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7/24/2026
The original title is: "Build a SHEIN price tracker in 20 minutes with n8n and an Apify actor"

The original title is: "Build a SHEIN price tracker in 20 minutes with n8n and an Apify actor"

Original: Build a SHEIN price tracker in 20 minutes with n8n and an Apify actor

Short summary

A step-by-step tutorial for building a SHEIN price-drop tracker using n8n and an Apify scraping actor in about twenty minutes. The workflow uses five nodes: a schedule trigger, an HTTP request to Apify's sync endpoint, a code node to parse products, a comparison against stored prices in Google Sheets, and a notification node. Includes real code snippets and practical warnings about sync timeouts and write-back logic.

  • Five-node n8n workflow: schedule trigger, Apify HTTP call, code parse, price comparison, notification
  • Uses Apify's run-sync-get-dataset-items endpoint for one-call scraping without polling
  • Stores last-seen prices in Google Sheets and alerts only on genuine drops

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