Integration
Shopify competitor monitoring
Track Shopify competitors with native catalog extraction.
Powers ~10% of all online stores worldwide.
Shopify exposes a public products endpoint that returns up to 250 products per page in JSON. RivalScraper detects Shopify storefronts via JSON-LD and the /meta.json signature, then walks the catalogue (capped at 15,000 products), captures variant pricing, currency, compare-at sale prices, and best-seller hints from collection position. Setup is paste-the-URL; first alerts land within 24 hours.
Extraction: Tier 1 — native Shopify products endpoint, no AI cost on the hot path.
How it works on Shopify
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Paste the competitor's storefront URL
Drop any Shopify-powered store URL into RivalScraper. Detection happens automatically — we look for the /meta.json signature, X-ShopId header hints, and JSON-LD Organization markers.
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We walk the catalogue via /meta.json
Pagination is dynamic — the storefront tells us its own page size. We cap at 15,000 products to keep scans honest and avoid catalogue-explosion edge cases.
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Variants, currency, and sale prices captured
Each product brings its variants, the active selling price, and the compare-at price (the strike-through used for sales). We store currency on a per-store basis so multi-region storefronts don't get conflated.
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First snapshot writes a baseline
The first scan is the baseline — no alerts fire until we have something to diff against. Subsequent scans compare price, availability, and product set.
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Alerts fire on the next scan diff
Price changes ≥2% trigger alerts. New products, removed products, and sale starts (compare-at appears) all generate signals routed into the daily AI brief.
Shopify support matrix
| Capability | RivalScraper on Shopify |
|---|---|
Catalogue extraction Up to 15,000 products | |
Variant tracking Per SKU and per option set | |
Multi-currency detection | |
Sale detection via compareAtPrice | |
Best-seller ranking Inferred from collection position | |
Price-change alerts | ≥2% threshold |
New-product alerts | |
Inventory level Not exposed by storefront API |
Frequently asked questions
Do I need a Shopify partner account or app install on my competitor's store?+
No. RivalScraper reads only public storefront data the same way a shopper's browser does. There is no app install, no OAuth, and nothing visible to the store owner.
What's the largest Shopify catalogue you can handle?+
We cap individual scans at 15,000 products. For larger catalogues we sample by collection or top-N by ranking — contact us if you're monitoring a 50K+ catalogue and we'll tune it.
How do you detect sales without an API for promotions?+
Shopify exposes compare-at price on the public product feed. When a product gains a compare-at value greater than its current price, we mark a sale start. When it disappears, we mark sale end. Both events fire alerts.
Does this work for Shopify Plus stores with custom themes?+
Yes. The detection is on /meta.json and JSON-LD, not theme HTML. Custom storefronts using Hydrogen or headless Shopify still expose the products endpoint.
What about multi-region or multi-currency storefronts?+
We track currency per scan. If a store serves EUR on /eu/ and USD on the root, we record the currency present in each fetch. Cross-currency price diffing is suppressed to avoid false alerts.
Can I monitor my own Shopify store with this?+
Yes, but you probably don't need to — Shopify Analytics already shows you your own data. RivalScraper's value is on competitors you can't see inside.
Start tracking Shopify competitors today
14-day free trial. No credit card required. Setup is paste-the-URL.