PricemancerThe most common reason people give up on a monitoring setup is not the price — it is the work of telling the tool which URL on which shop corresponds to which of your products, and then redoing it after every redesign. If that is what you are trying to escape, here is what to look at.
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This is the fork in the road. Pricemancer is given a domain and works out the product pages itself, running every discovery method the site supports and merging the results: sitemaps, store-platform bulk endpoints, category walks and site search. A sitemap covering 80% of a catalog plus a category walk covering a different 70% together beat either alone, so they all run rather than stopping at the first that works.
Some storefronts are genuinely defended. Pricemancer escalates on its own — a plain HTTP request, then a request profiled to look like a real browser, then full Chromium, then a hardened browser build for the worst cases. Worth asking of any tool: what does it do here, and do you pay for the failed attempts? Here you are charged for the technique that actually succeeded.
A single global rate limit is either too slow for tolerant sites or too aggressive for fragile ones. The collector raises parallelism while throughput keeps improving and backs off when a site starts pushing back, so each shop runs about as fast as it will tolerate.
Configuration written per shop is configuration that breaks when the shop changes. Because discovery and extraction are driven by what the page actually exposes rather than hand-written selectors, a redesign usually means re-running discovery, not rebuilding a mapping.
Some URLs are dead products, not blocked ones. Pages that fail repeatedly are flagged and skipped on later runs so they stop consuming time and tokens, and they stay visible in the interface so you can see exactly which ones rather than wondering why a count is short.
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Add one domain, start discovery and come back later — the run continues without you.
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