Track competitor Shopify launches and pricing with Bright Data and Gmail

Quick overview

This workflow runs daily to fetch your Shopify catalog and a competitor’s Shopify catalog via Bright Data, compares their product pricing against your price range, and emails a digest through Gmail highlighting newly seen products, sell-outs, and how their prices sit relative to yours.

How it works

1. Runs every day on a schedule.
2. Fetches /products.json from both your Shopify store and the competitor’s store through Bright Data Web Unlocker.
3. Parses each catalog into normalized product records (price range, stock status, product type, published date, and product URL) and stops with an error if a store does not return Shopify JSON.
4. Compares each competitor product’s price against your min/max price band for the same product type, falling back to your whole-catalog price range when types don’t match.
5. Checks an n8n Data Table to keep only competitor products that have not been reported before and stores their unique product keys for future runs.
6. Builds an HTML report (or a “nothing new” message) and sends it to the configured recipient using Gmail.

Setup

1. Create a Bright Data Web Unlocker zone and add an HTTP Header Auth credential for the Bright Data API.
2. Add a Gmail credential that is allowed to send emails from the account you want to use.
3. Create an n8n Data Table named shopify_products_seen with a product_key column.
4. Update the Settings values for your_store, competitor_store, email_to, and unlocker_zone, and optionally adjust new_within_days, max_products_reported, and currency_symbol.