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Price Monitor & Daily Excel Report Bot

Automation

Monitors product prices across e-commerce sites daily, detects price drops, and emails a formatted Excel report automatically every morning.

Install

openclaw skills install argus-price-monitor

Price Monitor & Daily Excel Report Bot

Overview

Automated price tracking system that monitors products across competitor websites, detects price drops, and delivers a formatted Excel report via email every morning at 8 AM. Saves 3+ hours of manual work per day.

What It Does

  • Scrapes prices from target URLs using Selenium (handles JavaScript-rendered pages)
  • Compares against previous day's prices automatically
  • Highlights price drops >5% in red, increases in green inside Excel
  • Emails formatted report to specified recipients on schedule
  • Logs all runs with timestamps for auditing

Required Environment Variables

Set these in OpenClaw's Secrets manager before running:

VariableDescriptionExample
SMTP_HOSTSMTP server hostnamesmtp.gmail.com
SMTP_PORTSMTP port number587
SMTP_USERSender email addressbot@gmail.com
SMTP_PASSEmail password or app-specific passwordxxxx xxxx xxxx xxxx
REPORT_RECIPIENTWhere to send the daily reportmanager@company.com

Setup

  1. Add target product URLs to config/urls.txt (one URL per line)
  2. Set all environment variables above in OpenClaw Secrets
  3. Set run schedule in OpenClaw: daily at 08:00
  4. Chromium must be available on the host for Selenium headless mode

Usage

"Start monitoring prices for these URLs and email me a report every morning" "Check competitor prices and send Excel summary to manager@company.com" "Run price tracker now and show me today's drops" "Add this product URL to the monitoring list"

Output

  • price_report_YYYY-MM-DD.xlsx — color-coded Excel report
  • Email with report attached sent to configured recipient
  • Console summary: total products, drops found, errors

Rules

  • Never send more than 1 request per second to any domain
  • Always save raw scraped data before processing (in data/raw/)
  • If email delivery fails, save report to data/reports/ and retry once after 10 minutes
  • If a URL returns 403/blocked, skip and log — do not retry more than 3 times
  • Report must include: product name, URL, yesterday's price, today's price, % change

Example Config (urls.txt)

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08N5WRWNW
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09G9FPHY6
https://www.bestbuy.com/site/product/123456
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