Data Miner or a cloud Actor? Exporting competitors' Shopify and WooCommerce products, honestly compared
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Short answer: Data Miner is a browser extension that scrapes the page you are on using “recipes” (saved instructions for which elements to extract), with next-page automation and, on paid plans, automated crawls over a list of URLs. Its pricing page (checked 23 Oct 2026) shows Free at $0 for 500 pages a month (restricted on some domains, and the account is locked if you exceed 500 in a month), Solo at $19.99 a month (500 pages), Small Business at $49 (1,000 pages), Business at $99 (4,000) and Business Plus at $200 (9,000); unused page credits do not carry over. For any website, including marketplaces, it is flexible. Our Shopify & WooCommerce Product + Price Tracker runs in the cloud on Apify and reads each shop's structured product data (variants, SKUs, compare-at prices, stock) for several shops in one run, with no recipes to build. Free during launch; you pay only Apify platform usage.
The pain this page is about
“Before Black Friday on 27 November 2026 I want three competitors' full catalogues, with sale prices and stock, in one sheet.” A recipe-based extension copies what each page shows, page by page, in your browser. A catalogue reader asks the shop for its product data directly.
Side by side (from public pages)
| Data Miner (browser extension) | Unadhi Shopify & WooCommerce Product + Price Tracker (Apify) | |
|---|---|---|
| Price (checked 23 Oct 2026) | Free $0 (500 pages/month) · Solo $19.99/mo (500 pages) · Small Business $49/mo (1,000) · Business $99/mo (4,000) · Business Plus $200/mo (9,000) · custom plans on request | Actor fee: free during launch. Apify platform usage only; Apify Free plan includes $5 of usage a month |
| Where it runs | In your browser; scraping on Data Miner servers is listed under custom large solutions | In the cloud on Apify; your computer can be off |
| How it knows what to extract | Public recipes or ones you create | No set-up: reads Shopify, WooCommerce and schema.org product data |
| Which sites | Any site; free plan restricted on some domains | Only independent Shopify, WooCommerce and schema.org shops; marketplaces refused by design |
| Data returned | Whatever the recipe selects on each page | Titles, variants, SKUs/GTINs, prices, compare-at prices, availability, images, plus a SHOPS_SUMMARY of skipped shops and why |
| Limits and billing rules | Monthly page limit; unused credits do not carry over; free account locked if you exceed 500 pages in a month; no refund for a partial month | Pay for platform usage per run; listing pages free in the Actor's design; skipped shops cost nothing |
A function-and-price summary in our own words from Data Miner's public pricing page, not a review and not a test.
Who should pick Data Miner instead
- The site is not Shopify or WooCommerce, or it is a marketplace or directory.
- You want to see and adjust what you scrape on the page, and reuse community recipes.
- You scrape a few hundred pages a month and the free plan covers it.
Who our Actor fits better
- You want several Shopify or WooCommerce competitors' whole catalogues with variant-level data, not just what a listing page shows.
- You want scheduled re-runs before each sale without keeping a browser open.
- You prefer a tool that respects each shop's robots.txt and terms, and skips shops that refuse it at no charge.
No tool at all? A Shopify shop's public catalogue can be read in your browser at /products.json: see export a Shopify product list to CSV.
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).
Free gift: copy-paste input for a three-shop price check
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
Is Data Miner free?
It has a free plan of 500 pages a month (checked 23 Oct 2026). The pricing page says it is restricted on some domains and that the account is locked if you exceed 500 page scrapes in a month until you upgrade.
Do unused Data Miner credits carry over?
No. Its FAQ says the scrape counter resets to zero at the start of every billing period.
Can the Unadhi Actor scrape any website like Data Miner?
No. It works only on independent Shopify, WooCommerce and schema.org shops and refuses marketplaces by design.
Do I need to build a recipe for the Unadhi Actor?
No. You paste shop URLs; it reads the shop's structured product data.
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.
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
- Data Miner pricing (plans, page limits, credit and cancellation FAQ) — https://dataminer.io/pricing (checked 23 Oct 2026)
- Unadhi Shopify & WooCommerce Product + Price Tracker on Apify Store — https://apify.com/laudable_instrument/ecommerce-product-data-half-price (checked 23 Oct 2026)
- Apify docs: pay-per-usage Actors — https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-usage (checked 23 Oct 2026)
- Apify pricing (Free plan, $5 monthly usage) — https://apify.com/pricing (checked 23 Oct 2026)
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