Overview
Monitoring competitor pricing and inventory across multiple e-commerce sites is a common but tedious task. Manual checks don’t scale, and scraping scripts break every time a site redesigns. Refrain lets you describe what data to collect, generates a self-healing runbook, and runs it on a schedule. When a site’s layout changes, the runbook adapts automatically.Example runbook
Generate and execute
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Generate the runbook
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Prepare a product list
Create a CSV with the URLs to monitor:
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Batch execute
Why this works well
- Batch execution — Monitor hundreds of products from a single CSV file.
- Self-healing — Site redesigns don’t require script rewrites.
- Scheduled runs — Set up daily or hourly checks via the Web Console scheduler.
- Slack alerts — Get notified when prices drop or items go out of stock.
What’s next
Execute a runbook
Learn about batch execution with CSV data.
Approval and notifications
Set up Slack alerts for price changes.