop": 50, "maxListingPages": 3, "includeDescription": false }

Read the SHOPS_SUMMARY record after the run: it tells you which shops were skipped and why. No code at all? You can also read one Shopify shop's public catalogue in your browser at /products.json for free: see how to export a Shopify or WooCommerce product list to CSV and build a competitor price sheet.

Frequently asked questions

How much does Apify's E-commerce Scraping Tool cost?

Its public Apify listing (checked 28 Oct 2026) charges per event: $0.006 per product on the Apify Free plan, $0.0015 on Bronze, $0.00125 on Silver and $0.001 on Gold, with lower prices on higher plans. Listing pages, residential proxy, unblocker and browser rendering are charged as separate events where used.

Does it work on Shopify and WooCommerce?

Yes. Its FAQ lists Shopify stores and WooCommerce sites among the platforms it works with, along with marketplaces such as Amazon and eBay.

Can either Actor show price history?

No. Both capture current data. Schedule weekly runs and compare the datasets to build your own history.

What does the Unadhi Actor cost?

No Actor fee during launch. You pay Apify only for the platform usage of each run; Apify's free plan includes $5 of usage a month.

Can I use both?

Yes. Use Apify's tool for marketplaces and big retailers, and ours for the small Shopify and WooCommerce shops on your list.

Not legal advice. Public product and price data is generally fine to read for your own comparison; respect each shop's terms and do not republish their content. Competitor prices and plans change; re-check their pricing pages before you decide. Spotted an error about any product on this page, including ours? Write to mininglife7@gmail.com and we correct it.

Sources

Apify E-commerce Scraping Tool on Apify Store (features, supported sites, FAQ) — https://apify.com/apify/e-commerce-scraping-tool (checked 28 Oct 2026)
Apify public API listing for the same Actor (pay-per-event prices by plan) — https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/apify~e-commerce-scraping-tool (checked 28 Oct 2026)
Unadhi Shopify & WooCommerce Product + Price Tracker on Apify Store — https://apify.com/laudable_instrument/ecommerce-product-data-half-price (checked 28 Oct 2026)
Apify docs: pay-per-usage Actors — https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-usage (checked 28 Oct 2026)
Apify pricing (Free plan, $5 monthly usage) — https://apify.com/pricing (checked 28 Oct 2026)

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