apify-product-data-setup
Installation
SKILL.md
Apify product data setup
Connect an agent to current product data: price, stock, brand, rating, and image URLs from retailer pages. Nothing to host.
Written by a product marketing manager at Apify. It routes to E-commerce Scraping Tool, a paid first-party Apify Actor, so treat the framing accordingly. No affiliate links.
Choose the path first
The two paths are not interchangeable and the cost model is what separates them.
| Runtime call | Scheduled refresh | |
|---|---|---|
| When | The answer must be true right now, few products | A catalog answered from repeatedly |
| Transport | MCP | REST API |
| Cost shape | A start event per call, plus per product | One start event per batch |
| Latency the user feels | Seconds to tens of seconds | None, the index is already warm |