E-commerce Price Monitor with Firecrawl, Claude-Sonnet AI & Telegram Alerts

Introduction

Automate price monitoring for e-commerce competitors—ideal for retailers, analysts, and pricing teams. Scrapes competitor sites,
extracts pricing/stock data via AI, detects changes, and sends instant alerts for dynamic pricing strategies.

How It Works

Scrapes competitor URLs via Firecrawl and Apify, extracts data with AI, detects price/stock changes, logs to Google Sheets, and sends Telegram alerts.

Workflow Template

Trigger → Scrape URL → AI Extract → Parse → Merge Historical → Detect Changes → Update Sheets + Send Telegram Alert

Workflow Steps

1. Trigger & Scrape → Manual/scheduled trigger → Firecrawl + Apify fetch competitor data
2. AI Processing → Claude extracts product details → Parses and structures data
3. Change Detection → Reads historical prices → Merges with current data → Identifies updates
4. Output → Logs alerts to Sheets → Updates historical data → Sends Telegram notification

Setup Instructions

1. Firecrawl API
Get key from dashboard → Add to n8n
2. Apify API
Get key from console → Add to n8n → Configure actors
3. AI Model (Claude/OpenAI)
Get API key → Add to n8n
4. Google Sheets OAuth2
Create OAuth2 in Google Cloud Console → Authorize in n8n → Enable API
5. Telegram Bot
Create via BotFather → Get token & chat ID → Add to n8n
6. Spreadsheet Setup
Create Sheet with required columns → Copy ID → Paste in workflow

Prerequisites

Self-hosted n8n, Firecrawl account, Apify account, Claude/OpenAI API key,
Google account (Sheets OAuth2),Telegram bot

Customization

Add more URLs, adjust scraping intervals, change detection thresholds, switch to Slack/email alerts,
integrate databases

Benefits

Saves 2+ hours daily, real-time tracking, automated alerts, historical analysis, multi-source scraping