Track Competitor Shopify Prices & Launches with n8n, Bright Data & Gmail

Track Competitor Shopify Prices & New Launches Automatically—Daily Email Digest

This n8n workflow checks your Shopify store and a competitor’s Shopify store every day, compares their product pricing (and availability) against your price range, and emails you an HTML digest via Gmail highlighting newly seen products, sell-outs, and where competitor prices land.

What this workflow does

• Runs on a daily schedule to keep you current without manual monitoring.
• Fetches Shopify catalog data from both stores by requesting /products.json through Bright Data Web Unlocker.
• Parses and normalizes product records into a consistent format including price range, stock status, product type, published date, and product URL.
• Stops with an error if a store does not return Shopify JSON (to avoid misleading results).
• Compares competitor pricing against your configured min/max price band for the same product type; if types don’t match, it falls back to your whole-catalog price range.
• Detects new products using an n8n Data Table named shopify_products_seen, keeping only competitor products that haven’t been reported before.
• Sends an HTML report via Gmail to your configured recipient, or a “nothing new” message when applicable.

Use cases

• Monitor competitor Shopify launches and quickly spot when new SKUs appear.
• Track sell-outs and availability changes in a competitor’s catalog.
• Validate pricing positioning by seeing how competitor prices compare to your own range by product type.
• Run continuous market intelligence for SaaS operators and ecommerce teams using n8n automation.

Technical details

• Bright Data Web Unlocker to access /products.json (using an HTTP Header Auth credential).
• Gmail for sending the daily email digest.
• Logic built with n8n nodes such as if, set, code, no op, and merge, plus n8n Data Table storage via shopify_products_seen.

Set the workflow’s your_store, competitor_store, email_to, and unlocker_zone values to start getting automated Shopify competitor price and launch tracking results.