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E-commerce Competitor Intelligence for Clay/GTM Workflows (with NexGenData)

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Clay-compatible workflow. NexGenData is not an official Clay integration — these are public-data Apify actors you can run inside Clay via Clay’s native Apify integration, an HTTP API column, or CSV.

The problem: e-commerce prospecting and competitive research are manual

If you sell into e-commerce — or you are an e-commerce brand watching rivals — pricing, sellers, and availability are the signals that matter, and they change constantly. Checking them by hand doesn’t scale. Pulling Google Shopping data into Clay turns product and price movement into a structured table you can prospect from or monitor competitively.

Who this is for

GTM teams selling to e-commerce/DTC, and brand/category managers using Clay who want product, price, and seller signals without manual checking.

The Clay workflow

  1. Define product queries in Clay (your category terms or specific SKUs).
  2. Pull shopping data with the Google Shopping Scraper — product titles, sellers, prices, availability, ratings.
  3. Catch announcements with the Brand Mention Monitor for launches and competitor news.
  4. Resolve the seller to a company with Company Enrichment to make it an account you can sell to.
  5. Act in Clay — a competitor undercut, a stockout, or a new SKU becomes a row you can prospect or alert on.

How to run NexGenData actors inside Clay

  • Native Apify action (recommended): “Run Apify Actor” → nexgendata/google-shopping-scraper → map your query column → run.
  • HTTP API column: POST to the actor’s run-sync-get-dataset-items endpoint with your product query.
  • CSV round-trip: run on Apify, export, re-import the product table.

Sample input (product queries)

query
warehouse robotics kit
protein meal replacement
smart logistics sensor

Sample output (price & seller signals)

productsellerpriceavailabilityratingsignal
AutoPick Robotics BundleNorthwind Robotics$2,199in_stock4.3competitor undercut (-12%)
Generic RTD 12-packValueMart$24.99out_of_stock3.9stockout (opportunity)
Northwind TrackTagNorthwind Logistics$89.00in_stock4.1competitor new SKU

Illustrative sample. Produced by the Google Shopping Scraper.

Run it on a schedule

Schedule the scraper daily or weekly to track price and availability over time. Clay then surfaces movement — a rival’s price drop or a stockout — as a fresh, actionable row instead of a manual spot-check.

Try it

Run the Google Shopping Scraper →
Run Brand Mention Monitor → ·
Run Company Enrichment →

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FAQ

What does the Google Shopping Scraper return? Product titles, sellers, prices, currency, availability, and ratings for a query — structured for a Clay table.

Can I track price changes over time? Yes — schedule the actor and compare runs to detect undercuts, stockouts, and new SKUs.

Is this an official Clay integration? No — it’s a Clay-compatible workflow using Clay’s native Apify integration with your own Apify token.