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Shopify competitor monitoring, explained

Practical guides on tracking competitor Shopify stores - how the data works, and how to turn it into an edge.

Shopify products.json: the complete guide

Every field the endpoint exposes, how pagination and the 250 limit work, code in curl/Python/JS, when it's blocked, and whether it's legal.

Free ways to view a store's complete catalog - including products that aren't linked from the navigation.

Download a store's full catalog - products, variants, prices, SKUs - to CSV or Excel, with no app and no API key.

Two free ways to count any Shopify store's catalog size in under a minute.

Surface the products a Shopify store doesn't link anywhere - and understand what stays truly private.

Five fast, free ways to confirm a site runs on Shopify - and what you can do once you know.

Free ways to spot a competitor's best sellers from public data - and the honest limits of what's knowable.

Three free ways to see a Shopify store's latest drops, and how to get alerted the moment they launch.

A complete, free guide to studying a Shopify competitor - catalog, prices, best sellers, launches, stock, apps and ads.

The manual spreadsheet method, the products.json method, and fully automated alerts - with the trade-offs of each.

Build a free competitor price tracker in Google Sheets with IMPORTXML and Apps Script - and when to switch to alerts.

A clear, balanced guide to the legality of reading public Shopify data - and how to do it responsibly.

An honest comparison - monitors vs repricers, free vs paid, SMB vs enterprise - so you pick the right one.